Everyone makes mistakes. Entire albums are mistakes sometimes. Sometimes you have to make that mistake in order to get to the next thing. | | | | The Allman Brothers outside Macon, Ga., May 5, 1969.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Everyone makes mistakes. Entire albums are mistakes sometimes. Sometimes you have to make that mistake in order to get to the next thing.”
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| | rantnrave:// Musically speaking, they were an all-time helluva group, led by a guy who understood 11/4 time but couldn't sing and his brother who did not but could. The latter, improbably, wrote the epic 11/4 riff that stands as one of their hall of fame moments. It's a song that uses literal torture as a simile for emotional torture, and it's a fitting epitaph for one of the most soulful, nimble, understated singers of the Southern rock era. His life was marked by almost unimaginable tragedy, and he chronicled his journey with a half-century's worth of dark, world-weary and beautiful performances. MusicSET: "GREGG ALLMAN: Southern Rock's Soulful Frontman"... Three particular things to remember about the singer of "MIDNIGHT RIDER": His band was racially integrated, both in personnel and the music it chose to play, and in the deep South of the 1970s, that mattered ("an act of remarkable dissent," the NEW YORKER's AMANDA PETRUSICH calls it). The ALLMAN BROTHERS' songs resisted political interpretation and the band resisted the Confederate symbolism that some of its peers embraced. The Allmans were labeled Southern rock because everything has to be called something, but the music drew deeply on blues, jazz, soul, rock and much more... Bonus fourth thing: The album he made with then-wife CHER in 1977 was a critical and commercial flop but it wasn't as bad as advertised... Politics starts at home. Even hardcore and heavy-metal homes... CHANCE THE RAPPER, whose father has worked for both BARACK OBAMA and RAHM EMANUEL, says he would "never" run for office but that doesn't mean he isn't constantly thinking about politics... TIDAL goes through CEOs like I go through LALOO's deep chocolate ice cream... RIP MARCUS INTALEX and HARRY ANGER. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Chris Cornell was a grunge god and one of rock's most powerful singers - who channeled his dark side into his songs - until it finally got the better of him. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Francesca and Rebecca talk about when listening to music out loud, and with your co-workers-becomes a job requirement. They report from various scenes of communal workplace listening, including retail chains, where employees have to listen to whatever somebody at headquarters decided fits a store's vibe, and a public relations firm that's experimenting with a cooperative DJ-ing environment. | | |
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 | The Times |
| Festival season is here, and the 1975 are the biggest, most-talked-about band out there this summer. | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| Sonos, the high-tech connected speaker maker that opened a Seattle office about two years ago, is turning up the volume on its local presence. | | |
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 | REDEF |
| You can argue for days about who was Southern Rock's greatest guitar virtuoso. But its most important singer? No contest. Gregg Allman's dark, weary and wise instrument was marked by blues, rock, jazz and a lifetime of sorrow, and it gave a musical movement its soul. | | |
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 | 2DOPEBOYZ |
| Why are we still ignoring the women who can really rap? | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| Almost every week, Spotify adds a Moby track to my Discover Weekly or Release Radar playlists - probably the playlists I listen to the most. The problem is: I don't like Moby, and he's not going away.I've figured out exactly why Spotify keeps recommending me Moby. I've also figured out what type | | |
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 | The Iris |
| The inside story of how Gehry secured the commission for Disney Hall, and then completed the “slow, awesome task” of perfecting the design. (Originally published in 1991.) | | |
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 | Drowned In Sound |
| We should never, ever be afraid to love whoever we love. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| On the 20th anniversary of the singer’s death Buckley’s global fanbase has done their bit to chip away at the substantial debt he left behind. | | |
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 | Ebony |
| Chancelor Bennett is not one of those stiflingly religious types who answers every question by saying he is “blessed” or starts every sentence with a “hallelujah.” Yet the presence of God is stamped all through his Grammy-winning album, "Coloring Book," and his positive spiritual vibration is palpable the moment he hits the stage. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Lizzy Goodman discusses her new book, “Meet Me in the Bathroom”, an oral history of New York’s indie rock scene at the turn of the millennium. | | |
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 | Wired |
| The simplest reason for this earlier-than-expected revival is the fact that, in the all-digital era, two decades is waaaay too long to wait anymore. Our art-absorption metabolisms have been sped up by the web, which often feels like a borderless 24-hour culture klatch. | | |
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 | Variety |
| “I keep a running list of songs that I hope to use,” says “Dear White People” music supervisor Morgan Rhodes. “I’m a little bit old-school because I write them down on Post-It notes and they’re all over my office. I’m just completely geeked about digging for music.” | | |
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 | BBC Four |
| Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. | | |
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 | Diffuser.fm |
| We spoke with Bobby Z. and Dr. Fink of the Revolution about how they turned Prince on to the Beatles. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The modern outdoor music extravaganza was born 50 years ago this June, when Jimi torched his ax and Janis won over industry suits at the Monterey International Pop Festival. On the eve of its first-ever reboot, co-founder Lou Adler, Art Garfunkel, Steve Miller and more recall how a few hippies narrowly averted a Fyre Fest-like disaster as they kicked off the Summer of Love. | | |
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 | Office of Copyright |
| One of the most pervasive, and silliest, myths that continues to get passed around the internet is that somehow copyright is this huge drag on free speech. It’s simply not the case. | | |
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 | The Orange County Register |
| The host of radio program ‘Rodney on the ROQ,’ who championed many prominent bands in their early days ends his 41-year run at the station but his influence will continue. | | |
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 | Hip Hop Golden Age |
| People (including 19 year old me) slept on the Black Star duo of Mos Def (AKA Yasiin Bey) and Talib Kweli back in the day. Their music sounded nothing like anything else that was popping at the time, as they were part of the last great wave of rappers coming out of the underground scene in 1990’s New York City–a transition era for Hip Hop. | | |
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