As you musicians all know, you can be difficult. Just admit it. | | | | James Rugami displays the wares in his used record stall in the Kenyatta Market, Nairobi, Kenya, June 7, 2019.
(Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “As you musicians all know, you can be difficult. Just admit it.”
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| | rantnrave:// Good morning there's a new BEYONCÉ song... Fans might have broken a lot of stuff—and worse—at WOODSTOCK '99, but you can't completely blame "BREAK STUFF" band LIMP BIZKIT. That's the crux of host STEVEN HYDEN's argument in the excellent first episode of the RINGER and LUMINARY's eight-part podcast on the infamous 30th anniversary fest, also called "Break Stuff," which dropped the same day that organizers of a theoretical-at-best 50th anniversary version were told "no" for roughly the 50th time. In part 1, Hyden sets out to analyze video of Limp Bizkit's July 1999 performance in Rome, N.Y., "like a nu-metal ZAPRUDER film," with the help of first-hand witnesses (including my old SONICNET colleague BRIAN HIATT, who spent a year investigating the disaster with CHRIS NELSON for a three part series). Hyden proves more sympathetic than others have been to Limp Bizkit and frontman FRED DURST over the years, noting that LB played on Saturday but the worst damage happened on Sunday. And while things did get out of hand Saturday night—Durst had encouraged the festival crowd, unwisely, to "tear s*** up"—the singer also encouraged fans to give a hand to their fallen friends while the band changed the vibe by playing GEORGE MICHAEL's "FAITH." So if you've ever wanted to stop blaming the nookie, now, perhaps, you can. Promoter JOHN SCHER, meanwhile, plays a weird game, calling Durst a "moron" and blaming him for starting a riot while simultaneously blaming the media for blowing the rioting out of proportion, which is just, kinda, choose one... NICKI MINAJ wants to "make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community and freedom of expression," she said Tuesday upon withdrawing from a Saudi Arabian music festival, where she had been announced as a headliner a week earlier. The New York-based HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION, which had pressured Minaj and LIAM PAYNE not to play, applauded. No one of note, at least outside Saudi Arabia, complained. And you? If you're OK with an artist boycotting one country for political reasons, are you OK with artists boycotting *any* country for political reasons? Or are artists only allowed to make those decisions some of the time, in certain countries? Just asking... The lack of self-awareness in this SPOTIFY ad campaign is, just, wow. How would you not anticipate, say, this response?... OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE author MICHAEL AZERRAD posted a TIDAL playlist of nearly every song mentioned in his classic indie-rock text. Which is awesome. But genuinely curious to know what the crossover is between Tidal subscribers and MINOR THREAT/MISSION OF BURMA fans... TAYLOR SWIFT headlines AMAZON's PRIME DAY concert, streaming live from New York at 9 pm ET today. If Amazon shipped her masters to her by midnight on Monday, she could have them by the time she takes the stage... RIP JACK RENNER, MICHAEL COLGRASS, JOHNNY KITAGAWA and VIVIAN PERLIS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Stan |
| Will the increased volatility of an artists ability to influence their fan-base effect the industries appetite to monetize artist catalogs? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| It’s the one thing people think they know about Woodstock 99 — Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit encouraged shirtless hooligans to “break stuff.” But is it possible that Limp Bizkit shoulders too much of the blame for the riots, violence, and mayhem at this misbegotten festival? It’s time to break down the band’s notorious performance like the nu-metal Zapruder film. | | |
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| Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake. | | |
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 | Variety |
| The 17-year-old takes the crown from the queen of weird. | | |
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 | The FADER |
| Read an interview with David Israelite of the NMPA about the Music Modernization Act and the ongoing battle for better treatment of songwriters and publishers. | | |
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 | NPR |
| The songs tell women they are "more than a mother" -- then promote the pharmaceutical company's fertility treatment programs. But the music videos raise some concerns. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Before he was a world famous artist, Olafur Eliasson was one of Scandinavia's biggest breakdancers. Ahead of his upcoming Tate retrospective he sat down with his idol, Fab Five Freddy to discuss the evolution of hip-hop. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| BROCKHAMPTON & Lil Yachty have shouted out the channel, and Ruairí has interviewed JPEGMAFIA, Injury Reserve & more artists. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Show4me founder and CEO, Karen Chiftalaryan, discusses the platform and its unique attributes. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| John Cougar's "Jack and Diane" provided the soundtrack to GenXers growing up in nowhere towns that were expected to adapt to a world that pretty much dismissed them. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, Ariana Grande had the number-one, number-two, and number-three songs in America. So extreme a choke hold of the Billboard charts had only one antecedent: the Beatles achieved it in 1964, when "Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," and "Do You Want to Know a Secret" blanketed the airwaves. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Small, gritty and often improvised, Baltimore's house scene has a proud history. | | |
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| Billboard |
| “I felt like there was something bigger for me," says Justice, who launched her women-focused legal and business advisory firm, The Justice Department, in January. | | |
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 | GQ |
| With 'Bandana,' the rapper once again reunites with the mad genius producer Madlib-and the result is one of the best albums of the year. Nathaniel Friedman paid Gibbs a studio visit as he was adding the finishing touches. | | |
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 | Slate |
| A flowchart worthy of Carrie Mathison. | | |
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| Longreads |
| In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity. (Excerpted from "Southern Accents" [33 1/3 Series], by Michael Washburn.) | | |
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 | East Bay Times |
| Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena takes the stand for the second day in his own defense, admitting that he lied to police at the direction of his landlord. | | |
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 | Negative Insight |
| Crrruuuuuuuusssst. The style that made being filthy fashionable. Like many offshoots of hardcore, crust came out in the 1980s, with British bands Antisect and Amebix being the first bands to really codify the sound. Before long, crust itself splintered into various sub-sub-genres such as crusty hardcore; grinding metallic "traditional" crust, and many more mostly not worth mentioning. | | |
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| Music Business Worldwide |
| MBW analysis of Pollstar data shows significant decline in blockbuster concert revenue worldwide. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Kanye West has one of the biggest hits of the decade-and it has nothing to do with music. His Yeezy sneaker empire is the best bet in a generation to topple Air Jordan. Sometimes it pays to be a control freak. | | |
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