The thing to do now is sign me to a record deal. | | | | Happy Father's Day: Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons are unlikely father/daughter bandmates in "Hearts Beat Loud."
(Gunpowder & Sky) | | | | |  | “The thing to do now is sign me to a record deal.”
|
| |
| | rantnrave:// How to make money from streaming: Have your label, or your label's distributor, acquire a stake in a major streaming company early in the game, wait for them to sell it a decade later for three-quarters of a billion dollars, then sit back and wait for a letter like the ones SONY MUSIC has started sending to managers and distributed labels. MUSIC BUSINESS WORLDWIDE and BILLBOARD fill in some of the details of how Sony plans to share its SPOTIFY windfall with labels and around 100,000 artists who generated revenue for the company during the period when it held that SPOT stock. Two headlines that presumably sent smiles across the artist universe: All artists will be eligible for payouts regardless of what their contracts specify, and the payouts will be made without regard to unrecouped balances. One imagines there are one or two unreported "but"s somewhere in there, but for now, happy Friday... Cross HIGH FIDELITY with JOHN HUGHES and you might get HEARTS BEAT LOUD, a sweet Father's Day movie starring NICK OFFERMAN as a struggling Brooklyn record-store owner who forms an improbable band with his teenage daughter. It may be the first music movie in which the fledgling rock stars' goal isn't to get on the radio or onstage at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, but to get on a Spotify playlist. High fidelity streaming, as it were. The film had a solid opening last weekend and goes wider today. Congrats to our friend VAN TOFFLER, whose company GUNPOWDER & SKY is distributing, and KIERSEY CLEMONS, who's fantastic as the reluctant singer in her dad's little band. And a special shoutout to my friend and bandmate CHRIS MCBURNEY, who has a star turn as LANCE, a featured extra who gives Offerman several knowing looks in the climactic record-store scene. There's an Oscar for that, yes?... NETFLIX has a new edition of the BARBRA STREISAND/KRIS KRISTOFFERSON version of A STAR IS BORN with never-before-seen footage of Streisand playing "EVERGREEN" on guitar. She got an ACADEMY AWARD for co-writing it, making her the first woman to win one for composing... Streisand wanted ELVIS PRESLEY to play the male lead, but COL. TOM PARKER cost his client the role with excessive demands. On Wednesday, we lost the last member of Presley's classic '50s band with the death of drummer DJ FONTANA. This is both understatement and overstatement: Fontana's swing-influenced playing established one of the basic templates for decades of rock and pop. The CLIFFSNOTES version of the history of rock says Elvis shattered the established order in a matter of minutes, which is wrong on a number of levels, my favorite of which is the level that contains the continuum that is popular music. Fontana developed his style "by listening to recordings of big bands fronted by the likes of STAN KENTON, WOODY HERMAN and the DORSEY BROTHERS." Elvis, DJ and their peers didn't upend swing and big band and jump blues and pop so much as they carried them forward and modernized them, part of a neverending revolution that's still in motion. But also, he was great, duh. RIP... Do not give your new boyfriend or girlfriend your email password at the same time you're trying to start your career as a clarinetist. Just don't... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from JAY ROCK, NAS, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, R+R=NOW, RICO NASTY, SOPHIE, CHROMEO, WILLIAM PARKER, MAYDAY PARADE, MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER, MIKE SHINODA, DNCE, JOHNNY MARR, OLIVIA CHANEY, FANTASTIC NEGRITO, BLACK PINK, LEON VYNEHALL, LOCKSMITH & APOLLO BROWN, ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER, BUDDY GUY, CHUCK AUERBACH, ARTHUR BUCK (JOSEPH ARTHUR & PETER BUCK), KING PRINCESS, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, LIZZY BORDEN, WELLES, JACQUEES, JOHN PARISH, MARISA ANDERSON, REBELUTION, GIN BLOSSOMS, THE BEAT STARRING DAVE WAKELING, WILKO JOHNSON and S&S PRESENTS: DREAMS featuring tracks by KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH, JULIE BYRNE, YUMI ZOUMA and more. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
|
|
 | Variety |
