The day I can actually write a song about my girlfriend who I am truly in love with—because I've never actually truly been in love—I don't know what type of music's going to come out of me when I am... And the day that my heart gets broken for the first time, which hasn't happened, will be another wave of music. | | | | Smokin'! Lightnin' Hopkins in a Los Angeles studio, July 6, 1960.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The day I can actually write a song about my girlfriend who I am truly in love with—because I've never actually truly been in love—I don't know what type of music's going to come out of me when I am... And the day that my heart gets broken for the first time, which hasn't happened, will be another wave of music.”
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| | rantnrave:// Is viral-videos-will-save-the-music-biz the new syncs-will-save-the-music-biz? OK, no one's actually saying that, but FACEBOOK is reportedly offering "hundreds of millions of dollars" to labels and publishers to secure music rights to its users' videos. The initiative doesn't seem to be aimed at creating any new functionality but rather to pay for what its users have long been doing. BLOOMBERG sees it as "the latest windfall for a music industry surging from the growth of on-demand streaming services." Mailbox money, as songwriters call it. How much of it will actually go to songwriters? Asking for a few thousand friends. And how will this play out differently than Big Music's relationship with YOUTUBE, which pays just enough on music rights to make the whole industry hate it?... SONG EXPLODER and GOOGLE collaborated on this cool experiment to present song stems in a 3D audio and visual space online. Which is a sentence that would have made no sense to me a couple years ago. PHOENIX, NATALIA LAFOURCADE and PERFUME GENIUS are among the artists whose songs are available to explore... Imagine having to upgrade the electrical sockets in your house every couple of years, and imagine your turntable and your amplifier requiring different sockets. Hi, APPLE... SCOOTER BRAUN and BUN B's Sept. 12 hurricane telethon will now benefit victims of IRMA as well as HARVEY. BEYONCÉ, DRAKE, JUSTIN BIEBER, MIRANDA LAMBERT and many more are onboard... DAVE MATTHEWS BAND is hosting "A Concert for CHARLOTTESVILLE" on Sept. 24 featuring PHARRELL WILLIAMS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, ARIANA GRANDE, BRITTANY HOWARD and others... One MTV NETWORKS vet exits, another enters: COURTNEY HOLT is SPOTIFY's new head of video and podcasting... BILL WITHERS' first recording in 32 years... "The Hippie-Capitalist CEO Who Wants to Win a Nobel Prize With Sober Raves" is a headline so on-point I assume either an algorithm or a SILICON VALLEY showrunner wrote it. Read at your own risk... RIP HALIM EL-DABH. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Billboard |
| Spotify and Netflix have plenty in common, but should the music streaming giant try to follow the same path that led the video on-demand service to profitability? The reality is much more complicated. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| In May, Jay-Z inked a new $200 million deal with Live Nation. Before this weekend, his last major tour was in 2014 with his wife Beyoncé for their ($ 100 million-grossing) On The Run excursion. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Dave Grohl goes deep on bro-ing down with Justin Timberlake, missing Chris Cornell and his band's star-studded new LP. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| The lip-syncing app is pitching three ad products: Vertical video ads, custom challenges and influencer video posts. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Czaukay, who passed away Sep. 6 at his home -- also his former band's studio -- in Germany, was a classically trained musician whose influence seeped deeply into music history. | | |
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 | Variety |
| “Moms are getting hipper to the music earlier.” | | |
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 | Clash Magazine |
| There's nothing more inviting than the warm, golden rays of sun that shoot through open windows on a Friday afternoon, tempting you outside and even closer to the weekend. As summer truly begins to enliven London, the capital stirs with sanguine expectations. | | |
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 | Experiments With Google |
| What if you could step inside a song? This is a simple experiment that explores that idea. See and hear the individual layers of music all around you to get a closer look at how music is made. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Facebook Inc. is offering major record labels and music publishers hundreds of millions of dollars so the users of its social network can legally include songs in videos they upload, according to people familiar with the matter. | | |
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 | The Tim Ferriss Show |
| Stewart Copeland is a Grammy Award-winning musician, considered by "Rolling Stone Magazine" to be one of the top ten drummers of all time. He’s a founding member of The Police, and an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Before rocking out to classic rock tunes from Tom Petty, Aerosmith and Santana with his band The Merger, incoming Pandora CEO Roger Lynch examines his two main gigs: cover band guitarist, and the digital radio giant's "stabilizing force." | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| After putting the band’s new album on pause to absorb the “shock” of the elections, the group is returning with songs that present joy as defiance. | | |
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 | The Root |
| I've always loved to dance. I'd spend hours transfixed whenever dancers from the ballet or Soul Train were on TV. We were poor and immigrant in Stillwater, Okla., so there weren't that many opportunities to see anything live. We also couldn't afford dance lessons, so there were no recitals or classes for me. | | |
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 | Alternative Press |
| Over the past decade, Riot Fest has become one of the most beloved festivals in the world. They have reunited some of punk's most iconic bands, and, in many ways, set the bar for how genuinely great a music festival can be. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| I felt sure that I was witnessing true live-wire artistry, and, with my wife standing next to me, I felt absurdly happy to be alive. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Artists and executives from the Spanish-speaking world believe the hit song and the world of streaming have broken down barriers. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In May of this year Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" became the first Spanish-language hit to crack the No. 1 spot on the U.S. charts in some 20 years. By late July, it was the most streamed song of all time. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| Sure, I was familiar with the graphic—and I’m not alone. Drop this image (right) on someone’s desk and chances are they’ll reflexively blurt, “Joy Division.” The band’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album cover leaned entirely on a small mysterious data display, printed in white on black. | | |
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| NPR |
| El-P and Killer Mike talk to Stretch and Bobbito about how they turned slang into a slogan, homophobia in hip-hop, and the importance of cherishing shared humanity over political differences. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Radha Agrawal's Daybreaker empire is trying to change the world, one early morning dance party at a time. | | |
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