It's like this music camp that your parents never pick you up from. | | | | | Bluebird Cafe, Nashville. (Jon Konrath) | | | | |  | “It's like this music camp that your parents never pick you up from.”
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| | rantnrave:// Everything is a remix. Even the idea of stealing music and/or paying artists pennies on the dollar is a remix. You say YOUTUBE, I say radio circa 1932. You say stream ripping, I say COLUMBIA HOUSE (or, as ROBERT BALDWIN writes for ENDGADGET, "We were stealing music way before the internet and millennials"). The lesson? Don't complain. Do look for solutions. Don't cast blame. Do write your congressperson. Or, if you are a congressperson, write the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT... Oh, and if you are YOUTUBE, maybe hire a top executive from the industry that hates you the most, and assign him to be your liaison to that industry... Wait, strike that last item and replace it with this: If GOOGLE is E CORP, is LYOR COHEN the new ANGELA MOSS?... Quickie pro/con: Now that anyone can be a DJ, is DJ'ing dead? Yes. No... "LEMONADE," in addition to being both an album and film, is now essentially a course at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO... The late GLENN FREY shall be standing on a corner in WINSLOW, ARIZONA forever. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Next Radio |
| At Next Radio 2016, Brittney Bean outlines how DSPs (like Spotify and Apple Music) provide consumption data to record companies and how they use it to retail more music. | | |
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 | Vice |
| How America's favorite lip-synching video app is disrupting the way music marketing works. | | |
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 | TED-Ed |
| Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation of identity and independence. | | |
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 | ELLE |
| As Miley steps into her first TV gig since Hannah Montana wrapped in 2011, we find a full-fledged woman who understands her power-there's a lot of it!-and is determined to put it to good use. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| Amazon, iHeart, and Pandora add to the music subscription glut. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| How memory, psychology and groupthink burned the ‘90s compilation album into your psyche. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| As commercial country scrambles to define itself in the playlist era, Maren Morris makes evolving for the future sound easy. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| "I can’t carry a gun and smoke weed and listen to Vampire Weekend? Like, c’mon." | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| “We weren’t really like a small business trying to make it happen, we were a nonprofit art organization.” | | |
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| MEL Magazine |
| Lana Del Rey’s awkward, leaked lyrics about BlackBerry messenger prove it’s safer to glamorize the old days (or at least the ‘90s). | | |
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| Cuepoint |
| Inside the music industry’s first artist-backed startup.(Excerpted from "The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label," by Barry Miles.) | | |
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| Noisey |
| The infamous tour documentary got a rare screening in New York this week. | | |
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 | Rookie |
| She inspires me to define my own life. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Godspeed, anarchy and art at the end of the post-rock mile. | | |
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 | Engadget |
| Columbia House, we have wronged you. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Cinematic Music Group founder/CEO Jonny Shipes talks about the past, present and future of his label and the beauty of remaining independent in the music industry today. | | |
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 | Rap Radar |
| It's hard to think where Black music would be without Andre Harrell. As the founder of Uptown Records, he launched the careers of former intern Sean "Puffy" Combs-signed Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, and Heavy D-and birthed the sub-genres, New Jack Swing and Hip Hop Soul. | | |
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 | Wax Poetics |
| Kashif Saleem is regarded as one of the pioneering producers to incorporate the usage of synthesizers in R&B music. His experimental work laid the foundation to transform and revolutionize contemporary R&B music in the 1980s. | | |
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 | Femmecult |
| DJ Shiva is an techno artist with 2 decades of experience behind the decks and many quality releases to her credit on labels including Dystopian Rhythm, 611 Records, Different Is Different, Translucent, Gynoid Audio, and Chroma . | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| He grew up in England, but this veteran troubadour hasa long history with the five boroughs. Now he’s back. | | |
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