I was living on the Upper West Side, 99th and Riverside, and at about 7:00 at night I had the radio on in my bedroom, on [New York disco station] KTU, and I heard 'Everybody.' I said, 'Oh, my God, that’s me coming out of that box.' It was an amazing feeling. | | | | On the borderline: Madonna in New York, December 1982.
(Peter Noble/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I was living on the Upper West Side, 99th and Riverside, and at about 7:00 at night I had the radio on in my bedroom, on [New York disco station] KTU, and I heard 'Everybody.' I said, 'Oh, my God, that’s me coming out of that box.' It was an amazing feeling.”
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| | rantnrave:// The KILLERS, DEAD & COMPANY and JAY-Z will headline the three nights of WOODSTOCK 50, which, it turns out, will basically be a remixed version of BONNAROO circa 2016. Plenty of good rock, plenty of good other stuff and a couple handfuls of original Woodstock performers in the middle of each day's bill to make you feel good about glamping with your parents. Plus MILEY CYRUS, who I like quite a bit and is a damn good live performer but who seems to have been booked on the Friday night bill as part of an experiment to find out what exactly a Killers/Miley/Santana audience Venn diagram looks like. Or maybe she's there as the one performer who can get both JOAN BAEZ and ARIANA GRANDE to show up as special guests and tie these 50 years together, in which case two thumbs up... SANTANA is double-booked at Woodstock 50 and the same weekend's smaller BETHEL WOODS MUSIC AND CULTURE FESTIVAL, at the site of the original Woodstock... But if you're seeking one ideal festival of exploratory, improvisatory, mind-bending, au courant music, which I'm reasonably sure is what the original was going for, this is where you want to be on that exact weekend. Four days of "soul, hip hop, house, afro, electronica, jazz and beyond," including SONS OF KEMET, the COMET IS COMING, NUBYA GARCIA, THEO PARRISH, GILLES PETERSON and, yeah, beyond, in Cambridgeshire, England. Your options will plentiful for the third weekend of August. And the top choice is blindingly clear... Et tu, PELOTON? Responding to a suit from publishers representing the likes of DRAKE, LADY GAGA and GWEN STEFANI, the exercise-bike company said it has "great respect for songwriters and artists" and has deals with the major publishers and labels and "many leading independents," but didn't immediately deny the publishers' claim that it doesn't have deals for more than 1,000 songs in its streaming exercise videos... ARIANA GRANDE most definitely has a deal with the publisher of RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, whose "MY FAVORITE THINGS" serves as primary source material for her "7 RINGS." Per the NEW YORK TIMES, the publishing giant CONCORD asked for 90 percent of the song shortly before it came out, and Grande said yes with no negotiation. Though her song—which has 10 credited writers including her, Rodgers and Hammerstein—wouldn't exist without theirs, hers has two additional musical sections and rewritten lyrics. It wouldn't have been unreasonable to make a counteroffer, even if Concord had most of the leverage (she couldn't release the song without a deal). Maybe she doesn't need the money, maybe she couldn't be bothered, maybe she's just a generous soul. Either way, her quick yes has the ring of pop-star swagger (as does Concord's ask). Why fight when you don't have to? Win-win... RIP J.H. KWABENA NKETIA and JAMES DAPOGNY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Beto O’Rourke, presidential aspirant and one-time DIY musician, has said that he’s a devotee of legendary punk Ian MacKaye. But how does that ethos fit within American politics in 2019? | | |
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| How fans build a vibrant gimme radio community. | | |
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| In this industry, COLORS Worldwide is not a traditional company. We produce our shows internally, we are the talent at the shows, we assume all monetary risk by renting out the venues that we play in, we market and promote our own shows, and control most of the ticketing our customers purchase admission through. | | |
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| A new book of interviews with the purple pop star captures the magnetism of his mystique. | | |
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| In her first album since 2015, the singer-songwriter discovers a fascination with mysticism and confronts childhood memories in unexpected ways. | | |
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| Lumineers, Trey Anastasio Band and co-headliners Ben Harper and Trombone Shorty will offer fans equal shot at tickets when they open Denver's Mission Ballroom in August. | | |
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| There are 466 million in the global deaf community. And many of them want to attend festivals and concerts. | | |
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| Was it weird or otherwise antithetical that Christianity surged throughout metalcore's veins during the subgenre's heyday? Jenna dives in to find out. | | |
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