In many ways, genre has been replaced by context as playlists become a dominant format. Just look at some of the top Spotify playlists: Your Coffee Break, Feel Good Friday, Songs to Sing in the Shower. It’s a 24-hour service providing a soundtrack to every moment in your life. |
| | | | | Pains of Being Pure at Heart at SXSW 2011. (Jason Persse) | | | | | | | “In many ways, genre has been replaced by context as playlists become a dominant format. Just look at some of the top Spotify playlists: Your Coffee Break, Feel Good Friday, Songs to Sing in the Shower. It’s a 24-hour service providing a soundtrack to every moment in your life.”
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| rantnrave:// Three decades after video killed the radio star, has the Internet killed the genre star? Or has it simply murdered the very idea of genre? That's what POPJUSTICE founder PETER ROBINSON argues in an essay for THE GUARDIAN that investigates why music fans don't identify with labels like "pop," "rock" or "indie" the way they used to. There's nothing startlingly new in his thoughts about SPOTIFY shuffle culture, YOUTUBE cross-pollination and RIHANNA covering TAME IMPALA, but ROBINSON does a nice job of showing how these and other cultural shifts have directly affected both artists and fans and how it has changed not only how we listen to music, but also the music itself... Which isn't to say genre isn't still a useful way of talking about a lot of music. JACOBIN's ALEXANDER BILLET explores metal's "PHIL ANSELMO problem," and EMPEROR RHOMBUS of METALSUCKS passionately explains why your metal band needs a bassist. Jazz tenor saxophonist MELISSA ALDANA talks shop with one of her heroes, SONNY ROLLINS, for BURNING AMBULANCE. THUMP asks electronic musicians about the influence of POKÉMON... DRIP joins KICKSTARTER... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from GWEN STEFANI, DAVE COBB/SOUTHERN FAMILY, BAAUER, DAMIEN JURADO, IGGY POP, JORDAN SMITH, UNDERWORLD and PRIMAL SCREAM. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Skrillex produces Bieber, Rihanna covers Tame Impala, and the genre-bending 1975 top the charts. The people making and consuming music are more stylistically promiscuous than ever. How did we get here? | | |
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| The event, centered around an initiative to educate girls and young women, reflected a reality in which hip-hop's influence is acknowledged and women are central to the conversation. | | |
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| It's Super Bowl Sunsay, and I am in the large gothic home of Real Housewife Carlton Gebbia in Beverly Hills, the setting for Rihanna's Vogue shoot. The 28-year-old singer appears in the doorway, fresh off a plane from Toronto, where the night before she and Drake wrapped the video for their hit single "Work." | | |
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| More than a month after Beyoncé's electrifying Super Bowl performance and the debut of her single "Formation," it's safe to say that 2016 has been all about the politicization of Queen Bey. In some ways, Beyoncé’s evolution as an artist mirrors my own evolution from casual observer to skeptic to fan. | | |
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| Streaming is here to stay. Now the conversation has changed to making it work -- for creators and rights holders. | | |
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| Heavy metal should not be ceded to its racist elements. | | |
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| By simply getting dressed and appearing onstage, even the most fashion-averse musicians can become synonymous with a certain look. But when musicians make their style aesthetic central to their overall artistic identity, they stand to elevate their work to new level of cohesion and expression. | | |
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| For 15 years, I’ve been going to see Phish play at shows and festivals -- not just for the party, but to center myself when I need it most. | | |
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| It's a snowy Friday morning as Ericka Pittman, vice president of Combs Enterprises, settles down, coffee in hand, and begins prepping for her busy day in New York City. After traveling on a 2 a.m. red-eye flight, she explains how although she is extremely fatigued, the show must go on. | | |
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| In Chester, Montana, a world away from city life inspires an artist's music. | | |
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| "Flint, don't give up your house! Flint, don't give up your house!" chants Detroit-based poet and singer Jessica Care Moore , jumping up and down on stage as deftly handles mixing duties to her right. It's only 11:30 PM on a Friday, but the main room is already packed shoulder-to-shoulder with mostly middle-aged house and techno heads at Detroit's beloved TV Lounge club. | | |
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| Out with overpriced booze and 5am taxi rides, in with early morning shape-throwing, yoga spaces and ‘greeting angels’. With advocates in Boy George and Fatboy Slim, is the sober rave here to stay? | | |
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| If you're going to do a lead feature on '30 under 30, the future of the music biz' it is impossible to ignore the ascension of Stormzy, one of the biggest success stories of 2015. At the very least Stormzy's manager Tobe has to be recognised for his tireless dedication and hard work, as does the rest of Stormzy's team. | | |
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| The following comes from Michelman & Robinson, LLP, the law firm handling David Lowery's massive, $150 million class action against Spotify, and a separate class action against Rhapsody with a similar valuation. The focus of the response is whether artists should joined a structured settlement between Spotify and publishers as coordinated through the National Music Publishers' Association, or NMPA. | | |
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| The anti-authoritarian stance of the Kuwaiti producer's new album "Brute" lies in her formative experience of the Gulf War. | | |
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| In the entertainment industry, breaking up is good for business. As we've seen from "Blood On The Tracks" to "Vulnicura," divorce and other profound romantic dissolution can make for potent creative fuel. But there's also the tabloid component, the way a superstar breakup suddenly rockets its participants to the forefront of the celebrity industrial complex. | | |
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| A decade and a half after fusing their Apparat and Modeselektor projects into techno's most joyful cerberus, Sascha Ring, Sebastian Szary, and Gernot Bronsert have the casual but deep connection of men who've spent time together in the trenches. | | |
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| Up-and-coming saxophonist Melissa Aldana is a tremendous admirer of Sonny Rollins (aka the Greatest Saxophonist…Ever!). Her latest album, "Back Home", is in many ways a tribute to him, and to his influence on her when she was just starting out, hearing "Sonny Rollins Plus 4"--a Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet disc in all but name--and being inspired to switch from alto to tenor. | | |
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| Ever since the birth of rock’n’roll--hell, long before that--political, economic and social situations have moved people to express their anger, fear and displeasure through music. Kids have grabbed guitars, turned amps up to 11 and started screaming. | | |
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| A month or two ago, I caught 1349 at The Roxy, and they f***ing slayed as always. But something I noticed about their performance this time around was how vital Seidemann, their bassist, is (he's the one who dresses like the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come). | | |
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