Rihanna's stage show is a ball of passion and contradiction that reminds me I can have a stomach ache AND vote for president AND have a p***y made of diamonds. |
| | | | | Jim James of My Morning Jacket. (Justin Wise) | | | | | | | “Rihanna's stage show is a ball of passion and contradiction that reminds me I can have a stomach ache AND vote for president AND have a p***y made of diamonds.”
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| rantnrave:// Reading between the lines of JONATHAN BERNSTEIN's piece for THE GUARDIAN on the NRA's attempts to align itself with country music, one gets the sense that a lot of artists and organizations in NASHVILLE don't have an issue with guns so much as they have an issue with the NRA. And a lot of between-the-lines reading is required here, as not a lot of people returned BERNSTEIN's calls. But it's a worthwhile read on how the gun lobby is trying to use music -- and artists like THOMAS RHETT and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE -- to soft-sell its politics… Note to NRA: Sometimes the best way to sell an idea is not to sell it at all. Do you need to be involved when this exists?... Reading directly into DANIEL DYLAN WRAY's RBMA DAILY profile of surviving members of the APOLLO STARS, the official rock band of the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY's SEA ORG in the 1970s, we learn that L. RON HUBBARD had broad musical taste but was an inept producer. In case you were wondering… Major artist pulls b-sides and bonus tracks from streaming sites. Streaming sites are left with pillaged playlists. This is a small but good example of an area where subscription services' interests and artists' rights are directly in conflict in a way that probably hurts consumers more than its hurts either the artists or the services. Which is to say, someone should solve this, but I can't figure out a compelling reason why they would... KATHLEEN BATTLE returns to the MET... ROUGH TRADE launches magazine (!!!), and now I am having happy flashbacks of this. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| With big name supporters including Blake Shelton and Thomas Rhett, NRA Country is being used to entice younger members to the NRA by using country credibility. But with some artists distancing themselves, can it survive? | | |
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| Like many ’70s American rock bands, the Apollo Stars were young men with long hair, bushy moustaches, flapping flares and loud guitars. Unlike others, though, they were Scientologists and lived on a ship, the Apollo, with church founder L. Ron Hubbard, who was credited as the band’s producer and co-writer. | | |
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| Our story begins on a cold and snowy Chicago night, almost exactly a year to the day before the publication of the column that got Albini’s spectacles foggy. I was at Lounge Ax, one of the coolest clubs in the city.Sipping my Coke at the bar—I didn’t drink—I met a tiny singer-songwriter. She was a friend of friends. She gave me an unmarked cassette—a collection of songs she’d been working on—jabbering all the while. | | |
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| We took to the streets of Austin, Texas to see the impact of UK grime music in the US during SXSW 2016. With insight from Jamal Edwards, Krept & Konan, Lethal Bizzle, Zane Lowe and more... will grime cross over? | | |
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| Daptone Records' Charles Bradley may be one of the most visceral performers touring today. At age 67, he wears his heart on his sleeve, and his life story is written in the wrinkles of his face-but he's no old man. | | |
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| The media landscape is changing, from Apple moving to streaming and adding content on Apple Music and Apple TV, to SoundCloud adding paid subscriptions and signing deals with majors. Meanwhile, the biggest player in dance music, Beatport, is about to be untethered from the EDM conglomerate that bought it. | | |
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| Is "Vinyl's" latest fictionalized New York music character a tribute to Jobriath, the post-Bowie 'space clown' who was rock's first openly homosexual performer? | | |
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| It's hard to believe, but only a few centuries ago, young boys were castrated for the sole purpose of preserving their high-pitched singing voices. Between the Liner notes talks with Castrati expert Martha Feldman and Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding about this unique piece of Europe's musical past. | | |
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| My Morning Jacket was an earnest yet mysterious rock band reaching for daylight when it released "It Still Moves," its third album, on ATO in 2003. Rich with reverberant guitars and the high, chiming voice of Jim James, it suggested a searching twist on psychedelic rock without settling into a rigid style. | | |
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| With several high profile cases of the opening act outshining the main event, Getintothis’ Banjoexplores the dangers of having a great support act. | | |
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| How rappers, Real Housewives, and lesser Kardashians get paid just for showing up at the club. | | |
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| Streaming services have essentially reached the end of what they can do with audio alone. The next logical step for them to take is video, which provides a far stickier user experience and has been shown to have a higher perceived value among consumers. | | |
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| As Radical Face, Ben Cooper has written song after song about a fictional family. They make up not just one album but a trilogy of them, called The Family Tree. All of the characters on the first two albums, The Roots and The Branches, were made up. | | |
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| Few rappers were as authentic as Pimp C. Born Chad Butler, the rapper and producer earned his stripes with an unfiltered approach to music that, alongside Bun B as UGK, transformed the Port Arthur representative into an underground king. It's why, eight years after his untimely death, he is still viewed as one of the most influential figures in rap. | | |
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| If Willie Nile were a priest, each Sunday, every single pew in his church would be packed. In fact, parishioners would be lining up early, just like at a general admission show. Such is his fiery fervor for music. | | |
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| The barman's tipped. There they are. David Barrett decides he's going to take his shot in this Midwestern bar. It is a moment, Barrett, a songwriter from Michigan later recalls, that led to his masterpiece.Barrett is the creator of "One Shining Moment," the song and highlight-reel package played after each year's national championship game. | | |
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| Lead singer Chino Moreno talks 20 years of defining alt-metal and defying expectations. | | |
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| The icon details her new show "Chasing Destiny" and the seeds of her new ratchet and deep album. | | |
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| As the institution’s 31st induction ceremony for approaches, Dave Bry has a novel idea: we should rip it up and start all over again. | | |
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| I'm talking to you, Seattle police department. | | |
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