Music’s all about things that you feel for split seconds, and try and capture. | | | | Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry and Andy Mackay at the Brighton Dome, Brighton, England, April 11, 1973.
(David Warner Ellis/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Music’s all about things that you feel for split seconds, and try and capture.”
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| | rantnrave:// Today it's LANA DEL REY (who is not actually being sued) vs. RADIOHEAD (which is not actually suing but wants credit). Yesterday, SAM SMITH vs. TOM PETTY, or ROBIN THICKE vs. MARVIN GAYE, or LADY GAGA vs. MADONNA, or LED ZEPPELIN vs. [FILL-IN-THE-BLANK]. Or an AUSTRALIAN electronic musician vs. companies who create white noise. Seriously. Musical plagiarism comes in many forms, so little of it intentional, even less of it truly harmful. Sometimes we are richer for it. "There’s something lovely and comforting," the NEW YORKER's AMANDA PETRUSICH writes, "about the continuum—about art begetting art, about a pulse traveling down a line. The interconnections and overlaps are evidence of a mysterious symbiosis, a hand in the dark, a history." Can you imagine a world in which songs don't give birth to other songs? How alien would that be? Is any song truly original? Or is originality simply a question, in the end, of how much is begged, borrowed and stolen and how artful the theft is? MusicSET: "The Song (Is Different but the Melody) Remains the Same"... I love NPR MUSIC's SLINGSHOT project, which is harnessing public radio stations across the country as curators for a network-wide emerging-artists promotion. The first full class of 20 artists, who you can expect to hear a lot on participating stations, includes PHOEBE BRIDGERS, MCKINLEY DIXON, KNOX FORTUNE and others who range from singer-songwriters to rock bands to hip-hop producers to a classical pianist. It's broad and generous curation, filtered through a public-radio lens. In other words, recommended if you like MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC or ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. NPRCAVIAR, if you will... Music sounds better with you, especially if you are a massage chair... PAUL MCCARTNEY and BRIAN ENO among artists fighting to save grassroots venues in the UK... ERIC CLAPTON has tinnitus... CHARLIE DANIELS is concerned about the ILLUMINATI... Can you pay musicians by clapping?... RIP ALFRED MORRIS III. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Is any song truly original? Or is it simply a question, in the end, of how much is begged, borrowed and stolen and how artful the theft is? Can you sue over a minor fourth chord? Questions to ponder as we revisit infamous borrowers from Led Zeppelin and George Harrison to Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Today’s labels sit alongside of a new wave of digital opportunity and complexity, far beyond streaming. With the comfort of a growing streaming business and a focus on supporting their big partners, I get the sense they may not see it all. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Why are the 2010s more difficult for female R&B singers than the '90s? | | |
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 | Complex |
| Kanye, Lupe, Jim Jones, and Weezy all believed in Stack Bundles. 10 years after the Far Rockaway rapper's death, we look at why. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| New music from Justin Timberlake, Jack White and Cardi B, and other records we can't wait to hear. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Talking to the punk-rock supernova about his new record ‘POST-’ and making music in uncertain times. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Figures confirm that 'Reputation' was 2017's best-selling album, but tell another story about the loyalty of Swift's fans. | | |
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 | TrackRecord |
| On Monday, the Huffington Post’s contributor platform published a story by #IRespectMusic founder Blake Morgan, detailing a heated exchange between him and an unidentified Spotify executive in 2014. The piece, “Spotify’s Fatal Flaw Exposed: How My Closed-Door Meeting with Execs Ended in a Shouting Match,” was removed from the website hours after posting. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| The most popular rap songs and albums in 2017 had a smaller percentage of political lyrics than they did in 2016. | | |
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 | The Root |
| In the last couple of days of any given year and the first few of the one that follows, you may often hear people declare that they are cutting off people from their lives. Now more than ever, such proclamations are more visible thanks to social media. | | |
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| Billboard |
| According to a study, popular syncs are proven to boost consumer engagement -- but experts say how these songs are used is just as important. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| As Jahseh Onfroy turned 19 early last year, his rap career hit a new peak. The Florida native's homespun brand of hip-hop had already attracted a fierce cult following and the attention of major labels as his single "Look at Me" blew up. | | |
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 | NPR |
| The Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center honors genre greats like the Ohio Players, Issac Hayes, and James Brown. | | |
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 | Soundfly |
| Check out this mega-intense, utterly absurd music theory breakdown of every song that cracked the Billboard Top 5 in 2017, and chart the trends with us! | | |
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 | Bandcamp Daily |
| Ancient Egyptian lyre music or a sample of chatter from an Edison cylinder? We delve into the archives to hunt for the oldest compositions and recordings on Bandcamp. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos is perhaps the most candid of artists when it comes to mental health. At 18, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder -- something fans were privy to three years after his debut album "Manners." In 2012, Angelakos needed to take time off from touring to focus on getting healthier stepping away from promoting his album "Gossamer." | | |
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 | Genius |
| From DJ Screw to Lil Pump, Houston’s influential drink found its way onto the charts and into hip-hop tragedies. | | |
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| The Root |
| "I personally don't like that word and just avoid it in general," says Johan, the co-creator and arranger of Yeethoven II, premiering at New York City's Lincoln Center on Jan. 18. He's talking about the word "genius" and if it applies to Kanye West, a term the rapper/producer has bandied about--about himself-- years. | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| Justin Timberlake released a new single last week, and it's about... something. Maybe it's about sex, or partying, or love. What I definitely know is that there is not a complete thought to be found. "Filthy," released Friday (Jan 5) as the first single from Timberlake's upcoming album, "Man of the Woods," is not breaking any walls down. | | |
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 | The Cipher |
| Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé was a lawyer, a blogger, a music executive, a father, and much more. But most people will remember him as a podcasting legend. The host of the eponymous Combat Jack Show raised the bar throughout his time as a media figure, becoming the most influential hip-hop podcaster and even the co-creator of an entire podcast network. | | |
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