It’s all the same issues that anybody else would have, but they’re amplified. | | | | Evening it up: Heart making a video in Los Angeles circa 1982.
(Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | | “It’s all the same issues that anybody else would have, but they’re amplified.”
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| | rantnrave:// One more AFROPUNK memory. The bass during PUSHA T's set. Lower than a bass has any right to go. Two or three octaves, seemingly, below any bass sound found in nature. Impossible to transcribe on ordinary paper. Causes healthy legs to go wobbly and tired legs to dance. Fantastic. And still on my mind two days later as I read this story about Australian composers using orchestras to evoke the sounds of the Antarctic environment, and using Antarctic environmental sounds ("seals, wind, blizzards, ice when it cracks and calves, helicopters, trucks") to evoke the feel of orchestras. Engaging with nature in both directions. Which is the opposite of what performers like Pusha T are doing, which is directly challenging nature, or at least bending it to their will. But the impulse, I'm reasonably sure, is the same: to make sense of a world that doesn't provide it on its own. To find order. To discover a truth about the universe that makes healthy legs go wobbly and tired ones, well, that depends on the composer... Here's a library of man-made sounds, from long-gone typewriters, clocks, blenders, etc., that might serve a similar, if unnatural, source of inspiration. Samplers, start your engines... The MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT may have cleared the RON WYDEN hurdle in the US SENATE, BILLBOARD reports... SONY MUSIC is officially cleared of any legal responsibility for the provenance of the vocals on a posthumous MICHAEL JACKSON album that may or not have been the work of the King of Pop. But Tuesday's appellate court ruling had nothing to say about that provenance. The mystery, and the lawsuit against the producers of three disputed songs, continues. And if Sony learns that rushing out an album to monetize an artist's death may not always be the best idea, that would be a useful outcome, too... Thanks for the heavily filtered memories, MOOGERFOOGER... I see a little silhouetto of a tweet... No one reads the WEEKLY STANDARD for its jazz reviews, do they? Just making sure. Let's not start now. Link not provided, on purpose. If you really need it, scroll backward through your TWITTER feed... RIP INGE BORKH, JIMMY WILKINS and TONY BUTLER. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Black Pink and BTS are two of the major international success stories from this wave of K-pop, but what does the way they approach their music and personal branding say about the past and future of the most popular musical genre there is? | | |
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| Ron Delsener may be the most successful concert promoter of all time. He's made millions & hangs with the greatest names in music. With Alec, the consummate wheeler-dealer dishes freely. | | |
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| When “I Like It” landed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 (on the charts dated July 7), it marked several milestones for rapper Cardi B. | | |
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| YouTube is the most widely used streaming music app globally but it is also the most controversial one, locked in a perpetual struggle with music rights holders, with neither side quite trusting the intent of the other. 2018 has already seen YouTube’s renewed focus on subscriptions as well as a European Parliament vote that could potentially remove YouTube’s safe harbour protection. | | |
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| Beyoncé, Inc. | | by Joshua Johnson, Fredara Hadley, Soraya Nadia McDonald... |
| After a long career in the entertainment industry, what is it about Beyoncé that allows her to continually dominate media as a musician and a mogul? How will her brand of celebrity influence generations of artists to come? And how is her ability to be a shot caller affecting everything from feminism to social justice to record label releases? | | |
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| Life in Puerto Rico for a refreshingly weird Latin trap star. | | |
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| Advocates of the Music Modernization Act, which aims to update and improve royalty payments to rights-holders and creatives in the digital era, have taken their message to the sky. | | |
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| Fans gathered in Detroit say Franklin's music remember how Franklin's music marked milestones in the nation's history and in their own lives. | | |
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| Nearly thirty years after he died in relative obscurity, songwriter Foley is on the verge of newfound fame thanks to an Ethan Hawke--directed movie. In a series of dispatches from her time on set, Sybil Rosen, widely known as Foley’s muse, ponders the widening divide between the man and the legend. | | |
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| “Sweetener” has taken the singer to new heights at a moment of transition for the top ranks of female vocalists. | | |
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| Since the ’60s the folk singer has been making music that stirs audiences and calls for change. | | |
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| Why is it that visual art goes for hundreds of millions of dollars at auction, and music sells for...well, nothing sometimes? Is music really worth that much less than art? Or is there something else at play that speaks to the fickle economics of art? | | |
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| Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog |
| We all spend an enormous amount of time online these days and for many of us much of that comes by way of our smartphones. In fact, studies indicate that the younger the demographic, the more likely they'll be tied to their phones. | | |
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| Clickbait cheap shots aside, with her recent rants and call outs, Nicki Minaj actually offered valuable insight into the shortcomings of the chart system. | | |
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| We don’t require male rappers to empower one another, so why should Nicki Minaj play nice? | | |
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| Before he stunned crowds at this year’s Splendour in the Grass, and after he became the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize, we join the Compton native on his US tour to uncover the man behind the rapper many call the greatest of all time. | | |
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| "I fell on my a** in front of 80,000 people." Shawn Mendes, singer, songwriter and 20-year-old budding superstar, sighs and pulls out his phone. "Look at this, dude." The spill, immortalized on Instagram from the Festival d'été in Quebec last month, indeed lives up to the designation "most embarrassing moment" of his professional life so far. | | |
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| As the A-list artist becomes a free agent in November, what should she look for in a new deal? | | |
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| Calling it a comeback was tempting: Almost three years after her most recent album, 2015's "Unbreakable," Janet Jackson released a joyous new single and colorful new video. “Made for Now” arrived earlier this month with a slew of promo, marking a complete turnaround from the press-shunning of Jackson’s "Unbreakable" era--an album that at times expressed outright disdain for the media. | | |
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| Reporter Joe Gross discusses Fugazi and his revelatory new 33-1/3 book about their 1993 album, "In on the Kill Taker!" | | |
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