Isabel Gülck (born 11 February 1991), known professionally as Isi Glück,
is a German
partyschlager
singer. Since 2017, she has performed regularly at the Mega-Park in
Mallorca and, in winter, at the "Kuhstall" in
Ischgl.
Isabel Gülck was born on 11 February 1991 in
Elmshorn,
Schleswig-Holstein. After attending elementary school in Kiebitzreihe, she completed her
secondary school diploma at the Jacob Struve School in Horst (Holstein).
This was followed by an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness clerk, then
an insurance clerk in her father's company, which she abandoned after the
Miss Germany
pageant. On 11 February 2012, she won the Miss Germany pageant at
Europa-Park Rust. She had previously participated in the Miss
Schleswig-Holstein beauty pageant, but was eliminated in the preliminary
rounds. She was later crowned Miss Ashampoo. As Miss Germany, she made
around 200 appearances until she was replaced by Carolina Noeding on 24
February 2013.
I wish I understood German, but I got my only D ln high school .
Hat Hair's Mark Judge claims Jazz Fans Stunned by Cassandra Wilson’s MAGA Views. It's not uncommon for musicians and actors to get more conservative when they see the money they make being expropriated for the undeserving. Dead at 70.
Johnny Kampic at RCP thinks Satellites Have Made This Costly Broadband Subsidy Obsolete. "In a recent FCC filing, SpaceX calls for the Commission to “wind down outdated and redundant High Cost programs that now clearly provide diminished – or even negative – returns and redirect these resources to an enhanced affordability program that will deliver clear and impactful benefits to consumers.”"
A truly one-of-a-kind artist, Kaitlin Butts has a deep affinity for country music’s more theatrical side: the extravagant storytelling, dazzling showmanship, songs embedded with both unbridled emotion and quick-fire humor. After discovering her passion for performing as a little girl, the Tulsa native later brought her boundless energy and radiant voice to her own unapologetic yet soulful songwriting. When it came time to create her third album, the Nashville-based musician leaned into her lifelong love of musical theater and dreamed up a modern-day reimagining of the soundtrack to her all-time favorite musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The result: a high-concept but candidly autobiographical LP called Roadrunner!, whose 17 powerhouse songs show the full force and extraordinary depth of Butts’ artistry for the very first time.
“Every summer when I was a kid my parents would take me to see a performance of Oklahoma! at a local amphitheater, and I’ve felt such a strong connection to it my entire life,” says Butts, who first conceptualized Roadrunner! during a pandemic rewatching of the film with her husband, Flatland Cavalry frontman Cleto Cordero. “It’s a love story but there’s also a murder and a little bit of an acid-trippy feel to it at times; it’s set in the same place where I come from. Once I got the idea for this album I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it before, and it turned into something that completely encompasses who I am and what I love.”
Honeycrush is the solo project of singer-songwriter Alexandra
Antonopoulos. Though a classically-trained vocalist, the Brooklyn artist
first picked up a guitar in 2021, recording her debut EP, Milk Teeth
(2023), in her home studio to critical acclaim.
Drawing
comparisons to artists Cat Power, Scout Niblett, Mark Lanegan, Jeff
Buckley, and PJ Harvey, there’s a distinctly rock influence even in
Honeycrush’s most somber melodies.
Antonopoulos weaves themes
of identity, the fraught struggle of self-discovery, and generational
experiences of womanhood into lyrics that tiptoe between abstract
poeticism and diaristic confession. Honeycrush performs live as a
four-piece rock band, with Antonopoulos playing solo shows on rare
occasions.
One day my mother took me to see The Beatles tribute show, which impressed me so much that after a while I asked my mother to buy me a guitar and find a teacher to teach me how to play it.
That's how I met my current guitar teacher, Deividas Kontrimas, who encouraged me to attend music school and learn guitar. He also introduced me to jazz music, taught me how to play it. I never thought that I would play jazz music.
But that's how it is in life, you have to try lots of things before you find something you really like.
OverDrive Duo, is a
combination of talents that’s been together since 2014, Sharlotte Martins
(lead vocalist) and Jorge Lozada (guitar player and vocalist) with experience
in different bands and live shows entertainment, from Portugal &
Venezuela.
With notable blues and funk musical influences that they manage to fuse with
their Latin roots, they create an ideal environment for every moment.
