I like keeping my phone and music separate... Save the phone for the ill advised late night texts, expensive take-away food apps, pictures of my dinner for Instagram and the occasional phone call. Music is better than all that. Music deserves its own appliance. | | | | Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn at Lollapalooza, Chicago, Aug. 5, 2017.
(Josh Brasted/FilmMagic/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I like keeping my phone and music separate... Save the phone for the ill advised late night texts, expensive take-away food apps, pictures of my dinner for Instagram and the occasional phone call. Music is better than all that. Music deserves its own appliance.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm a sucker for stories that go under the hood of how music is made, why it's made the way it's made, and how and why it works. I'm a sucker for ADAM NEELY's exploration of quirky and arcane musical concepts on his YOUTUBE channel. I'm a sucker for anyone who can trace—and precisely explain—how a single musical idea can spread through the entire pop music universe like a tapeworm. Or anyone who can pull apart the chords of "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" and tell me exactly which way that stairway is moving at any given time. I eagerly await the return of the long-dormant but amazing PITCH podcast. And I'm over the moon about the debut episode of ESTELLE CASWELL's EARWORM podcast for VOX, which uses RADIOHEAD's "VIDEOTAPE" to patiently and clearly explain what syncopation is, and syncopation to explain why it's sometimes hard for Radiohead to play its own song. More like this, please... TYLER, THE CREATOR is obsessed with process, too, and on the premiere of his VICELAND show, NUTS + BOLTS, he endeavors to learn how to make stop-motion animation... In more process news, our MusicSET "Captains of Hooks" collects podcasts, videos and stories of the songwriters and producers who make the whole world sing... I'm reasonably certain we can never understand why someone like CHESTER BENNINGTON takes his own life, although ROLLING STONE's KORY GROW does a nice job chronicling Bennington's final days, which were not all dark. What we can do is give people room to talk about their depression, and notice—and listen—when they do. XXXTENTACION, LIL UZI VERT and FUTURE are among the rappers dealing with depression and darkness in a number of different ways, and MASS APPEAL's KHRISTEN WILSON explores why that is and how we might listen with more attentive ears... The top 35 female classical composers... SKRILLEX plays out WEBSTER HALL, which will close for "an undisclosed period of time" for renovations and return with new ownership and management... ROGER STONE and SMASH MOUTH, a 420 love story... RIP DANIEL LICHT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Vox |
| "Radiohead are purposefully hiding something in plain sight." | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| How an animated educational children’s TV show from the late 1970s inspired artists from De La Soul to MF Doom and beyond. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| While Bob Dylan was furiously writing “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” Chubby Checker was busy with his Trinidadian dance for the teenybopper diaspora. Dancing one’s ass off is as reasonable a response to impending nuclear annihilation as anything. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Todd Osborn quietly put an exclusive release from electronic music legend Aphex Twin on the shelf of his store - before long there was a line around the block. | | |
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 | Genius |
| The community feels conflicted about its new celebrity fans. | | |
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 | Daily Mail Online |
| When Ronnie Wood went for a routine health check three months ago his doctor made a shocking discovery. Here he reveals with raw honesty why he thought "it was time to say goodbye." | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Singers Selena Gomez, Alessia Cara, Ellie Goulding and Halsey show a path to transhumanism. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Festivals are fashion shows for scantily-clad females, and eye candy parades for men - with some music, but mostly bikinis. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| His songs, which have brought so much pleasure to so many people for so long, now resonate with a darker mood. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| The video, only available on Tidal for the time being, is a subversion of a subversion. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Prog rock was audacious, innovative-and awful. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| "White Lines" was a worldwide smash for Grandmaster Flash and his crew - and white lines brought them crashing down. By the time the single hit the airwaves, cocaine had already torn the group apart, a split that would send many of the members spiraling into addiction, obscurity, even the grave. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington's last days were marked by both hope and heaviness. An inside look at singer's life and death. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Patreon is still tiny compared to Kickstarter, but it’s rapidly growing. Half its patrons and creators joined in the past year, and it’s set to process $150 million in 2017, compared to $100 million total over the past three years. The company has raised $47 million in funding, most recently with a $30 million round in January 2016. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| New technology could make the music industry work a lot more efficiently and transparently. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Tom Holkenborg draws on his history as trance DJ Junkie XL for the bombastic electronica-meets-orchestra music he has composed for "Mad Max: Fury Road," "Batman v. Superman," and now "The Dark Tower." | | |
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 | Midem |
| Emily White talks to a major artist manager about the influence of data on his work with MGMT, The Cribs and more | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| A backup singer is selling a share of his royalties from Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's hit, "See You Again." | | |
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| Noisey |
| "We need to keep showing up, we need to keep fighting these fires rather than just letting them grow." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| The legendary-and legendarily misunderstood-songwriter talks about the cursed bluesmen, famous presidents, and despondent fathers that populate his latest batch of tunes. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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