Ableton looks so fun. It looks like a game. I made my first beat not too long ago, at six in the morning. I was bored as f***. | | | | Shawn Mendes at the Festival d'été de Québec in Quebec City, Canada, July 8, 2018.
(Ollie Millington/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Ableton looks so fun. It looks like a game. I made my first beat not too long ago, at six in the morning. I was bored as f***.”
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| | rantnrave:// "What if SPOTIFY/APPLE/SOUNDCLOUD/YOUTUBE all became defunct, and INSTAGRAM becomes the supreme ruler of music drops?" That's the somewhat, but not completely, implausible question that PAPER's BEATRICE HAZLEHURST asks in response to JADEN SMITH dropping a mini-album of five remixes Monday exclusively on Instagram (where they're each one minute long) and IGTV (full-length versions). Not completely implausible because nothing is completely implausible in 2018. Ladies and gentlemen, we are truly floating in space. But also not completely implausible because chances are pretty good you're listening to music on your phone anyway and the sound is good enough, and the album art looks better on IG than on any other app you're using. And, as the experts are fond of saying, that's where the audience is. Smith's Instagram audience includes Philadelphia rapper/singer TIERRA WHACK, with whom he traded high-fives in the comments section Monday. Her Instagram famously includes the entirety of her debut album, WHACK WORLD, which was deposited there six weeks ago as a collection of 15 videos, each exactly 60 seconds long. Yes, her debut album is 15 minutes long. It's a weird and wonderful hip-hop/R&B collage with a strange allure. Each song deposits you in a fully realized musical world you can spend quality time in, and yet if your attention wanders for a moment or two, you might snap back only to discover it's now five worlds later. "I just didn’t want to overwhelm the world," she told PITCHFORK. "When I’m listening to new albums, I’m only listening to the first 30 seconds before I know if I like it or not." I'm underwhelmed in the best way listening to "Whack World," one of my favorite debuts of the year. And the creatively ephemeral universe of Instagram is the ideal place to encounter it... What if there was an Instagram for music? What if there already is one? Music supervisor SCOTT VENER's UNDRTONE app, quietly launched in 2015 and little promoted, might be worth another look... In other unconventional album rollout news, the 1975 is sending care packages to random fans... DJ MONK-ONE's "BOOF, EAT MY GOAL! THE LIQUID FUTEBOL MASTER MIX, VOL. 7," commissioned by VICTORY JOURNAL four years ago, is your perfect mix for this final week of the WORLD CUP, and not just because it begins with a callback to London 1966, the last time ENGLAND's THREE LIONS won the cup. FRANCE plays BELGIUM today. England takes on CROATIA Wednesday... It’s the year of music tech IPOs, and China's TENCENT MUSIC has taken its place in line... APPLE MUSIC has nearly caught up with SPOTIFY in paid US subscribers. Spotify still has a considerable lead worldwide. And Tencent dwarfs them both in total users... RIP OLIVER KNUSSEN and JORGE VALENZUELA. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Bolt |
| I always find more truth about a company’s future buried in a company’s products. Long story short: I don’t have high hopes for Sonos’ trajectory. Here is why. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Because it’s going after serious music fans while Spotify targets low-effort listeners. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| An excerpt from the upcoming book ‘Just a Shot Away’ tells the chilling story of a black teenager’s death at the infamous fest -- and the toll it took on his family. | | |
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 | Lenny |
| Talking life, art, and funding with Kickstarter’s new head of music. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| In a rare public lecture at Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York 2015, the avant-garde artists shed light on a remarkable musical journey. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| A new viral craze around his song “In My Feelings” reminds how good Drizzy is at inspiring online culture. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The rapper’s “Scorpion” debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 the week that a major shift gives paid streams more weight on the charts than free ones. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Why would the generation that covered Bob Dylan over and over get so bent out of shape of having seconds of audio copied and pasted in a new way in a rap song? | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| From shoddy transport and barely-existent toilets, to trying to get the best view of the Foo Fighters in a vast bowl designed to watch sport, we run down the perils of the mega-show. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Tucker Gumber sold his house, packed a suitcase and now devotes his life to festivals, having spent 460 days dancing, camping and listening to live music. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Willard Ahdritz’s latest venture is trying to reduce the risk of music industry artist development. He might just be on to something. | | |
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| Slate |
| Judge Genece Brinkley has disregarded the defense and the prosecution in the Meek Mill case, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. | | |
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 | Vice |
| You ought to be paying attention. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Two documentaries about the late pop star reveal the flaws of the posthumous musician doc. | | |
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 | Heavy Blog Is Heavy |
| Heavy Blog calls these Deep Dives, but it would be more accurate to call this a Rabbit Hole. This article will be the first of a two-part series in which we will examine the close association between horror and metal. Then, we'll delve into the world of cinema to see how metal and horror have historically interacted. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Raped and murdered late one night in Seattle, Zapata’s death devastated her community. And it wasn’t till nearly a decade later that her killer was found. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| Jerome Derradji is restoring dozens of decaying reel-to-reel tapes and releasing their contents-including unissued tracks and DJ mixes from some of the genre’s early giants. | | |
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 | WRTI |
| Composer Missy Mazzoli, whose star continues to rise, is passionate about encouraging more young women to write music. | | |
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 | Paper |
| Meet the man making "cinematic" reggae. | | |
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 | The Quietus |
| Ahead of her concert in Berlin this summer, the esteemed journalist and author talks to David Chiu about her recording career during the late 1970s and early 1980s that included working with The Flying Lizards, John Lydon and Robert Wyatt. | | |
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