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 | Bloomberg |
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| Want to Make a Hit Record From Your Bedroom? Ask Splice. |
| by Lucas Shaw |
| The music tools startup has just raised $55 million and is valued at close to $500 million. |
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 | Harper's Bazaar |
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| The Importance of Being Megan Thee Stallion |
| by Lauren Michele Jackson |
| The rapper is at the top of her artistic game, finishing college, and defending her right to be young, Black, and free. |
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 | NPR Music |
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| With All Eyes On Country Music, Will Black Nashville Get The Reckoning It Deserves? |
| by Jewly Hight and Andrea Williams |
| Country music's race problem became a hot topic in early February, but the roots of racial injustice in the industry go much deeper. Two Nashville writers unpack the history and recent responses. |
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 | Variety |
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| Common Celebrates Black Vinyl, in All Its Forms, as Record Store Day Puts a Spotlight on Black-Owned Music Shops |
| by Chris Willman |
| RSD has a website showcasing 30 Black-owned record retailers for Black History Month, with a very vinyl-conscious hip-hop star helping lead the awareness charge. |
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 | Hypebot |
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| Music APIs are exactly what the industry needs -- Here's why |
| by Jeff Yasuda |
| While the music industry demonstrated an impressive ability to bounce back thanks to its early adoption of streaming, keeping that momentum going will require a streamlining of the process through which tech companies get permission to license music. |
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 | Pollstar |
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| Dionne Harmon On How The First Black-Produced Super Bowl Halftime Show Came Together |
| by Geoff Walker |
| Including Zoom calls with 130 people. |
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 | The Guardian |
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| Angry words: rapper's jailing exposes Spain's free speech faultlines |
| by Victor Lloret and Julius Purcell |
| Violent protests over treatment of Pablo Hasél are forcing government to confront laws and the judiciary. |
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| rantnrave:// The fact that they can have festivals at all is quite the humblebrag. | |
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 | The Conversation |
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| Without visiting headliners, can local artists save Australian festivals? |
| by Asher Warren |
| While big and small events on the 2021 arts calendar are still shifting or disappearing altogether, a sharper local focus could save the day. |
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 | Music Tectonics |
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| How 'Unmixing' Will Shape the Future of Music with Audionamix on Stitcher |
| by Tristra Newyear Yeager, Ellie McNeil and Cory Sims |
| When tech tools let you play with a song’s component stems, the soundtrack of your life is no longer passive. In this episode, learn how Audionamix’s AI-powered source separation tools unbake the musical cake. |
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 | Slate |
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| Why De La Soul Went on Teen Titans Go! to Fight to Get Their Music Back |
| by Nitish Pahwa |
| The latest front in the hip-hop pioneers’ copyright battle: a superhero cartoon. |
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| rave:// Those interview tapes! | |
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 | Curbed |
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| An Upper East Side Apartment Full of Rock-and-Roll Memories |
| by Annie Schlechter |
| Music journalist Lisa Robinson has lived in this rental, where she’s kept an archive of her interview tapes, for 45 years. |
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 | Janet Jackson |
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| The Making Of Control (35th Anniversary Edition) |
| by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
| In honor of the 35th anniversary of Control, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis discuss the making of the iconic album that shifted history and created a movement. |
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 | The Daily Beast |
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| Inside the Melodious Mind of Raphael Saadiq |
| by Christopher A. Daniel |
| With a Golden Globe-nominated song in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” and scoring everything from “Insecure” to “Lovecraft Country,” the superproducer is everywhere. |
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 | Complex |
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| Why So Many Rappers Are Getting Into Cryptocurrency |
| by Andre Gee |
| Everyone from Ghostface Killah to Lil Yachty to Logic are getting into cryptocurrency. But what is it, exactly? And what rappers are getting involved? |
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 | The Quietus |
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| Electric Dreams: Why There's More To Synths Than The Keyboard |
| by Oli Freke |
| For half a century, synthesizer design has been dominated by the piano keyboard, but things could have gone another way. Author of a new book for Velocity Press called Synthesizer Evolution, Oli Freke takes a look at some of the roads not taken by electronic music. |
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| The Guardian |
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| 'You could call the show Love Will Tear Us Apart': Russell T Davies on the music of 'It's a Sin' |
| by Alim Kheraj |
| The series creator and director Peter Hoar on the uncoolest anthems of the 80s, being given the nod by Kate Bush and how a soundtrack can make or break a story. |
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 | NME |
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| European promoters say Brexit touring mess is 'quite worrying' and that 'effort should come from the UK' |
| by Andrew Trendell |
| European gig bookers have spoken out about the potential impact of the ongoing Brexit touring row and what the UK government should do. |
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| Variety |
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| How the Rage of Stevie Wonder’s ‘You Haven’t Done Nothin’’ Helped Shape the Politics of Hip-Hop |
| by Jeremy Helligar |
| The 24-year-old Wonder did what few other superstars of the era had been willing – or interested – in doing in a single aimed at the top of the charts. He didn’t just criticize the system in this anti-establishment protest song; he raged against the machine and thoroughly annihilated it. |
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 | The New York Times |
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| To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments |
| by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim |
| The Guatemalan composer, inventor and writer Joaquín Orellana’s creations are the subject of the Americas Society exhibition “The Spine of Music.” |
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 | KQED |
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| How Hip-Hop Led To Studying the Bay Area’s AIDS Epidemic |
| by Pendarvis Harshaw |
| What can hip-hop teach us about the HIV/ AIDS epidemic? Professor Antoine Johnson is on the path to finding out. |
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