Probably a lot of the art that we love and revere was made by terrible people,... Don’t take 'Bitches Brew' away from me just because Miles [Davis] was a dick. | | | | Iggy Pop rides the wave in Cincinnati, June 23, 1970. He has not worn a shirt since.
(Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Probably a lot of the art that we love and revere was made by terrible people,... Don’t take 'Bitches Brew' away from me just because Miles [Davis] was a dick.”
| - | St. Vincent, at ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo, May 7, 2018 |
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| | rantnrave:// TA-NEHISI COATES on KANYE WEST (and MICHAEL JACKSON, and himself, and celebrity, and the current president, and what black music means in America, and "freedom," but from what?, and so many other things, such as why TUPAC's death meant something different than KURT COBAIN's, and maybe 9/11, but mostly Kanye, and Michael, and himself). A five-thousand word essay, beautiful and sharp and poignant, which I beg you to read like nothing I have ever begged you to read... And then listen to CHILDISH GAMBINO's "THIS IS AMERICA" nine or 10 more times... Except for a pro forma pronouncement that "We’re a music company, and not, by our nature, long-term holders of publicly traded equity," no one has offered much of an explanation for why WARNER MUSIC has unloaded 75 percent of its stock in SPOTIFY—which the company announced days after SONY revealed it has sold half of its much larger stake. Together the companies pocketed over $1 billion from the sales. Did they need the short-term cash infusion (which both say they will share with artists and distributed labels), even though revenues are up at both companies? Are they not sure Spotify will be a long-term winner? Do they not want to be so closely tied to one particular streaming service in a competitive marketplace? Had they been planning to sell all along? Warner CEO STEPHEN COOPER did offer this, which you may choose to believe or not, as you wish: "This sale has nothing to do with our view of Spotify’s future"... When Spotify fans aren't necessarily full-fledged, actual fans... ROSS GOLAN's wonderful AND THE WRITER IS podcast has launched its third season with convos with songwriters RYAN TEDDER and BUSBEE... U2 wades into the abortion debate in IRELAND, "to the dismay of many Christian fans"... GUNS N' ROSES erases "ONE IN A MILLION"... The most-streamed songs of decades past in the UK (aka who are the DRAKE and ED SHEERAN of the 1970s and '80s?) ... RIP ROGER VORCE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Kanye West wants freedom-white freedom. | | |
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| Artists like Camila Cabello, Cardi B and Jason Derulo are putting out record numbers of singles before launching an album. But is the strategy working? | | |
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| Why does everyone keep releasing music on the same day? Wouldn't it be beneficial for some artists and labels to release on other days of the week and avoid all the competition that happens every Friday? | | |
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| This lineup is a huge middle finger to the aggressive stan culture and online misogyny in 2018 that thrives on women in music being pitted against each other. | | |
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| Eyewitnesses to the Man in Black's legendary 1968 concerts at the California prison recall Cash's shining moment. | | |
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| Inside Meek Mill's emotional journey to freedom, and how he's fighting for change. | | |
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| As Tenille Townesemerges, a glimpse behind Music City's curtain. | | |
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| This belief is dangerous because of how it idealizes Donald Glover, making him this paragon of nuanced depictions of and love for blackness while Kanye exists as our fallen angel. This type of exaltation invites a scrutiny into his work and his person — a search for an unimpeachable blackness that he can not live up to. | | |
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| Kanye West’s mood board illustrates how he doesn't have politics - he has aesthetics. | | |
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| The '80s hitmaker spoke about being diagnosed with Meniere's disease, an inner ear disorder that has left him unable to perform. | | |
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| Shows like ‘Westworld,’ ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ and ‘Trust’ are carrying on the time-honored tradition of TV shows aggressively co-opting and repurposing popular songs. | | |
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| One woman’s epic journey into becoming a Brucehead, from New Jersey to New York and back again. | | |
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| The Ramones manager talks to GQ about the release of his new behind-the-scenes photography book, My Ramones. | | |
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| Since the 2016 election, pop music and TV shows have emphasized liberal impotence more than anger. Is that about to change? | | |
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| The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person. | | |
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| Mapfumo performed a homecoming show in the country last month, after spending over a decade-and-a-half in self-imposed exile. | | |
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| WomenCrush is using the power of female networking to help musicians build their careers. | | |
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| In the pilot episode of our new music/travel series, "Soul City," host Ronnie Reese explores his home town of South Side, Chicago, visiting with Todd Mayfield, son of soul icon Curtis Mayfield, Chicago house icon Ron Trent, and Zernell Gillie, cofounder of the Crate Diggers record fair. | | |
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| A compilation of songs centered on beepers, emails, and other mediums of casual correspondence that have fallen out of favor. | | |
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| Laughing at Donald Glover’s sendup of Kanye hasn’t made watching him unravel any less infuriating or devastating. | | |
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