Ever since I saw Diana Ross fly off into the sky at the halftime show, I dreamed of performing at the Super Bowl. | | | | Young M.A. at Rolling Loud, Miami Gardens, Fla., May 10, 2019. Her debut album, "Herstory in the Making," is out today on M.A. Music/3D.
(Jason Koerner/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Ever since I saw Diana Ross fly off into the sky at the halftime show, I dreamed of performing at the Super Bowl.”
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| | rantnrave:// When I first heard about the innovative make-your-own-radio-station app STATIONHEAD, in 2017, it was a small community of people who wanted to share their favorite songs and occasionally "Go On," as the app calls it, to play DJ and talk about the music or whatever they felt like talking about. The first time I went on, I talked about vacuuming. The music played through each listener's own SPOTIFY account, which meant no library of tracks and no music licenses were needed. You could program almost any song you could think of, and every play generated a Spotify royalty (it now works with APPLE MUSIC, too). And then hip-hop discovered it. I visited the company's New York office last week and walked in on five people sitting around a table in a small, not-quite-soundproofed studio, chatting enthusiastically about pop culture and taking phone calls. They were Stationhead users, not employees. A make-your-own morning talk show. More than 200,000 shows have been created in the app in the past year, almost all of them broadcasting via phone, though a few use more professional setups and there are a handful of ringers including RAEKWON—he's also an investor—and VIC MENSA. What they're doing, according to CEO RYAN STAR, is neither radio nor podcasting. "It's a new medium," he says. "It's a different feeling." The phrase "the YOUTUBE of audio" is sometimes thrown around. And now, for the first time, Stationhead users can save and archive their shows, which means you can listen to user DJs like DJMISSMILAN or SERENA on demand, and if you're a podcaster you now have a backdoor way of creating a podcast with any music you want to play, as BILLBOARD notes. There no doubt are other potential uses the Stationhead crew hasn't considered yet; that's what the users are for. As Star and the company's COO, MURRAY LEVISON, made clear, their team is building the product but the users are the ones deciding what it actually does. Including you, if you feel like talking hard... The SUPER BOWL halftime show is more than four months away and it's already better than the last couple ones. JENNIFER LOPEZ and SHAKIRA will co-headline an all-Latin show during the Feb. 2 game in Miami Gardens. This is the first Super Bowl, not coincidentally, since the NFL partnered with JAY-Z and ROC NATION to buff up its entertainment game... The journey from DANIEL HERNANDEZ to TEKASHI 6IX9INE and back, with perilous pit stops in a prison gang and a federal courtroom. MusicSET: "Tekashi 6ix9ine Flipped. Must He Now Flop?"... Public service journalism: "WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE" came out 27 years ago today. Here's a roll call of all 59 people BILLY JOEL namechecks in it, of whom only five are still alive... Death metal GRETA THUNBERG may be the first viral music video I've liked in 2019. Music and concept by JOHN MOLLUSK of New York thrash band SUAKA... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from YOUNG M.A., STURGILL SIMPSON, DABABY, JON PARDI, TEGAN & SARA, ADAM LAMBERT, KEVIN GATES, THE COMET IS COMING, LAURIE ANDERSON/TENZIN CHOEGYAL/JESSE PARIS SMITH, the NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, GIRL BAND, PITBULL, MOLLY BRAZY, MOON DUO, TELEFON TEL AVIV, HELLYEAH, OF MICE & MEN, OPETH, DRAGONFORCE, AUTOMATIC, SUI ZHEN, TRENTEMØLLER, R. ELIZABETH, ALESSANDRO CORTINI, RROXYMORE, BILLY STRINGS, KEFAYA & ELAHA SOROOR, DERMOT KENNEDY, KRISTIN CHENOWETH, BETH HART, GEORGE COLEMAN, WALLIS BIRD, RED RIVER DIALECT, MICHAELA ANNE, CHARLIE PARR, TEMPLES, BORKNAGAR, CREEPING DEATH, KEIJI HAINO/MERZBOW/BALÁZS PÁNDI, KMFDM and DAVID HASSELHOFF... Plus new old music from JOHN COLTRANE and remixed old music from the BEATLES and the REPLACEMENTS... RIP CHRISTOPHER ROUSE... There will be no MusicREDEF on Monday, the first day of Rosh Hashanah. We'll return to your inbox Tuesday morning. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | MusicAlly |
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 | Vulture |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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 | Trapital |
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 | Long May They Run |
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 | NPR Music |
| The songs that Cash performed at the desk, most taken from her 2018 album "She Remembers Everything," have a lot of emotional heat, but they're shaped and sculpted by the wry wisdom of age and experience. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | From "Sound & Fury," out today on Elektra. *Not* going for country radio adds this week or any other week. |
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