I did ask Pharrell Williams to remix the whole album 'Face Value' because I thought it would be interesting to see someone like that’s take on it ... But he said, 'Well, why would you want to do that?”' So that was the end of the conversation. |
| | Action Bronson in Paris, 2013. (Coup d'Oreille) | | | | | “I did ask Pharrell Williams to remix the whole album 'Face Value' because I thought it would be interesting to see someone like that’s take on it ... But he said, 'Well, why would you want to do that?”' So that was the end of the conversation.”
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| rantnrave:// I've never believed in the concept of the guilty pleasure, which literally suggests your tastes can be criminalized. But I have little doubt the very idea of ACTION BRONSON interviewing PHIL COLLINS about "AMERICAN PSYCHO," the proper spiciness of INDIAN food and the universe of "IN THE AIR TONIGHT" covers represents someone's idea of the guilty-pleasure singularity. Me, I'll just say thank you STEREOGUM... I've been trying lately to learn everything I can about the blockchain and what it means for the future of the music biz, and the learning process has been something of a one-step-up-two-steps-back grind. ALAN GRAHAM outlines some of the potential issues and drawbacks in THE TRICHORDIST... SONY buys out MICHAEL JACKSON... SONOS CEO JOHN MCFARLANE says RICK RUBIN inspired what he calls the company's North Star: "to ... deliver the artist's intent in whatever room you are in." Which is why future versions of SONOS will grab three or four cents off the nearest table in whatever room you're in every time you stream a song... Two good options when you realize your UK music-industry 30 UNDER 30 list is even whiter than BILLBOARD's POWER 100: 1) Throw out the list, develop better sources, try again. 2) Simply don't publish it. MUSIC WEEK went for option 3: Publish it and blame the industry. Which makes the magazine part of the problem... Designer headphones... The blue origins of "MAH NÀ MAH NÀ"... RIP PETER MAXWELL DAVIES. | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The writing was on the wall for Phil Collins fans long before he officially announced his retirement in 2011. 2002's "Testify" was the pop star's last album of original tunes, and he sang his hits on tour for the last time a few years later. | |
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For Rob and Goldie - JH... In its heyday, fabled Twin Cities venue First Avenue fostered the legend of everyone from from Prince to the Replacements to Hüsker Dü, becoming a mythic musical destination in the process. | |
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Perhaps the biggest challenge when creating a From the Desk Of feature on Sonos CEO John MacFarlane is the fact that he doesn't really have one. His "office" is anywhere in the company's 12 global offices he sets up his laptop. | |
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When Blake Shelton hosted "Saturday Night Live" last January, the writers cooked up a burlesque of a country music video. Judging from the wig and wardrobe choices, he and cast members Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were meant to be facsimiles of Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire and Wynonna Judd, three veteran country stars teaming up on an inspirational ballad. | |
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SoundCloud has become a popular punching bag for the music press. The formula runs something like this: choose a screaming headline predicting the company's doom, run some out-of-context business numbers and some negative quotes by an unnamed source, then (presumably) rake in clicks. How bad is it? | |
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One doctor is teaming up with Juilliard composers to find the answer. | |
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Five years after 3/11, the furor has dimmed, but some rage on. Patrick St. Michel tells their story. | |
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Is this song from Houston? Atlanta? LA? New York? Does any of that still matter in rap? During its Golden Age and post-Golden Age creative height, rap was not so much a genre as it was a loosely connected collection of local folk musics; different cities had distinct sounds, different key artists, different reference points. | |
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Right now there is no greater dichotomy regarding the future of information technology than with that of the blockchain. Liberating yet infuriating. Beautiful yet ugly. Established yet unproven. Immensely complex yet elegantly simple. In short, blockchain is one of the more fascinatingly profound ideas I've seen in 15 or so years. | |
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Guitarist talks major-label burnout, low-pressure solo career, why R.E.M. never really broke up. | |
| Anger over racism and injustice has borne bitter, brilliant fruit in political music from artists such as Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and D’Angelo. Daphne A Brooks hails a new, vital era of protest song. | |
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While a ruling against the pop singer Kesha has triggered outrage from her fans and supporters, more than a dozen leading lawyers in the entertainment industry found no fault with Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich's decision to deny Kesha's bid to nullify her contract with record producer Dr. Luke, who she claims assaulted her. | |
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A Hungarian-born refugee haunted by a host of personal demons, BB Gabor made a startling impression in Toronto's punk scene of the early '80s, producing arresting works of pop music which have left an indelible mark in Canada's rock music history. | |
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Spotify's recent alleged failure to pay songwriters their due royalties has served to further highlight the numerous flaws with the compulsory licensing system which is currently used by the music industry and the need for a direct licensing solution that can adequately serve all involved. | |
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The most innovative and strange new instruments in the world are all guaranteed to show up one place every year: Georgia Tech's annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The event brings together musicians, engineers, and programmers from all over the world to the Atlanta university to push the boundaries of sound and instrument design. | |
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'Miles Ahead' director-star talks bringing the jazz legend to the big screen: "I think we had to make him a gangster." | |
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Hindsight may be 20/20, but the wise individual learns from the mistakes of others. | |
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The recent passing of record producer George Martin has brought effusive thoughts, memories and well-deserved accolades from all quarters of the music business. Most have dwelled on Sir George's creative accomplishments, and truly there were many. | |
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Decades into Underworld's shape-shifting career and on the cusp of their best album since the ‘90s, co-founder Karl Hyde reflects on the group’s climb to dance-music superstardom, and how they’ve spent the past 20 years recovering from it. | |
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For seven years, the center of Matt Conboy's existence was a brick warehouse on South Second Street in Brooklyn, near the very western edge of Williamsburg. Conboy, a tall thirty-two-year-old with a nimbus of curly brown hair, began working on the ground floor there, in 2007, helping a musician, Oliver Ackermann, make electric-instrument effects pedals. | |
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