In days where technology is making you believe that you can do everything, and there are no limits in arts in general, the most important thing is limitation. | | | | Odesza at the Lost Lake Music Festival, Phoenix, Oct. 22, 2017.
(Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) | | | | | | “In days where technology is making you believe that you can do everything, and there are no limits in arts in general, the most important thing is limitation.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's possible that the only thing worse than sharing a listicle is sharing a listicle about listicles. But what's the point of having rules and beliefs if you can't violate them once in a while? And it's more than possible that the question about music that I hear more than any other, especially from people over 25 or 30, is, "How do you find new stuff?" It's one of the fundamental questions of so many of our lives. So: "How to Find New Music You'll Actually Like." There are some good ideas, some questionable ideas and some "your mileage may vary" ideas among the 50 that LIFEHACKER's NICK DOUGLAS offers. His first is a link to a ROLLING STONE top-500 album list where, in true Rolling Stone fashion, the #500 album is a more useful, if not simply better, suggestion than the #1 album. There are also links to some of my favorite online music series, some intriguing SPOTIFY and APPLE MUSIC discovery hacks (and a nod to my favorite Spotify feature, "the social feed on the right rail"), some obvious yet helpful offline suggestions (go to clubs, listen to the radio), some internet basics you might already know and some you might not know. It's a fun list. The comments make it better and more useful. There's nothing better, of course, than a smart friend or older sister or neighborhood guru. I've had multiples of all of those in my fortunate life (special shoutout to JOE HANNA of PLAY IT AGAIN RECORDS in BETHLEHEM, PA., who used to special-order records for me without telling me or asking if I wanted them; if you can find just one of him in your lifetime, consider yourself lucky). But also, just keep looking. Keep your ears and eyes open. Follow every branch of every path that interests you. Wander into walls, and walk through them when you can. Listen to playlists. Click on the artists whose songs interest you. Follow the curators who wow you. Sites like PITCHFORK, which has a channel on APPLE MUSIC, regularly post straightforward one like this, which kept me entertained Wednesday afternoon. SONOS posted this mammoth playlist a month ago on International Women's Day (if it was a box set, it would be a 20-ish CDs) and I've been coming back to it frequently (shoutout to @SAIBELLANYC, who curated it). When your friends let you down, try an algorithm (hello, YOUTUBE). When your algorithms let you down, try your friends again. Never stop... STEVIE... SONY cashes in on SPOT... MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS, in an airport... Best wishes to ARETHA FRANKLIN and KENNY ROGERS... RIP MIKE WHITED. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Some people can dig up great music like magic, or have friends inside the industry who keep them updated. Some people are contented with their weekly Spotify Discover playlist. But if you need more ways to find music, here are 51 ideas, taken from Twitter users, my colleagues at Lifehacker's publisher Gizmodo Media Group, and some of my own habits. | | |
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| Artists and experts discuss the science behind the recently upheld landmark copyright verdict, and why the business of pop may never be the same. | | |
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| The abrupt ouster last month of Mike Huckabee from the Country Music Association's charitable board just 24 hours after his appointment sends a strong signal that Nashville's cultural revolution is in full swing. But for the keepers of country music’s social conscience, some questions remain. | | |
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| Copyright lawyer’s investigation blows lid on alleged 55-year-old royalty payout scam. | | |
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| Let’s not pretend this fact isn’t true: as women progress through the music business, they are simply not reaching the professional statuses of their male counterparts with nearly enough regularity. | | |
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| The beloved platform returns from the brink with a brand-new bag. | | |
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| Over 10 years ago, the writer Wills Glasspiegel heard an album by Ahmed Janka Nabay at random, beginning a friendship that changed both their lives and helped to spread an electrifying form of music. | | |
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| We spent a night in New York with James Murphy and 2ManyDJs' million-dollar dancefloor experiment. | | |
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| The frontman talks about the San Fran band's posi-vibed sophomore album, 'Bay Dream,' and how touring makes him homesick. | | |
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| Like most artists who’ve been synched by Apple, Jack Stratton found out his band Vulfpeck’s song “Back Pocket” had been used in a cinematic new spot for Apple at the same time as the rest of the world, upon its debut on March 22. But the song wasn’t just featured: his band had struck the holy grail of synchs. | | |
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| Streaming royalties are too expensive for Spotify to thrive as a public company just playing us songs. Luckily it controls much of the relationship between musicians and their fans on its app, poising it to build a powerful revenue and artist loyalty generator by connecting the two through native advertising and messaging that doesn't stop the music. | | |
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| Streaming services are changing how we listen to music, but they’re also changing what we listen to. Thanks to streaming, sad rap is king, ’80s-style “Stranger Things” playlists are everywhere and Ed Sheeran is the biggest pop star in the world and not just a friend of Taylor Swift who seems like a nice guy. | | |
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| In 1956, Harry Belafonte topped the charts with “Day-O.” Decades later, his voice became Beetlejuice’s secret weapon. | | |
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| We chopped it up with the man behind The Exodus and Binker & Moses. | | |
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| Don’t hate on the kids for not respecting emcees of the past. Your Golden Age favorites didn't either. | | |
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| Many of the music industry’s most influential executives have dabbled in or even fled entirely to the worlds of tech, finance and VC. But now, thanks in part to the growth of streaming, the moves are increasingly also moving in the other direction. | | |
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| The Stockholm-founded company has become symbiotic with the recording business, but has eclipsed any one company's value by multiples. But they all still need each other. | | |
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| Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner of Tune-Yards tell me about Merrill's life as an employed puppeteer, meeting Nate at performing arts summer camp, creating Tune-Yards together and eventually getting married. | | |
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| Pundits would have everyone hopefully believe the compact disc, affectionately known since 1982 as the "CD," is destined to become a memory of how music used to be. | | |
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| An Iraqi musician living in Istanbul wants to be the voice of his native country. | | |
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