I rarely get my sets recorded because I want it to be that moment, then I want it to be gone. I just want to share this moment with the people that were there—what happens in the club should stay in the club, you know? | | | | Orange you glad? St. Vincent at the Panorama Music Festival, New York, July 28, 2018.
(Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I rarely get my sets recorded because I want it to be that moment, then I want it to be gone. I just want to share this moment with the people that were there—what happens in the club should stay in the club, you know?”
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| | rantnrave:// It's fun, I suppose, to know exactly how many millions of dollars top DJs like CALVIN HARRIS and the CHAINSMOKERS pulled in over the past 12 months. More fun if you have your ad blocker turned on for this 65-bpm FORBES slide show presentation, and still more fun if you suspend your disbelief in any of the actual numbers, which are estimates at best, guesses at worst. They might, say, be low. The detail that Chainsmokers ALEX PALL and DREW TAGGART "collect nightly checks in the mid six-figures for their sets [at WYNN NIGHTLIFE in LAS VEGAS]—more than 100 during our scoring period" is a helpful reminder that the difference between the haves and the have-nots in music is not all that different from the difference between the haves and the have-nots at WALMART or AMAZON. I don't begrudge the artists a penny of those 100-plus six-figure paychecks. I'd like to think that at least once or twice during Forbes' scoring period, Pall and Taggart spent the entire six figures before the sun came up. I'd like to know how a place like SPOTIFY can ever compete with those rates, or if it has to. Or how a city like SACRAMENTO or SAN ANTONIO can compete with them. This single is far from their best but there are one or two good hooks hidden within. Which, at the very least, is one or two more than STEVE WYNN has ever written... If you're more into DAFT PUNK than the Chainsmokers, you may or may not be happy to know there's a tribute band called ONE MORE TIME that tours with a rudimentary wooden pyramid. And that there's a booming market in EDM tribute acts in general. CALVIN HARRISON for the win. They join a touring circuit full of artificial ABBAs, imitation IRON MAIDENs and more mock MORRISSEYs than you could comfortably fit in the city of Manchester. MusicSET: "Tribute Bands: Even Better (or Not) Than the Real Thing"... If your preferred acronym is closer to IDM than EDM, here you go. You're welcome... The CHAINSMOKERS could snap up 30,000-ish shares of SONOS, at $15 a share, with the proceeds from any random night of their Wynn residency. That's what I'd do. I love my Sonos. The company is going public today at that price. Warns one mood-killing analyst, "A great product does not always make for a great business." The company will be known on NASDAQ as SONO, which may be a bit too close to PONO for comfort... TENNESSEE's primaries are today and all you have to do to get into ROBYN HITCHCOCK and PAT SANSONE's free show tonight at NASHVILLE's MERCY LOUNGE is bring a photo of you outside a polling place... Spotify deleted some but not all of the ALEX JONES podcasts on the service... ALEX TREBEK may not be long for JEOPARDY!, but there's now an HQ TRIVIA for music. What is, "Sorry but no, that's not a silver lining"?... NICKI MINAJ needs to find TRACY CHAPMAN, stat... ROB GORDON will want to bid on this rare punk 7-inch. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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