I thought that if I worked really hard at this, then eventually I'd get to the point where I can just spend all my time making music. But I've found that the more I do this, the less time I get to spend on music... Most of my time it's press and travel and admin stuff: answering emails and just being a business person, putting out fires. It's just being a working adult. | | | | Give the drummer some room: A taiko drummer practices in Akigase Park, Toyko, March 24, 2018.
(Carl Court/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I thought that if I worked really hard at this, then eventually I'd get to the point where I can just spend all my time making music. But I've found that the more I do this, the less time I get to spend on music... Most of my time it's press and travel and admin stuff: answering emails and just being a business person, putting out fires. It's just being a working adult.”
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| | rantnrave:// Good concert ticket ideas: If you bought tickets to CHILDISH GAMBINO's upcoming THIS IS AMERICA tour, he just sent you two unreleased, unfinished songs because "it is important for u to be familiar with them in order to participate, and therefore fully enjoy the experience," which I'm not quite sure what that might mean but meaning is entirely beside the point because Childish Gambino just sent you two new songs. They're all the meaning you need. (Oh, also: "please do not share these songs. these songs are for people attending the show only. keep this within our community." Fat chance, one imagines, but I like that, too. The idea of musician and fans as community. The idea of private moments and memories within that community. The idea that everything doesn't have to be, and maybe shouldn't be, for everyone)... If you bought a single ticket for one of Japanese-British pop singer RINA SAWAYAMA's shows and you're worried you'll be lonely, she'll give you a special wristband and encourage anyone else with the same wristband to "say hi let's be Alone Together!" Sweet... If you have to leave a festival a day or two early, a startup called FLIPTIX wants to help you sell the prorated remains of your ticket. I'm curious how many festivals will participate in this; I assume those Sunday no-shows are built in to their ticketing models. But at a moment when promoters are trying to figure out how to recoup the money they believe they're leaving on the table when scalpers raise the price of their tickets, I love the idea of someone helping fans recoup the money that *they're* leaving on the table... The divvying up of record companies' SPOTIFY stock profits may be inadvertently exposing a fissure between how labels used to operate and how they'll have to operate in a world where they aren't simply content owners and artists aren't simply content generators. That, at least, is my takeaway from this assessment by ANNABELLA COLDRICK, CEO of the UK MUSIC MANGERS FORUM, of how Spotify spoils are being distributed to artists and labels now and how FACEBOOK spoils might be distributed in the future.... ETHAN HAWKE is making the leap from director of "the best music biopic of the year" to budding music mogul... The NEW YORK CITY subway pays its respects to ARETHA... MEEK MILL and PHILADELPHIA 76ERS co-owner MICHAEL RUBIN want to get a million people out of jail... CHIEF EBENEZER OBEY offered free healthcare services to more than 1,000 residents of his hometown, Idogo in western Nigeria... RIP ROY WUNSCH. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
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 | ELLE |
| Selena Gomez hasn’t disappeared. Not exactly. But in the past few months, the most followed person on Instagram has removed herself from the Tabloid Industrial Complex. In January, Gomez quietly moved to Orange County, where she and a friend from Hillsong Church, Raquelle, are playing house. | | |
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 | Slate |
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 | Noisey |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| The London MC is challenging the idea of a single narrative, creating a series of calls-to-arms for anyone that considers themselves an outsider. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| eMusic made its name with a subscription-based music downloads service focused on independent labels, before adding major labels in 2010 - a controversial move at the time. Eight years on, the company is planning an even-bigger shift: launching a new music-distribution and royalty-management system that will use blockchain technology. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Afropunk has come of age. In reaching the next phase of its evolution, its efforts have gone global. The music festival has grown to the level of cultural institution. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| From Berlin to Buenos Aires, breaking up a mammoth clubbing session with a siesta is the norm. | | |
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| Slate |
| The app where Gen Z vies for 15 seconds of fame is not as incomprehensible as it might appear. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| A new app that aims to style you based on your musical taste suggests the relationship between fashion and music is stronger than ever. But can an algorithm really replace discovering your own look? | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The Detroit Jazz Festival has long had a local focus, pairing national acts with both elders and up-and-comers in the Motor City’s underappreciated jazz scene -- but this year’s event had an even more specific common thread, one that was never articulated explicitly but shaped most of the festival sets: women in Detroit music. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| With a slippery face and a thousand voices, the Swedish artist uses her music in Fever Ray and The Knife to pull into frame what society would prefer stay hidden. | | |
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| Music Business Worldwide |
| Annabella Coldrick of the Music Managers Forum dissects the main players to examine how they're distributing cash windfall. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| We visit lead singer Matt Johnson’s home to talk about a beautiful song that has soundtracked intense highs and extreme lows. | | |
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 | The Common Reader |
| Something odd and beautiful happened to Jess Stacy that night in 1938. It is easy to have the impression he never experienced anything quite like it again. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Graham Lock’s newly reissued 1988 study of the sui generis composer is an invaluable account of realizing creative dreams in the face of racism and myopia. | | |
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 | The Future of What |
| Australian artist Jen Cloher joins us in studio to talk about the Sydney music scene and her particular D.I.Y. approach to the music business, which she frequently shares through a program called "I Manage My Music." She also talks about how her own career as a musician, and how she chooses to run the label Milk! Records, along with Courtney Barnett. | | |
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 | The Industry Observer |
| Tash Sultana is one of Australia's most lauded trailblazers, flying the flag for virtuosic musicianship and freedom -- here's the story behind the success. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | Love this song, love this video (mildly controversial animated celebrity guest appearances notwithstanding), and it still feels very much like summer. |
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