The album and single ['What's Going On'] show the sort of emotion and personal feelings I have about the situations in America and the world. I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life and I love nature and I can't see why other people can't be like that. | | | | What's going on with this chord? Marvin Gaye at Golden West Studios, Los Angeles, 1973.
(Jim Britt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The album and single ['What's Going On'] show the sort of emotion and personal feelings I have about the situations in America and the world. I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life and I love nature and I can't see why other people can't be like that.”
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| | rantnrave:// CHRIS NUNN has no desire to drag the radio station that no longer employs him and there's no need for me to do so either. The continuing story of country music's female problem isn't about any one station or group of stations. It's about nearly all of them, and the industry that enables them. A month ago, the Indiana DJ tweeted, in real time, that he was playing a long, uninterrupted block of songs by women, in violation of the prevailing standards at country radio, which says that two songs in a row by women is one too many. Apparently it was also in violation of his own station's programming strategy. On Wednesday, he tweeted that he had been fired this week for that transgression. In another tweet, he mentioned that a list of songs including MIRANDA LAMBERT's women's revenge classic "GUNPOWDER & LEAD" had been banned altogether from the station, as had at least one group, the DIXIE CHICKS. The tweets weren't up long—he later deleted them along with his original January tweets and made his Twitter account private—but they were up long enough to be seen by the likes of country singer MICKEY GUYTON and the activist group WOMAN NASHVILLE, who absorbed them not as breaking news, but as one more confirmation of what they and anyone else who's been paying attention has long known. It's kind of hard not to pay attention. Elsewhere on Wednesday, ROLLING STONE posted this Q&A with powerhouse LA music lawyer DINA LAPOLT, who said, "The amount of times that I’ve been gaslighted at work… I mean, that’s just the reality. I’d usually be the only woman, the only female lawyer, in the room, and if I was upset about something, someone would say, 'Why are you so upset about this?' They would never say that to a man." And the LA TIMES asked ANNE LITT, the first female music director at influential public radio station KCRW, if she'd ever worked with a female music director before. "Never," she said. "Commercial radio is all dudes. Even at the independent record label I worked at—all guys there. I was the only female, and a lot of the music business stuff—we all have our stories, you know?" Mickey Guyton knows. Listen to "WHAT ARE YOU GONNA TELL HER?," a song she debuted last week at—pointedly—the Country Radio Seminar. Every programming director and every DJ currently working in country radio knows. A few do their part to fight back. Most go along because that, unfortunately, is still the job. Disobey the playlist at your own peril... Police investigating POP SMOKE's murder tell the NEW YORK TIMES they still don't know if he was targeted or if he was a random robbery victim. The rapper's posting on INSTAGRAM, hours before he was killed, of a photo in which the address of his rental house in the Hollywood Hills was visible is "an angle we're looking at," CAPT. JONATHAN L. TIPPET said... Could anything like DANGER MOUSE's 2004 mashup classic THE GREY ALBUM be made in today's copyright climate? ROLLING STONE says no; if someone got such an idea, "those thoughts would be quickly extinguished." But the copyright police were anything but invisible in 2004, and all it took was one producer with a good idea, a healthy appetite for risk and an underground distribution pipeline. That's still all it takes. The only hard part is coming up with an idea that resonates. And that part's legal... CHRYSALIS RECORDS, onetime home of BLONDIE, PAT BENATAR, SINÉAD O'CONNOR and ROBBIE WILLIAMS, is waking up from a two-decade-long hibernation and will release an album by LAURA MARLING later this year. CEO JEREMY LASCELLES is in his second run at the label... Holograms can't walk up stairs. I have a feeling this information will come in handy someday... RIP REINBERT DE LEEUW and OLIVIA JAXX. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| “‘Lawyer’ is my skillset, but what I do all day long is run clients’ businesses… I just think I need a lot more complication in my life to keep it interesting,” says the renowned music attorney. | | |
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 | City Pages |
| Six months ago, someone named Kyle decided to go online and write a three-star review of Boludo. | | |
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 | Trapital |
| The Compton rapper invests his money is real estate and partners with companies to amplify causes he cares about. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The Atlanta artist, whose new album “My Turn” is out Friday, discusses how he has remained so low-key while earning more than 11 billion streams worldwide. | | |
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 | She Shreds |
| Charo, the award-winning flamenco guitarist, opens up about her journey to stardom, the loss of her husband, and survival through music, comedy, and nature. | | |
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 | The Trichordist |
| The Financial Times reports that the parent of mass copyright infringer* TikTok plans to launch a streaming service: The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market with the launch of its own rival service. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Litt is only the fifth music director for the powerful public radio station. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| She transformed R&B with her honesty and warmth. Fans are desperate for new music - but first, she’s working on herself. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| You’re no Beethoven, to say the least. But you have to take the risk. | | |
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 | EW |
| Ever since Kanye West unveiled the chaotic PowerPoint slide-looking artwork for "The Life Of Pablo" in 2016, a running joke has accompanied the rollout of kitschy album visuals: "Graphic design is my passion." | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| More and more electronic artists are moving away from the club space. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| Used in Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ and covered by everyone from Tori Amos to Pink, the 1990 song spoke truth to a culture in denial, writes Helen Brown. | | |
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 | Nashville Scene |
| Checking in on the effort to pass a bill that would allow home-based businesses to serve clients on site. | | |
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 | CNBC |
| Your monthly bill for Netflix and Spotify may be going up. States are trying to capitalize on Americans' growing fervor for digital consumption of movies, TV, music and other media content by taxing monthly subscriptions for streaming entertainment services. | | |
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 | Interview Magazine |
| Best Coast's lead singer and self-described "big witch" on sobriety, singing in the shower, and Stevie Nicks. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Matthew Whitaker has been rocking crowds with his improvisational piano playing for most of his short life. He may be blind, but a neuroscientist has found Whitaker's visual cortex goes into overdrive when he plays. | | |
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 | Twenty Thousand Hertz |
| Noise 'R' Us | | by Dallas Taylor, Chris Byrne and Hamid Djalilian |
| From See ‘n Say to Speak & Spell, and beyond, toys provide the soundtrack of our childhoods. Huge advancements in computer technology in recent decades mean that today’s toys can make a wider variety of sounds than ever before. In this episode, “The Toy Guy” Chris Byrne takes us on a nostalgic look back at the recent history of recorded sound in toys; then, with Dr. Hamid Djalilian, we consider what all that technological advancement means for young ears in the 21st century. | | |
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 | The Bitter Southerner |
| The new minister asked for a volunteer singer. He didn’t count on a little girl with a thing for Tanya Tucker. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| When Billie Eilish went on a talk show and said she had never heard of Van Halen, it caused a brief and stupid controversy | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Health experts are utilising the app to educate young people on everything from safe sex to coronavirus. | | |
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