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Jason Newsted dives deep into this year's tour with the Chophouse Band and how a friendship with Blackberry Smoke and a battle with throat cancer led to it. Continue reading…

Amerakin Overdose is a genre-bending, mask-adorned industrial/nu-metal force rising out of Portland, Oregon. Renowned for their explosive live energy and visually immersive personas, the band delivers a relentless sonic assault built on crushing riffs, groove-driven rhythms, electronic textures, and powerful vocal dynamics. Drawing from influences like Korn, Slipknot, and Mudvayne, Amerakin Overdose transforms the chaos, […]

This week Carole King, Diane Warren, and the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt — all of whom appear on the New York Times‘ hotly-debated new list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters — each wrote five-by-five mini puzzles for the publication’s digital crossword section. Jeff Tweedy, despite admirably voting for himself, did not make the list. He did, however, get to write a full-sized crossword puzzle for the Times‘ monthly bonus game.

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Today, the world’s fastest band speeds up and into its biggest, boldest and most electrifying era to date: Dragonforce has announced Alissa White-Gluz as their newest member and first frontwoman. In a momentous union of two storied and unstoppable forces, the preeminent pioneers of extreme power metal will now be joined by one of metal’s legendary … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Rising from the underground with a growing aura of intrigue, Atlanta-based hard rock band ATOMIC FREAK has secured a major cinematic placement with their explosive track LIGHT THE FUSE featured in the upcoming film One Spoon of Chocolate. The film, produced by acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and written and directed by THE RZA of the […]

Deep Purple will release their new studio album "Splat!" on July 3 via earMUSIC. The band – Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Simon McBride – has once again teamed up with renowned producer Bob Ezrin (KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper) and together, they have crafted an album that draws on the sound and attitude that has al… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Vanna will be celebrating 20 years of “The Search Party Never Came” on that run.

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Derek Trucks tells UCR about their newest album, Future Soul, and how artists like Eric Clapton and the Allman Brothers Band have fueled their "lifelong pursuit" of music. Continue reading…

Forecasted for later this month.

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In the patriarchal theater of contemporary art and photography, women typically served as the passive muse. Cindy Sherman shattered that dynamic and mastered the art of identity. She took complete ownership of the camera, the lighting, the wardrobe, and the narrative, establishing herself as the absolute director of her own image. 

Emerging in the late 1970s, Sherman hijacked the visual language of cinema with her groundbreaking work Untitled Film Stills. She transformed herself into a catalog of classic female archetypes like the weeping housewife, the stranded ingenue, and the femme fatale. By holding the shutter release cable in her own hand, often visibly in the frame, she signaled to the world her role as the unseen puppet master. She mimicked the male gaze specifically to expose its artificial and manufactured nature.

As the decades progressed, she aggressively pushed her artistic boundaries. In her 1981 Centerfolds series, she utilized the dimensions of men’s magazines to display anxiety and vulnerability, turning the voyeuristic gaze back on the viewer. Through her later History Portraits and Society Portraits, she applied grotesque prosthetics and heavy theatrical makeup to mock the revered history of Western art and the modern obsession with youth. She bypassed the demand for female beauty to cement her status as the brilliant architect of her own transformations.

Her story radiates empowerment through her systematic elimination of the middleman. Society constantly attempts to dictate female identity and appearance. Sherman seized total autonomy over her representation, proving the ability to manipulate restrictive stereotypes and forge them into high art. She is simultaneously the artist and the canvas, the director and the star, demonstrating that true power originates from dictating your own narrative.

Every woman navigates a complex wardrobe of societal roles and expectations every single day. Cindy Sherman’s legacy is a brilliant reminder of our inherent power to set the stage and decide which version of ourselves receives the spotlight. When the world attempts to frame you, you possess the ultimate authority to take the camera, change the lens, and direct the masterpiece yourself.

Disclaimer: Featured image is a stock image of a photographer and does not represent Cindy Sherman

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