People come to Seattle or Austin, places that have culture, for a reason, not for luxury high rise condos. Why does 'progress' or something new take priority over what has been here and what's made this city? | | | | Femi Kuti at the Radical Mestizo International Music Festival, Mexico City, Dec. 7, 2019.
(Pedro Martin Gonzalez Castillo/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “People come to Seattle or Austin, places that have culture, for a reason, not for luxury high rise condos. Why does 'progress' or something new take priority over what has been here and what's made this city?”
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| | rantnrave:// A wish list for 2020: Credits and liner notes on all relevant screens on all platforms of all music providers. It's the third decade of the 21st century. With a few quick clicks on ESPN, I can look up KAWHI LEONARD's free-throw percentage on Thursdays during the 2014-15 basketball season. Why can't SPOTIFY tell me who plays saxophone on KENDRICK LAMAR's "ALRIGHT," recorded during that NBA season? (And why can't it hyperlink the contributors it does know about?)... More women producing and engineering records. More women in positions of power at labels, agencies, etc. More women in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME (the GO-GO's have never been nominated and CAROLE KING and KATE BUSH have been nominated and rejected exactly once each and people keep checking five other names on their ballots every year as if everything is fine). More women's songs on country radio. This last one is, admittedly, a complicated, two-step operation, fraught with potential danger: 1) Cue up a song by any of the talented women releasing country records these days. 2) Hit the play button... More ticketing experiences like the one I had when I saw harpist BRANDEE YOUNGER (sublime) and bassist JUNIUS PAUL (intense) and their respective trios at INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM's WINTER JAZZFEST side show in Brooklyn last week. The advertised price was $17.25. When I was done buying my ticket online, the price was still $17.25. Elegant and simple. Kudos to the ambitious ticketing startup DICE for that experience... Also, that ticket price. Good music doesn't always have to cost a couple days' salary... More sound systems like the custom one at PUBLIC RECORDS, where that show was held, would be nice, too... Fewer playlists based on genres and moods, and more based on songs and how they sound and what they say... Fewer playlists based on algorithms, and more based on ideas... More artists, songwriters, producers, etc., getting their share of the record amounts of money coming through the doors of the streaming music world. I'm as sick as you are of the tweets and the MEDIUM posts about how someone got a few thousand bucks for a few million streams. So give then a reason to not have to do that anymore... Less payola. In all forms. Yes, I know. This is a wish list, not a set of predictions... (This is a set of predictions)... (This is another wish list)... My biggest wish of all: Less content, more art... RIP WOLFGANG DAUNER, LYNDON STEPHENS and NANCY LEWIS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| In order to grow, streaming services may need to offer customers more, better, and cheaper subscription options -- something Amazon is already doing. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Across the country, rising rents and gentrifying neighborhoods are pushing indie concert spaces further to the fringes - but some hope remains. | | |
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 | GQ |
| He survived the EDM boom, has courted countless controversies, and against long odds, somehow reinvented himself as a perfect (and hilarious) celebrity for the Instagram age. Gabriella Paiella goes deep inside the relentless, globe-trotting, and often shirtless world of the one and only Diplo. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| The Compton rap newcomer just denied Justin Bieber another No. 1 debut. Here’s how he did it. | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| If Apple had acquired Audion in 2000 instead of SoundJam, would iTunes have been playlist-centric? Would the unbundling of the album have come about in the same way? Would we have the same type of ‘playlist economy’ as we see now? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The group’s whirlwind of a record provides as much fun as one can have while receiving an auditory flogging. | | |
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 | She Shreds |
| Brandee Younger is bringing the harp to new levels, following in the footsteps of her heroes: Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Alife has impacted the streetwear game for more than 20 years. But the store's concert series, Alife Sessions, helped jumpstart Drake & ASAP Rocky's careers. | | |
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 | Variety |
| A bad choice, or an overdue one, for a hall that's been stingy on recognizing women of color who rose to popularity after 1970? | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Oversharing isn’t new. Oversharing in a fifteen second video through the medium of a catchy autotuned ballad? Sign me up. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Rolling Stone previews the headlines of the biggest stories in the music industry this year. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Elton John and Bernie Taupin for 'Rocketman,' Randy Newman for 'Toy Story 4' and veteran nominee Diane Warren top the Oscar nominations for best original song. | | |
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 | Heavy Blog Is Heavy |
| Between the Buried and Me. Dillinger Escape Plan. Periphery. Death. Dream Theater. Opeth. Tool. Mastodon. Meshuggah. Protest the Hero. Cynic. Voivod. And so, so, so many others. I could go on ad nauseum but suffice to say, hard rock and heavy metal as we know it would not exist without Rush. | | |
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| Billboard |
| In December, Tony Fernandes and Hassan Choudhury unveiled Asian pop label RedRecords, a joint venture between AirAsia Group and UMG. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| The MIDI 2.0 protocol, which the Midi Manufacturers Association has been working on for over 10 years, is the biggest update to MIDI since it was first created. It will allow for increased musical expression, tighter timing, and simplified connections between devices, among other things. | | |
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 | Innovating Music |
| Andrew Goren at 20 has built Harmony Helper, a newly launched app, from his own experiences and observations in the live stage rehearsal and audition environment. He has built his undergraduate program around this work, and brought together a team of professionals to see it launched. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Director Rupert Wainwright shares the inside story of the music video that helped mainstream hip-hop--and the famous dance interlude that almost got cut. | | |
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 | DownBeat |
| To say that Charlie "Yardbird" Parker was one of the greatest jazz musicians who ever lived is a bit like saying the Mona Lisa is a well-known painting. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| The DJ, producer and fashion provocateur is proudly representing ballroom culture through house music. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Many people have music they love, and whole genres they think they hate. Music writer Marissa Moss tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why country music skeptics should give country a chance. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | Brandee Younger covering Alice Coltrane. |
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