{"id":3981,"date":"2026-01-02T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:24:22","slug":"gaiamedia-goodnews-january-2026-good-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2026\/01\/02\/gaiamedia-goodnews-january-2026-good-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"gaiamedia goodnews january 2026 \u2013 good to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Cold Play<\/h3>\t\t\t

The Kid LAROI<\/a><\/strong>
\nCharlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born August 17, 2003), known by his stage name Kid Laroi (stylized as Kid LAROI), is an Australian singer, rapper, and songwriter. He was discovered by Triple J Unearthed in 2016 at the age of 13. As he gained a larger fan base, he was signed to Lil Bibby’s Grade A Productions, a joint venture with Columbia Records. He gained mainstream recognition with his 2021 single \u201cStay\u201d (featuring Justin Bieber), which topped the charts in numerous countries, including his native Australia, as well as the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100.
\nColumbia<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tragic Magic<\/h3>\t\t\t

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore<\/a>
\n\u201cTragic Magic brings together Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two of contemporary ambient, experimental and electronic music\u2019s most celebrated composers, for a unique collaboration at the Philharmonie de Paris, with extraordinary access to the Mus\u00e9e de la Musique\u2019s instrument collection, in partnership with the French label InFin\u00e9. The album features seven immersive, evocative compositions guided by the human spirit \u2013 intimate, grounded in friendship, both earthly and cosmic \u2013 and part of a greater continuum, reflecting the solace and transformative power of artistry across generations.\u201d (Bandcamp)
\ninFin\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Remembering Now<\/h3>\t\t\t

Van Morrison<\/a>
\nMorrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as “Van the Man” to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Belfast R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded “Gloria. His solo career started with the release of the hit single “Brown Eyed Girl” in 1967. He has a new album coming out on 23 January, Someone Tried to Sell Me a Brdige. Good to hear his voice so clear in this slow, spoke-word piece, promising more to come.
\nWarner Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Mix Verano 2026<\/h3>\t\t\t

Cumbia para la Previa (Mix Fiestero)<\/a>
\nHere we have a whole range of cumbia<\/em> stars from who make our feet move with their music andhelp us look fordward to spring, though it still seems far away. The cumbia pop genre emerged in the mid-2000s when some musical groups from Uruguay and Argentina made covers of popular songs, mixing them with elements of cumbia and pop, and posted them on YouTube. One of the pioneers was the Uruguayan group VI-EM, followed by the Argentine group Agapornis. However, it did not gain much notoriety, but at that time other sub-genres such as cumbia villera <\/em>were more popular.
\nMontevideo Music Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In Camera<\/h3>\t\t\t

Yumi Zouma<\/a>
\nYumi Zouma are a New Zealand alternative pop band from Christchurch. The band consists of Christie Simpson (vocals, keyboards), Josh Burgess (guitar, bass guitar, vocals, keyboards), Charlie Ryder (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards), and Olivia Campion (drums). The band’s name is an amalgamation of the two friends who encouraged the group to start writing together. The band did not begin writing music together until multiple members moved abroad and began collaborating over email following the events of the Christchurch earthquake. This early material gained attention within the musical blogosphere and encouraged American label Cascine to sign the band before they had played live or held a band practice.
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The Kid LAROI Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard (born August 17, 2003), known by his stage name Kid Laroi (stylized as Kid LAROI), is an Australian singer, rapper, and songwriter. He was discovered by Triple J Unearthed in 2016 at the age of 13. As he gained a larger fan base, he was signed to LilContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}