As a producer, I'm able to hear 20 things at the same time and edit in my mind where it's gonna end up at. It's the same thing as when you're playing chess. Some people are able to take two moves, three moves ahead, four, five. | | | | SZA at the Budweiser Made in America Festival, Philadelphia, Sept. 3, 2016.
(Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “As a producer, I'm able to hear 20 things at the same time and edit in my mind where it's gonna end up at. It's the same thing as when you're playing chess. Some people are able to take two moves, three moves ahead, four, five.”
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| | rantnrave:// STEVE KNOPPER's updated edition of APPETITE FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION: THE SPECTACULAR CRASH OF THE RECORD INDUSTRY IN THE DIGITAL AGE will probably not be the first time you've read about the mistakes record companies made at the dawn of the streaming age. But it's always helpful to be reminded. As you read this excerpt about the response to NAPSTER ("We're so f***ed!") and SPOTIFY ("Freemium"? Great!), the question to ask yourself is what mistakes are you making right now that you might have to answer for 10 years from now? Are your artists protected? Are your consumers protected? Are you rights sufficiently locked down and sufficiently flexible? Are you sacrificing people who make $30,000 a year to protect your own bonus? Are you so enamored of the format that's making you money today that you can't envision the format that's going to make you money tomorrow? Are you seeing and responding to the climate change in your business before it's too late, or before someone halfway around the world takes it out of your hands? Were the mistakes you made a decade ago actually mistakes? Are you sure?... US SENS. BOB MENENDEZ and CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO think SXSW should "consider relocating" in response to TEXAS' new SB4 law, which outlaws sanctuary cities. SXSW wasted little time Wednesday in saying sorry but no. Festival CEO ROLAND SWANSON said he agrees with the senators' cause but he prefers to stay in Texas and fight. Can't blame the senators for trying, and can't blame SXSW—which faced an immigration controversy of its own this year—for choosing its own response to Texas politics. At least Swanson's response was prompt and clear, which is not the way it always happens in cases like this... iOS 11 supports FLAC files... Speaking of which: Charting the Evolution of Cellphone Technology Using Only BEYONCÉ Songs... No, Virginia, the tritone was not banned by the church in the Middle Ages... Lesser-known JIMI HENDRIX innovations: discovering the in-between positions on the toggle switch of a FENDER STRAT... EMINEM gifts BEATS BY DRE headphones to 230 FLINT, MICH., high school graduates... Gig of the week: scoring BOB DYLAN's NOBEL lecture. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| In this excerpt from a new edition of Steve Knopper's "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age," Knopper details how music executives realized that they needed to embrace streaming. As a result, the major labels cut a deal with Spotify, enabling the streaming service to launch in Europe in 2008. | | |
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 | Thump |
| Kevin Saunderson and his sons Dantiez and DaMarii are Detroit techno's first family. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| The music industry’s arguments about the ‘value gap’ tend to be summarised as ‘rightsholders versus YouTube’. They were explored today at Midem. | | |
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 | Wear Your Voice |
| He sneered at social convention, and celebrated sexuality while sporting platform heels and a face beat to the gawds. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| A new generation of mainstream country singers is borrowing more from Blink and Billie Joe than Blake and Brad, in the process questioning Nashville’s core confines. | | |
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 | Adam Neely |
| We know the interval of a tritone today as "diabolus in musica," or the devil in music, but was it really always associated with evil? Are all of those metal musicians right in thinking that this interval is the sound of evil incarnate? | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| This year's Bonnaroo features more young acts than ever before, and it's no accident. | | |
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 | Passion of the Weiss |
| Paul Thompson on Lil Yachty’s debut album, "Teenage Emotions." | | |
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 | Real Life |
| The events themselves were gut-wrenchingly distant from the city I know. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Liam Gallagher has renewed his war of words with his brother Noel, accusing him of insensitivity after the Manchester bombing. But is Liam using the tragedy to promote himself? | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| Demogoroth Satanum -- South Africa's first all-black, black metal band -- hopes to connect people and break down barriers through music. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Andy Kayll and Rich Walsh are wizard and apprentice. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| The album that should have topped pop charts is wasting away thanks to too much music. | | |
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 | CLRVYNT |
| Hundredth frontman Chadwick Johnson received fan backlash for admitting his discontentment with metalcore and Warped Tour bands. Here's why it was undeserved. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Azadi Records is giving a voice to musicians with unconventional backgrounds and unpopular opinions. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Music is the ultimate good news-bad news business. Streaming is the future but it earns much less money than CDs, and although the live-music economy is booming, part of the reason for that is because artists have to tour -- they can’t make money from selling their music. | | |
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 | Saving Country Music |
| It's the charge of country and folk musicians to sing about the struggles of the common people that often go woefully unheralded by the rest of popular culture. But sometimes it's not just people, but places that deserve the dignity of poetic adulation. | | |
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 | Microphone Check |
| This first episode of the rest of our podcast’s life isn’t a straight ahead interview with a musician. Instead we asked music writer kris ex to come in and talk about the value of music journalism, especially its usefulness to musicians, and we kind of loosely centered our discussion on Kendrick’s album. | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| In his acclaimed one-man show, Cidny Bullens recounts his successful career as a female '70s musician and his midlife coming-out as a transgender man. | | |
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| Thump |
| A scientific analysis of how the hit-maker dominates the airwaves every festival season. | | |
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