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DJ Day’s ‘Land of a Thousand Chances’ like Palm Springs soundtrack

Posted by Kate McGinty on March 12, 2013
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Producer Damien Beebe just gave Palm Springs its first soundtrack since Frank Sinatra helped create the swinging Rat Pack culture.

So says Bruce Fessier, who wrote about Beebe — better known as DJ Day, or just Day — in a piece that ran in The Desert Sun on Sunday.

“Land of a Thousand Chances,” which dropped last month, is “like a hip-hop soundtrack for a Palm Springs midcentury modern pool party,” Fessier wrote.

It was ranked one of the Top 10 albums of 2012 by DJ Jeremy Sole of public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, who received an advance copy of it last year.

Day, 37, graduated from Palm Springs High School in 1993.

 

Listen to Day’s sound in this video from Marilyn Chung:

Coachella artist Frank Ocean: My first love was a man

Posted by Kate McGinty on July 4, 2012
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It’s a different kind of Independence Day for Frank Ocean.

In a note posted on his Tumblr account today, the Coachella 2012 artist details his love affair with a man.

Ocean wrote: “4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide.”

This makes Ocean, 24, among the first hip-hop artists ever to apparently come out as bisexual or gay.

The Los Angeles Times weighs the importance:

The straightforward letter … is undoubtedly the glass ceiling moment for music. Especially black music, which has long been in desperate need of a voice like Ocean’s to break the layers of homophobia. There are plenty of reasons this moment has so much weight. Too many for any single article to explore.

Ocean originally intended the comments as liner notes in his debut album, which hits stores July 17, but said he wanted to clarify “all the rumors going around.”

He concluded his message: “I don’t have any secrets I need to keep anymore. … I feel like a free man. If I listen closely. I can hear the sky falling too.”