#1 Variety Magazine - A Worldwide Publication Monthly Issue - AUGUST 2015 PRESTON PRITCHETT MODEL OF THE MONTH OVER A DECADES WORTH OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE FEATURES 04 Preston Pritchett August’s Featured Model Of The Month 06 Nakaya (nuh-kai-yuh) A Force To Be Reckoned With 08 Lamb Of God Blazing “Heavy Music” Mercilessly 10 L.A. Racines (Author) The Shield In The Shadows 11 Aaron Cohen A Dark Mix Of... “Home Less” 22 Blacklist Union Back To ‘Momo!” 24 Devil City Angels Premieres Debut Video “Boneyard” COVER STORY 12 Mooky aka Yung Mook West Coast Native, Making Moves LIFESTYLE | HEALTH 14 The Battle Of The Sexes Dysfunction vs Libido 18 Be Inspired (Monthly Feature) Eloho Releases “Speechless” Single ENTERTAINMENT 7 Buffalo Bites (Monthly Feature) The Creative Audio And Music Production World 19 All Hands On Deck (Monthly Feature) Exclusive Interview With “2 Live Crew” 23 BWD Radio w/Ms V (Monthly Sponsor) 25 Bizarre, Wacky & Unique Holidays 26 Lamb Of God (Back Page Takeover) 2 • BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com LAST ISSUE FROM THE EDITOR In a world where a swipe across the virtual shelf has supplanted the casual stroll down the aisle, content driven media has become the golden chalice of promotion; fresh content delivered with the minimum of fuss constantly throughout the day has become the key to ensnaring the public interest, of reaching the plateau of fame and recognition you deserve to be standing upon. 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With a worldwide audience of subscribers downloading and learn- [email protected] ing which name to look out for, which band they should be follow- ing, who the next Big Thing is going to be, BWD Magazine speaks Offical Website to millions of awaiting ears each and every month. BWDMagazine.com Twitter: BWDMagazine With the world as an audience BWD Magazine puts you firmly in the spotlight. Twitter: BWDPromotions BWD Magazine- ‘Leading Whilst Others Follow’ BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com • 3 AUGUST’S FEATURED MODEL OF THE MONTH PRESTON PRITCHETT reston Pritchett is a country “Whenever things would get tough”, says Preston, boy from Selma, Alabama. “we would turn our faith to God and Family”. STATS: P Pritchett is “that” guy who BWD Magazine asked Preston, “Are there times Age: 20 everyone thinks is a weirdo. when you feel the past trys to dictate your future? If so, what keeps you motivated to keep Height: 6’ 0” Preston is an outgoing person that loves to pushing forward?” Weight: 175 lbs explore and try new things. His motto? “Never EVER Give Up”. “In life there will be times when you will fall”, Measurements: 40-32-33 says Preston “but it’s not about how many times Preston grew up in a single parent home of you fall that matters, it’s how many times you get Hair: Black Eyes: Brown three. His dad stayed in their lives; continuing back up”. Shoe: 12 to provide family support. Preston continues to do everything in his power Current Residence: Preston admits that they did not always have to fulfill the dreams of becoming a professional the best of days and one year, Christmas had model. Troy, Alabama passed them by without celebration. He was always thankful for his Mom having instilled ‘all “You’re on the right track!”, says BWD Magazine. we needed for Christmas’ was family.. 4 • BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com Contact Information Facebook: Pop.Pritchett Twitter: @PrestonPritche1 Instagram: Preston_Pritchett Bookings/Inquires: [email protected] All Rights Reserved - Preston Pritchett BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com • 5 NAKAYA akaya is a New York native, born and raised Compelled by an incredible passion for music, and backed in Queens. Coming from a church going by undeniable talent, “The Prince of Queens” is heavy on his family, Nakaya pronounced (nuh-kai-yuh) grind refusing to take failure as an option. N showed an interest in music at a very young age, playing the drums and sing- ing in his church’s choir at age five and Contact Information rapping at age twelve. It wasn’t until high school that he began to combine his vocal talent with his rhyming skills Twitter: @Nakaya24 and developed a sound all his own. Facebook: 24Nakaya Email: [email protected] Once he did, Nakaya formed a group and began doing shows iTunes: itunes.apple.com/album/ayo/id592833070 and making appearances across the east coast. Following a 3 1/2 year stretch in prison, along with dealing with the obstacles of life, and the disbandment of his group, Nakaya rose from the difficulties a new man. Nakaya aka “The Prince of Queens” obtained a greater hunger for his music, and a stronger drive towards success. Never losing the faith that his lyrical talent and singing abilities were gifts meant to be heard, he began formulating a unique movement, surrounded by a likeminded team, grounded in hard work and anchored in fearless determination. Nakaya wants to be known as more than just a successful performer and artist. He has plans of delving into the busi- ness sector, with the ultimate goal of doing outreach in his community, and beyond. Nakaya is a force to be reckoned with as he creates unique music and catchy hooks. All Rights Reserved 6 • BWD Magazine • www.bwdmagazine.com BUFFAlo BITES MONTHLY FEATURE It’s been another peaceful month here at Crown Works Studio, NOT! We’ve couple more hours we had the bones of a backing track ready for working actually been rather busy truth be told and we’re picking up momentum out the vocal lines and getting some guides down so that I could develop every week with new studio enquiries coming from all angles. the track further in my own time. I’ve put a reasonable amount of effort into the song since then and am nearly ready for Charlene to return to the Following on from recording God Damn for the first time last month, this studio for a last vocal blast before mixing, I’m at that nervous point before month started with a very different band indeed. Far from the heavy riffs she hears it for the first time since the initial session, hoping I’ve gone the and ear mincing vocals, the lads of the band ‘Native State’ bring a slightly right way with it... The song will be included in a compilation album release more pop-fused sound although still a firm guitar band and able to rock in the next few months so having heard some of the other likely songs I’m festival and pub audiences alike. hoping we’ve got a good one here. It certainly sounds good to me! We recorded two songs in the standard studio manner, guide tracks first The Third session I’ll tell you about here came about because of my past then drums, bass, guitars and vocals all individually, in this manner we can work with Ocean Colour Scene, a UK band you might have heard of? I take full control of the individual sounds as well as the ambience sounds contacted Oscar’s (OCS Drummer) son Leon, who plays in a local outfit, The we have available. It’s widely understood that a nice quality ambient mic Samuel Rogers Band which I’d spotted online and have been following on on drums, or a pair of stereo room mic’s helps to glue the sound together. Facebook and Instagram for a while. I spoke to Leon and on recommenda- tion of his Dad and they agreed to come and record with us. Adding a stereo ambient on your bass tracks can give you something close to the fantastic Clash bass sound, with just a little added ambience on all The difference with this session is that these guys are very much a groove of your instrument tracks it can really help glue the whole sound together based band and being a three piece we decided to track them all together at the mixing stage and help keep some of the energy in the song where in our Live Room. Drums were mic’d as my usual arrangement, along with there’s a danger of recording to a click can sort of ‘lose’ some of the bands Sam’s Marshall amp tucked in behind our new ‘mega-baffle’ (heavy duty natural pace throughout the track. Of course, you’re going to need a lot of 2x3 metre floor standing baffle/gobo) with a couple of close dynamic mic’s microphones and a computer or recording media that can deal with the and Chris’s bass was DI into our Audient 880. Sam provided a basic vocal higher demand of multi mic’ing each instrument. via an SM58 in the room with them too. My primary concern here was spill from the guitar and vocal onto the drums but with sensible volumes there’s The antidote to losing the energy? Tempo maps and carefully considered hardly any spill at all which was very good news for me.