As a delivery device for moments of inner emergency, no art form can approach the immediacy of popular song. A novel cannot assault you while you wait in line at the supermarket; a painting cannot reach out and turn your head as you walk on by; a poem’s feet cannot chase you down the street; a movie cannot screen itself. | | | | Kelela's debut album, "Take Me Apart," is out today on Warp Records.
(Scott Legato/Getty Images) | | | | | | “As a delivery device for moments of inner emergency, no art form can approach the immediacy of popular song. A novel cannot assault you while you wait in line at the supermarket; a painting cannot reach out and turn your head as you walk on by; a poem’s feet cannot chase you down the street; a movie cannot screen itself.”
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| | rantnrave:// We still don't know the LAS VEGAS shooter's motive, or if he even had one. But in light of the fact that the attack on the ROUTE 91 HARVEST festival took place with previous assaults in PARIS, ORLANDO and MANCHESTER fresh in our minds, the news that the shooter booked rooms earlier this summer within view of LOLLAPALOOZA in CHICAGO and the LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL fest is Las Vegas is chilling. What is it about music? Are festivals an easy target, or is it something deeper than that? Can freedom and community and art inspire, or attract, that kind of hatred? How can the community be made to feel safe? Or be made to *be* safe? One particular type of event that may produce jitters going forward, at least for a while: Las Vegas dance-music pool parties. Discussions about gun control and the NRA are unlikely to go away anytime soon... Got four free hours this weekend? Seems like a perfect weekend for PETER BOGDANOVICH's flawed but sweet (and long) TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS documentary, RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM. Which is on NETFLIX. Just sayin'. I like the first half, which does a great job of capturing the thrill and chaos and organic beauty of being in a band, better than the second half, which has a lot of ground to cover and uses some familiar BEHIND THE MUSIC tropes and some elisions to do so. Amazing how badly STEVIE NICKS wanted to be in the band. Amazing what a not-good response Petty's "but there aren't any girls in the Heartbreakers" is. MusicSET: "Remembering Tom Petty: He Was an American Boy"... Worst attempt to quote JAY-Z ever. And not just because it isn't a real quote... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from KELELA, KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH, LIAM GALLAGHER, LIL PUMP, MARILYN MANSON, BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE (actually his album dropped earlier this week), DAPHNI, POPPY, DHANI HARRISON, WHITNEY ROSE, CUNNINLYNGUISTS, DAME D.O.L.L.A., DERADOORIAN, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, AUGUST BURNS RED, ZAYTOVEN, JERROD NIEMANN, BECCA MANCARI, WEAVES, CARLA BRUNI, WOLF PARADE, THE WEATHER STATION, KELE OKEREKE, LISA LOEB and LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA's all-star single for PUERTO RICO hurricane relief. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| I listened to only female singers all summer. Here’s what I learned. | | |
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| In 1987, his debut album saw him hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson and Prince -- but then his star crashed and burned. He talks about the nervous breakdown that triggered his identity change, living as a recluse and the music industry’s ‘Olympian’ conspiracy to bring him down. | | |
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| One voter’s best guess, from shoo-ins like Radiohead and Nina Simone, to long shots like Kate Bush and Depeche Mode. | | |
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| This week's songwriter is defining the game as we know it and she's only 23! She's still celebrating the release of her debut mini album "Nervous System." Moreover, she's regularly collaborating with some of pop music's biggest names, having co-written Justin Bieber's smash hit "Sorry," Selena Gomez's "Good For You," and Nick Jonas' "Close." | | |
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| Vangelis’s "Blade Runner" score fostered the film’s cult reputation, and helped reimagine electronic music as we know it. | | |
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| Sonos officially unveiled its new voice activated Sonos One speaker today, which offers access to Amazon's Alexa assistant at launch, but also is going to get Google's Assistant some time next year. CEO Patrick Spence told Variety that his company wants to compete with others in the market by building smart speakers for music lovers. | | |
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| During a brief period of respite from summer tours and performing obligations, Alice Blackhurst met Patti Smith on a humid, tropically stormy day at her home in New York City, where her cat, Cairo, stalked between the stacks of books and art objects, and the sounds of ubiquitous Manhattan traffic railed sporadically against the walls. | | |
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| NRA, powerful gun lobby, and country music have had a close, codependent relationship for years. Las Vegas shooting may change that. | | |
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| Before Kelela could make her ingenious debut album, she had to learn how to live and love in an oppressive world. | | |
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| The music and the culture of hip-hop are inseparable from the Bronx, Queens, Harlem, and Brooklyn, NY. And now that the form is a global culture that exists in online spaces as much as it does where people meet and shake hands, its documentary history may be more valuable than ever. | | |
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| Nearly 20 years after her debut, she’s never faded away. Instead, she’s steadily sold music, has had four No. 1 hits and now a new album, “Beautiful Trauma.” | | |
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| Tony voters are still anxiously awaiting invitations to " Springsteen on Broadway" - which means that Bruce Springsteen's much-anticipated blockbuster isn't eligible for this spring's Tony Awards. At least, not yet. | | |
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| That conversation is starting already in certain circles. Roseanne Cash penned a no-holds-barred New York Times op-ed urging country musicians to stand up to the NRA, while Caleb Keeter, who performed at the festival earlier on Sunday, wrote on Twitter "I've been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. | | |
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| Miley Cyrus performs "Party in the U.S.A.," "The Climb," "Wrecking Ball," "Wildflowers," and more. | | |
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| Music making requires a workspace -- but what if a workspace were built for music makers? And what if artists and tech startups could be symbiotic? | | |
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| "Most people don’t understand that a Saudi woman can look like me," says the L.A.-based singer, who is turning heads with her anthemic electro-pop sound. | | |
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| Perfectionist frontman explains how he organized and drew upon thousands of recorded sounds for tracks on 'Pacific Daydream,' band's eleventh LP. | | |
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| Some of hip-hop's most innovative producers share the secrets of the drum. | | |
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| In his second season with the Dodgers, Dieter Ruehle is putting a hip spin on baseball stadium organ music. | | |
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