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LOS ANGELES — If artists want to launch an album with a bang, “ Amazon Music Live” could be the end zone to score big. Some of the biggest performers in music — including Jelly Roll, Megan Thee Stallion, Ed Sheeran , Kane Brown , Peso Pluma and Lil Baby — have graced the live stage during the weekly concert series in Los Angeles that airs after the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” game on Prime Video. Each show is a unique experience with artists debuting new music on bespoke sets created to bring their vision and style to life. This season’s highlights have included J Balvin ’s Latin vibe, Halsey ’s Halloween circus intro and Gunna’s big money talk. Big Sean was joined onstage by North Carolina A&T State University’s marching band, and Jhene Aiko , YG and E-40 made guest appearances. Now, it’s Snoop Dogg ‘s turn to take the mic for “AML’s” season finale this week, just ahead of his highly anticipated 20th album, “Missionary,” dropping next month. The performances are filmed live in front of more than a thousand audience members and streamed on Prime Video and Amazon’s streaming platform, Twitch. Jelly Roll, a Grammy-nominated country singer, was the “AML” season opener in October just days after the release of his 10th studio album, “Beautifully Broken.” His special guests included Keith Urban , Skylar Grey and Machine Gun Kelly . “We could have planned our whole rollout around this,” Jelly Roll said. “I’m always excited to try to share what I do in front of new audiences or hope a new audience sees it or maybe the people at home who couldn’t see the tour or people who bought the album and see what it’s all about.” Last week, TWICE expanded their brand beyond their usual K-pop fandom after the Cleveland Browns upset the Pittsburgh Steelers. The nine-member group made Amazon Music history. The concert livestream earned the most unique viewers of any production — including Kendrick Lamar’s “Pop Out” concert in June, and the Ye and Drake “Free Larry Hoover” show in 2021. “We’re normally used to performing just for our fans who are purposely coming to see us — especially in the U.S. where we are used to doing that,” said singer Nayeon, who was accompanied by group members Momo, Tzuyu, Mina, Minatozaki Sana, Dahyun, Jihyo, Jeongyeon and Chaeyoung. TWICE has performed inside major stadiums like MetLife and SoFi Stadium. But “AML” helped introduce them to first-time listeners, while also promoting their upcoming 14th mini-album “Strategy,” releasing Dec. 6. “For ‘Amazon Music Live,’ it’s not just about our fans, but it’s rather related to football,” Nayeon said. “It’s a lot of football fans to see us. To be invited here to perform is such an honor. We need to keep our game card for people to know who TWICE is.” Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the concert series comes to life and those who play a key role. Tailgate Experience When Jelly Roll first entered the “AML” set, the singer thought it was just another rehearsal — until he found himself immersed in an unexpected interactive experience before stepping on the main stage. “I was overwhelmed. Got nervous,” said Jelly Roll, who was floored after he initially walked through the Tailgate Experience at the East End Studios in Glendale, California, where “AML” films season three. The experience offers a variety of attractions including flat-screen TVs above a massive circular bar, a spacious VIP section, photo booth, themed locker room, digital bonfire, featured vehicle, jersey patch station and a towering football toss game. All of this is set to the music of the week’s concert series performer blasted through loudspeakers. “I wanted a space that was intentional and inclusive to everybody,” said Jameka Pankey, the head of events and experiential for artists at Amazon Music. She and her team wanted to make a concerted effort to pay homage to performers and the fans who enjoy their work. “We thought about all aspects of football and tailgating from fellowship, food and even how we were naming the drinks,” Pankey said. “When we were giving away gifts to fans. ... We had to do jerseys. I wanted this to be a fan experience that was out of mind.” Mission accomplished. How are “Amazon Music Live” artists chosen? At Amazon Music, collaboration has fueled success with departments joining forces to lock in the hottest talent of the week. But predicting a year out? That’s a tough play when album releases are anyone’s guess. They use their label connections and instincts to keep them ahead of the game and ready to pivot and lockdown the artist with the next big release. “We try to really be as genre agnostic and diverse as possible,” said Kirdis Postelle, global head of content and artist marketing at Amazon Music. She works with Andrew Sexton, who handles booking for “AML.” “Our team, along with myself, are active in conversations about this program,” said Sexton, who is considered a label relations guru. Some of the selling points to attract artists have been to capitalize off the NFL’s huge viewership, promote their project and perform with top-notch production. “We’re very active,” he said. “We’re always in communications with artist’s teams and people are reaching out to us too. ... We’re in constant conversations with the industry.” After-game pressure Following a high-stakes “Thursday Night Football” matchup is plenty of pressure. But pulling off a live major concert after a big NFL showdown? That’s next-level intensity. “It’s the challenge which is fungible start time,” said Ed Walker, the head of video studios at Amazon Music. He played an integral role in the concert series moving from a shared studio lot in Hollywood to now filming at East End Studios — a complex with more than 96,000-square-feet of space, including two soundstages, a rooftop terrace, green