Imans Council urges Muslims to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at home
This past few days Muslims were urged by The Australian National Imams Council to celebrate Eid al-Fitr and pray from home.
The Eid prayer and occasion is usually performed by all Muslims in large congregations however due to the Coronavirus pandemic participants were required to celebrate at home with a minimum number of three people. Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked the Muslim community earlier through the week for their effort in remaining within the Country's COVID19 regulations during this time.
Queensland Government offering sport vouches to Struggling Families
The Queensland government is offering vouchers of $150 to families who have been financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, in order to get children back into community sport.
As sporting clubs prepare to recommence training from the 13th of June, the vouchers will be available to families who can prove the COVID-19 financial hit.
The Queensland government will also repurpose over $50 million of sports funding to assist clubs in getting ready to operate under the new restrictions.
Brisbane Experiences Coldest Day in May for 40 years
On Friday May 22nd Brisbane went through it's coldest day for May in forty years.
With temperatures in the low teens, the Weather Bureau reports the drop in temperature is from the cold blast of air coming in from the southern states in combination with cloudy skies. Brisbane's last coldest day of May hasn’t been experienced since 1980 reaching 17.9C.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Dianas - Baby Baby (Album Of The Week)
2. Rackett - ILY Alley (I Love You Alley)
3. May Lyn - Closed Doors (Single)
4. Miiesha - Hold Strong (Single)
5. Cable Ties - Far Enough
6. Sycco - Nicotine (Single)
7. Violent Soho - Everything Is A-OK
8. Moon Saloon - Mark St EP
9. Tia Gostelow - Rush (Single)
10. Wafia - Pick Me (Single)
11. Eliza & The Delusionals - A STATE OF LIVING IN AN OBJECTIVE REALITY
12. RVG - Feral
13. DickLord - It's Soooo Boring
14. Hartley - Feel Too Much (Single)
Party Dozen: Pray For Party Dozen
<p><span><span>- Does doom exist only under disparity? Does the absence of clarity equal a dystopic environment? Are artists labelled as genre-defying when music critics lack the ability to categorise them? (Ed.: <em>yes.</em>) Do categories even matter? (Ed.: <em>but I spent so long learning them!</em>) Party Dozen has been branded ‘a noise-rock duo’. Originally met in Berlin, travelled from Brisbane to currently abide in Sydney.
Charli XCX: how i'm feeling now
<p><span><span>- On her newest record <em>how i’m feeling now</em>, pop futurist Charli XCX has decided that while she could coast for a few years on the release of her self-titled, magnum opus <em>Charli </em>- she’s not finished yet! Where last year’s album saw Charli stretch the dimensions of pop music to both experimental and accessible extremes, <em>how i’m feeling now </em>is more akin to the PC Music, bubblegum bass and dance-pop of her 2017 mixtapes.</span></span></p>
Andrew Tuttle - Alexandra
Alexandra, Andrew Tuttle's fourth studio album, reflects the growth apparent in his three previous Room40 releases and commitment to developing a reputation in his home country of Australia in the time since his 2015 debut. Leaning upon the inspiration pulled from recent tour supports with contemporaries such as Steve Gunn, Ryley Walker and Calexico; Alexandra presents a true sonic landscape; a musical reflection of a rediscovered homeland. A magician of banjo and resonator guitar, Tuttle named the album after that Queensland street and suburb where he first created and fell in love with music.
Alexandra is the sound of rediscovering one's environment, almost twenty years on, tracing it with an organic, expanding flow of energy. The songs on Alexandra weave their way serenely and purposefully, tracing a gossamer path resembling the distinctive, scribble-like burrowing patterns left by moths on the scribbly gum trees which dot Tuttle's ambles through the Australian bushland backgrounding the suburban environment. Splashes of colour flutter through like rosellas in flight, with pedal steel, piano, strings and horns contributed by collaborators such as Chuck Johnson (Saariselkä, VDSQ, Three Lobed Recordings, Scissor Tail ), Tony Dupe (Saddleback), Sarah Spencer (Blank Realm), Gwenifer Raymond (Tompkins Square), Joel Saunders (Spirit Bunny) and Joe Saxby (These Guy).
Alexandra was tracked externally at Brisbane's The Plutonium by engineer Aidan Hogg (Jaguar Jonze, Jeremy Neale, Hatchie), then edited and processed at Tuttle's studio in Brisbane and at his childhood home on Alexandra Circuit in Alexandra Hills.
Zedlines - May 23
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Residents return to villages in Bangladesh and India after Cyclone
Thousands return to damaged houses and submerged villages in Baladagelsh and Eastern India after Cyclone Amphan, the first super cyclone to start in the Bay of Bengal since 1999.
While authorities evacuated millions before the storm, shelters were not filled to capacity as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.
Residents are returning to their homes now, and a full assessment of the damage and number of casualties will be recorded.
US secures stockpile of experimental COVID-19 Vaccine
The United States has secured approximately 333 million doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The US Department of Health and Human Services pledged up to $1.2 billion to accelerate AstraZeneca’s vaccine development.
The use of the vaccine is unclear as of now because there is uncertainty surrounding immunity to COVID, however, the pledge is intended to potentially kickstart the US economy.
The US could potentially have the first doses as early as October according to the Department of Health and Human Services.