Some days I'll spend eight hours and I'll create maybe 10 tracks, 10 lottery tickets. They're lottery tickets because every beat, every piece of music that I make, has potential to get placed somewhere, so there's potential to make money. | | | | Vernon Reid and Corey Glover of Living Colour in the early '90s.
(Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Some days I'll spend eight hours and I'll create maybe 10 tracks, 10 lottery tickets. They're lottery tickets because every beat, every piece of music that I make, has potential to get placed somewhere, so there's potential to make money.”
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| | rantnrave:// So you're a musician and you want to get into politics? Great! Here are some steps you might consider taking. First, become a musician. Start a band or two. Maybe a hardcore band called INDECISION and then maybe another one called MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD. You can call yours whatever you want. Then get a job. Maybe at an investment bank on WALL STREET. Or wherever. Find an interest, gain some expertise, go for it. Get involved in your community. Become an activist. Enter local politics. Go to work for your city councilperson. Work your way up to chief of staff. Eventually, run for city council yourself. Tour globally as a punk rocker, act locally as a politician. Learn the game. Earn some trust. Be like JUSTIN BRANNAN, the QUEENS, NY, guitarist-turned-candidate whose resume I have just given you. Last week, he won the Democratic primary for a NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL seat. Not as flashy and sexy as headlining six nights at an arena in DETROIT, giving a rhyming stump speech about how you would like to regulate where transgender people go to the bathroom and wondering why the country has become "sooo gay" while keeping the Republican party and the rest of the country in the dark about whether you are serious about running for US SENATE, which you are maybe possibly thinking would be a good entry-level job in politics for you. Brannan's less sexy, more sober way is more effective in my humble opinion. And more likely to be helpful to the constituents he may soon be elected to work for. There will be obstacles along the way, such as the Most Precious Blood album cover that he'll "probably have to pay a consultant millions of dollars to explain." But that, too, is part of the game he is learning. Putting yourself up for a position of responsibility requires taking responsibility for who you are and what you have done. And knowing what exactly you are doing... Two rivers away, in NEWARK, another musician running for another city council—DUPRE "DOITALL" KELLY, a founding member of the hip-hop trio LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND... Not sure whether to file ROLLING STONE magazine putting itself up for sale under "print really really is dead" or "couldn't they have tried a little harder on the web?," so instead I'll just say wow. And note that RS, for all the cultural capital it has lost over the decades, continues to produce crucial political reporting and some of the best music feature writing anywhere, and losing either would be a blow... Two totally unrelated reads: CLOVER HOPE's deep dive into where IGGY AZALEA's career went wrong. And AMY ZIMMERMAN on the meaning of DANIELLE BREGOLI aka BHAD BHABIE signing to ATLANTIC... (Bhad Bhabie's "THESE HEAUX" is kinda catchy, btw. Srsly)... BIG LITTLE LIES' SUSAN JACOBS wins the first EMMY AWARD for music supervision. DONALD GLOVER wins two for ATLANTA and thanks "the great algorithm that put us all here"... WILLIE NELSON's longtime roadie BEN DORCY, the granddaddy of all roadies, died Saturday at 92. MusicSET: "We Are the Road Crew"... RIP also BRENDA LEWIS and HARRY DEAN STANTON. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Planet Money |
| Behind almost all popular music, there is a hidden economy of music producers buying and selling sonic snippets, texting each other half-finished beats, and angling for back-end royalties. Even selling the sound of a single tap of a snare drum recorded just right. | | |
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 | Jezebel |
| A textbook problematic figure, she found herself at the center of debates about authenticity in hip-hop and cultural appropriation—conversations that intensified amid continuing national discussions about privilege and race. Her delayed sophomore album is now a shot in the dark after an expected 2016 release and a June 2017 date that’s come and gone. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| After 50 years, the magazine founded and nurtured by Jann Wenner is bowing to the pressures of a troubled industry. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| Getting to the bottom of Kid Rock's cartoonish Senate campaign by looking back at an iconic '80s rocker. | | |
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 | VICE News |
| Kid Rock will be teasing voters here in Michigan for the next five days about his U.S. Senate plans, according to his publicist. But even as crowds fill the newly opened Little Ceasars Arena in downtown Detroit for six straight nights of his shows, Republicans say he has so far rebuffed efforts to connect him with donors and consulting power. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Is it legit? Is it a hipster cult? And why’s everyone wearing Saint Laurent? GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins the flock to see if Christianity can really be this cool and still be Christian. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Recording Academy leadership addressed more than 100 attendees at Village Studios in West Los Angeles, sharing horror stories of dwindling royalties and toothless copyright law. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The job was just recognized by the Emmys for the first time ever. Here’s how it works. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| Radio is overrated as a driver of consumption. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Judd Apatow and the Avett Brothers discuss the new documentary, 'May It Last,' which is getting special one-night-only screenings around the U.S. | | |
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 | Paper |
| Bassist Tina Weymouth contributions are some of the band's most iconic. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| "Rap of China" is drawing in big audiences and is proving to be a great promotional vehicle for brands like McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| He was giving us back the songs he’d taken away so many years ago, validating their worth again, and our love for them. | | |
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 | Control FOREVER |
| I've been listening to music a long time, and it has never felt this bad to enjoy music this much. XXXTentacion has been accused of repeatedly beating and abusing his pregnant girlfriend. He arguably just put out the best Hip-Hop album of the last five years. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The Juggalo March took place on Saturday in Washington, D.C, to protest the group’s FBI classification as a gang. It well outdrew the pro-Trump “Mother of All Rallies” nearby. | | |
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| Billboard |
| At his Arcade Songs, a label venture with RED/Sony, Gregg Wattenberg is known as the hitmaker behind tracks like Kygo’s “Raging” and Shawn Hook’s “Sound of Your Heart." But on the side, he’s quickly becoming a go-to for a different kind of hit -- bone-crushing themes for WWE wrestlers. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The disco producer, who is enjoying a late-career comeback, celebrates the 40th birthday of his monster hit with Donna Summer, “I Feel Love.” | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| A behind-the-scenes tour of the McIntosh factory, where some of the world's most iconic amplifiers and audio equipment is made. | | |
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| The Daily Beast |
| Unfortunately, it seems Daniele Bregoli-with her blaccent, inexplicable record deal, and rented Rolls-Royce-is here to stay. | | |
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 | Salon |
| The Springsteen archives released the '96 Belfast show of The Ghost of Tom Joad Tour this month. It still resonates. | | |
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