In the summer they have physics meetings [in Aspen]. Next door to the physics center is an enormous tent where they hold a music festival. As you sit working out what happens when black holes evaporate, you can hear the rehearsals. It is ideal. It combines my two main pleasures, physics and music. If I can have both on my desert island, I won't want to be rescued. | | | | "I'll take 'People Who Are Releasing Gospel Albums Today' for $1600, Alex."
(Seth McConnell/Denver Post/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “In the summer they have physics meetings [in Aspen]. Next door to the physics center is an enormous tent where they hold a music festival. As you sit working out what happens when black holes evaporate, you can hear the rehearsals. It is ideal. It combines my two main pleasures, physics and music. If I can have both on my desert island, I won't want to be rescued.”
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| | rantnrave:// This month's perfectly orchestrated illustration of the current state of the music business: The world's biggest streaming company sets the date for its multibillion-dollar public stock listing the day after the biggest radio company in the US files for bankruptcy, which follows by a mere three months the bankruptcy of the second biggest radio company. Also, the guy who owned the greatest chain of record stores ever died. But. While streaming *is* the future of the world and while there are ominous signs for the future of terrestrial radio (ad revenue, yo), the latter is still, even in 2018, the dominant media for listening to music, according to, for example, this and that. Music is still blasting out of car radios from CALIFORNIA's TESLAs to the NEW YORK island's yellow cabs (which actually may disappear before radio does, but that's a different rant for a different newsletter; I will be sad about both). IHEARTMEDIA's Chapter 11 filing is partly a sign of where the world is going, but also a result of some unfortunate and ill-timed financing. Spotify, meanwhile, may be putting its stock on sale on April 3, but that doesn't necessarily mean you want to buy it... Did someone mention car radios? What will become of driving songs—actual driving songs—when self-driving cars take over and songwriters (and everybody else) no longer know what it means to be behind the wheel? SLATE's BRANDON TENSLEY asks the BLACK MIRROR-ish question dangling from rearview mirrors everywhere... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from MOUNT EERIE, BISHOP NEHRU, XXXTENTACION, EARTHLESS, SORORITY NOISE, YO LA TENGO, SNOOP DOGG, SCOTT MCCREERY, BILL FRISELL, SAWEETIE, RICH HOMIE QUAN, PRHYME, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, DECEMBERISTS, CHIQUIS RIVERA, MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, HOT SNAKES, MURS, BUN B, DEEN WEEN GROUP and CASEY ABRAMS... RIP CHARLIE QUINTANA. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Guardian |
| Male rock stars of the 1970s and 80s were often notorious for sleeping with young female fans. Now women are starting to see those encounters in a very different light. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Sexual misconduct is built into the foundation of the music industry. Our data and the stories of over two dozen women show how culture and labor conditions create a perfect storm for abuse. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| From Trippie Redd to Tay-K to Lil Pump, teen rappers are keeping it under two and a half minutes. What’s the big rush? | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| An unlikely resurgence has invigorated a complicated industry. | | |
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 | Garage Magazine |
| The past two years have only complicated my relationship with the iconic Mr. Jones. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| What did we learn from the nearly-three-hour series of presentations from Spotify’s management? Here are some takeaways to chew on. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Stream the music but we think you should hold off on buying the shares for now. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| "This time of year, it's kind of just finding out, like, 'How do you need help?' Or, 'How can we help you reach your goal?'" | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| "This time I’m gonna go for it" - with a daring new album and debut film role for 2018, pop’s 21st-century boy is pushing chart music from the queer perspective. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Our lives increasingly play out in virtual spaces; the remix restores a sense of physical space into a listening environment of digital isolation. | | |
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 | Slate |
| After decades of driving in hit songs, American lyricists will have to get used to the passenger seat. | | |
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 | Genius |
| From brand promotion to feeding media outlets, fansites are still an important part of the music landscape. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| For a gospel record, "Cocoa Sugar" is surprisingly devoid of preaching. Rather, it sees raw reactions to and interpretations of our environment. Kanye West’s "The Life Of Pablo" was born out of similar aims. | | |
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 | USA TODAY |
| 'Bible of Love,' the new gospel album curated by the rapper, comes out Friday. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| “There’s a Riot Going On” brings the haze from its place of symbolic importance to the literal forefront of Yo La Tengo’s music. | | |
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 | Nashville Scene |
| The film industry isn't the only place that could benefit from purposeful diversity efforts. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| For Austin-based rapper Abhi the Nomad, SXSW isn't just an opportunity to impress music industry types. It's his best shot at staying in the U.S. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| After finding ways to embrace changes in her vocal range, the 77-year-old folk singer has released an album that she is calling her final recording. | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain on the creation of the band's signature song. | | |
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| Stereogum |
| There is pulling a Taylor Swift, and then there's pulling a Taylor Swift. | | |
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