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The Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival will return in 2021 with headliners Dave Matthews Band and the Black Keys. After the cancellation of the 2020 festival in Franklin, Tennessee, because of the Covid pandemic, this year’s two-day gathering will be held September 25th and 26th. Source

Anita Lane, an Australian singer-songwriter known for collaborating with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party as well as her own recordings, has died at 62. Cave paid tribute on social media, tweeting, “From her to eternity” — a perhaps inevitable eulogy, given that the song that went by that title was her most famous co-write and one of the most celebrated songs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Lane first collaborated with Cave when he was a member of the Birthday Party. She was a classmate of the Birthday Party’s Rowland S. Howard and ended up co-penning several songs for that band, going on to co-write with Cave after that, too, with songs including not just “From Her to Eternity,” “A Dead Song,” “Kiss Me Black” and “Dead John,” but “Stranger Than Kindness,” a Bad Seeds standout for which she wrote all the lyrics. (Cave named a recent book after that song.) Her solo career began with the 1988 EP “Dirty Songs,” followed by two albums, 1993’s “Dirty Pearls” and 2001’s “Sex O’Clock,” before she seemed to retreat from public life. “Lane’s first solo album ‘Dirty Pearl’ was released in 1993, a time in popular music when female singer-songwriters were beginning to reclaim the sexual narrative,” critic Eleanor Philpot wrote in a reassessment of her music in The Quietus earlier this year. “‘Dirty Pearl’ was aligned with this sexual revolution but also separate from it. While Lane’s work explored similar themes, namely lust and love, she was much more focused on the spiritual, demonstrating how sex and romantic relationships could help develop a knowledge of an individual’s truest self.” Like other upstart artists of that period, Philpot wrote, “her music was a middle finger to the patriarchy, but unlike them, Lane refused to deny her stereotypical feminine qualities in doing so, instead exploring how her capacity to experience sex and love from a female viewpoint led to richer experiences. … Lane considered the greater implications of how female fragility plays out in romantic relationships with a scholarly awareness, allowing herself (and her listeners) to find a way out of the darkness and towards emotional strength.” Source

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(Image credit: Beamdog) Last year, Beamdog announced it was planning to update the enhanced editions of classic RPGs Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, and Icewind Dale on Steam. That patch has now gone live for all three games. Version 2.6 gives them 64-bit executables for better stability, fixes hundreds of bugs, improves pathfinding, adds more player-character portraits and voice options, and throws in several additional text localizations as well. Multiplayer bugs—which made area names display incorrectly, messed with character importing and loaded incorrect stats for imported characters' familiars—have been fixed across all three alongside an overall improvement to multiplayer stability. The lists of individual fixes for each game, as well as repair work done on spell visuals, abilities, and achievements, are as long as a tarrasque. Here are the Baldur's Gate patch notes, Baldur's Gate 2 patch notes, and Icewind Dale patch notes. Each game also gets a shared set of 11 new portraits for your player-character and seven new voice sets for them, including two by Mass Effect's Mark Meer. BroShep reprises his roles as Baeloth Barrityl (who runs the the Black Pits in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition) and Alveus Malcanter (the world's longest-lived first-level wizard and host of the Icewind Dale survival videos on YouTube). Beamdog notes that some quirks still remain, like the increased speed and damage from the Haste spell not appearing in the combat log even though it does actually have an effect, and an issue caused by the OpenAL audio interface: "If your game fails to launch, try reinstalling OpenAL— the installer "oalinst.exe" can be found in the root of the game install folder." Source

RZA has released his first single since 2008 under the name Bobby Digital. The DJ Scratch-produced track is called “Pugilism” and it’s due on an upcoming album called Bobby Digital: Digital Potions. A release date for the new album has yet to be announced. Listen to the new song below. The rapper, producer, and filmmaker has also announced “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater,” an online kung fu movie screening series that begins on Saturday (April 24) at 9 p.m. with a screening of the Shaw Brothers’ Heroes of the East. RZA and Dan Halsted will host the screening, and RZA will reveal more details about his upcoming album Source

Microsoft’s performance-boosting DirectStorage API has so far been exclusive to its Xbox Series X console, but when it launches on Windows 10 in the near future, you won’t necessarily need the most up to date PC in the world to take advantage of the technology. While Microsoft had a lot to say during its presentation, it was particularly vocal in the chat, as Redditor Nepbb points out that an employee confirms the feature will even support last generation PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs. You won’t need the best graphics card either, with support for all DirectX 12-capable GPUs, from Nvidia’s GTX 600 series onwards to AMD’s Radeon HD 7000 and up. SATA SSD users are left empty-handed, however. The aim of DirectStorage is to reduce CPU overhead for I/O operations for loading into game worlds when stored on an NVMe drive, freeing up the CPU for other tasks, which could also help boost fps on lower-end systems. Games must be developed to take advantage of the tech, but supported future titles could see vast improvements in game loading times as they take full advantage of super-fast NVMe SSDs. It looks like it’ll only be recent games built around DirectX 12 that can take advantage of the feature, however. The Redditor goes on to claim there will be a limited developer preview of the API on PCs this summer, and we could see the feature bundled with the Windows 10 21H2 update, which arrives in the second half of this year. Still, it won’t be until its official release that we can get a good idea of what the DirectStorage API is really capable of in the latest games. Source

Facebook Reality Labs has offered more detail about a virtual reality remake of Resident Evil 4, following Capcom’s original announcement last week. The game will launch later this year exclusively on Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset, although the exact date is still a mystery. As Capcom’s first trailer indicated, it’s a first-person VR adaptation of the 2005 third-person game, with a focus on making weapons and movement feel more natural with Oculus Touch motion controllers. Resident Evil 4 for VR uses the game’s original levels and animations, revamped with remastered textures, and Oculus says cutscenes will be rendered “in their original format.” But developer Armature Studio has added VR-friendly locomotion options like the ability to teleport or walk around a room-scale environment, in addition to using Touch controller analog sticks. You physically pick up weapons and items from the environment, and you can equip different weapons for each hand. The game’s enemies will also attack in ways that are optimized around first-person combat. Source