It was super hot, it was far away, and it was a financial disaster. At the end of the weekend, they asked us to give half the money back. And we did. We should have asked for a piece of the pie. | | | | Anderson .Paak in Detroit, Feb. 15, 2019. His album "Ventura" is out today on Aftermath/12 Tone.
(Scott Legato/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It was super hot, it was far away, and it was a financial disaster. At the end of the weekend, they asked us to give half the money back. And we did. We should have asked for a piece of the pie.”
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| | rantnrave:// If you're in Indio, Calif., today, you have the option of seeing CHILDISH GAMBINO, JANELLE MONÁE, KACEY MUSGRAVES, TIERRA WHACK, ROSALÍA, NINA KRAVIZ, ANDERSON .PAAK, KHRUANGBIN, the 1975, and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's on offer on day 1 on COACHELLA's eight stages, not to mention days 2 and 3 should you want to stick around for the weekend, which is all to say that, musically speaking, things are pretty good right now. Every so often it's nice to be reminded of this. It's a good lineup, and a good response to anyone who wants to suggest that we're in musical dry spell, or the world is running out of headliners, or everything used to be better. We're not, it isn't and it didn't, and real names be proof. For anyone who isn't in Indio, 80-plus Coachella performances will be live-streamed over the next two weekends on YOUTUBE... This first weekend's livestream will include an airing of the DONALD GLOVER/RIHANNA film GUAVA ISLAND, a music-driven project shot in Cuba and said to be inspired by PURPLE RAIN and CITY OF GOD. It will screen at the festival and on various digital platforms for free before becoming an AMAZON PRIME exclusive on Sunday. It's a big weekend for movies and music. ELISABETH MOSS goes down a riot grrrl rabbit hole in ALEX ROSS PERRY's HER SMELL (shoutout our friends at GUNPOWDER & SKY, which is distributing). And ELLE FANNING takes on songs by ROBYN and other pop notables as a teen singer navigating the world of TV music competitions in MAX MINGHELLA's TEEN SPIRIT... Los Angeles and hip-hop said goodbye to NIPSEY HUSSLE Thursday in a partly somber, partly celebratory and very sold-out public memorial at the STAPLES CENTER. It was the first time the arena had been used for such a purpose since MICHAEL JACKSON died in 2009. That's how much he meant to both communities. A lot. A festive 25-mile funeral procession through LA followed. (There was, tragically, a fatal shooting in the Watts neighborhood after the procession passed through, but the LA TIMES reports there was no apparent connection between the procession and the shooting, and no reported violence on the procession route)... In other no-connection news, a 21-year-old man apparently obsessed with Norwegian black metal is a suspect in the burning of three black Baptist churches in Louisiana. There are/were a couple of infamous very, very bad actors at the heart of Norway's metal scene who did some awful things, including burning down churches, as you might have heard. If HOLDEN MATTHEWS is guilty, and if they were the inspiration, blame those awful men all you want. But don't blame metal itself, or even black metal itself. Please... Saturday is RECORD STORE DAY and each of those words was a link by the way... And today is FRIDAY, and that means new music from ANDERSON .PAAK, BTS, LSD (LABRINTH, SIA & DIPLO), INTER ARMA, CHEMICAL BROTHERS, SHOVELS & ROPE, KEVIN ABSTRACT, BRUCE HORNSBY, BEN MONDER, JOSHUA ABRAMS & NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, T BONE BURNETT/JAY BELLEROSE/KEEFUS CIANCIA, PJ HARVEY, MARK GUILIANA, ESCORT, ANDY BLACK, NORAH JONES, EMILY REO, BUDOS BAND, TREY ANASTASIO, JACKIE EVANCHO, LOWLY, MELISSA ETHERIDGE, DAMIEN JURADO, CHRIS FORSYTH, ANDY BELL, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, BIBIO, M HUNCHO, BILL FRISELL & THOMAS MORGAN, GLEN HANSARD, BIG BUSINESS, FONTAINES DC, JOHN PAUL WHITE, ELI "PAPERBOY" REED, EMMA BUNTON and a 1991 NIRVANA concert album, LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT... RIP GREG HAYMES. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After a noise complaint put a halt to D.C.'s only remaining outlet for go-go, Black Washingtonians fought back. | | |
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 | Slate |
| What is it about go-go that makes white folks so uncomfortable? | | |
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 | Vulture |
| I realize very quickly that, today, you can't drive east on Slauson. The last couple hundred feet before the road runs into Crenshaw is gridlock, nearly every passenger-side window open, all playing Nipsey Hussle songs. Stand still on the curb leading up to The Marathon, the nexus of today's vigil, and you can't make out Nipsey's words in particular - it's just cacophony. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Before the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was born 20 years ago, stylistically diverse destination music festivals were largely a European thing. | | |
