I went through a year of really intensely studying what [Jimmy] Page did, to the point where I knew how he thought. | | | | Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Dec. 29, 2017.
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| | rantnrave:// If summer festivals are shopping malls—and it increasingly seems like they are—then EMINEM is this year's FOOT LOCKER, the comforting, reliable, familiar presence you will encounter no matter what city or state you're in and who will have several pairs of decent trainers in your size, guaranteed. Thinking of spending a weekend in INDIO, CALIF., this April? He will be there. Planning a trip to MANCHESTER, TENN., in June? There, too. BOSTON in May? Yup. NEW YORK in June? Mmm-hmm. In short, "Everyone Attending a Music Festival This Year Will Be Forced to Sit Through an Eminem Set." Do you miss the days when COACHELLA meant this and BONNAROO meant that and LOLLAPALOOZA meant that other thing, and you went to your favorite festival in search of a particular experience, and not just the most convenient date and place to see SLIM SHADY or BROCKHAMPTON or DANIEL CAESAR or whoever else is probably booked at whichever fest you're going to? I do. I like regional tastes and sounds and smells. I like that radio in NASHVILLE doesn't sound like radio in LOS ANGELES, which doesn't sound like radio in SALT LAKE CITY (though I'm pretty sure they used to sound more different). And I take comfort in knowing that if you look a couple lines below the headliners on any given festival poster, you can start to taste that distinct flavor, whether it's OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, RAG'N'BONE MAN and STURGILL SIMPSON at Bonnaroo or IBEYI and KAMASI WASHINGTON at Coachella. But mostly I take comfort in the defiant existence of fests that do their own thing in their own way, like MICHELIN-starred taco trucks and sushi bars in a sea of STARBUCKS. CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND recommends SUMMER CAMP in CHILLICOTHE, ILL., for anyone who misses old-school Bonnaroo. ROCK ON THE RANGE in COLUMBUS, OHIO, is all hard-rock and metal all the time. AFROPUNK, which has been slowly expanding around the world in recent years, is a go-to August getaway for me at its home base in BROOKLYN, a celebration of black music and culture as inclusive and well-curated as any offering on anyone's summer calendar. See you there, I hope... JIMMY IOVINE says he is not leaving APPLE, not yet anyway... RADIOHEAD is not suing LANA DEL REY, not yet anyway... THUNDERCAT was part of a JEOPARDY answer Tuesday night. (Hey boss, have you thought any more about my proposal to launch JeopardyREDEF?)... RIP MIKIO FUJIOKA and DENISE LASALLE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Vulture |
| Sofi Tukker, an electronic duo, have only a few songs to their name so far, but they've already placed two singles in two different Apple commercials -- one for the Apple Watch and one for the iPhone X -- how'd they do it? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| “How to Be a Rock Critic” focusses on Bangs’s desire to make criticism less about bearing witness and more about creating something new, providing a necessary conduit between artist and potential fan. | | |
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 | Salon |
| The proto-Led Zeppelin band that was better than Led Zeppelin. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| Manchester, Tennessee is no longer the druggy, muggy jam band oasis it used to be. | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| The president of the Songwriters Guild of America is in Washington, D.C., this week to push for changes to the Music Modernization Act, which has the support of most songwriting, publishing and digital music stakeholders. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| "Humble yourself." Those were the words that Georgia linebacker Davin Bellamy shouted at Oklahoma's Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Baker Mayfield a week before the Bulldogs fell in a 26-23 overtime loss to Alabama in Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday night. The Bulldogs learned that lesson the hard way, regarding the College Football Playoff National Championship. | | |
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 | TechRadar |
| We could be facing a world without MP3s. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| “I don’t want to be misrepresented or misunderstood.” | | |
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 | Billboard |
| I was profoundly disappointed by Billboard's recent article that suggests that there might be a "chilling effect" for women in the music business as a result of speaking out about past and present abuses. From my vantage point, the #MeToo movement proves how far we have come and where we are going. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Whether it’s a marketing gimmick or a way to stop anyone ever talking about your band, musicians are rejecting random nouns in favour of punctuation and ancient languages. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How four Michigan kids are reclaiming the sounds of the Seventies. | | |
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| Vulture |
| I was pleasantly surprised over winter break by director Geremy Jasper's hearty indie rap film "Patti Cake$," an affecting coming-of-age yarn about a young white rapper trying to make it in, of all places, North New Jersey. | | |
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 | Variety |
| "I am committed to doing whatever Eddy [Cue], Tim [Cook] and Apple need me to do," says the Defiant One. | | |
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 | Chartmetric |
| The beginning of 2018 is an interesting time to look back at the $7.4 billionindustry known as electronic dance music, or as the branding world likes to call it: “EDM”. | | |
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 | Aquarium Drunkard |
| In late 1967 at a Count Basie concert at the famed Fillmore Auditorium, two brothers in the groove were introduced by a stranger who quickly disappeared into the technicolor ether. Mickey Hart and his new rhythm devil brethren Billy Kreutzmann left the show that night with sticks in hand as they "played" the streets of San Francisco until dawn -- giving new meaning to "the world is your playground." | | |
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| Billboard |
| Five up-and-coming artists, one song, 48 hours, a state-of-the-art on-set recording studio and performance stage and mentors to judge and guide them: that is the formula for Big Machine Label Group's Scott Borchetta's new TV show, "The Launch." | | |
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 | CDM Create Digital Music |
| Millions of children worldwide use Scratch to enter the world of programming. Now there’s a new way to connect to music, as Roland teams up with MIT. There’s a long, amazing history of teaching programming and creativity to kids. | | |
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 | RealClearLife |
| The Beach Boys, again and again, went to the market where goosebumps were bought and sold. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Does the singer’s “Get Free” borrow from the British band’s “Creep”? After days of online debate, Radiohead’s publisher makes a statement. | | |
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 | Centuries of Sound |
| We’re finally getting to the point where music is the story rather than the technology used to record it. But not only is it unclear what it should be called in 1898, it’s not going to become remotely clear until historians start to discuss it in the 1970s, under the general heading of “early days of ragtime.” Here’s an overview of what we have to deal with in 1898. | | |
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