Just because you make it doesn’t mean that it has to come out now. | | | | Chris Stapleton's second album, "From a Room Vol. 1," is out today on Mercury Nashville.
(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Just because you make it doesn’t mean that it has to come out now.”
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| | rantnrave:// I went to the REVOLUTION's show at WEBSTER HALL Wednesday night expecting some combination of nostalgia, mourning and all-in live karaoke. I walked out two hours later uplifted, beyond all expectations, by the power of a fantastic live band jamming on one of the all-time great pop catalogs (ed. note: "one of" may not be necessary in this sentence). But also, yeah, mourning. You listen to WENDY MELVOIN lead the Revolution through "PAISLEY PARK" in 2017 and try not to cry. Wendy, LISA, MATT, BROWNMARK and BOBBY Z. were joined by Wendy's sister SUSANNAH (starting with "MOUNTAINS," a song named for an element of the earth's landscape that probably could be moved by those Revolution harmonies), MINT CONDITION singer STOKLEY WILLIAMS (fully credible in the near-impossible task of filling in for the missing bandleader for seven or eight songs) and second guitarist ROB BACON, who for some reason has gone unmentioned by nearly every writer who has covered this tour. Pretty much everything in this show is worth mentioning. If you get the chance to go, go... SPOTIFY has posted part three of REGGIE "COMBAT JACK" OSSÉ's serial podcast about the rise and fall of CHRIS LIGHTY, which is also serving as a great mini-history of hip-hop. The new episode deals with Lighty's discovery of WARREN G (life lessons: listen, pay attention, be curious) and the East Coast/West Coast tension that resulted (life lessons: if you have a meeting with SUGE KNIGHT, come prepared)... While CONGRESS does what Congress will do, here's an organization looking out for musicians' health care... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from CARL CRAIG, CHRIS STAPLETON, MAC DEMARCO, LOGIC, NITE JEWEL, FOREST SWORDS, BLONDIE, WALE, SLOWDIVE, JUANA MOLINA, DELIA GONZALEZ, RADIOACTIVE MAN, PERFUME GENIUS, TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO', AT THE DRIVE IN, BROTHER ALI, AFGHAN WHIGS, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, POND, CAFE TACVBA, AMANDA PALMER & EDWARD KA-SPEL, BIG WALNUTS YONDER and JOAN SHELLEY... And the likes of ADELE and DOLLY PARTON singing BRANDI CARLILE songs on this benefit for WAR CHILD UK... And this ALICE COLTRANE music from the vault... And two LCD SOUNDSYSTEM songs... And one LIL YACHTY song... RIP SAXA and MARIO MAGLIERI. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Spotify |
| Chris Lighty was a giant in hip-hop. He managed Foxy Brown, Fat Joe, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, 50 Cent-anyone who was anyone worked with Lighty. But in 2012 he was found dead at his home in the Bronx, a death that left the music world reeling. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Sly Stone was one of the first audacious badasses of modern black pop music, a hero and then an anti-hero to millions. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| South Korea’s music craze has taken most of the world by storm, but Chile represents a somewhat unlikely conquest. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Beauty is in the biometric data of the beholder, and artificial intelligence can decode it. | | |
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 | VICE News |
| One month before thousands of well-heeled millennials were set to descend on a remote island in the Bahamas for the Fyre Festival to frolic on yachts, rub elbows with models, and hear acts like Blink 182 and Major Lazer, the organizers had a big problem. They were running low on cash and the festival lacked fundamental necessities. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Two Ringer writers try to get to the bottom of the mystery that is the nerdcore rapper. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Shaken by the election and inspired by her broad platform on The Voice, Miley Cyrus is about to emerge from a social media blackout with rootsy new music and a mission to connect with country fans and Trump voters -- even as she calls out misogyny in hip-hop and fights for transgender rights. "Im giving the world a hug," she says. | | |
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 | Variety |
| The music industry-backed Copyright Accountability Act was introduced in the Senate Judiciary Committee this week with powerful bi-partisan sponsorship: chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| The city is once again falling in love with underground culture. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| In a long, characteristically frank conversation, he gave the impression that he’s playing these shows because it gives him an opportunity to hang out with his best friends -- all of whom appear to work for him -- and because he hasn’t stopped being knocked out by the fact that he can fill a ballpark. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Today, rap is a ubiquitous part of any playlist, popping up in seemingly every subgenre of music that exists, but this has not always been the case. Flashback to the mid-’80s, when rap was beginning to reach a larger mass audience thanks to groups like Run-DMC and LL Cool J. | | |
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 | Medium |
| 51 million Americans are expected subscribe to premium music streaming services in 2020. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Jurors just decided that rap lyrics weren't literal threats in the case of aspiring rapper Anthony Murillo - but why is that still even a question? | | |
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 | Complex |
| From the beginning, hip-hop has had conflicted feelings about having a good time. | | |
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 | The New Statesman |
| Britpop ended up giving comfort to those who wanted to reassert “traditional” songwriting styles and band structures. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Forty years ago, "Star Wars" seeped into society-music included. Some songs were cash-ins, but others tied Afrofuturism to the biggest sci-fi brand ever. | | |
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 | Musiqology |
| Marcus Strickland’s 2016 album Nihil Novi was released as a collaboration between Blue Note Records and Revive Music. True to its name, the Revive music project stresses a commitment to ‘reviving’ jazz by exploring its intersection with other styles. | | |
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 | Thump |
| As Fyre Festival proved recently, throwing extravagant events in far-flung locales is no easy task. | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| Imagine a studio where Madlib, Dâm-Funk, Egyptian Lover or Karriem Riggins might just pop by... This is what goes on behind the desk at Stones Throw Studios. | | |
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 | The Economist |
| Biologists are addressing one of humanity’s strangest attributes, its all-singing, all-dancing culture. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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