rooms and three stories of office space. After the game wraps, there’s an hour preshow on Twitch and a top-of-show segment that takes audiences into the artist’s world. The hope is to create a “closer connection” before their performance, introducing more insight into the artist’s project. There are sweepstakes and competitions to maintain intrigue. “We immerse them into what they are about to see,” he said. “That is a moving target. You have a very large audience watching football, and then we have direct communications to the control room broadcasting that and they are giving us real time updates.” Walker admits it’s a tough balancing act, keeping the football audience engaged while also entertaining “AML” viewers before the show kicks off. “We got to meet in the middle, entertain them all, give them context and start the show,” he said. “While all that’s happening, we have to make sure the artist is on the stage and hits the cue on time.” While artists are rehearsing, Postelle wants to make sure they’re comfortable and don’t leave. That led to the idea of an artist experience with food, games, drinks and privacy. “We do that to make artists feel good about spending so much time here,” Postelle said. “The last thing you want is for somebody to be like ‘I’m going back to the hotel to take a shower’ and they fall asleep. Then we’ll have a big problem.” Scoring tickets to ‘Amazon Music Live’ Each week, select customers in the Los Angeles area are invited to purchase $15 tickets for that week’s performance during an exclusive superfan presale or general onsale. Live events company DICE tracks upcoming events and uses audience targeting based on fan interests to notify potential attendees.The Path to Inauguration Day: A Timeline of TransitionAt its early November annual general meeting in Red Deer, Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party passed a resolution to “recognize the importance of CO2 to life and Alberta’s prosperity” and “recognize that CO2 is a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.” The party also voted to get rid of critical net-zero emissions targets, among other measures. Are they ignorant about climate science, physics and carbon cycles? Are they trolling? Or are they so deep in the fossil fuel industry’s pockets that they’ll do anything to support it? The Alberta government appears to be taking cues from the U.S. MAGA movement , so any or all of that is possible. Regardless of their origin, these attacks on everyone and everything from transgender people to important and effective climate measures have dangerous, real-life consequences. It’s true that carbon dioxide is “a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.” We’re carbon-based beings, and the carbon cycle — which circulates carbon through living things, the ocean, minerals and the atmosphere — is a big part of what keeps Earth habitable. And plants do require carbon dioxide. But, as the NASA Earth Observatory states , “Any change in the cycle that shifts carbon out of one reservoir puts more carbon in the other reservoirs. Changes that put carbon gases into the atmosphere result in warmer temperatures on Earth.” Most carbon is stored in rocks, ocean, atmosphere, plants, soil and fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are solar energy that has been super-concentrated over millions of years. In converting sunlight to energy through photosynthesis , plants, algae and bacteria absorb and store CO2. Plants and the animals that eat them release it when they die and decompose. Plants and some animals buried millions of years ago get compressed over time, creating super-concentrated stores of carbon as coal, gas and oil. Burning fossil fuels releases the concentrated carbon into the atmosphere as CO2 — far more than under normal cyclical processes and more than can be reabsorbed through natural processes. It remains for hundreds or thousands of years. Excess atmospheric CO2 — along with other human-generated greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons — allow solar radiation to enter Earth’s atmosphere but prevent increasing amounts from reflecting back into space. This creates a heat-trapping blanket that’s been affecting air, water and land at accelerating rates. Most of our species’ relatively short time on Earth has been during a slowly changing geological era (by human time scales), in which solar energy absorption and reflection have provided the relatively steady conditions we need to survive and thrive — overall, not too hot or cold, somewhat predictable weather patterns and natural systems capable of renewing and regenerating. That’s quickly changing. As we burn fossil fuels and pump massive volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and destroy plants and waters that store carbon, we’re disrupting the carbon cycle and causing the planet to heat at an alarming rate, creating more extreme weather, shifting ocean and air currents, throwing water cycles out of whack, causing droughts, floods and wildfires and making equatorial regions increasingly inhospitable, leading to greater conflict and human migration. And while plants need CO2 for photosynthesis, more isn’t necessarily better . Increased atmospheric CO2 causes some plants to initially grow faster and bigger but studies show accelerated growth dilutes nutrients such as phosphorus, iron, zinc and protein. This affects the entire food web. Research also shows the overall benefits to plants diminish over time and as CO2 levels rise. Global heating’s impacts — droughts, floods, wildfires, storms and excess heat — also negatively affect plant growth and reproduction. As for agriculture, rising CO2 often helps weeds more than crops. It’s all basic science, much of it understood for hundreds of years, with knowledge growing steadily. That’s why the anti-climate positions of some state, provincial and federal parties and governments in Canada and the U.S., especially Alberta and Saskatchewan, are so bewildering. The justifications are blatantly facile and anti-science and serve only to bolster the fossil fuel industry, which itself is finding it difficult to continue its lies and disinformation around evidence even its own scientists provided as far back as the 1950s ! Decisions must be based on knowledge and science — especially when it comes to our survival! We all deserve better from our political leadership. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at davidsuzuki.org . Support rabble today! We’re so glad you stopped by! Thanks for consuming rabble content this year. rabble.ca is 100% reader and donor funded, so as an avid reader of our content, we hope you will consider gifting rabble with a donation during our summer fundraiser today. 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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay’s bid for a fourth straight NFC South title and fifth consecutive playoff berth is gaining momentum. Back-to-back wins over a pair of last-place teams , combined with Atlanta’s three-game losing streak, have propelled the Bucs (6-6) to a tie atop the division. Although the Falcons (6-6) hold a tiebreaker after sweeping the season series between the teams, Tampa Bay can control its own destiny by finishing strong against a less than imposing schedule. The Bucs, who are back in the thick of the race after beating the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers, figure to be favored in four of their five remaining games. “Every week, we said it’s a playoff game, we got to take care of us. It’s not going to be easy. As it was (Sunday), it’s going to be a dog fight every week,” coach Todd Bowles said after Sunday’s 26-23 overtime win at Carolina. “We got to clean up some things, we know that, but it's hard to win in this league,” the coach said of the mistake-filled victory that lifted the Bucs back to .500. “We’ll take a win any way we can get it.” After facing Las Vegas (2-10) this week, the Bucs will finish with road games against the Los Angeles Chargers (8-4) and Dallas Cowboys (5-7), followed by home dates vs. Carolina (3-9) and the New Orleans Saints (4-8). What’s working Kicker Chase McLaughlin has been one of team’s most consistent performers, converting 21 of 23 field goal attempts. He was 4 of 5 against the Panthers, including 51-yarder to force overtime on the final play of regulation. He missed from 55 yards in OT before winning it with a 30-yard field goal on Tampa Bay’s next possession. What needs help Just when it appeared the defense was beginning to trend in the right direction, Carolina's Bryce Young threw for 298 yards without an interception against the Bucs in one of his better outings of the season. “In the first half, he did it with his feet and the second half he did it with his arm,” Bowles said. Stock up Running back Bucky Irving rushed for a career-best 152 yards and finished with 185 from scrimmage against Carolina, making him the first rookie since Miles Sanders in 2019 to have consecutive games with 150-plus yards from scrimmage. Stock down A week after playing well offensively and defensively in a 23-point rout of the New York Giants, the Bucs were sloppy against the Panthers. In addition to throwing two interceptions, Mayfield was sacked four times. Tampa Bay was penalized seven times for 54 yards, and the defense was only able to sack Young once. Injuries Mayfield (sore leg), linebacker K.J. Britt (sprained ankle) and safety Mike Edwards (hamstring) will be on the injury report this week. Bowles said he’s not sure what Mayfield's practice status will be when the team reconvenes Wednesday, however he expects the quarterback to play Sunday. Key numbers 37 and 101 — Wide receiver Mike Evans had another big day against Carolina, posting the 37th 100-yard receiving performance of his career — fifth among active players. He also moved ahead of Hall of Famers Steve Largent and Tim Brown for sole possession of ninth place on the all-time list for TD receptions with 101. Next steps The Buccaneers host Las Vegas in Tampa Bay's first home game in a month and the third consecutive outing against a last-place team. The Raiders (2-10) have lost eight in a row. ___ NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Fred Goodall, The Associated PressMired in last place in the NHL standings amid a rebuilding process, the Chicago Blackhawks dismissed coach Luke Richardson on Thursday and named Anders Sorensen interim coach. In two-plus seasons with the Blackhawks, the 55-year-old Richardson posted a 57-118-15 record, including an 8-16-2 start to this season, in his first stint as a head coach. Chicago posted 59 points in his first season, then regressed to 52 in 2023-24, despite having No. 1 overall pick and 2024 Calder Trophy winner Connor Bedard on the roster. "Today I made the difficult decision to move on from Luke as our head coach. We thank him for his efforts and contributions to the organization and our community," Chicago general manager Kyle Davidson said in a statement. "As we have begun to take steps forward in our rebuilding process, we felt that the results did not match our expectations for a higher level of execution this season and ultimately came to the decision that a change was necessary. We wish Luke and his family all the best moving forward." The 49-year-old Sorensen had been the coach of the Blackhawks' AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs. He will be succeeded at Rockford by Mark Eaton on an interim basis. Eaton is the Blackhawks' assistant general manager overseeing player development. "On behalf of the entire Blackhawks organization, I'd like to thank Luke for his dedication over the past three seasons," Blackhawks chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz said in a statement. "I fully support Kyle's decision in making this change as he continues to do what is needed to move our team forward. I have the utmost confidence in him and the rest of our Hockey Operations team as they begin their search for the next head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks." Richardson was the Toronto Maple Leafs' first-round pick (No. 7 overall) in 1987 and posted 201 points (35 goals, 166 assists) in 1,417 games over 21 seasons. Playing for six teams, the Ottawa native also amassed 2,055 penalty minutes. This article first appeared on Field Level Media and was syndicated with permission.
