It took about two years on the road for me to learn that in this industry, the people who have convinced everyone around them that they know all the ways to be successful are full of s***. Those 'rules' of success in the industry are meant to be rewritten, and most of the people who will tell you you’re not good enough are meant to be ignored. | | | | Lauryn Hill, singing your life with her words.
(Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It took about two years on the road for me to learn that in this industry, the people who have convinced everyone around them that they know all the ways to be successful are full of s***. Those 'rules' of success in the industry are meant to be rewritten, and most of the people who will tell you you’re not good enough are meant to be ignored.”
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| | rantnrave:// Another day, another woman, this one a black woman, here to let us know there are people employed in the music business who have said to her face, "There’s already one ALABAMA SHAKES. Why do we need two?” FFS, people. Cheers to this great essay, by KAM FRANKLIN, about succeeding in spite of those voices. Here she is with her band, the SUFFERS, who sound nothing like the Alabama Shakes but who do bear a sonic resemblance in this song to the late SHARON JONES, who she has also been told we don't need two of. Seriously... How women told their handlers to stuff it and took control of their own musical fates in the rockin' and rollin' '90s... Four new allegations of sexual harassment and assault against REPUBLIC RECORDS president CHARLIE WALK, covering a period of at least 15 years, in an explosive ROLLING STONE report by JASON NEWMAN. If you take the women at their word—and it's important to take women at their word in 2018, or any year—at least some of them would have stayed silent if Walk had apologized to his first accuser, TRISTAN COOPERSMITH, a month ago. "I don't think I would have ever [told my story] had he just f***ing said sorry," one of them told the magazine. Walk has denied the allegations against him from the start, and he tells Rolling Stone the new claims are "false" and "untrue" and adds, as he has said before, "I support the national discussion taking place right now"... There's going to be a ROXANNE SHANTÉ biopic on NETFLIX next month. Clear your calendar now... The original interviews were wonderful and hilarious. The apology is also wonderful and hilarious. Win-win... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from TURNSTILE, SOB X RBE, BLACK MILK, IMARHAN, ALFREDO RODRÍGUEZ, LO MOON, STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC, TOWKIO, FEMI KUTI, S. CAREY, JERICHO JACKSON, CAROLINE ROSE, DARLINGSIDE, BLAC YOUNGSTA, VANCE JOY, MT. JOY, BLACK MOTH, SCREAMING FEMALES, WE SELL THE DEAD, THY ANTICHRIST, REGGIE & THE FULL EFFECT and DANIELLE NICOLE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Five women accuse Republic Group president of sexual misconduct including forced kisses, unsolicited penis images and rubbing against subordinates. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The 1990s saw a wave of prominent women musicians who took the reins, creatively and professionally, over their music - and provided a blueprint for lasting careers. | | |
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 | The Root |
| The title of this article is not hyperbole. It is truth. It is an indisputable fact. | | |
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 | Sideways |
| The real question you actually want to ask is, is Western music a universal language? | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Vocalist Brandon Yates spills the details on how the band approached 'Time & Space,' why they signed to Roadrunner, and that Diplo collaboration everyone’s confused about. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Twenty-five years after “Last Splash” turned them into alt-rock heroes, Kim and Kelley Deal have recorded a new album with the band’s 1993 lineup. | | |
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| NPR Music |
| The nominee pool for the BRITs can sometimes show off a more exciting playing field than their stateside counterpart the Grammys. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The rapper’s charming video for “God’s Plan” shows him donating a million dollars around Miami—and earning something for himself. | | |
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 | Vice |
| The Suffers' lead singer has been given some terrible advice while navigating a career dominated by white men. | | |
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 | Art of a Manager |
| As fascinating as it is the way fans interact with each other, I am more intrigued by an artist’s ability to take their fans off of social media and own the communication channel. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| “No Roots” swaggers along like something cooked up by Jack White and Dua Lipa, gritty and anachronistic and topped off by an insidiously hooky bellow, so it’s no surprise that the song has taken over rock radio. The bigger question is whether it can win over pop listeners. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Just when you thought it was dying, the pun is doing its best to have the last word in country music. | | |
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| Noisey |
| Women played a large role in ‘Black Panther,’ but they were sorely missing from the music incorporated in the film. | | |
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 | Song Exploder |
| Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney has worked with a diverse list of collaborators, from Sufjan Stevens, to Solange, to Karen O, to Skrillex. That spirit continues with the song Moses takes apart in this episode, which has contributions from producers Cam O’bi and Paris Strother, and legendary bassist Thundercat. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The cyborg-fixated singer is back with her first album for five years. Outspoken as ever, she explains why she’ll always speak up for black women - and how much she misses her mentor, Prince. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Time to put your Amazon gift cards to good use. I reached out to people around the music business and asked them for titles of books they're reading, or have been reading, and what they'd like to recommend to people. | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| Boyd Jarvis, who died after a two-year battle with cancer on February 16 at age 59, was one of the key architects of post-disco New York dance music. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| Music managers body the MMF thinks the revelation of the scam should reignite discussion within the music industry about a switch to ‘user-centric’ licensing for streaming services. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Dolphin sex is what led Matt Saincome to launch his satirical punk culture media enterprise 'The Hard Times.' He was reporting on it, not engaging in it, but almost just as outlandish is the scope at which his business has grown since its launch in late 2014. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| With the release of '"Songs That Sound Like Movies," the acclaimed singer/songwriter, novelist, and Tony award-winning writer of musicals reflects on a career in which that rum drink is but an aftertaste. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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