I've never held an honest job in my entire life... and yet it's all that I've written about. | | | | Flannel superduo Courtney Barnett (lefty) and Kurt Vile (righty) release "Lotta Sea Lice" today on Matador Records.
(Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I've never held an honest job in my entire life... and yet it's all that I've written about.”
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| | rantnrave:// Three months after throwing a cup of hot soup at the pop music canon with its 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women, NPR MUSIC continues to churn out entries in its just-as-potent Shocking Omissions series, in which it invites individual writers to dump some more soup on its own canon. J. ENGLISH on TAYLOR SWIFT. KATHERINE ST. ASAPH on THE KNIFE. KIM KELLY on BOLT THROWER. So many more great reads in this series. And now an omission of my own: I laid out my canon of BROADWAY rock moments on Thursday and managed to not mention FELA!, which transported the KALAKUTA REPUBLIC to West 49th Street for 14 months starting in November 2009. I will atone on Sunday, which would have been FELA KUTI's 79th birthday, by re-watching STEPHANE TCHAL-GADJIEFF and JEAN JACQUES FLORI's 1982 documentary "MUSIC IS THE WEAPON." You should, too, even if you have nothing to atone for... Meanwhile in the Theater District, the NEW YORK TIMES' JESSE GREEN calls SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY a painful, downcast masterpiece and compares it to LENA HORNE's 1981 A LADY AND HER MUSIC. The ASBURY PARK PRESS' CHRIS JORDAN says it's "compelling" but "not... flawless." It's "lonely, intense (and) unlike anything he's put his name to," per PITCHFORK's SAM SODOMSKY... An actual bank has taken the contents of PRINCE's VAULT, which is an actual vault in CHANHASSEN, MINN., and moved them to LOS ANGELES, which is an actual city built in a desert. Move over, ELGIN MARBLES, you're no longer the artifacts world's greatest crime... LINKIN PARK's CARPOOL KARAOKE, filmed six days before CHESTER BENNINGTON committed suicide... (That's APPLE's CARPOOL KARAOKE series, btw, and JAMES CORDEN is nowhere to be found and we may just have found a worse idea than TRL without CARSON DALY)... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from ST. VINCENT, PINK, COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE, BECK, GUCCI MANE, KING KRULE, WILLIAM PATRICK CORGAN, CARLY PEARCE, WU-TANG CLAN, IDK, ROBERT PLANT, ENSLAVED, DVSN, CAMILLE, BRENT FAIYAZ, A. SAVAGE, STARS, LILLINGTONS, THE PACK A.D. and NORA JANE STRUTHERS... And, since it's Friday the 13th, THIS... RIP GRADY TATE and VINCENT LA SELVA. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| About the only positive in this perfect s***storm of self-destruction is that I've seen metal become more popular than it ever has been in my lifetime, including the heyday of hair metal. For several years now, I've seen kids at shows wearing Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Motorhead shirts. | | |
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| It’s easy to grasp how users will see AR content through screens, and later glasses, but how will they hear augmented reality? | | |
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| Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would be 79 years old this month, had he not died from complications of AIDS in 1997. By the time of his death, Fela was the inventor of the enduring and influential Afrobeat music style, the composer of an enormous body of music, and one of the bravest political voices in 20th century African music. | | |
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| Lindi Ortega, Caitlin Rose and other progressive singer-songwriters reflect on how the superstar helped shape their identity. | | |
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| As eyes turn to a potential Spotify public offering next year, the company’s recent financial performance might bolster its case to investors. But questions about profitability remain. | | |
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| Four years since his last album, King Krule returns with a moody opus that delves deep into his personal psyche. | | |
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| In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work - but also a major revision of it. | | |
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| The trend of foreign bands denied entry into the United States continued when Lord Of The Lost had to cancel their tour with KMFDM after failing to receive a work visa from the United States after working with the State Department for over eight months. | | |
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| What happens when music stops making sense? Beat producer Tokimonsta lost the ability to speak the language of music. This is how she regained it. | | |
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| Cardi B's Louboutins are just the beginning of her ultimate fashion flex. | | |
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| A "Guardian" analysis of the UK’s live music line-ups for one day shows just how male-dominated the music industry is. Laura Marling and Emmy the Great discuss the many barriers blocking women’s progress. | | |
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| Bey’s rap fluency gave her an edge in the pop-star arms race, eventually becoming a signature flow of freewheeling rhyme schemes and resumé flexing. | | |
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| Two sisters and heirs of the late rock superstar Prince said Wednesday they're angered that the contents of his vault, including master tapes of unreleased music, have been removed from his Paisley Park studio complex and shipped to California. | | |
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| Ben Sisto has turned his quest to learn everything about the Baha Men single into an art project called "Who Let Who Let the Dogs Out Out." | | |
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| The singer and songwriter, who isn’t afraid to brush up against the country music establishment, is releasing a new album that draws on her lifetime of struggle. | | |
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| Fifty years since the death of Woody Guthrie, the folk singer’s topical messages are as timely as ever, his eldest son Arlo Guthrie tells Billboard. | | |
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| Universal Music Group’s The Sound of Vinyl project is turning everyday into Record Store Day. | | |
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| It's likely to be your favourite music documentary of the year. | | |
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| Despite being born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson doesn't separate his stage persona from who he is as a person. That makes for an interesting chat with Marc in the garage. Marilyn talks about his early years getting kicked out of Christian school, being beaten up for playing the triangle in the school band, and starting up a poetry night for his first taste of performing. | | |
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| The Minnesota songwriter reemerges from a six-year absence to a world that looks entirely different. But has he changed along with it? | | |
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| | | | | | | From "Masseduction," out today on Loma Vista |
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