There's a human element to DJing, where people, especially other DJs, are worried that you're going to make a mistake. So when the music stops for one second—every DJ in the room is like [gasps for breath]. I think that's kind of cool. | | | | Haiming it up: Danielle and Este Haim at Glastonbury, June 25, 2017.
(Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “There's a human element to DJing, where people, especially other DJs, are worried that you're going to make a mistake. So when the music stops for one second—every DJ in the room is like [gasps for breath]. I think that's kind of cool.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm genetically inclined to love albums like JAY-Z's 4:44: stripped-down, high-concept, narrative, confessional, short, and concerned with the price of BROOKLYN real estate. But if you had told me BEYONCÉs husband was going to follow up her 2016 mature-pop masterpiece with a 2017 mature-pop masterpiece of his own, I would have bet against you. And lost. Early notes, critiques and musings on Jay-Z's insta-classic 13th album, in which he says he cheated, is in therapy, shoulda bought that place in Dumbo for $2 mil, knows exactly what PRINCE wanted, his mom is gay, and more. MusicSET: "When Life Gives You Lemonade, Jay-Z Responds With This"... I'm struggling, however, to figure out who thought it was a good idea to make a major new album exclusive to people who had already subscribed to TIDAL before it came out and/or customers of the fourth-largest phone carrier in the US. I'm wondering, in other words, who thought it was a good idea to make most people who wanted to hear Jay-Z's album have to switch phone carriers in order to do so. After an outpouring of outrage and outright mocking, Tidal and SPRINT finally relented Monday, allowing anyone to subscribe to Tidal and have a listen. The companies could have saved themselves the trouble with a tiny bit of thinking beforehand. (And hey, guess what?)... AEG and MSG using the world's leading concert arenas as poker chips... Beloved English indie-rockers the MACCABEES take their final bows at ALLY PALLY in LONDON. More stories of farewell shows in our MusicSET "Last Waltzes: Artists Say Goodbye"... SONY pressing vinyl for the first time since the 1980s. Peak vinyl or shark jump?... Streaming still soaring, sales still sinking, says BUZZANGLE in mid-year report on music consumption... WARREN ZEVON's excitable book collection being auctioned on EBAY, one volume at a time... RIP JOHN BLACKWELL JR. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The industry's power brokers haven't reckoned with how little credit they deserve for their own comeback. And they haven't come to grips with the industry's still-precarious position because the very players that dragged music into the digital age aren't on solid footing. | | |
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 | Variety |
| In response to a recent challenge from MSG that saw the company refusing to book acts into Madison Square Garden if they played at AEG's Staples Center in Los Angeles instead of the MSG-operated Forum, AEG has informed agents and promoters that acts who perform at The Forum instead of Staples will not be booked at London's O2 Arena. | | |
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| Notes, critiques and musings on Jay-Z's insta-classic 13th album, "4:44," in which he says he cheated, is in therapy, shoulda bought that place in Dumbo for $2 mil, knows exactly what Prince wanted, his mom is gay, and more. Bye bye, Becky. | | |
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 | The Paris Review |
| AI is changing the way we write songs—but music has always embraced machine language. | | |
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 | Watt |
| So you were offered a record deal. Congratulations! But the only problem is that now you have to read it. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| How alterations in marketing spend, advertising revenue and international income could help fix Daniel Ek's business. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| At first blush, the five members of Acrush resemble the prototypical Simon Cowell-culled group: boyishly handsome, impeccably groomed, freakishly flawless in a way that mortal teen-agers typically aren’t. But underneath the leather jackets, Timberland boots, and conspicuously masculine posturing, the group is comprised of five cisgender girls. | | |
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 | Geeks & Beats |
| If you're of a certain age, you remember sliding out the little leaflet thingy in a CD and looking at the pictures, lyrics, and maybe even checking out the credits. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| I see their names and hold my breath. You do this when you’re a 40-something hip-hop head and you’ve glimpsed the name of an M.C. your age trending in the news. Once it might have meant tawdry scandal or legal shenanigans. Now, too often, it means someone’s been struck down. Not by bullet or blade. But by illness. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| We hung out with Haim to chat astrology, being embraced in London and how old heartbreak shaped their second album. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| A Londoner wonders why British radio takes more risks and explores how things are evolving in America. | | |
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| Bloomberg |
| As 20-year-old pop star Lorde danced across the stage earlier this month at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, basking in the adulation of adoring fans, Matt Pincus was in the balcony celebrating. | | |
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 | Beats 1 Radio |
| Pharrell Williams and Scott Vener in the OTHERtone studio with Jimmy Iovine of Apple Music. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Artists from The xx to Frank Ocean to Rejjie Snow have all been dabbling in DIY recently - but is this a genuine creative expression or just the latest fad? | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify's prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Legendary singer Peter Tosh was murdered 30 years ago, and now his son is in critical condition after allegedly being attacked while serving a sentence over a marijuana bust. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Complex Hustle's new documentary breaks down the Caribbean's impact on hip-hop culture. | | |
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| Variety |
| The ongoing struggle of songwriters to be paid fairly for their work was the rallying point for the Third Annual Songwriters of North America (SONA) Summit at the Village Studios in West Los Angeles. | | |
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 | BBC |
| When music captures the spirit of freedom it can cross any border. It crossed the Berlin Wall and eventually helped to bring it down. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| I’m listening to Taylor Swift. I know, I know, she hates me, with her you’re either in or you’re out, we were friends and then I called her out and she wrote that song about me and people still tweet hate to me about it but “Tell Me Why” came up on random as I was walking through the neighborhood and it put a smile on my face and made me feel good to be alive. | | |
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