Our guest today is Esmee Van Sinderen. She is a 23-year-old guitarist from the north of The Netherlands. Her guitar career started at the age of 16. Where she played in a Thin Lizzy tribute band for a few years. Still one of her all-time favorite bands! Right after that she joined the heavy metal band Cobra Spell. Where she has been touring with bands such as Ross The Boss, Enforcer and Evil Invaders. In December 2021 they recorded the EP ‘’Anthems Of The Night’’ which was recorded in Madrid, Spain at PKO Studios.
During Cobra Spell Esmee decided that she wanted to start her own band as well. This became an oldskool heavy rock band named Gramophone, starting in the beginning of 2022. In this band Esmee wrote music with Mattis Karlsson (Ex-Dynamite) from Sweden. They did everything with just the two of them. Their debut EP titled ‘Time To Strike’ came out this year which is being mixed and mastered at Pama Studios, in Sweden!
After the split of Cobra Spell, Sebastian Spyder Silva (Unto Others, Ex-Cobra Spell) and Esmee Van Sinderen decided to start a brand new 80’s heavy metal band! This became Neon Black, started at the end of 2022. Currently they are working a lot behind the scenes on everything band related but are thrilled to release our music soon!
Besides music Esmee spends a lot of time on cars and painting. She graduated as a restoration painter and builds her own guitars as well! Whenever she has time left, she works on American muscle cars! Esmee owns a Buick Skylark from 77 and a Chevrolet Impala from 78. Esmee would love to drag race in the future as well! On her Patreon she is restoring a 79 Pontiac Trans Am!
Otherwise things are much the same. The vision in my left eye is still very nearsighted, which I expected, and slanted to the right, which I hoping would improve. I'm looking forward, with a bit of trepidation, to a visit to the regular eye doc, to see what they can do to make the two eyes agree better.
Anyway, this should be the end of regular updates.
Marie-Ann Hedonia is a Baltimore, Maryland-based synthesist and co-owner and operator of the label Paul and Marie’s Country Kitchen with her husband, Paul M’Olive.
Born and raised in Charm City, Hedonia’s exposure to the keyboard began with piano lessons in the fourth grade. “I remember trying to change the sound of my digital upright piano as a kid,” she later recalled to the site Atmospheres and Experiments. “I would pitch up the sound to bend the notes or try to alter the sound in some way. What I didn’t know, though, was that I was playing the wrong instrument for that application; what I really needed was a synth.”
Thereby having, in her words, “broken the seal,” Hedonia soon made a beeline for a used microKORG at a local music shop. As her zest to make music grew, sequencing came next, via Native Instruments’ Maschine software.
Hedonia’s stable of hardware swelled, too, with the Moog Sub Phatty and Prophet ‘08. “Then, when we moved into our house,” she says of herself and M’Olive, “we just kept growing and growing and growing with stuff that we had.” Which led to a breakthrough, when Hedonia began experimenting with modular synthesis — glomming onto it far more than guitar enthusiast M’Olive.
“You take off the outer layer, and you get to rebuild the skeleton of the sound. And it’s up to you. There are no presets. There are no built-in sequences. You have to make it all,” Hedonia explained to JazzTimes. “That’s when I started to get interested in actually making music.” ... Hedonia’ will release her latest offering, Eclipse, later in 2025 via Paul and Marie’s Country Kitchen. Her most fleshed-out and rangey work to date, the album features collaborations with vocalists Delia Liederschuh, Casey Desmond (featured on the first season of The Voice),, and Black Kite’s Vicki Lynn Tippit.
MonaLisa Twins
are a pop rock band, fronted by twin-sister singer-songwriters Mona Wagner
(vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, harmonica, flute, recorder, accordion) and
Lisa Wagner (vocals, lead guitar, ukulele, cello).
The twins were born in Vienna, Austria on June 16, 1994 and are based in
Liverpool, in the United Kingdom. Known for their YouTube covers of songs by
the Beatles and other 1960s bands, many of which have been issued on a series
of albums, they also release original music, inspired by the 1960s. They have
toured with
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
and performed with them at the
Glastonbury Festival
in 2017, collaborated with American musician
John Sebastian, as
well as held a two-year residency at
the Cavern Club
Their father, Rudolf Wagner, is the band's producer; he also plays bass,
piano, co-writes, and arranges their music, which is recorded in the
family's own studio. Rudolf's wife and the twins' stepmother, Michaela Wagner, is the band's
manager and assistant. The family lived in a small village in the
Groß-Enzersdorf
municipality near Vienna until 2014, when they moved to a suburb of
Liverpool.
Honestly, other than the supposedly 6 week freon bubble being still there, and still shrinking, there's not much to report. No pain, except a rare twinge. There's still a trace of redness in the white of the eye, particularly in the far left corner.
