A lot of stuff was said about this. In the end we played some music. | | | | Lana Del Rey checking herself for fever at Outside Lands, San Francisco, Aug. 7, 2016.
(C Flanigan/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “A lot of stuff was said about this. In the end we played some music.”
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| | rantnrave:// STRETCH AND BOBBITO in the house, on NPR!... Two more things about R. KELLY: "It's like Stockholm Syndrome," an insider tells JEZEBEL about the five or six young women who allegedly constitute the singer's inner circle of girlfriends. She claims none of them are staying with Kelly against their will but "they're completely manipulated and brainwashed." I'm not in the habit of moralizing about pop stars' sexual habits, or writing about them at all. I don't care. But this isn't that, if the allegations published this week are true. This is difficult to put into words. Difficult to stomach. This is REMBERT BROWNE writing about Kelly four years ago, when the circumstances were different but the conversation the same. Anyone who's had to apologize for a "troubled" artist should read it... The other thing about Kelly is reporter JIM DEROGATIS, who wrote this week's BUZZFEED blockbuster, telling SLATE he spent nine months on the story and "most of that time was spent, post–HULK HOGAN and GAWKER, finding a media outlet that was willing to run it." Dear music media sites: It's scary out there. I know. Courage... Though most of the reporting is second-hand, BUSINESS INSIDER's SAM SHEAD does a good job in this longread laying out SOUNDCLOUD's history and rounding up everything that's been reported on how the company got into financial trouble... SoundCloud and FADER launch a video series today on underground music scenes around the world. The first episode of NEXT WAVE will appear here and cover LA's goth-rap scene... As someone who grew up reading every credit on every record label I could find (you did too, right?), I want to high-five MATT WAKE for his in-depth portraits of CHRIS WEBER and the late WEST ARKEEN, the two outside songwriters who have one co-writing credit each on APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION (released 30 years ago this week). That's how you go behind the music. Now if someone could please bring us up to date on my favorite GNR writing credit, IZZY STRADLIN... LANA DEL REY is partly responsible for all the depressing songs on the radio these days, according to Lana Del Rey... NME reported—and then quietly retracted—that RADIOHEAD covered PINK FLOYD's "MONEY" Wednesday during the encore of its TEL AVIV show, which would have been a headline-worthy retort to ROGER WATERS, one of the loudest voices protesting the band's decision to perform in ISRAEL. The satiric "Don't give me that do-goody-good bulls***" fired back at the satirist, satirically. But it appears not to have happened. So ignore all that. RADIOHEAD did play its longest show in 11 years, to a crowd of 47,000... RIP RED WEST, ELVIS PRESLEY songwriter and confidant (and co-author of the notorious "ELVIS: WHAT HAPPENED?"). | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Business Insider |
| "Nobody saw it coming," a SoundCloud employee told Business Insider. "It was a sudden announcement." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| On the eve of her fourth album, the pagan pop star sounds more content than ever. How did she get there? | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| Only hardcore fans know their names, but Chris Weber and West Arkeen's contributions to Guns N' Roses' early records was invaluable. Here's what happened to them post-"Appetite." | | |
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 | Jezebel |
| R. Kelly claimed to have “raised” one of his teenage sexual conscripts since the age of “14 or 15,” according to a sometime member of his entourage who spoke to Jezebel about life inside the singer’s inner circle. The woman also confirmed details published this week in a disturbing BuzzFeed story. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As Spotify works to hammer out its final major-label licensing deal with Warner Music Group, controversy over its playlisting of songs by "fake" or pseudonymous artists has not only enraged label partners but could cost the streaming service at the negotiating table. | | |
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 | Variety |
| “It feels like a record company again,” says a label insider who weathered the transition storm. | | |
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 | NPR |
| NPR's Audie Cornish talks to New York hip-hop radio DJs Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia about their upcoming NPR podcast called "What's Good with Stretch and Bobbito." | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Can the experienced record exec bring together Google Play and YouTube for the good of everybody? | | |
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 | The Times of Israel |
| Legendary indie band plays 27 tunes from its 25-year history, reminisces about its first Tel Aviv gig in 1993, briefly addresses boycott controversy. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Listening to this mix will change your Space Mountain experience entirely. | | |
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 | MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY |
| Spotify was served in federal court in Nashville with two new lawsuits for massive copyright infringement by parties represented by Richard Busch (who has a strong track record in the area). | | |
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| Billboard |
| A recent sale of some of its assets to Warner Music Group isn't stopping Songkick from pressing forward with its 18-month legal fight against Ticketmaster over antitrust and anti-completive allegations, a battle that now includes a potential FBI investigation into hacking allegations and a potentially make-or-break hearing scheduled for Aug. 7. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| At 47, Jay-Z thinks about where he’s been, where he’s going and what he’s leaving behind. It’s all there on his latest album, “4:44.” | | |
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 | Paste |
| The political music we all expected to follow the 2016 election is there to be heard. You just have to know where to find it. | | |
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| Vulture |
| How do you account for a career like Randy Newman's, other than to say he's some kind of skewed genius? For nearly 50 years, he's been releasing deeply quirky cult-favorite albums of mordant wit and moving melodies. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Putting the spotlight on the next generation of creators and voices shaping the cultural landscape. | | |
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 | Saving Country Music |
| To put it bluntly, the ability of Blackbird Presents to curate talent for events is pretty terrible, and appears to be done without any true understanding of the layout of the current country music landscape. Some of the invites for these Blackbird Presents events seem so incredibly blind to the realities present in country music fandom, it's remarkable. | | |
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 | LivingFunk |
| Filmmaker/Record Collector Mark Kotlinski uncovers a one of a kind 1970's vinyl record by an unknown funk band and decades later sets out to solve the mystery behind who was the group "Living Funk" that recorded it. | | |
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 | NewMusicBox |
| Anyone who knew her would agree that multifaceted composer, musicologist, teacher, Schoenberg disciple and punk rock singer Dika Newlin (1923-2006) was one of the most brilliant, eccentric people they ever encountered. Her extant works certainly deserve to be rediscovered. But for her multimedia pieces, it is almost certainly too late. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| I was one of the first interviewers to confront R. Kelly over his sexual predilections. How can this man still be out there and free to take advantage of women? | | |
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| | Title song from her fifth album, out Friday on Interscope. |
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