I still regularly forget most people are not that obsessed with music. I think I'm only really friends with people who are obsessed about music. | | | | Aphex Twin at Coachella, Indio, Calif., April 25, 2008.
(Charley Gallay/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I still regularly forget most people are not that obsessed with music. I think I'm only really friends with people who are obsessed about music.”
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| | rantnrave:// Based on the NEW YORK TIMES' interactive feature on presidential candidates' playlists, whoever wins the 2020 election should appoint KAMALA HARRIS and KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND co-ministers of pop, and BETO O'ROURKE and DONALD TRUMP should be given jurisdiction over the WHITE HOUSE man cave, where the soundtrack is all-male all-rock all the time and there are long, earnest discussions about things like this strange NYT MAGAZINE feature about NEIL YOUNG, who tells his interviewer, "I really wish this interview hadn’t happened," and the interviewer says, "I feel horrible," and if you make it through all 75 or so paragraphs about digital compression, "melodic-depressive" music and the role of SILICON VALLEY in musical culture, you'll probably feel that way, too. The can't-we-all-get-along award goes to PETE BUTTIGIEG, whose playlist is especially loaded, the Times reports, with songs that "also make appearances on other candidates' playlists." Presidential candidates, it turns out, really really like PANIC! AT THE DISCO, LIZZO, DEMI LOVATO, ARETHA FRANKLIN and FLORENCE & THE MACHINE (as well as IMAGINE DRAGONS and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, both of whom somehow eluded Mayor Pete's notice). Or maybe they just like rousing songs about empowerment and high hopes. Go figure. Also, candidates appear to like the music of the '50s, '60s and '70s (Trump, ELIZABETH WARREN, O'Rourke, BERNIE SANDERS) and the '00s and '10s (Gillibrand, COREY BOOKER, Harris) a lot more than they like the '80s and '90s, which perhaps means no one cares about the Gen-X vote and almost certainly means PAULA ABDUL and OASIS needn't sit around waiting for invitations to the WHITE HOUSE anytime soon. Or, maybe, there's still a lane available for a grunge or daisy age hip-hop candidate. POSDNUOS, what's going on?... You will be shocked, shocked to learn there's tension between people who compose music for television and their music-supervisor bosses, and that the former don't automatically consider the latter to be their peers. VARIETY's JON BURLINGAME reports that the composers and songwriters in the TELEVISION ACADEMY are still peeved that music supervisors were allowed into their branch and given an EMMY AWARD category, and many don't think supervisors are qualified to vote for any of the other music Emmys, which they can do this year for the first time. It's just another version of the eternal battle between creative and suits, I get it, but in a world where both roles have traditionally been underappreciated and undervalued, it would be nice if they could keep that tension between themselves and work as allies in public, wouldn't it? They could then fight together for more important causes, like the music supervisors' gripe that showrunners are somehow getting nominated for music-supervisor awards... The book SPOTIFY UNTOLD has been optioned for a scripted TV series, which will hopefully feature a heavy-breathing STEVE JOBS character as a recurring role... What classical music can learn from a trance DJ... RIP LARRY TAYLOR and GEORGE "G.G." GUIDOTTI. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| The twin music act Milk N Cooks weren’t always political. Now they’re the unofficial DJ duo of the mainstream media-hating, conspiracy-theorizing far right. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| What’s a reliable seller to do in a market where nobody’s actually buying? That’s the question Swift faces ahead of Friday’s release of “Lover,” her seventh studio album and the first that will serve as a true test of her viability in the age of digital streaming. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Presidential campaigns have a sound. We analyzed the playlists of 10 contenders to see how the songs aligned with the messages. | | |
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 | VICE |
| Their lyrics offer unique perspectives on womanhood in an era where new generations are remaking the rules. | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| We go deep on Grant Wilson-Claridge and Richard D. James's trailblazing record label. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| How Billie Holiday learned to sing at the House of the Good Shepherd. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| A week-by-week breakdown of what kind of new competition "Old Town Road" faced each week -- and how Lil Nas X managed to reign triumphant throughout all of it. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Many composers believe that music supervisors are not qualified to judge the other music categories and, despite the official term, are not in fact “peers.” | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Earlier this year, the Prince of Darkness fell and seriously injured himself. Now he's working hard to get back in shape for a world tour next year. | | |
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 | NPR |
| The Showtime documentary -- "Hitsville: The Making of Motown" -- tells the story of the most successful soul/R&B record label in music history from the viewpoint of Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Major music festivals such as Reading and Leeds continue to feature mostly male artists, but a number of events are fighting back by removing men from the billing altogether. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| "When the question was asked, 'Have you been invited back to the Grand Ole Opry?', all I could say was, 'Not yet,'" says Wright, who made her Opry debut in 1989. | | |
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 | 8Sided Blog |
| An announcement from SoundExchange and SourceAudio proposes a solution for podcasters looking to add commercial music to their episodes. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| In the first episode of The Future of Music season 2, I got a behind-the-scenes look at Eric Prydz’s most ambitious project to date. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Tracing the origins of Jamaican dub music. | | |
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| Los Angeles Times |
| Studio X at the Paramount Recording Studio in Hollywood is vibrating from the paralyzing trap beat that $not (pronounced "Snot") is about to lay verses over. The smell of old weed smoke hangs thick in the air and the TV is tuned to the QVC network. | | |
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 | The Pudding |
| Men’s voices in pop music, these days, seem really high. Using data, when was vocal register the highest? | | |
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 | Paper |
| Inside Mad Liberation 2019. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| On her breezy but formidable new album ‘Anak Ko,’ the multi-intrumentalist songwriter stripped down her sound and left room for collaborators. The result makes the contours of her vision crystal clear. | | |
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 | Guitar World |
| The guitarist reflects on the late singer-songwriter's landmark release. | | |
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