I feel like my voice is a snare. I feel like my voice is a drum. And most important, I feel like my voice is a bass. | | | | Waxahatchee in Leeds, England, Sept. 6, 2017.
(Andrew Benge/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I feel like my voice is a snare. I feel like my voice is a drum. And most important, I feel like my voice is a bass.”
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| | rantnrave:// This nicely done TIDAL playlist has been playing on joyful repeat in my house for the past 24 hours in memory of HUGH MASEKELA. The lyrical bite of his trumpet lines. The SOUTH AFRICAN folk, pop and soul rhythms that are so organically entwined with his own jazz DNA that you almost don't notice how many ideas and influences are coursing through his head. The reminder, as I read reminiscences and appreciations from around the world, of the astonishing range of musicians he worked with, from his countryman ABDULLAH IBRAHIM to NIGERIAN pop great FELA KUTI to singers MIRIAM MAKEBA and HARRY BELAFONTE. And his lifelong political activism. Of course all those partnerships and influences wouldn't have amounted to much of anything if the DNA wasn't implanted in him in the first place. MILES DAVIS told him, "You're going to be artistic because there's thousands of us playing jazz but nobody knows the s*** that you know, you know, and if you can put that s*** in your s***, then we're going to be listening.'" And he did. And they did. And we did. RIP... Among the words and phrases up for debate in the headline "Ideologues Seek Revision of Copyright Law Without Legislative Process" are "ideologues," "revision" and "copyright law." (The debatability of "legislative process" goes without saying.) At issue is an ongoing effort by the private AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE to update, or restate, its widely cited guidance on the contours and applications of US copyright law. Music publishers and artist advocates think ALI, which has considerable influence on judges, is trying to sway courts to favor tech companies over music rights holders. They're also hoping music copyright law changes significantly before ALI finishes its work. ALI sees its work as informational and neutral. The stakeholders span the entirety of the music biz, and there will be a lot of eyes on this... MARY J. BLIGE is believed to be the first person simultaneously nominated for ACADEMY AWARDS for acting and songwriting... The casting of the MOTLEY CRUE biopic THE DIRT, with the guy who played the evilest evil person on GAME OF THRONES in line to be MICK MARS and a guy from PUNISHER up for the VINCE NEIL part, gives me reason to ask: Are there any other rock bands, in this or any universe, in which the lead guitarist and the frontman are the least interesting, and least important, people?... An artificial intelligence program gets in on the fake COACHELLA poster meme thing and, um, meet BING THE BUNG, BILLIONS OF MARIO and (someone please start this band) DON'T KISS... RIP LARI WHITE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| | From "Musas," Grammy-nominated for Best Latin Pop Album. |
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