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...With a loyal following of millennial women and an audience of 200mn active users, the company gained a $20bn valuation in a fundraising round and was marching towards a blockbuster initial public offering...
...Family history is woven into her new album’s DNA: the marching band percussion of “Challenge (To Be Continued II)” references her mother’s time studying at Spelman, a historically Black college in Atlanta...
...The two men are links within east London’s heavily African-influenced jazz scene, of which Excell’s band Nubiyan Twist is a mainstay....
...Later this month, the next level down, some 2,500 people, will get their marching orders....
...Marching drums follow the twisty paths of serpentine basslines. Guitar riffs crash like landslips while solos rise to nosebleed heights....
...Among the first was “No 7” (1951): lilac, copper and orange bands bleeding into a fuchsia-peach ground, everything in flux....
...Tailoring borrowed less from military garb than marching band uniforms, with striped and spangly houndstooth jackets that were scissored away at the hips....
...He shared the stage with a highly accomplished backing band including Joey Waronker on drums and Jonathan Wilson on guitar and vocals....
...“But unfortunately, the majority of those bills are Band-Aids.”...
...Upbeat local marching bands turn nightmarish; innocent lines become weighted with meaning. In Rob Howell’s set the chintzy B&B bedroom becomes a hellish prison, a humble cushion a horror....
...It is inspired by the marching brass bands that Jesuit missionaries used to bring to reservations....
...“Oh, please step aside if you’re not fighting the war with us,” she raps in “X”, accompanied by the rat-a-tat of a marching band and spiritual vocal harmonies from what resembles a ghostly choir of ancestors...
...Adams’s own version of simultaneous marching bands, and old-fashioned dance band music could be heard drifting across a lake. This is one of the composer’s most atmospheric scores....
...David Beasley, executive director of the UN World Food Programme, said up to 323mn people were “marching towards starvation” and 49mn were “knocking on famine’s door” in 43 countries....
...In turn he encounters a marching band, two nuns, a mother with a pram, a butane tank, a couple kissing in a boat and a group of ducks in the water....
...Between each clutch of squad performances there is a ceilidh with a live band....
...My high school yearbooks show page after page of white sports teams, a white marching band, a white student council and a white computer club....
...band at the West Kowloon railway station....
...The spectacle of the new King marching behind his mother’s coffin as it travels down the Mall will mark preparations beginning in earnest for a state funeral that will attract leaders and dignitaries from...
...“Elevation” comes next, with funky drums, wordless Trible vocals and bassist Corbin Jones on sousaphone marching eerily underneath....
...More than 20,000 people, including 140 traditional marching bands, are expected to parade through Belfast on Saturday as the loyalist Orange Order celebrates the centenary of Northern Ireland with what organisers...
...She’s tough on the protocol and what I call the dictatorship of the EU,” said Richard Bell, 79, a retired electrical engineer, watching a marching band in north Belfast. “The protocol is a mess....
...The title track, as simultaneously claustrophobic and agoraphobic as the rest of the album, is a slow-marching psalm, piano and organ murmuring in the background before being joined by a clarinet wailing...
...Without tourists, Bethlehem’s economy has withered, and on its second Christmas under the pandemic, the duelling marching bands from local schools did little to lift the despondent air on Christmas Eve....
...The brand actually opened and closed its show with a full marching band, as if to emphasise that fact. But this collection was, by its nature, a stop-gap....
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