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Some veteran musicians spend years or even decades trying to earn parental approval for pursuing a career in such a challenging and competitive field.
But when San Diego singer, songwriter and trumpeter Tori Roze needs some motherly affirmation at concerts with her band, The Hot Mess, she only needs to look a few feet to her left on stage. Her mother, Lee Clark, plays flute and sings harmony vocals in the group, which celebrates its 13th anniversary with a free Wednesday livestream performance at The Casbah.
“My mother has been doing music her entire life, from bands to orchestras, and she was also a talent agent,. Being in this band keeps her chops up,” Roze said of Clark, a special education teacher at Granger Junior High School in National City.
Alanis Morissette has released her new single Rest to raise awareness on Mental Health Action Day.
The Ironic hitmaker first performed the powerful song at the tribute concert for the late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington - who was just 41 when he tragically took his own life - at The Hollywood Bowl in 2017.
Alanis is also encouraging donations to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the US largest grassroots mental health organisation dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
The 46-year-old star tweeted on Thursday (20.05.21): âToday is #MentalHealthAction Day. Iâm sharing a song entitled âRestâ written specifically about those of us who struggle with depression and anxiety, isolation, suicidal ideation and the profound despair that mental illness can plunge us into.â
Olivia Rodrigo’s latest single, “Good 4 U,” comes from a long lineage of teen girl pop rock that 2007 Radio Disney sound, as fellow young rocker Willow Smith put it. The 18-year-old Rodrigo’s trio of singles have garnered praise for paying homage to her female Disney Channel predecessors, who similarly explored the emotional spectrum of girlhood through their music, chronicling its cheesy jubilance, frustration, pettiness, adventurousness, and confusion. For young girls in the 2000s, Disney-produced pop rock provided an outlet for those budding teenage feelings of rage against various “machines,” defined as anything from annoying boys to the restrictions of youth “they just don’t understand me” is perhaps the catchphrase of ages 12 to 19. At almost 21 years old, barely two years removed from this demographic,
Alanis Morisette releases Rest for Mental Health Awareness. Alanis Morisette released the first official recording of her song "Rest" Thursday. Morisette encourages donations to the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Mental Health Awareness Day and Month.
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