Those edits were perfect. It wasn’t just backwards edits, it was the kind of edits that make or break a movie, the kind of edits that make or break a great song. Timely edits, completely punctual, exactly where they should be. That’s why I never want to remix it. Because it’s not just a song that’s been mixed, it’s a song that’s been choreographed, put together, designed... I don’t want to ever touch that song. | | | | Derrick May DJ'ing in Detroit, July 5, 2008.
(Paul Warner/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Those edits were perfect. It wasn’t just backwards edits, it was the kind of edits that make or break a movie, the kind of edits that make or break a great song. Timely edits, completely punctual, exactly where they should be. That’s why I never want to remix it. Because it’s not just a song that’s been mixed, it’s a song that’s been choreographed, put together, designed... I don’t want to ever touch that song.”
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| | rantnrave:// Stop what you're doing right now and read this story about a record store in Houston that sells nothing but CDs, all by the same artist, none of which are on display, which "has never tried to be anything other than part of the neighborhood" despite its status of as an internationally semi-famous hip-hop mecca, whose proprietor had no interest in talking to the reporter and fan who wrote this particular story, whose existence honors the memory of the proprietor's cousin, one of the most influential and original DJs of the 1990s, and which may or which may not have the exact CD you drove 200 miles to buy in stock at any given moment. I'll assume you know whose CD that would be but even if you don't, slow down this morning and read a tale of old-school physical media shopping and the deep meaning these particular physical artifacts have for the fans who seek them out. Buy three for $45 and you get one free... Awards season: The 1975, DUA LIPA and CALVIN HARRIS grabbed the top awards at the BRITS Wednesday night, which is the kind of awards show where APHEX TWIN can casually compete against GEORGE EZRA for Best British Male Solo and KAMASI WASHINGTON can slip in alongside DRAKE as a nominee for Best International Male Solo. (In both cases the latter won, sorry.) Bonus points to JAY-Z and BEYONCÉ for picking up their trophy on video in front of a portrait of MEGHAN MARKLE, and to the 1975's MATTY HEALY for using one of his speeches to quote GUARDIAN writer LAURA SNAPES on the subject of "male misogynist acts." Two thumbs up. All the nominees for Entertainer of the Year at the ACM AWARDS are men—the same men nominated in the same category for last year's CMA AWARDS. REBA MCENTIRE, who was tasked with unveiling the names Wednesday morning, is not pleased. "I'm missing my girlfriends on this list," said Reba, the only boldface name in this paragraph who will ever actually get to be called Queen. Five thumbs down. With nominations in two categories for his work on MARY POPPINS RETURNS, composer MARC SHAIMAN has two shots to complete his EGOT, but that will require beating out LADY GAGA et. al. in category #1 or ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, NICHOLAS BRITELL, TERENCE BLANCHARD et. al. in category #2. MUSICSET: "All the Shallow Stars Trade Their Spurs for Wings: The 2019 Oscar Music Field." Two good fields of nominees. Ten thumbs up... I stopped watching EMPIRE a few seasons ago, when JUSSIE SMOLLETT's character, JAMAL LYON, remained one of the few characters on the show not named COOKIE who you were supposed to like. Perhaps you still are. In defense of the journalists, politicians and regular people who rushed to Smollett's side with both empathy and righteous anger three weeks ago (my own hand is up), it's important to remember that all of us were responding to real news: a believable (though maybe not as believable as we thought) celebrity who really said he had been brutally attacked, and police who really were investigating. Now that the news and the police investigation has changed direction, and assuming it continues to collapse in on Smollett himself, it's he, and not the journalists and politicians, who deserve your righteous anger now. His crime, if he was in fact lying, is to make it easier for everybody to doubt future victims of hate crimes, while also making it easier for people to blindly shout out the ugly word "fakenews" whenever they don't like what they hear, which makes it easier for hatred to spread. "The Curious (Non-)Case of Jussie Smollett"... RIP SKIP GROFF and BRIAN CHILALA. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | MusicAlly |
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 | Billboard |
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 | The Ringer |
| The ‘Empire’ actor claimed he’d been assaulted and targeted in a vicious act of antigay violence. Then his story began to unravel. What’s happened since is a case study in reactionary culture, exposing the worst of every side. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| It’s up for the biggest Oscars, but its fatal flaw is all too common. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| From "Black Panther" to "Clueless," "Dazed and Confused" to "Purple Rain," the music that has defined modern filmmaking. | | |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| Each new crop of rappers is indeed getting younger than the last. We reached out to industry professionals to figure out... why? | | |
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 | Forbes |
| The tattered stretch of West Slauson Avenue just off Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles isn't the first place you'd expect to see a Cadillac Escalade roll up and deliver a Grammy-nominated musician. At the tiny strip mall on the south side of the street, storefronts include an off-brand taco joint, a Boost Mobile outlet and an accountant's office advertising same-day tax refund advances. | | |
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 | British GQ |
| A new wave of artists are tackling everything from male suicide to toxic masculinity in the post-Me Too era. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| “Our society is based around women staying quiet,” says alt-country songwriter, who accused the domestic partner of a record label exec of harassment. | | |
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| Forbes |
| Dubsmash might be the only app to break back into the top 10 entertainment apps in the iOS app store after a precipitous decline. Dubsmash execs open up about the company's viral growth and early pitfalls, how it managed to rise back up-and why it thinks it has the chops to survive. | | |
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 | The Outline |
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 | The New York Times |
| Marc Martel never thought his vocal resemblance to the Queen frontman “would amount to anything more than a fun karaoke trick.” It’s taken him to “Bohemian Rhapsody” and beyond. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| What happens when you sing Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born duet more than 10 times in one night. | | |
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 | Nest HQ |
| Before we get into the topic of memes and music, I really do have to say that yes, I am aware that attempting to discuss something as trivial as memes is inherently ridiculous, given that internet memes are, by nature, a joke. | | |
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| The FADER |
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 | Song Exploder |
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| Billboard |
| Country radio is "an 800-pound gorilla," Garth Brooks told programmers during the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville Feb. 13-15. "It ain't going anywhere." | | |
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