The bubble occupies an increasingly smaller arc in my lower vision while looking forward, and an increasingly smaller circle when I look straight down. I judge it's size day to day by comparing that circle to familiar objects, a small plate, a toilet bowl, my feet. I'm hoping before the next week is done, I can report the dissipation of the bubble. It may not happen, though.
Not much has changed in my vision. The left eye remains (as expected) quite nearsighted, as a result of the rubber band (scleral buckle) they put around it to help keep the retina attached. It also appears slanted slightly to the right (my Fox News eye), and straight lines are a bit wavy. I still see two horizons, but the left one tends to be overridden by the the right because the right forms a sharp image, and the left does not. The left eye is too nearsighted for easy use on the computer, but useful reading the tablet or phone. This of course, is subject to change when I get a new prescription and new glasses. I'm still a little worried about what happens when the two eyes agree on a focal plane.
Following last year’s successful debut, Palm Tree Crew has announced that the
Palm Tree Music Festival Napa will keep the party going by expanding to two
days in 2026. Palm Tree Crew co-founder Kygo will take the stage, with
additional headline performances by Zedd, Disclosure (DJ Set), and Hugel.
Produced
in partnership with Another Planet Entertainment and Blue Note Napa, the 2026
edition takes place Oct. 2-3 at The Meritage Resort & Spa. The weekend
promises to deliver “world-class music, elevated hospitality, and exclusive
brand experiences.”
There's really not a lot to report. The bubble, which was billed as taking 6 weeks to dissipate, continues to shrink, but not fast enough for me. It appears a little smaller each day when I look down, which puts it up against the back of the retina, and centers it in my vision. Looking forward it's an increasingly smaller arc in my lower vision. I'm guessing full dissipation is still two weeks away.
The two eyes are generally working better together. Mostly the left, affected eye is focused too short to contribute much except for close in reading. It is still slanted to the right, and I still see two horizons at the beach, although the slanted one is fuzzy and easily ignored overridden by the sharp, right eye. I have scheduled an appointment to get a new prescription for glasses in late July. Hopefully the bubble will be gone by then. It will be interesting to see how they get on when they focus on the same plane. It worries me a little.
There is no significant pain, just a very occasional twinge, although there's still a general feeling that something is in the eye, that I blame on the rubber band, excuse me, scleral buckle they put around the eye, to help keep the retina pressed against the back of the eye. There's still a little redness in the white of the eye in the left corner, but it appears to be slowly fading.
Ready for a dose of true backstage energy? In this episode of Bringin’ it
Backwards, Adam Lisicky welcomes rising pop powerhouse Madelline for a
conversation packed with personal grit, creative breakthroughs, and the real
story behind her genre-blending journey.
From growing up in
Connecticut surrounded by music and art, to boldly moving to Montreal to
kickstart her songwriting career, Madelline opens up about how she carved
her own path. She shares the highs and lows of learning instruments—from
lugging her trusty flute through school bands to battling uninspiring piano
lessons—and the vital push that came from embracing her theater kid roots.
Madelline gives us the inside scoop on the viral success of her single “On a Different Wave,” her leap into TikTok and Reels, and the game-changing decision to record “dopamine” in both English and French—highlighting how creative risks can open brand-new doors. Plus, she talks about launching her first writing camp, collaborating with producers and songwriters she loves, and illuminating the concept album she’s currently building—one set to mark a bold new era in her artistry.
The weekly update to my recovery from the second retinal detachment/reattachment surgery in my left eye. This is now the sixth week of the "six week" freon bubble that was installed at the surgery. The bubble shrinks daily, but not very noticeably; the top of the bubble appearing just below the rim of my glasses when looking forward. When looking down I see the bubble as a distinct circle that nearly matches the outline of the glasses lens in that eye. I would guess I'm still facing a couple of more weeks with the bubble present. The worst thing about the bubble now is that it reflects images down to the retina (which appear in my upper vision).
So, otherwise? As I hoped would be the case, the two eyes are getting along a little better. The left eye is, as I was told it would be, more nearsighted than it was, thanks to the 'rubber band' aka scleral buckle around it. But for near vision, reading, TV etc, the two eyes both achieve some level of focus. The left has a tendency to cause my total vision to be a bit blurry out beyond arm length, but the right eye provides a clear image within the blur. The left eye still produces an image that slants to the right, and has a bit of waver in it, but the brain is starting to merge the two view and produce a basically straight image. At the beach, however, I still tend to see two crossing horizons, one sharp and one blurry. I eagerly await getting glasses that sharpen both equally, to see if my brain can force them to align also.
