I responded to what I was hearing around me, and let the sound of it all teach me what I was supposed to do. | | | | One of the two most famous buildings in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
(Ralph Daily/Flickr) | | | | |  | “I responded to what I was hearing around me, and let the sound of it all teach me what I was supposed to do.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm not big on reviewing or speculating about music that doesn't exist yet (I fear this puts me in the minority), but I do like judging books (and other media) by their covers, and damn if this isn't one of the greatest—or worst—album covers of all time. Definitely one or the other. Welcome back, TAYLOR SWIFT. She appears to be saying either a) she doesn't give a damn about her bad reputation, and/or b) she collaborated with MARGARET SULLIVAN on one or more songs, and/or c) be gone with you, you failing fake-news media people. That covers pretty much all demos, right? First single tonight; album Nov. 10. I'm looking forward... P.S. I'm not sure the music biz needs Taylor Swift quite as much as it did three or five or seven years ago, inasmuch as the music biz is quite a bit healthier than it was three or five or seven years ago, but please correct me if I'm wrong, music biz... It's hard enough to make it in the cut-throat world of K-pop star-searching without your chronically disappointed father vehemently opposing every move you make because he wants you to shut up and go to med school and because somewhere deep inside maybe you agree with him. Someone needs to option the film rights for this magnificent piece on a K-pop hopeful named LIA by the VILLAGE VOICE's ALINA SIMONE, assuming someone hasn't already done so... "PURPLE RAIN" was originally intended for STEVIE NICKS. "TAKE ON ME" was originally called "THE JUICY FRUIT SONG." But wiser angels prevailed. MusicSET: "Behind the Song, Vol. 5"... While lawyers and corporations continue to fight over the future of the music in Prince's vault, here's some unexpected purple news: "SIGN O' THE TIMES," the film, which has been out of print since the first BUSH administration, has been acquired by SHOWTIME... RIP JOHN ABERCROMBIE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Village Voice |
| At first Lia thought it was a scam. Do you want to learn how to sing properly? Do you want to take the next step into the entertainment industry? What are you going to do today? Do what you love! | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| Do you remember the last time you were excited about a piece of mail? I have vague memories of being a kid and having the expectation that something cool could show up, but email and social media became commonplace by the time I was a teenager. | | |
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 | AL.com |
| Grammy-winning Alabama native's 'backing musicians' play big role in his musical success. | | |
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 | Genius |
| On August 8, legendary hip-hop producer DJ Premier sat down with Genius for the latest installment of Genius Level, our live conversation series with icons of the music business, including influential artists, songwriters, producers, and executives. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The origins of white supremacist and neo-Nazi music can most easily be traced to the rise of punk music in 1970s Britain. | | |
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 | REDEF |
| "Purple Rain" was originally meant to be a Stevie Nicks song. "Take on Me" was once called "The Juicy Fruit Song." But wiser angels prevailed. Another nugget-filmed volume of artists writing, recording, and talking about writing and recording, classic songs. | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| The pop megastar announced that her sixth studio album will land on Nov. 10, with a new single out Thursday. | | |
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 | The Economist |
| At hackathons in New York, students rap about HTML, CSS and Python. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The Instagram star turned budding rapper’s song has raced up the Billboard chart without a boost from a meme or viral video. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| One of the most horrifying things you see in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is a roll of Jewish stars, the ones needed to be worn during the occupation. Straight from the factory, before they were cut up into individual stars for Jews to wear. It illustrates the scale of the operation, the horror of the Nazis. | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| Though they formed in 1977 and it took them the best part of a decade to really get going, there was a golden period in the mid-to-late 1980s when there were few better bands on the grimy L.A. rock & roll scene than Great White. | | |
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 | Magnetic Magazine |
| The New York legend critiques producers lack of creativity, DJs one-track mind and the shitty way clubs treat customers. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| The internet forever changed how we consume and create music as individuals... but what about as groups? Anyone from the pre-internet music era will surely tell you stories of how particular cities possessed distinct musical personalities, aka music scenes... but do they exist today?Can they exist today like they used to? And what does that mean for talent now? | | |
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 | Daily Dot |
| Protesters should unite against misogyny, not with it. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| After years of shaking up the British arts scene, the Rebel Dread talks punk, purism and the dangers of nostalgia. | | |
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 | Loud And Quiet |
| Founder Robert Raths and label artists Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Rival Consoles look back on 10 years of Erased Tapes. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Reactions to YouTube global head of music Lyor Cohen's Aug. 17 blog post defending the video giant's payouts to content owners continue to come in. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Training like a marathoner, Spalding is going through her paces, so far she's written single songs in 77 minutes. | | |
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 | The Stranger |
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 | NPR |
| Abercrombie began forming his style in Boston while attending Berklee in the mid-'60s, eventually helping to redefine the lines between jazz, fusion and rock. | | |
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