Music has played an important role in Tuareg history and the rebellions that have occurred. But... there is a difference between our traditional music, our political music, party music, our music sung for the love of a woman or your friends or your family. Not all Tuareg music has this serious political character. |
| | | | | Bombino's fifth album, "Azel," is out today. (Jaime Oriz) | | | | | |  | “Music has played an important role in Tuareg history and the rebellions that have occurred. But... there is a difference between our traditional music, our political music, party music, our music sung for the love of a woman or your friends or your family. Not all Tuareg music has this serious political character.”
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| rantnrave:// If KANYE WEST was in charge of marketing for "BATMAN V SUPERMAN," it would open in one movie theater in each of a few medium-sized cities. He would edit some dialog and cut a scene or two after the opening weekend and deliver new prints to each theater. The following week, the whole movie would be re-edited and possibly renamed. On week three, it would open in several other cities with no advance notice. The movie times wouldn't be listed anywhere; you'd just have to show up at a theater and hope you picked the right time. A week after that, all of BEN AFFLECK's scenes would be re-shot with MICHAEL KEATON. Which might just possibly make it a better movie. But it would be a little inconvenient to get to. And the box office receipts might be a little thin… If JAY Z follows through with this, he might be the least sympathetic screwed-by-the-man plaintiff in music history… LUKE BRYAN and DIERKS BENTLEY host one of year's the two major country music awards shows 8 pm ET SUNDAY on CBS. Someone should ask one of them at a press conference if it's the ACMs or the CMAs and see if they know… The DAVID BOWIE tribute show tonight at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL will be live-streaming here for a small donation. Featuring MICHAEL STIPE, the PIXIES, ESPERANZA SPALDING and many more, but probably not the ROOTS… It's FRIDAY and that means new music from ANDREW BIRD, LUKAS GRAHAM, LEON VYNEHALL, WEEZER, BOMBINO, CHARLES BRADLEY, THE FIELD, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, PET SHOP BOYS, THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS, BIG SEAN & JHENÉ AIKO, BLACK MOUNTAIN, TACOCAT, TEDDY THOMPSON & KELLY JONES, BLEACHED, ROBBIE FULKS and YEASAYER... RIP pianist ANDY "THUNDERCLAP" NEWMAN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Arkansas Times |
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 | Pando |
| Investing in streaming music has always been like investing in subsistence farming. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Underneath the infinity pool and the pink and purple sky of Bethany Cosentino's music is a complicated brain chemistry, dichotomous feelings, and a hamster wheel of a mind. | | |
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 | Salon |
| On this year's Grammy Awards, the surviving members of the Eagles joined up with Jackson Browne to perform "Take It Easy" in honor of Glenn Frey, who passed away in mid-January. In the aftermath of the tribute appearance, Eagles drummer/co-vocalist/co-founder Don Henley told BBC Radio 2 the performance was "very difficult and very emotional," and added, "That was the final farewell. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| David Lowery is feeling positive, three months after he flung the cat into the music-streaming pigeons with a class-action lawsuit against Spotify. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| When Savages started out, love songs were off the table. The quartet's 2013 debut, "Silence Yourself," was a love-song-free kick in the shins, a hard-hitting series of songs about a refusal to be boxed in. It won the band acclaim and an audience, so how to follow up that success? | | |
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 | MTV News |
| When wayward stars tell their stories on camera, they can reveal more than they meant to. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Cyberbullying unmasked mysogynistic double standards and mocked suicide. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| A day before a crucial deadline, the music industry is pulling no punches. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| The best heavy metal band in the world played New York City's most hallowed venue last night, and it was absolutely incredible. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| Instead of blue M&Ms and champagne, Johnson demands LED bulbs and bike valets. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| NASHVILLE -- One recent afternoon at Jack Brown’s, a burger joint in a quickly gentrifying industrial stretch known as Germantown north of this city’s downtown, Sturgill Simpson announced, “I’m grateful to all the non-risk-takers,” then settled in and ordered a double cowboy burger with fries. | | |
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 | Thump |
| Last Friday and Saturday nights in Baltimore, the city's legendary venue Paradox threw two farewell parties to Fever, a seminal rave that ran from 1992-2001 and turned the city into a thriving destination for club culture. | | |
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 | Dummy |
| The Seoul-born DJ discusses South Korean nightlife, techno purism, and her first love. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Music |
| As GNR prepares to hit the road, everyone is wondering if everything will go off without a hitch – or if Axl Rose’s appetite for destruction will remain insatiable. Among those wondering is the band’s former manager, Alan Niven, who speaks with Yahoo Music about GNR’s tumultuous past. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Vicky Hamilton recalls complicated history with band she helped make famous. | | |
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 | Flavorwire |
| Omara "Bombino" Moctar in Austin, Texas, during SXSW Music 2016. Photo by Matthew Ismael Ruiz.Omara "Bombino" Moctar was born on New Year's Day, 1980, in Tidene, Niger. A member of the Ifoghas tribe in the Kel Air Tuareg Federation, he's been a refugee for much of his life, fleeing drought, famine, and war in his home country. | | |
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 | Beatport |
| For ten whirlwind years, magic was made at 200 W 57th Street. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| With a sense of racing against time, composers are conducting field research with the goal of preserving or celebrating lost tongues in their work. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| David and Stephen Dewaele’s new album, the soundtrack to Sundance hit film Belgica, features 16 songs but none of the artists featured actually exist. They’re just the latest in a long tradition of fictional musicians on screen. | | |
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