As far as the rubber band, the pain is totally gone. I do have a sense of something odd I in there, but it's hard to separate from the bubble and blur. The eye still has some redness, and I keep applying the ointment they dispense with the ordeal, axel grease and erythromycin, which I use religiously, which is to say, without knowing if, or why it works.
My hope for next week's report is continued improvement in the cooperation of the two eyes, and that the bubble will be high enough not to reflect light most of the time. I'd dearly like to see a single horizon.
Kentucky raised and Nashville based, Mary Kutter writes songs that live in the gray area blurring genre lines and creative narratives. Drawing from country storytelling and rock-leaning intensity, her music favors sharp images over easy answers. As both a songwriter and recording artist, Kutter gravitates toward characters on the edge, flawed, resilient, and unapologetically human.
Before stepping fully into her own voice as an artist, she built a reputation as a songwriter willing to go where others would not, with her work appearing on major-label releases and charting records by Bailey Zimmerman, Nate Smith, and Zach John King.
Those experiences sharpened her instincts and reinforced her belief that the most powerful songs are the ones that tell the truth plainly, without sanding down the rough edges. Onstage, Kutter brings that same intensity into the room. Her performances are direct and unfiltered, rooted in connection rather than theatrics.
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A quick update on the 5th week anniversary of the second retina detachment/reattachment surgery in my left eye. Not coincidentally, this was also the day for the 5-6 week follow up exam at Wilmer's Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
According to the Drs, first the resident, and the then the surgeon who did the surgery, things are progressing on track, with no issues noticed, although the surgeon did order photographs at the imaging center to see if the there was any scar tissue forming. They blamed scar tissue pulling on the retina for the second detachment. We await the results.
From my view, there have been modest changes from last week. The bubble is still prominent in my vision, occupying about a third of the view looking forward. The left, affected eye is quite near-sighted, as I was told it would be, it's view is still tilted to the right about 2-3 degrees, and a little uneven looking when looking at a straight line. Looking up or down, the bubble dominates.
The two eyes are starting to work together a bit, a process either helped or hindered by the fact that their focal distances are quite difference. In relatively dim light, looking a relatively short (indoor) distances, the eye cooperate pretty well, the unaffected (and dominant) right eye providing clarity, and the left eye going along, and providing some depth perception. At text distances, the left eye is pretty well focused, but difficult to use with the right eye because of the tilt and distortion. At outdoor ranges, the cooperation is less. I see two crossing horizons, one clear and one blurry, although looking at less geometric things, like trees, it seems better.
They told me the bubble was about 35-40% of the original; I still have 2-3 weeks left (I hope; I'm bored of the bubble). They also said that once the bubble is gone I could go ahead and get a new prescription for glasses.
So, looking forward? Next week, I hope the bubble has shrunk out of my sight (looking forward), but I'm not too convinced that will be the case. And maybe, the eyes will start cooperating a little better in normal use.
The continuing saga of my recovery from my 2nd retinal detachment/reattachment surgery in my left eye. I'm currently at week 4 in the new recovery. Last week, I reported being able to glimpse a bit of the world more or less focused, above the meniscus of the bubble (actually below, because the eye image is backasswards), but too high to catch the center of vision, and predicted that by this week the center of vision would be in the focused zone (looking forward, not up or down), and I'd be able to report on how it was looking.
I was right (remember, I've been here once before). I can now see forward with a band that includes the fovea. It ain't pretty. As before, the vision is slanted to my right, maybe worse than before, and somewhat distorted, like on crumpled paper. If I work at it a bit, I can get both eyes to agree on the location and shape of an object directly in front, but away from the center, not so much. It's a bit disorienting to try to put both views together, so I close the left eye a lot. As I was told to expect, as a result of the rubber band around it, the left eye is now considerably more near sighted that it was, with its unaided focal distance of about a foot. It's not really very much use for reading at this point, although it can, alone, if necessary.
I really have no more pain from the rubber band (excuse me scleral buckle) they put around the eye to help the retina stick, just a slight feeling that there's something back there. I'm still a little leary of lifting heavy weights or bending down too far, it might cause a twinge of pain.
In theory, I did my last round of eye drops this morning. Now it's on it's own to continue improving. I'll continue with the antibiotic salve for a while though. It seems to help.
Barring the unforeseen, I don't expect a dramatic change by next week, the window of focused vision will widen, but since the bubble isn't expected to entirely dissipate for at least two or more weeks, the zone of better vision should be wider, and the two eyes maybe working better together, I hope.