| She was all dolled up in cheap punky gear, the kind of club kid who looked absurdly out of place in a cardiac ward. She wasn’t even interested in hearing me explain how much I liked her demo. “The thing to do now,” she said, “is sign me to a record deal.” | | |
|
 | Dazed Digital |
| All-day radio stations streaming "beats to study/chill/relax" have created one of the kindest communities on the internet. | | |
|
 | Inc.com |
| My interview with Mayday Parade guitarist Brook Betts, the first in a series that provides an inside look at the successful (and great) rock band. | | |
|
 | Los Angeles Times |
| Vans Warped Tour, the summertime punk rock staple transformed the U.S. concert industry for almost 25 years. It offered cheap tickets, scruffy amenities and was among the first festivals to mix hard rock and hip-hop. But as it winds down its last roadshow, it's clear the music business has changed. | | |
|
 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Better news than some might have expected. Sony has committed to paying out its Spotify money to all eligible artists and partner labels, regardless of what is decreed in individual contracts. And it has committed to ignoring all unrecouped balances in relation to its Spotify share money payouts. | | |
|
 | Touré Show |
| She worked with Prince in the studio, engineering his best albums. She knows who he is as a musical being as well as anyone. I wanted to celebrate Prince’s 60th birthday talking to someone who knew him extremely well. Susan tells us what song that was the germ of each of Prince’s big albums. And what happened when Prince was forced to meet Liz Taylor. | | |
|
 | Stereogum |
| Heaven. Earth. One we know. The other we don’t. One we experience. The other is only believed in. But to many, one is just as real as the other. That is the crux of Kamasi Washington’s latest album, and Washington knows a lot about believing something into existence. | | |
|
 | Complex |
| Chance The Rapper was set to headline the small but impassioned FORM Arcosanti music festival in May. Two days before he was scheduled to perform, he pulled out. | | |
|
 | Los Angeles Review Of Books |
| Isabel Torrealba considers Bowie as magical realist. | | |
|
 | Rolling Stone |
| Physical formats are cratering, but vinyl's niche is growing. Jack White and other experts explain the future of listening. | | |
|
| | | father to a sister of a thought |
|
 | Billboard |
| With a new song featuring Ariana Grande and another about his teen fling with an older man soon to come, Troye Sivan is proving pop stars don’t need to cater to straight fans. And he’s one of many leading us all into a vibrant future. | | |
|
 | Noisey |
| With more queer and trans representation in popular culture than ever, the Brooklyn rapper's story is one that the hip-hop world needs to see. | | |
|
 | NPR Music |
| Through the process of translating his book about Japan's robust independent music scene into the country's native language, an author finds himself reckoning with where he's really at. | | |
|
 | Artist Waves |
| You have one of the greatest experiences of your life. ‘You made me a believer.’ | | |
|
| Billboard |
| The relative quiet around Nas, who's about to release a new album produced by Kanye West, is just the latest sign that the music industry -- and hip-hop in particular -- has been slow to reckon with the #MeToo movement. | | |
|
 | Pitchfork |
| No rap star asks more of his followers. By and large, they’re fine with that. | | |
|
 | The New York Times |
| The singer and songwriter is clear-minded and more open than ever on the fourth Florence and the Machine album, “High as Hope.” | | |
|
| Noisey |
| A week on the road, at the track, and in the compound of the enigmatic Detroit collective. | | |
|
 | The Guardian |
| His raps go viral, his show Atlanta is the hottest thing on TV, and he’s just stolen the new Star Wars film. Where was Donald Glover when I was growing up? | | |
|
 | The Bitter Southerner |
| James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, and James Oglethorpe, the Godfather of Georgia, silently stare down each other and their respective legacies in Augusta. | | |
|
 | YouTube |
| | | | | | From "Collagically Speaking," out today on Blue Note. Featuring Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin and Justin Tyson. |
| | |
|
|
| © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group |
|
|
