While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself. | | | | | Kathleen Hanna. (Pallie Dali) | | | | | | “While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.”
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| | rantnrave:// Music’s major impact as an art form isn’t just about eliciting a feeling or mood, but capturing the human experience in a way that listeners might not be able to articulate themselves, but can completely understand and recognize when they hear it. Basically, we’ve all gone through some s*** and had a song that carried us through, or felt like we didn’t belong and found our kindred spirits in an album or a music scene. And in this rollercoaster ride that is 2016, music’s ability to raise awareness and questions and unify us at a human level is more important than ever. It’s the community people look to in times of need or times of joy. Whether reading about punk’s foundation in protest and hip-hop’s responses to police brutality or listening to TORI KELLY grieving for CHRISTINA GRIMMIE. MY MORNING JACKET’s plea for equality, STEVIE WONDER’s command to “choose love over hate” and ALESSIA CARA's reminder about beauty, music is providing that warm embrace we need in these crazy times. | | | - Jen Guyre, guest curator |
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| Virtual Reality has been hailed as the future of entertainment since back in the 1980s. In 2016, however, VR technology is finally coming of age, bringing with it tantalising ideas of how we might consume music in the future thanks to forward-thinking indie artists like Ash Koosha and Bjork. | | |
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| After a spate of trolling at Boiler Room, the pair detail the steps needed to make our community safer. | | |
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| The human brain is a fascinating machine. | | |
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| Vince Staples makes music about what matters: racism, inequality, the daily struggle of just getting by. Despite this, Vince says he's not making music that's political, as far as he sees it it's just common sense. | | |
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| The story of four friends who tried running a studio and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. | | |
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| Calling out male entitlement, capitalist bullshit and even turning the lens on itself -- these are the aural dressing downs of the movement. | | |
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| Forty-five years into their acclaimed career, metal pioneers Pentagram are just now getting around to releasing their first promotional video. | | |
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| Republicans, Democrats, Hillary, Trump--this election season has been full of suprises and uncertainties. But if there's anything reliable in the world of politics, it's that the fate of the nation lies in the hands of the performer we all know and love, Pitbull. | | |
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| What's that unearthly scream? Oh, it's just you responding to Ray Parker Jr.'s reaction to Fall Out Boy's new "Ghostbusters" theme (which, as you might recall, is terrible). Parker, the Grammy-winning artist who performed the much-beloved original "Ghostbusters" song, told Inside Edition that you don't have to wait until there's an invisible man sleeping in your bed to call him. | | |
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| Tokyo's Five G has kept vintage synth culture alive for decades. Kentaro Takaoka visited the shop's founder to find out how. | | |
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| After her performance at this year's Mutek Festival in Montreal, Ryan Alexander Diduck sits down to talk (and order slipshod tapas) with Kara-Lis Coverdale -- an artist who, through her music, resists simplification, invites collaboration and thrives on the power of replication. | | |
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| Linda Oh plays the bass. Acoustic and electric, in trios, quartets, quintets, and sextets led by some of the best musicians in contemporary jazz. She's 31, was born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, is of Chinese descent, and has lived in New York City, still the epicenter of jazz, for the past twelve years. | | |
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| While the technology has a wide variety of potential uses, perhaps most notably for blocking cameras and video recordings at concerts and other events, fears were also sparked that it could be used to suppress documenting incidents involving police violence. | | |
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| By now you've probably heard about "Pokémon GO" through the medium of aging teenagers (read: adults with full-time jobs and Twitter accounts). | | |
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| "I'm really not a dick, but sometimes you get that reputation," says the outspoken country-radio personality. | | |
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| Nielsen recently released its 2016 mid-year music report and it has some big takeaways. On-demand streaming is exploding. R&B/hip-hop and Latin are surging and Rock and country music need to catch up, says Pandora's Glenn Peoples. | | |
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| People are quick to hate on contemporary rappers for their commerciality, but there are plenty of woke emcees these days speaking out on race relations in America. | | |
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| For the first time in its 16-year-history, tonight's (Jul 11) VH1 Hip Hop Honors will be devoted entirely to women in rap. Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, and Lil' Kim will be honored. Roxanne Shanté, the first woman rapper to score a bonafide hit single, will not be. | | |
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| Two years after the previous record was set, Nigerian DJ Obi broke the Guinness World Record for the longest DJ set. Obi's set began on June 22 at Sao Café Lagos and ended on July 2, for a total of 230 hours or 10 days. According to reports from Deep House Amsterdam, Obi was allowed vitamins, medical checks, and a two-hour break to rest everyday. | | |
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| In 1998, Kathleen Hanna, known then as the indefatigable riot grrrl frontwoman of Bikini Kill, released “Julie Ruin,” a lo-fi bedroom albummade alone with a drum machine and quarter-inch tapes while her band was falling apart. | | |
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