I get asked that question many times: Why didn't you keep 'End of the Road'? Why didn't you keep 'Every Little Step'? 'Cause listen to who sung it, and listen to the songs those became. I think the songs ultimately find their right homes. | | | | The O'Jays in the 1970s.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I get asked that question many times: Why didn't you keep 'End of the Road'? Why didn't you keep 'Every Little Step'? 'Cause listen to who sung it, and listen to the songs those became. I think the songs ultimately find their right homes.”
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| | rantnrave:// Listening to execs from YOUTUBE and WARNER MUSIC (or almost any label) debate the most fundamental issues is like listening to politicians in WASHINGTON debate, well, pretty much anything. There's no common ground, it appears, except for the fact that they have corner offices with nice stereos in them, and the people whose work they're obstensibly arguing about, by and large, do not. Has LYOR COHEN's tenure at YouTube given the labels a friend on the inside or turned him into another enemy soldier? Kudos, in either case, to RECODE's PETER KAFKA for telling Cohen in their Q&A that his wish to "delight ... customers" is "a very tech phrasing. So you've got that down"... KOBALT raises $75 million in sign of booming music economy. PANDORA still looking for a buyer as it agrees to $150 million infusion from private-equity firm KKR in sign that maybe it isn't booming for everybody... Some summer festivals are better than others, but it's safe to say we've already seen 2017's worst. With that one more or less behind us, we've updated our MusicSET "The State of the Summer Music Festival"... In case you weren't clear on how obsessed ED SHEERAN is with classic rock, his desert island discs include records by DEREK & THE DOMINOS, VAN MORRISON, STEVE WONDER, ELTON JOHN and EMINEM. (Also, note to educators: Learning the lyrics to Eminem's "STAN" and other hip-hop songs cured young Ed of his stammer)... Longtime streaming holdout DRAG CITY has put new albums by BONNIE PRINCE BILLY and BILL MACKAY on APPLE MUSIC in what it the label says is a first. A first for the smartphone era, perhaps, but not a true first; we had the Drag City catalog in URGE—MTV NETWORKS' short-lived subscription service—when we launched in 2006. Everything, as they say, is a remix. Even record company press releases... QUESTLOVE jams with 15-year-old DARIUS CLEMENT on buckets on NEW ORLEANS' FRENCHMEN STREET... There is a dude who has made it his job to find the original source photo for every figure on the cover of SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND and god bless his existence... STAGECOACH through the eyes of a conservative blogger. (I confess I have no idea what "self-explanatory" difference he sees between Stagecoach's WILLIE NELSON and COACHELLA's RADIOHEAD, unless he means one has longer hair and is more likely to advocate smoking pot.) | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Warner Music Group signed a deal with YouTube and then complained about it. Here’s the video site’s response. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Ryan Schreiber’s once-scrappy hipster music review site has made it to media’s main stage. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Not all political music in the past 100 days has invoked the president's name. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Thomas Chatterton Williams on the iconic Detroit artist’s music and persona. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Forty years later, be grateful to the band, which helped pioneer the sharing economy. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| Smart speakers like Amazon Echo speaker and its Alexa assistant have been getting plenty of music-industry people excited about its potential for music. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Logic and Neil deGrasse Tyson join forces to speculate about the future of music and humanity, through the lens of the MC's new album, 'Everybody.' | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| After an impromptu DM encounter on Twitter, the acerbic singer-songwriter chats about the current state of the world and his career. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Fueled by a $1 billion acquisition by the equity fund Blackstone Group, SESAC chairman/CEO John Josephson is taking his company beyond its comfort zone. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Pay for songwriters and musicians often depends on the accuracy of digital music files. | | |
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 | Uncut |
| Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke talks us through Blondie's early days in a run-down, crime-infested New York City. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| On 'No Shape,' Mike Hadreas's songwriting takes a more ambitious, poetic turn. | | |
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| The digital age is demanding for artists. Simply releasing audio is often not enough. You have to take care of artwork, video material for Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook, and then you still have to figure out how to get people to actually pay you. | | |
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 | Cheddar |
| George Howard speaks about the service Music Audience Exchange (MAX) and how it's changing the music industry. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| The prolific polymath speaks to her latest slate of projects, including a virtual reality exhibit of her career and a book featuring artfully notated arrangements of her songs. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Thanks to streaming, Drake is going to outsell Tupac, Jay Z, and even Eminem. Here’s how, by the numbers. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| The Internet Archive has a surprisingly deep collection of records made of insect secretions. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band members and producer Dave Sitek explain how the group fused the sounds of Cuba and New Orleans on their 'So It Is' LP. | | |
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 | Being a DJ |
| This weekend (May 13) Colin Curtis celebrates his 50th anniversary as a DJ with a special event at The Exchange in his home city of Stoke-On-Trent. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The pioneering Mexican band’s new record, “Jei Beibi,” is filled with experimentation. | | |
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