If I want to make an album and I want an orchestra, I’m gonna figure out how to do that. I don’t want to wait around for people to greenlight my creativity. | | | | Noname at the Panorama Festival, New York, July 29, 2017. Her album "Room 25" is out today.
(Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If I want to make an album and I want an orchestra, I’m gonna figure out how to do that. I don’t want to wait around for people to greenlight my creativity.”
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| | rantnrave:// Rapper NONAME first grabbed the world's attention with her CHANCE THE RAPPER features, and two albums into her own career she, like him, sees no need for a label. Her current business model, per THE FADER, is "reinvesting income from tours and Chance residuals into the music," and if there's a better business model for a young musician in 2018, let's see the POWERPOINT. That's how she pays for everything from UBERs to string arrangements. There are plenty of other options these days, from direct licensing deals with SPOTIFY to recording one-offs with AMAZON to going straight to INSTAGRAM to old-school record companying. But if you *can* DIY, why wouldn't you? Noname can do a lot by herself, it turns out. She helps others, too. "F***&ed the rapper homie, now his ass is making better music," she raps on "SELF," the short statement of purpose and sort of coming-of-age anthem that opens her album ROOM 25, out today. And then: "My p**** teaches ninth grade English. My p**** wrote a thesis on colonialism.” My new favorite album opener of 2018... Nashville punk-rockers DIARRHEA PLANET did it themselves, too, albeit with a label. Which is cool, too. There are always multiple options. PITCHFORK's DAYNA EVANS chronicles the final days of a weird and wonderful band that was born to die young, and did. Having officially broken up and played its official "final shows," DP returns for one final encore, opening for JASON ISBELL at the RYMAN AUDITORIUM on Oct. 27, but the band has already earned its spot in MusicSET: "Last Waltzes: Artists Say Goodbye"... The boss, as you may have heard, has lots of interests, one of the most interesting of which is his on-again off-again love affair with OASIS. He still gets visibly upset when NOEL and LIAM GALLAGHER fight. And/or he texts me. It was via text that he and I considered buying out the house for “CHAMPAGNE SUPERANALYSIS: A psychological exploration of the Gallagher Brothers through song and readings," hosted by actor/writer LENA DUNHAM and musician BEN LEE on Nov. 18 at LARGO in Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure that, for JASON, this is the singularity. Lena, Ben and Jason, by the way, all claim to be "Noels," which apparently is a thing you can be. I say there's no Noel without Liam, no Liam without Noel. No consonants without vowels, no vowels without consonants. We didn't buy out the house; we just grabbed four tickets. One of them is for you, VAN TOFFLER. Everyone else, join us if you will... It's FRIDAY and in addition to Noname, that means new music from CARRIE UNDERWOOD, WILLIE NELSON, HELEN SUNG, APHEX TWIN, 6LACK, BOSSE-DE-NAGE, LOW, TONY BENNETT & DIANA KRALL, GHETTS, SLEAFORD MODS, TORI KELLY, MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD WITH ALARM WILL SOUND, DAVID GUETTA, DILLY DALLY, THE DIRTY NIL, THRICE, SANDRO PERRI, FENSTER, CEDRIC BURNSIDE, RICHARD THOMPSON, ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, ANN WILSON, STEVEN PAGE, WALE, PALE WAVES, THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE, BOB MOSES, PAUL WELLER, GUERILLA TOSS, LYRICS BORN, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, JUNGLE, WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS and HAWKWIND... RIP MARIN MAZZIE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Immigration lawyers say that under the Trump administration the hurdles for obtaining visas for artists, musicians and actors have increased exponentially. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Over the course of two days, music critic Craig Jenkins spoke with Mac Miller in New York for a profile . This interview - edited here for length and clarity - was the basis for that profile. It offers a window into Miller's creative process, his life, and what he'd hoped to do next. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Members of Cypress Hill, Faith No More, Sonic Youth, Run-DMC and more look back on a genre-splicing cult classic. | | |
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| As the country gears up for a potential congressional turnover -- and the likely seating of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court -- the RIAA and unions both look to a transformative Q4 with one major bright spot: the likely passage of the Music Modernization Act. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Down in Nashville for DP’s final shows, covered in sweat and filled with love for the cult these weirdos built. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| Launching their American tour in Los Angeles, the boy band sold out four nights at Staples Center, an arena run that puts them on the same level as Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bruno Mars. But even with their popularity spreading and their reach seeming larger than ever, Sunday night’s final performance still felt remarkably insular. | | |
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 | Roads & Kingdoms |
| From apartheid protest anthems to late ‘90s dance hits to homegrown hip hop, the music of South Africa's largest city. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| Rumors about the Chicago band’s sexually abusive behavior had been circulating in private for years. A group of devoted fans decided to make them public. | | |
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 | Medium |
| I was on my way to interview Tito Puente, the King of Latin Music, and my first major assignment as a writer. I was excited, elated to have been picked for this project, and nervous, very nervous. | | |
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 | The Wrap |
| #AfterMeToo: “There may be this inclination to hunker down and hope this category-5 hurricane just passes over,” music executive Drew Dixon tells TheWrap. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Dig into the history of musicians who have fused their identity with technology. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Seven years after the summer of 'Video Games,' Lana no longer cares if you think she's faking it. | | |
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 | Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog |
| Back, Bartok, Schubert, Puccini and Wagner wrote their compositions hundreds of years ago before the idea of copyright was even a glint in an intellectual property attorney’s eye, so they’re in the public domain. But are they? | | |
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| Billboard |
| Lil Wayne’s return from the wilderness with “Tha Carter V,” delayed since 2014, heralds a season packed with charismatic voices, from the familiar (retirement-defying rock stars, jazzbo Jeff Goldblum) to the brand. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Irish band are piecing together their final album following the recent death of their lead singer. They talk candidly about her troubled life and the challenges of working without her. | | |
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 | Trapital |
| A bankable, sold-out tour takes good economic perspective, justified optimism, and the ability to keep it 100. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Dante Ferrando watched as the neighborhood around the Black Cat lost its quirky bagel shop, its card shop, its sneaker store, pet shop and post office, and filled back up again with a Trader Joe’s, a Madewell and high-end apartment complexes with floor-to-ceiling windows and rooftop pools. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| "Instead of telling us you’re biracial over and over, tell us what that means to you." | | |
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 | Ultimate Classic Rock |
| The difficulty -- and nerdy thrill -- of ranking Rush's catalog is that you're essentially pitting several distinct bands against each other: the bluesy Led Zeppelin disciples, the conceptual prog-rock explorers, the arena-packing prog-pop stars of the early '80s and the metallic, middle-aged alt-rockers, among other variations. | | |
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 | EW |
| It feels safe to say that the last half-century of pop history would sound a lot different without Nile Rodgers. | | |
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