The digital era has not just altered our tools for working with sound, or image, or moving images. It is changing our relationship to time itself. | | | | Grace Jones at Studio 54, circa 1980.
(Sonia Moskowitz/Archive Photos/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The digital era has not just altered our tools for working with sound, or image, or moving images. It is changing our relationship to time itself.”
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| | rantnrave:// What does the radio call of a baseball game have to do with the way albums are recorded in digital studios? Allow me to introduce (or reintroduce) you to musician and author DAMON KRUKOWSKI, host and writer of the podcast series WAYS OF HEARING, which launches here with an episode called "Time." The six-part series is based in part on Krukowski's book THE NEW ANALOG: LISTENING AND RECONNECTING IN A DIGITAL WORLD, and it's immediately clear he has an usual gift for explaining—and connecting—the science, technology and art of sound and music. Rubato? Baseball broadcasts? Digital latency? All sort of the same thing, no?... Three days late, LANA DEL REY has her second #1 album, squeaking by TYLER, THE CREATOR and MEEK MILL on a BILLBOARD 200 delayed by routine maintenance at SPOTIFY that prevented the streaming service from submitting its data for the week. Strangely, while BILLBOARD/NIELSEN said only about 1,000 "equivalent album units" separated the top two albums, BUZZANGLE, which has a competing chart, published on schedule on Sunday, explaining that Del Rey's LUST FOR LIFE was too far ahead of the pack to be caught. Which suggests that BuzzAngle is looking at different numbers or that it's crunching them differently; either way, it also suggests that chart positions are subjective at best. Did LUST FOR LIFE definitively outsell FLOWER BOY or was it pretty much a tie? How do our choices about which CD sale, download, paid stream or free stream is most important affect that answer? Is Del Ray's album #1 in the US because we want it to be or because it actually is? And how do we know? In other words: UHHGGG... BOWERY PRESENTS controls a nice piece of the NEW YORK and EAST COAST concert promotion pie, but it soon won't be presenting the actual BOWERY... BANDCAMP is donating all its sales revenue on Friday to the TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER... KIDD CREOLE of GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE charged with murder... MUSICREDEF is taking a long weekend. We're off Friday and we'll be back in your inbox MONDAY... But Friday is still FRIDAY, with new music from RANDY NEWMAN, MISS EAVES, UGLY GOD, DAN WILSON, DEAD CROSS, TYLER CHILDERS, BRIANA MARELA and BRETT ELDREDGE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | 99% Invisible |
| "Time" is the first episode of Ways of Hearing. This story looks at the way digital audio — in music recording, and in radio and television broadcast — employs a different sense of time than we use in our offline life, a time that is more regular and yet less communal. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| PledgeMusic founder Rogers was one of the earliest and keenest proponents of blockchain technology within the music industry – and his new company is one of the startups trying to take the idea forward. | | |
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 | Business Insider |
| "Atomic Blonde" nabbed some classic 1980s songs from the likes of David Bowie, Queen, and George Michael. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| It's on a blazing summer day that I meet Sheer Mag, the Philadelphia indie rock band, at House of Vans, one of several large venues across the country where the company throws concerts and parties while also subtly reminding young people of some of the options available to them in the footwear industry. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| When ASCAP and BMI announced July 26 that they had been working together for almost two years on a joint database for the more than 20 million songs they represent combined, they had thought that all sectors of the music industry would welcome the news. Turns out, that wasn't the case. | | |
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 | Zocalo Public Square |
| By reinventing rebel attitude, the allmans and their brethren forged a new genre. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Mr. Sorey, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and soon-to-be professor, is about to release “Verisimilitude,” a remarkable album. | | |
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 | Alternative Press |
| In October 2015, Warped Tour founder/majordomo Kevin Lyman put together a one-day festival called It's Not Dead , which, according to both young listeners and long-in-the-toof poonks, was a dramatic departure from the summer fare Lyman is known for compiling. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| ASL Interpreters bring the noise to deaf festivalgoers at Lollapalooza and beyond. | | |
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 | NPR |
| It's a safe bet that few took the time, this past weekend at the Panorama Music Festival, to consider the grass beneath their feet. | | |
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 | Jezebel |
| Writers of Jezebel spend a lot of time thinking about bad men. Despite what MRA forums may tell you, it’s not that we seek them out or get pleasure from reporting on them because, in reality, it’s terribly depressing how many there are and that so many of them are powerful and seemingly untouchable. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Why Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a nerve-wracking movie. T... | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The story behind 'What Would Diplo Do?' -- how James Van Der Beek's hilarious impersonation of the EDM superstar turned into a WTF mockumentary sitcom. | | |
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 | Genius |
| A big part of Kendrick Lamar’s music is his rotating series of voices. From one track to the next, Kendrick can jump from a high-pitched squeal to a syrupy drawl to a rapid-fire patter, coloring his songs with new feeling every time he switches his tone. | | |
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 | Watt |
| I just wanted to compile a list, one that can continuously be added to, of music sites that actively cover musicians that have either no PR or PR that isn’t one of the three or four companies that can guarantee coverage of the acts on their roster that they care about. | | |
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 | CMT |
| It’s incredible how far a $5 cover charge will go in Nashville. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The label's first airplay No. 1 in almost three years signals a shift in focus, and momentum. | | |
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 | 1A |
| "This is a trail, two and a half decades long, of dozens of young African-American women whose lives have been ruined by R. Kelly," says journalist Jim DeRogatis. | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| Sublime created platonic Southern California house-party music by appealing to everyone fond of smoking two joints before they smoked two joints. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| The Friday-night Lollapalooza headliners helped connect the mainstream pop-punk of the late 90s to the Soundcloud rap of today. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | From "Feminasty," out Friday on Riot Rrrap. |
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