I don’t want to perform something that I don’t feel. | | | | Courtney Barnett tells you how she really feels on her second solo album, out today on Milk!/Mom + Pop.
(Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I don’t want to perform something that I don’t feel.”
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| | rantnrave:// Short and sweet today. Wishing you an adventure-filled, musical weekend. A good time to curl up with an obsessive song-by-song podcast about your favorite mysterious R&B star or your favorite literate indie-rocker. Or watch a doc on the history of techno in Berlin. Or start prepping for your IPO, if that's more your thing... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from my favorite Antipodean lefty guitarist, COURTNEY BARNETT, as well as BTS, BOMBINO, MARY LATTIMORE, GAS, RAY LAMONTAGNE, LIL BABY, KYLE, MALUMA, PARQUET COURTS, DJDS, STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, SPENCER BROWN, NOW NOW, NICK GRANT, ASH, BRAD MEHLDAU, ARTURO SANDOVAL, KELLY WILLIS, JUSTIN NOZUKA, TT, MC PAUL BARMAN, BURN THE PRIEST, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, NAV, ZIGGY MARLEY, MICHAEL RAULT, JAMES BAY, RAT SCABIES, LOW CUT CONNIE, JOAN ARMATRADING, MATTHEW SWEET and the SIDEKICKS... RIP YOUNG KING DAVE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | NPR Music |
| The former rap mogul and current head of music at YouTube on #MeToo (sort of), Migos and his mortality. | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| YouTube is back for another round at the table with the launch of YouTube Music. | | |
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 | TIME |
| Ariana Grande made a song about resilience because she has had to be resilient, in ways that are difficult to imagine, after a terrorist detonated a bomb outside her May 22, 2017, concert in Manchester, England. What happened is part of the song, but the song is not about what happened. Instead of being elegiac, it’s joyful and lush, and Grande is proud of it, and of herself. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The guitarist from Niger is known for opening ears and minds with his virtuosic desert blues. For his new album, “Deran,” he returned to Africa. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The CEO of the world's largest music publisher, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, says things are looking up in his business again after a long period of drought. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| A moral ticket reseller? How can that be? How does that even work as a business model? | | |
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 | Loud And Quiet |
| In 2018 ambient music is both in rude health and also at a crossroads - Stephen Butchard investigates some of the artists and tracks currently mutating the genre. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The new season of a beloved podcast series smartly seeks not to taxonomize the monastic artist’s discography but rather to contextualize it. | | |
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 | Newcity Music |
| I’ve just finished listening to the first thirteen episodes of season one of “I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats,” each edition of which is devoted to one song of the 2002 album, “All Hail West Texas.” It’s a Mariana Trench-type deep dive into a record that’s sixteen years old, and John Darnielle has traded some modesty about his legacy to discuss these songs in depth. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Rappers are obsessed with the tech billionaire. We just want to know why. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| An open letter from an anonymous musician on how negative criticism can be damaging, and what critics can do better. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Whether tiny synths are an affordable route into electronic music production or disposable gimmicks, the possibility of carrying high-performance hardware in your backpack is making these small-scale machines a big noise | | |
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 | Variety |
| A new strategy is emerging as Hollywood Records prepares its first release from the franchise. | | |
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| Loud And Quiet |
| The fermentation of Josiah Wise. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Many musicians prefer these 300-year-old instruments, but are they actually worth it? | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| It has been a bad month for some of the most notorious figures in film and music. Where will the fight against ‘hate content and hateful conduct’ take us now? | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| A Seattle-based musician who worked with Tinsley in the band Crystal Garden has come forward with disturbing allegations. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The Billboard Music Awards,l Icon Award honoree takes a deep dive into her trailblazing history as she prepares for major performances and a new album. | | |
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| Complex |
| Rita Ora's single “Girls,” featuring Cardi B, Charli XCX, and Bebe Rexha, follows in Katy Perry's footsteps as one of many songs that fails to provide positive bisexual representation. Ora has apologized for "hurting anyone" and revealed that the song is about her own experiences, but its harmfulness remains. | | |
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 | Getintothis |
| Courtney Barnett and a personal tale of musical redemption. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | Recorded live for the Line of Best Fit. Bombino's sixth album, "Deran," is out today on Partisan Records. |
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