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The Interrupters have recruited Rancid‘s Tim Armstrong and The Bodysnatchers’ Rhoda Dakar for their new single ‘As We Live’.The track, which you can listen to below, is the third to be lifted from their forthcoming new album ‘In The Wild’, which is due out on August 5 via Hellcat / Epitaph. It follows ‘Anything Was Better’ and ‘In The Mirror’.“Love is the fuel for everything beautiful in the world.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“We Cry Together” is probably the most conversation-stopping song on Kendrick Lamar’s brilliant and challenging fifth album “Mr. Morale & the High Steppers” — a horrifyingly realistic recreation of an argument in an abusive relationship that finds Lamar and actress Taylour Paige saying absolutely horrible things to each other, with her delivering an entire verse while sobbing, and apparently culminates with the two of them having sex.The most commonly cited precedent for “We Cry Together” is Eminem’s 2000 song “Kim,” an even more horrifying scenario in which he murders his real-life ex-wife.

The Interrupters have announced their return and details of their first album in four years.The follow up to 2018’s ‘Fight The Good Fight’ is titled ‘In The Wild’ and it will arrive on August 5 via Hellcat/Epitaph Records.The album has been previewed this week with first single, ‘In The Mirror’, which takes the group back to their ska-punk roots.Speaking about the new track, vocalist Aimee Interrupter said: “I fell into so many self-destructive patterns trying to come to terms with my childhood. I spent so long trying to run from the pain. No matter how far I ran, there I was…I realised I needed to make peace with who I saw in the mirror.”Listen to the new track below. Commenting on the record, the band added: “We are so excited to announce our 4th full-length album ‘In The Wild’.“We put so much love into this album.

Mohamed Salah and Egypt had green lasers shone in their faces by Senegal supporters during their World Cup qualification clash.In the side’s play-off second leg in Dakar, the Pharaohs were subjected to having bright lights in their eyes, as Mohamed Salah faced off against fellow Liverpool attacker Sadio Mane. When the team carried out their national anthem, the lasers started to be shone in their eyes, with the Liverpool superstar Salah targeted.The lights continued to be shone in the opening stages of the match, in what is thought as revenge for when Egypt targeted Senegal's players in the first leg.

Ed Meza @edmezavarInternational feature film and commercial content group Iconoclast and Berlin-based StickUp Films have established a new joint venture to produce feature films and series for the domestic and international markets.Represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the new shingle, Iconoclast Films Germany, is aiming to produce a minimum of three film or series projects annually within a five-year ramp-up period.The company is headed by Luis Singer and Dennis Schanz of StickUp Films – the creators and co-producers of Netflix’s award-winning series “Skylines” — as well as Iconoclast executive producer Swantje Rummel.Iconoclast sees the new venture as part of its international content strategy and a logical extension of its brand. In addition to producing recent works by the likes of Gus Van Sant (“Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot”), Julian Schnabel (“At Eternity’s Gate”), Harmony Korine (“The Beach Bum”) and Romain Gavras (“The World Is Yours”) through its companies in the U.S.

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Senegal has become an online icon after he offered a heartwarming show of solidarity to student mothers across the country. Labaly Touré, a professor at the University of Kaolack in Dakar, tweeted two photos of himself teaching while cradling the baby of one of his pupils.

Alexander Durie “The Vanishing” is, as its name would suggest, a documentary film about a disappearance. Not just anyone’s disappearance, this project pitched at Visions du Réel (VdR)’s Industry platform is about the disappearance of the filmmaker’s own mother.Senegalese director Rama Thiaw won the Fipresci Critics Prize at the 2016 Berlinale for her documentary “The Revolution Won’t Be Televised,” earning her a name for producing politically-conscious documentaries.

LABELS & PUBLISHERSWarner Music has named Alfonso Perez-Soto as President of Emerging Markets. “I’m super proud to take on this new role and truly excited by its scope”, he says.

Pierre Cherpin was tragically killed after a horrific crashes in this year's event.The original route ran from Paris to the Senegalese capital of Dakar, crossing through remote deserts, scrubland and mountainous dunes in the process.Security threats meant the route changed in 2008 and this year’s race is taking place solely in Saudi Arabia.

Dakar Rally rider Pierre Cherpin has died from his injured sustained in the race.

A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl, "Mark was certainly the star." And at a different time she allegedly said, according to the Independent, "I always felt I came second of the two. Unloved is not the right word but I never felt that I made the grade.”Yep! That part is true, too.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxMore than 500 fishermen have been hit by a mysterious skin disease after returning from sea.The workers contracted the strange infectious condition in the west African country of Senegal once they were back on dry land.They were left with lesions on their face and, in some cases, on their genitals.The fishermen, who come from several fishing towns around the capital Dakar, have been placed in quarantine for treatment.A first case was reported a week ago.Images shared on social media showed men with swollen and blistered lips and large pimples on their hands.Officials have been left scratching their heads over what has caused it.A senior

Akon has proved to be a man with a plan after unveiling the next steps for construction of his new city in Senegal, which has been compared to Black Panther’s fictional nation of Wakanda. The Locked Up singer secured $6bn (£4.4bn) funding for the new area, dubbed Akon City, in June and has now revealed what to expect from the ambitious project. During a press conference on Monday, Akon explained that he wanted the city – which will be situated near Dakar – to be a ‘home back home’ for African-Americans and other black communities around the world. ‘The system back home treats them unfairly in so many different ways that you can never imagine.

$6 billion eponymous development project will transform a Senegalese farming village by the decade’s end.“I want the buildings to look like real African sculptures that they make in the villages,” Akon, 47, told a masked crowd Monday in the seaside capital, Dakar.The Senegalese American artist — whose full name is Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam — was in town to lay the first stone in a corn field on 2,000 acres of coastal land given to him by the Senegalese government.Construction, he said, is set to begin early next year.The high-profile visit capped months of increasingly lofty announcements: Akon City will run on cryptocurrency called Akoin, the performer said.

By Justin Kroll

Amazon Prime has commissioned a new documentary series about Spanish racing driver Fernando Alonso, it announced Thursday. Titled “Fernando,” the new documentary will feature intimate access to Alonso and his racing team throughout the past year in the lead up to his debut at the Dakar Rally in South America.

By Jake Kanter

Amazon Prime Video has announced its latest exclusive documentary series, Fernando, a unique portrayal into Formula One World Champion, and one of Spain’s most successful and popular sport stars, Fernando Alonso. Examining his life on and off the racing circuit as he encounters highs and lows during the months leading up to his first outing at Rally Dakar in South America, the five-part docu-series will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in Spain, France, Italy, UK and Latin America later this year.