[R]espondent endeavors to use The Slants to supplant a racial epithet, using new insights, musical talents, and wry humor to make it a badge of pride. | | | | Jo Stafford in the studio with husband/arranger Paul Weston, 1950s.
(Metronome/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “[R]espondent endeavors to use The Slants to supplant a racial epithet, using new insights, musical talents, and wry humor to make it a badge of pride.”
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 | The Washington Post |
| This Nashville tradition is crucial for mainstream success. There’s no guarantee it will work. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The indie-rock provocateur says he wants to be “authentically bogus rather than bogusly authentic.” | | |
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 | NewMusicBox |
| Is the printed circuit board a form of musical notation? And even if it isn’t, what can one glean from all those diodes, the cryptic copper lines, the tiny landscapes of circuitry? | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| A mysterious "Sponsored Content" opt-out setting recently appeared in Spotify, and now the streaming giant has confirmed to TechCrunch what it's about. Spotify is now testing a new “Sponsored Song” ad unit that a company spokesperson tells us is “a product test for labels to promote singles on the free tier.” | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| After years of hard knocks and hard partying, the Cleveland rapper may finally be breaking big. All he has to do is stay alive. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The “Jagged Little Pill” musical can’t come soon enough. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| Royalty Exchange was set up in 2011 to act as a broker/marketplace to connect owners of copyrights with private investors looking to buy a share of the future earnings of those copyrights. The company says the model is not about surrendering control of copyrights but rather is based on an earnings-share model. | | |
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 | Electronic Beats |
| We interviewed the female DJ behind Deep House Tehran about the growth of the Iranian techno scene. | | |
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 | Guernica Magazine |
| The singer went to Africa, she said, in search of peace, or a husband, or maybe the feeling of home. | | |
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 | furia |
| All over the world, there is strange and wonderful music you would love if you only knew it existed. The people who know about it already love it, and are frantically and joyfully discovering more of it RIGHT NOW. But how do you find them and find out what they know? | | |
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 | NPR |
| How the members of Algiers -- four musicians in three cities on two continents -- made an album for a world as divided and unsettled as they are. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| Once the hip-hop magazine picks the ten rising stars to feature in its annual issue, it must get them all together for a daylong photo shoot. | | |
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 | Variety |
| In its 44 years as a band, Kiss' ongoing onslaught of merchandise has included everything from caskets to condoms, but band bassist and co-founder Gene Simmons' June 9 attempt to trademark rock and roll's iconic "metal horns" hand gesture is a bridge too far for musicians and fans who believe the late singer Ronnie James Dio -- among others -- can lay claim to the ubiquitous gesture. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| From interactive gaming to the rise of voice-controlled devices, Meeker's annual report lays out a compelling blueprint for where the music industry should be looking and investing. | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| That's what the Supreme Court just held this morning, in Matal v. Tam. | | |
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 | The Spinoff |
| The stories, processes and influences behind the songs. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| The experimental keyboard is made from soft layers of fabric that have sensors. It’s all sewn together with conductive thread. You can play it like a traditional keyboard, but the FabricKeyboard also responds to pressure, proximity, and stretching. | | |
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 | Soundfly |
| Learn about the different types of reverbs, their histories, the effect they have on your recordings, and the best way to achieve them! | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| We know: The last thing the world needs is another social app competing for our brain space. But hear us out. There’s a good reason for this one. | | |
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 | Sodajerker |
| Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist Jason Isbell joins Simon and Brian in London to mark the milestone of the 100th Sodajerker podcast. | | |
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