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LOS ANGELES — Former "Bachelor" Joey Graziadei has been named champion of the "Dancing with the Stars" ballroom. The reality star and pro partner Jenna Johnson beat U.S. Olympian Ilona Maher and pro Alan Bersten, who placed second in the final minutes of ABC's eight-week competition. "I feel like Jenna deserves this fully and this is all for her," Graziadei said upon winning the Len Goodman Mirrorball trophy. "It means everything, this whole experience has been unbelievable, honestly. Ilona, you have been amazing this season. I love you. All of the finalists, the judges, thank you for bearing with us. I tried my best, I promise!" Five semifinalist couples went into the finale. The other three were: Disney Channel alum Chandler Kinney and partner Brandon Armstrong, who came in third place; Olympic gymnast (aka "Pommel Horse Guy") Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold, who placed fourth; and former NFL star Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, who placed fifth. In a package reflecting on his time on the series, Graziadei said he felt he was "completely in over my head" when he started training and wasn't sure he deserved to be in the competition. "The Bachelor" Season 28 star, who was the first contestant from the franchise to win "DWTS," said he went from being nervous in Week 1 to "confident and excited" by the final dance. As is usually the case with "Dancing With the Stars" contestants, he said the competition was "the most difficult thing" he ever had to do. "The mental side of this competition has been hands down the most challenging thing I have done," he said. "I have to go learn routines and perform them well in front of people within a week. The actual stress of that is crazy." Graziadei told Us Weekly that he "blacked out" upon winning and only remembers Johnson "screaming really, really loud" and hugging her. He also remembered last season's winning pro, Val Chmerkovskiy, Johnson's husband, coming onstage to hand them the Mirrorball. "I remember this [trophy] was heavier than I thought it was going to be and that was about it. That's where we're at now. And now we're here," he said. Maher — who became a social media sensation with her behind-the-scenes dispatches from the Paris Olympics — accepted the loss with grace, hugging her partner as confetti fell in the ballroom and later thanking fans on Instagram for following along. "Thank you for everything, guys. You voting are the reason we got to 2nd place," she and Bersten wrote in a joint statement. "Of course, it's no first but honestly we won in many other ways. So lucky to have been partnered together and shared this amazing journey. We will remember this forever." For the finale, each pair performed a freestyle accompanied by additional dancers, as well as a "judges' redemption" dance. Graziadei, a tennis instructor before his "Bachelor" days, performed a tennis-themed dance set to "Canned Heat" and a redemption cha-cha set to "Can't Stop the Feeling," making up for his lackluster go-round from Week 1. Judge Derek Hough called the cha-cha "a punctuation mark letting everybody know that you are a top contender on this show." The cha-cha earned the pair three perfect 10s from Hough and fellow judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli. Although their tennis freestyle didn't "nail it" for Inaba, who gave them a 9, it earned them two perfect 10s from Hough and Tonioli. "We put in so much work ... everyone did, but it meant the world to obviously get this, and, you know, end it with an exclamation point," Graziadei said Wednesday during his victory lap on ABC's "Good Morning America." Graziadei also said that he's "going to take a break from reality TV for a little bit" after back-to-back stints on the two ABC series. Graziadei said "The Bachelor" and "DWTS" were both "amazing." "I obviously got an amazing fiancee and now have a Mirrorball, so it was a great year for me," he added, referring to his engagement to Kelsey Anderson. Maher was tasked by Tonioli to perform a jive as her redemption dance — the same type of dance that made her cry during a previous week's judging. The rugby player, who also famously performed a jazz number as Luisa from "Encanto" during the competition's Disney night, delivered an upbeat jive set to "Shake a Tail Feather" that earned her and Bersten a 9 from each judge. For her freestyle, the bronze medalist played up her femininity with a high-octane performance set to "Femininomenon" that Inaba said blew her mind and got them three perfect 10 scores. Meanwhile, Live Nation announced Wednesday that Nedoroscik would be joining the Dancing with the Stars: Live! 2025 tour as a co-host, with Maher and other fan favorites joining the traveling dance show on select dates. The show will make several stops in California this spring. The cast will perform in Redding, Santa Rosa, San Jose and Temecula on March 22, 23, 25 and 30, respectively. Between April 3 and April 5, the tour will stop in Santa Barbara, Indio and Los Angeles. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Latest News | Dixon Tech, Vivo to Set Up Electronic Manufacturing JV