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 | The Evening Standard |
| You can tell a lot about a person by their attitude to lifts. So impatient is Peggy Gou that she blows my own intolerance out of the water. ‘People keep… getting in,’ she mutters, stabbing at the buttons in the lift at The Ned. ‘Come on!’ | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Bob Pittman, the chairman/CEO of iHeartMedia, likes to compare his broadcast-radio empire -- which reaches 275 million listeners each month and is saddled with nearly $6 billion in debt -- to a house. "It's still worth a million dollars, even if you mortgage 99.9% of it," he recently said. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Portland guitarist and Widespread Panic writer Jerry Joseph started Nomad Music Foundation, a nonprofit that brings guitars and music classes to kids in conflict zones. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| With the arrival of two new films so soon after ‘Vox Lux,’ it’s tempting to say that the prestige pop star movie is "having a moment." But aside from ‘A Star Is Born’ and the outlier biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ is it really? Are we living through a rock-movie renaissance? Or are the chords these films strike too dissonant to resonate? | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The wild and challenging "Her Smell" stars Elisabeth Moss as a self-destructive rocker in a familiar mold--and features an ending in a less familiar one. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The award last year for “DAMN.” upended expectations for a prize that had stuck almost entirely to classical music. What comes next? | | |
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| Billboard |
| After a deportation scare landed him at the center of the U.S. immigration debate -- and mobilized a team of high-powered lawyers and social-justice activists -- 21 Savage is now learning to juggle his platform with his privacy. | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| Most things that Spotify does are scrutinised and cross-examined within an inch of their lives, with vested interests trying to second guess what may be the intended or unintended consequences for them. Most actions are viewed through the disruption lens i.e. how will this hurt or compete with Spotify’s rightsholder partners? | | |
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 | Louder |
| Rock is getting old, and no one ever, ever retires. Why? | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| From 1978 to 1992, the store and label (officially established in ’81) provided a place for everyone: non-binary folks, drag queens, weirdos, punks, goths and rave kids; bands (both homegrown and international), locals and tourists to coexist; never compromising their vision of what pop music could sound like or who was allowed to make it. | | |
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 | Bandcamp Daily |
| “What we’ve taken from Ugandan music is the rhythm and the intensity, and imbued it with our own darkness.” | | |
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 | Red Bull |
| Red Bull and 88rising present #AsiaRising: The Next Generation Of Hip Hop ft. Rich Brian, Higher Brothers, Keith Ape and more, this film explores the rapid success of Asian hip hop artists over the past 3 years. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| This weekend will see the Indio festival launch brand-new efforts to prevent sexual misconduct. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Putting out music yourself is not as hard as it used to be, but making money from that music takes a bit more work and know-how. It’s a minefield most artists still haven’t been able to navigate. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Apparently, people really do judge a book by its cover. Or at least they do it with music videos, according to new data that Vevo exclusively shared with Variety this month. The major label-owned music video platform has been on a quest to optimize the preview thumbnails it is using on YouTube, and seen double-digit improvements in engagement as a result. | | |
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| Vulture |
| There have been more than a few musicians who have craftily avoided taxes through foreign tax shelters and such. They've been excluded from this, a list of allegedly felonious behavior, rather than rich people knowing how to cheat the system because they are rich. | | |
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