The burden on Phish, after 34 years, is to keep adding value, because their fans are also advanced-level consumers who know what it means to be satisfied. Therefore, residencies. Therefore, doughnuts. | | | | Eight is not enough: Drake performs at his 8th annual OVO Fest, Monday night in Toronto.
(Johnny Nunez/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The burden on Phish, after 34 years, is to keep adding value, because their fans are also advanced-level consumers who know what it means to be satisfied. Therefore, residencies. Therefore, doughnuts.”
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| | rantnrave:// Can an ultraconservative radio host conduct the symphony orchestra of one of the most liberal cities in the US for a day? That's being tested this month in the laboratory known as SANTA MONICA, CALIF., whose orchestra has invited talk-show host and classical-music maven DENNIS PRAGER to guest-conduct a fund-raiser at DISNEY HALL. Four members of the string section wrote an open letter calling for a boycott based on Prager's far-right views, which led to Prager writing this, and then, predictably, this happened. The NEW YORK TIMES notes that the current POTUS won only 20 percent of the vote in Santa Monica, which makes the choice to hand the baton to Prager especially odd. But it also means there's a reasonable chance that 20 percent of the orchestra disagrees with the politics of whoever's conducting it the rest of the year. And yet they make music together. Which maybe gives both a right-leaning percussionist and a left-leaning conductor a measure of hope. And which should be able to work the other way around—not despite the fact that the string players have objections, but because they do. Music can unite us. Across cultures. Across classes. Across oceans. Across universes. Disagree, vehemently, on the issues. Agree on how to attack the extreme dynamics of HAYDN's SYMPHONY NO. 51. A small start, maybe. Or a modest end in itself... Elsewhere in music and politics: Three members of JOURNEY journeyed to the WHITE HOUSE apparently unbeknownst to guitarist NEAL SCHON, who has since embarked on one of the all-time great rock and roll tweetstorms. REP. MAXINE WATERS' favorite rapper is TUPAC. And SEN. AL FRANKEN used to have MICK JAGGER under his thumb... The #2 album in the US outstreamed the #1 album by 38 million plays last week. The #1 single on the Triple A airplay chart registered exactly two more spins on radio as the #2 single. ARCADE FIRE is involved in both of those sentences... Jury selection begins in TAYLOR SWIFT groping trial... Another day, another TIDAL CEO... Thoughts and prayers to the great SINÉAD O'CONNOR... RIP YUNG MAZI. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Santa Monica Daily Press |
| In the heated and polarized political climate we live in, what began as a modest protest via open letter by four local musicians has become something of a "cause célèbre" for conservative cultural critics. On August 1, an Op-Ed by radio talk show... | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Detailed maps reveal the contours of American music fandom. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The band played 26 sets during a remarkable MSG residency that fans will analyze for years to come. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| In a career as thoroughly observed, documented, and analyzed as Bob Dylan's, the emergence of any previously unseen or unheard material is big news. If that material comes from one of Dylan's prime creative eras-the 1965-66 tour, say, during which the legendary songwriter hired a fire-breathing backing band to help him "go electric" for the first time-the news is even bigger. | | |
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 | The Music Business Journal |
| Record labels and publishers no longer serve as the music industry's "bank." But just as there are alternative sources for digital distribution, social promotion, and recording, so are there new sources of funding that give artists new options. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Willow Smith, Tyra Banks, and Jaime King are just some of the celebs headlining a festival for social justice-oriented Generation Z girls. | | |
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 | Variety |
| When Sly Stone and Charley Pride received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammy Awards in my home state of California, their place in history was preserved for all time. Unfortunately for them and so many others, their rights to their own work is not. | | |
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 | Decibel |
| “I quit my job at Apple to start a metal station that sells vinyl records,” Gimme Radio founder and CEO Tyler Lenane tells Decibel. “To a lot of people that probably sounds f***ing insane. But I believe in it — and I’m hoping to turn a lot of other heavy music lovers into believers, too.” | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| August is a month full of anticipated music from deplorable people. | | |
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 | burning ambulance |
| impressions of eight albums, written as a kind of first-draft daily exercise. | | |
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 | LANDR |
| In the shadow of streaming it’s easy to pass on the whole album in favour of the single song or playlist. But the same reasons the album has become “unimportant” are actually proof that the album is more vital than ever. | | |
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 | Music Tech Solutions |
| Pandora sells “Radio Loophole” in another step to putting right the many mistakes of former management. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| Chance the Rapper, Lolla put experience before music for the 2017 event in Chicago. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| In his first year overseeing this event, the bassist Christian McBride brought in kindred sounds and a slightly younger crowd. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The secondary ticketing company tangled with the wrong person when she tried to buy four Ed Sheeran tickets for her family earlier for some $1,800. | | |
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 | The Boston Globe |
| "People of a certain age think video game music is all blips and bloops," says Michael Sweet, artistic director of the game-scoring program at Berklee. "Even some students, when they arrive at Berklee, might think that this is not real music." | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Without The Wurzels' single about farmyard shagging, we probably wouldn't have had Crazy Frog or Mr Blobby. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Can Kanye West win his $10 million lawsuit against insurer Lloyd's of London over tour cancellation? Industry experts weigh in. | | |
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 | Guitar World |
| In 1979, the British songwriter wrote "The Wall," a nightmarish rock opera he recorded with his former band, Pink Floyd. For over 40 years the album's themes of isolation, tyranny and alienation have connected with audiences worldwide, selling an estimated 30 million copies. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The National's manager details the complex choreography that helped the band get its first Triple A topper. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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