Amy Holland was honored with a GRAMMY nomination for Best New Artist after her debut self-titled album. The single, “How Do I Survive”, soared into the Top 20 on the Billboard charts and put Amy on the map. And now she's back with a new studio album aptly entitled, Light on My Path, produced by award winning Fred.

Mini Mansions is the dark psych-pop project of Los Angeles-based vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Shuman (also of Wires on Fire and bassist for Queens of the Stone Age), vocalist/bassist/keyboardist Zach Dawes, and vocalist/keyboardist/guitarist Tyler Parkford. Shuman had known Dawes since childhood, and Dawes met Parkford when they went to school in Santa Cruz, CA. Dawes sent Shuman some of Parkford's songs in 2005, and when Parkford returned to Los Angeles in 2008, they made plans to make music together. The trio officially became Mini Mansions in 2009 after Queens of the Stone Age finished touring in support of Era Vulgaris. Shuman and Tyler picked the best of the songs they had already written and made those into a self-released EP they released later in 2009. Mini Mansions continued recording, with QOTSA frontman Josh Homme mixing some tracks, and readied their self-titled debut album.

The single Monk, which featured a slow-motion cover of Blondie's “Heart of Glass,” arrived in June 2010 on Psychedelic Judaism, and Mini Mansions was released by Ipecac Records and Homme's Rekords Rekords imprint that November. The band spent two and a half years writing its second album, and recorded it at L.A.' S Vox Recording Studios with special guests including the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Brian Wilson (Dawes also played bass on a session for Wilson's 2015 album No Pier Pressure). T Bone Burnett's Electromagnetic imprint released The Great Pretenders in March 2015.~ Heather Phares • ORIGIN Los Angeles, CA • FORMED 2009.

• • • • • • John F. Kennedy's only grandson, 20-year-old Jack Schlossberg, is training to become a first responder, according to friends at Yale University. 'Jack sees this training as a way to give back to the New Haven community that he’s living in,' a friend of Jack's told the.

The source, who said he bonded with Schlossberg when they were summer interns for Sen. John Kerry a couple years ago, asked to remain anonymous.

'Jack’s very aware of all the privileges and opportunities that come with his family, so his EMT training has a lot to do with the community-service aspect,' the friend said. Scroll down for video. Caroline Kennedy talks with her son, Jack Schlossberg, while touring the podium at the 2008 Democratic National Convention Schlossberg is a sophomore at Yale and he's taking evening classes from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Several nights a week where he learns hands-on training until he earns his EMT certification. Project Igi 2 Covert Strike 2003 Pc Iso. The only son of JFK's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, his formal name is John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, but he goes by 'Jack.' He has two sisters, Rose and Tatiana. Expectations are high that Schlossberg, like so many other members of his family, will have a future in politics.

Share He's the only surviving male descendent of the former president since his uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., was killed in a plane crash in 1999, and he's already spent time interning in Washington. A Democrat, like everyone else in his family, Schlossberg has made his political views widely known in recent years writing for student publications such as the Yale Daily News and the Yale Herald. In February of last year, he wrote a column condemning Democrats for criticizing President Obama. 'Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama,' he wrote in the. He also wrote a piece on before the presidential election last year in which he called on young people not to abandon Obama. Rose Schlossberg, at age 24, is the eldest daughter of Caroline Kennedy.

She is a graduate of Harvard University and now works as an artist and videographer. Younger sister Tatiana Schlossberg, 22, went to Yale University, which is what inspired Jack to choose Yale. She wrote for the student newspaper there and she is now a staff writer at the Northern New Jersey newspaper, The Record. John Schlossberg, 20, who goes by 'Jack,' is a sophomore at Yale.

Schlossberg isn't always so serious, though. He often writes satire and humor pieces that don't always involve politics. 'The president was off his game [during the first presidential debate], and there’s only one explanation: Governor Romney got in his head, under his skin, between his toes, inside his ear, and then he tickled his nose,' Schlossberg wrote in the last October. 'In other words, Romney psyched Obama out.

I don’t know how, I don’t know when and I don’t know much about professional sports anymore because I stopped paying attention in 8th grade when I discovered my penis.' In an earlier post in the, Schlossberg jokingly advises his peers on how to be a gentleman by always complaining about the beer they are drinking, never reading in private and always wearing 'at least one piece of leather'.and 'leather clothing must never have a zipper, for this is far too functional and has connotations of the peasantry of Urban Outfitters.' Caroline Kennedy and Jack play basketball at their summer home in Bridgehampton, New York, while awaiting news on the plane crash off Martha's Vineyard which killed John F. He also advises, 'When discussing your parents, which cannot be done enough, never use a possessive.

Always say “Father” or “Mother,” as if they are everyone’s parents. For instance, “Father’s merger has taken a toll on dear Isabel, our beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, so that is why I’m acting so moody.”' The quirky Ivy leaguer swung back to serious in a post on after the election in which he defended his generation against critics who said young people had given up on politics.