If someone doesn’t like you in modelling then you won’t get any work. If someone doesn’t like you in hip-hop then you just make a song dissing them and become a legend. | | | | Swamp Dogg in 1975.
(Gilles Petard/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “If someone doesn’t like you in modelling then you won’t get any work. If someone doesn’t like you in hip-hop then you just make a song dissing them and become a legend.”
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| | rantnrave:// How many 76-year-old dudes does it take to change a light bulb on New Music Friday? Because I've got three if you need 'em. PAUL MCCARTNEY, ever youthful and pathologically unable to stop creating new music, has a new batch of songs produced by pop wunderkind GREG KURSTIN. PAUL SIMON, ever contemplative and claiming he's done both writing and touring, has a batch of re-arranged and re-recorded album tracks from throughout his solo career. And the two best-known Pauls in classic rock may be upstaged in some quarters today by their fellow 76er JERRY WILLIAMS, the ever restless R&B iconoclast better known for the past half-century as SWAMP DOGG. Topping Macca in the collaborate-with-the-kids department, Swamp Dogg's weird, startling and often dark new album was recorded with the production help of POLIÇA's RYAN OLSON and BON IVER's JUSTIN VERNON. And topping Simon in the rearranging-his-life department, his voice is heavily filtered exactly the way you'd expect of an album titled LOVE, LOSS AND AUTO-TUNE. KANYE WEST's 808S & HEARTBREAK was one of his inspirations. The album, which connects some previously unconnected dots between '50s R&B crooning and '10s R&B introspection, doesn't quite sound like any of those collaborators or influencers; it sounds, rather, like a long-running outsider working with an all-new mood board. And the results are occasionally great. MusicSET: "Auto-Tuning the Swamp (Dogg)"... McCartney, meanwhile, will livestream his album release party from a secret New York location tonight. (I'm around if anyone has a plus-one!) The show continues a lengthy streak of public appearances in which the GOAT lefty bassist has been letting his hair down both musically and personally, opening his repertoire of songs and stories and reminding us, on the odd chance we needed the reminder, why we're still here for him after all these years. MusicSET: "Fuh Yeah! Paul McCartney Is Still Rock's Macca Daddy"... You'll find a weekend's worth of Spotify reading in the mix below. Enjoy. Or not... Crackpot MICHAEL MOORE theory of the day: DONALD TRUMP started running for president because he was peeved that NBC was paying GWEN STEFANI more for THE VOICE than it was paying him for THE APPRENTICE. I doubt even Moore believes this one but hollaback, boy, if I'm wrong about that... Another PRINCE treasure from the VAULT... DOLORES O'RIORDAN drowned in a bathtub... European regulators approve APPLE's SHAZAM acquisition... It's FRIDAY and in addition to Paul, Paul and Swamp Dogg, that means new music from ESTELLE, PIG DESTROYER, ADULT., ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, SPIRITUALIZED, JOEY PURP, JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, KILO KISH, ZHU, RUSS, LENNY KRAVITZ, EVERLAST, CRAIG ARMSTRONG, $UICIDEBOY$, SAUNA YOUTH, MNEK, THE NIGHT GAME, MOTHERS, SINGLE MOTHERS, RUSTON KELLY, THOMAS FEHLMANN, WAXAHATCHEE, DONNA MISSAL, HONEY HAHS, CHILLY GONZALES, ERIC BACHMANN, MIRAH, KORPIKLAANI, CLUTCH, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, KATHY MATTEA, LAUREN DAIGLE and BUILDING 429... RIP TONY CAMILLO, RICHARD BATEMAN and BETH KRAKOWER... Best wishes to JIMMY SPICER... There will be no MusicREDEF on Monday, the first day of ROSH HASHANAH. We'll be back in your inbox Tuesday morning. Shana tovah. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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