I think my main issue with the rhetoric around how music journalists can sometimes write about women is that it seems as though the baseline assumption is that a human musician is a white male. | | | | Jay Z at the Roc Nation pre Grammy Party.
(Ari Perilstein/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I think my main issue with the rhetoric around how music journalists can sometimes write about women is that it seems as though the baseline assumption is that a human musician is a white male.”
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| | rantnrave:// The PULITZER PRIZE for music goes to a female composer, DU YUN, who wrote ANGEL’S BONE, an opera that addresses human trafficking. I can’t help but feel that it’s a step up from BOB DYLAN. The composer said she wrote the piece to raise awareness of human trafficking, which, she tells NPR, happens “in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard." It’s hard to imagine a more deserving piece of work… There are some artists and songs I never listen to anymore because they fall off my SPOTIFY catalog and playlists. I don’t miss them, I just delete the tracks. In THE RINGER, VICTOR LUCKERSON examines if JAY Z will become that artist for a generation of listeners by restricting which platforms carry his music… Rave on the tube? Don’t mind if I do!... Add to your publication’s style guide: all the tips in this piece on how to write about musicians who happen to be women, because modifiers matter… Tip of the cap to PETER TOLLETT and GOLDENVOICE for inviting KATE BUSH to play COACHELLA any time she wants. Fingers crossed that she’ll want to... RIP J. GEILS. | | | - Courtney E. Smith, guest curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| Artists risk seeing their cultural resonance fade when they abandon the major streaming platforms. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| At a recent panel discussion in London, Bassem Deaibes from Lebanese thrashers Blaakyum explained why reality is more devastating than fiction | | |
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 | Lockeland Springsteen |
| How do we ditch the modifiers and really change the conversion? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The satcaster confronts allegations from the RIAA, SAG-AFTRA and others that it gratuitously included language in its Flo & Eddie settlement with an eye towards winning future royalty rate-setting proceedings. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Dailymotion is about to largely abandon its roots in user-generated content. The video site, now majority owned by French media conglom Vivendi, plans a significant relaunch of the service in June that will be geared toward serving up a curated feed of professionally produced content -- not the grab-bag of stuff that populates the site today. | | |
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 | NPR |
| The opera, by the 39-year-old Shanghai native, is a searing parable of human trafficking set to a score that ranges from Renaissance choral music to punk rock. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Singer settles out of court over claims hit track copied ‘note for note’ from X Factor winner Matt Cardle’s song "Amazing." | | |
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 | Clash Magazine |
| We spoke to five women pivotal to the European scene. | | |
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 | Song Exploder |
| Damon Alburn of Gorillaz and D.R.A.M. break down "Andromeda." | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The World of Dance Tour attracted thousands of dancers and fans to the Pomona Fairplex grounds. The competition event has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. | | |
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 | Reverie Report |
| Digital media business models continue to come under scrutiny. Advertising has fallen foul of ad blockers and commoditised programmatic buying that has pushed yields through the floor. What’s the great white hope? Subscription… and everyone’s piling in. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| The soundtracks from the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise are a time capsule of hip-hop music in the aughts. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| 100 years after Ella Fitzgerald's birth, her achievements seem greater than ever. | | |
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 | Thump |
| The father-son dream team just released 'Ultimate Ultimate,' a satirical look at EDM starring a 10-year-old prodigy named DJ Sparkle. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| Many elements of jazz have remained in the past, therefore artists that are trying to move jazz forward can’t be in the past regarding social issues. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| In an effort to correct the fact that artists haven't been properly compensated for having their songs played on the air the new bipartisan PROMOTE bill would give artists and labels the option to pull their music from broadcast radio. | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| The UK DJ has expressed his "deepest apologies" on Facebook. | | |
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| NPR |
| The former Kinks leader speaks with Steve Inskeep about Americana, a musical distillation of his sometimes tumultuous life as British rock star in the U.S. | | |
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 | The Boston Globe |
| J. Geils, 71, who was born John Warren Geils Jr., was a founder of the J. Geils Band, a popular Boston-area band that used an abbreviated form of his name and gained fame with its 1981 No. 1 single “Centerfold.” | | |
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