The multicultural tapestry that is America must come together, acknowledge our very difficult but remarkable history. We must move away from the racist and ignorant elements of our past toward an inclusive, kinder, more intelligent future. | | | | Smoking in the '70s: singer, songwriter, civil-rights champion Nina Simone.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The multicultural tapestry that is America must come together, acknowledge our very difficult but remarkable history. We must move away from the racist and ignorant elements of our past toward an inclusive, kinder, more intelligent future.”
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| | rantnrave:// TAYLOR SWIFT isn't the first woman to accuse a man in the music business of sexual assault and she won't be the last. But she presumably knows she'll get more coverage and attention than almost any other woman in a similar—or worse—position, and she used her day on the stand in a civil trial last week to make a mockery of the way victims are often treated. Lawyer: Why didn't anyone else see an assault happen? Swift: "The only person who would have a direct eye line is someone laying underneath my skirt and we didn’t have anyone positioned there." She was poised and direct like that throughout her testimony, and became an instant icon to a new kind of Taylor Swift audience. Whether that's who she will be, or wants to be, going forward, is immaterial. When she had a chance to stand up, she stood up. When it would have been easy to back down, she stayed up. Radio host DAVID MUELLER's $3 million suit claiming Swift interfered with his career was thrown out Friday; her $1 counterclaim against him remains. Closing arguments are expected today. In the case of Swift's willingness to use her platform to inspire, and advance the cause of, others who don't have the privilege of her voice, the verdict is already in... SOUNDCLOUD got more than a lifeline on Friday. It got an infusion of music/tech talent vowing not just to keep the site afloat, but to give it a viable future, with a focus on the musicians and producers who have made SC a crucial part of modern music culture. The collective sigh you're hearing is loud and worldwide—and will be uploaded shortly as a 45-minute SoundCloud mix... Is it too much to ask legislators to think everything through before they, y'know, legislate? Or is possible they're trying this on purpose?... A Republican super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL is "very interested" in the idea of KID ROCK running for US SENATE. Kid Rock has been publicly toying with the idea without committing to a run. His would-be opponent, SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, condemned the racist rally and violence in CHARLOTTESVILLE this weekend. Kid Rock, as of Sunday night, had said nothing about it publicly. He did go on INSTAGRAM to proclaim Sunday "one of the nicest days of the year"... MAX MARTIN and the BACKSTREET BOYS fart out a beat, literally... Silence is golden. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Next Web |
| Data (accumulated via downloads, apps and online searches) is influencing not only what songs are marketed and sold, but which songs become hits. | | |
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 | Radiotopia |
| In Tokyo, people on crowded trains pretend they’re asleep, to avoid eye contact. But in modern-day New York -- richer, neater, just as noisy -- count the headphones: it’s like we’re avoiding ear contact. In this episode, Damon examines how digital technology is privatizing public space. Guests include writer/activist Jeremiah Moss and historian Emily Thompson. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The Oscar-winning composer behind so many memorable film scores, from ‘The Lion King’ to ‘The Dark Knight,’ opens up about his spellbinding world tour and summer hit "Dunkirk." | | |
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 | NPR |
| The 20-year-old started making viral videos; now, he has released his debut album. He owes his success, in part, to a social media-fueled youth culture revolution that prizes teen perspectives. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| On the surface, at least, the “Transparency in Music Licensing Ownership Act,” introduced in the House of Representatives on July 20 by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), seems like a copyright bill that could help untangle the online music business. | | |
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 | Salon |
| She's pop music's privileged Chicken Little -- but this time, she made it clear that the sky really fell. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| They went to the same south London school, a decade apart, and ended up working together. As a new anecdote-filled book is published, the novelist recalls the Bowie he knew. | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| A reflection on key trends in music, tech, and user interfaces. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| During heightened tensions, thousands of young people turned out to a concert near the demilitarized zone. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| Nina Simone basically was Kanye West before there ever was a Kanye. | | |
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 | CDM Create Digital Music |
| SoundCloud's do-or-die moment came Friday - and it seems it's do, not die. The company now takes on new executives, and a new direction. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| The Morrissey biopic "England Is Mine" has failed to charm its audiences -- but it could have a learnt a few things from the films that got musicians right. | | |
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| The Daily Beast |
| It’s just getting started. "Frequency-based warfare will become more widespread due to its capacity to be covert and controlled from distance," one expert tells The Daily Beast. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Learn basic synthesis in only 5 minutes! | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The new millennial network’s lineup suggests an intolerance for self-importance, particularly when practiced by people in positions of influence or advantage. | | |
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 | Variety |
| When the Hollywood Bowl announced Aug. 7 that it had struck a deal making Live Nation-Hewitt Silva Presents the exclusive promoter of non-Philharmonic concerts at the venue for 10 years, it capped a months-long bidding war between rivals Live Nation and AEG. | | |
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 | Burlington County Times |
| A Central Bucks East junior compares today's solitary music-listening experience to the vibrant hip-hop scene developing in 1970s New York City. | | |
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| Billboard |
| "When they hear this music, I want people to have the sensation of 'I feel like I’ve heard this before,' or 'I’ve said this before,'" Puth says. "If they can be emotionally attached to something, and dance to that -- that’s a hit record." | | |
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 | Flood Magazine |
| In conjunction with the label of the same name, the Beastie Boys launched "Grand Royal" magazine without much of a plan. But with the help of a ramshackle editorial team that included Spike Jonze and Bob Mack, they didn't need one. | | |
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| The Daily Beast |
| Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that led to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ When his house was dismantled in the 1940s, the idea was to rebuild it. That never happened. | | |
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