One of the things I say all the time is that if people want to be her at 10 p.m. onstage, they have to want to be her at 4 a.m. in rehearsal. And they have to be her at 5 p.m. in the conference room. If you want to be that mogul, if you want to be that entertainer, you put in the work. She puts in the work. | | | | Ronnie Barnett and the late Kim Shattuck of the Muffs in Madrid, June 17, 2015. Their final album, "No Holiday," is out today.
(Mariano Regidor/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “One of the things I say all the time is that if people want to be her at 10 p.m. onstage, they have to want to be her at 4 a.m. in rehearsal. And they have to be her at 5 p.m. in the conference room. If you want to be that mogul, if you want to be that entertainer, you put in the work. She puts in the work.”
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| | rantnrave:// The craziest thing about this story of an aspiring Japanese rapper who sold all his possessions to buy a one-way ticket to Cleveland to try to meet his heroes, BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY, and who camped out on the corner of E. 99th and St. Clair for days hoping they'd just show up, apparently unaware that the group's members left Cleveland years ago, and who was robbed as he waited, and who didn't speak a word of English, and who was taken in by two locals who have connections to the group, and who's still there, his visa now expired, and whose story has been told by the investigative unit of the local Fox affiliate, who reached out to SEN. SHERROD BROWN and two members of BONE THUGS on his behalf, and by HIPHOPDX, who got KRAYZIE BONE to say the escapade may not have been the best idea but "I commend him for his determination and passion for what he’s trying to do because I can relate"? The craziest thing is that only one member of the group has actually met the traveler, whose name is RYO MURANAKA. Cleveland's FOX 8 reports that LAYZIE BONE put him up in a hotel for a short time and briefly met him, and that BIZZY BONE, who hasn't met him, has promised to buy him a ticket back to Japan even though Muranaka says he doesn't want to go home. BONE THUGS are playing in Kansas City tonight. Guys, buy him *that* plane ticket and give him 3 or 4 minutes onstage. Or make like STEEL DRAGON, have him change his name to SERIOUSLY CRAZY BONE and sponsor him for his green card. Meanwhile, who's optioning the story?... BEYONCÉ and STEVE PAMON, who's president of her PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENT, top BILLBOARD's R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players List... The BLACK MADONNA found herself on a poster for AMAZON's new INTERSECT MUSIC FESTIVAL this week and she is not having it. She says Amazon's name was on "NONE of the offers of paperwork" for the festival. "Please be patient," she asked her TWITTER following Thursday afternoon, "while I burn some bridges"... While she was dying of ALS, KIM SHATTUCK rallied her bandmates in the long-running LA pop-punk band the MUFFS to record one more album. Drummer ROY MCDONALD shares the heartbreaking story of how Shattuck produced the Muffs' final sessions—largely built on guitar demos she had made before she was diagnosed—as the disease was robbing her of her motor skills and her ability to speak. "This one was certainly going to have a different vibe," McDonald writes. NO HOLIDAY is out today on OMNIVORE RECORDINGS, two weeks after Shattuck died at age 56. It sounds like this. And this... It's FRIDAY and that means there's also new music from VAGABON, FLOATING POINTS, JACQUES GREENE, REFUSED, KASH DOLL, BLACK MOON, MATANA ROBERTS, ANNA WISE, ROBERTO FONSECA, FOALS, CAROLINE POLACHEK, CLIPPING, BATTLES, YUNGBLUD, JIM JAMES/TEDDY ABRAMS/LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA, JIMMY EAT WORLD, the ALMOST, HOMEBOY SANDMAN, MARK LANEGAN BAND, JIMMY "DUCK" HOLMES, ROLAND GUERIN, JOY ORBISON, TOURIST, PICK A PIPER, WHITE REAPER, FASTBALL, THIRD EYE BLIND and JAMES ARTHUR... PATSY AND LORETTA, a biopic about the friendship between the two country giants written and directed by CALLIE KHOURI (creator of TV's NASHVILLE), airs Saturday on LIFETIME... RIP BOB KINGSLEY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| There are no easy answers when you're trying to tabulate music's popularity in a mixed-media era. But as long as the thirst for a #1 album persists, Billboard will likely keep declaring a chart champion across all formats, and artists will keep trying to game whatever system is in place. | | |
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| The artist-fan relationship is as wrought as any other relationship in our lives. | | |
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 | British GQ |
| As a new documentary, Mystify: Michael Hutchence, sheds fresh light on the life of Michael Hutchence, GQ recalls the eye-opening weekend spent with the Australian singer and his supermodel girlfriend, Helena Christensen, at the star’s French Riviera hideaway. | | |
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| This record ripping guide is useful even if you're not a DJ. The methods I outline will work for anyone who has the problem of digitising a large collection of filthy vinyls whilst trying maintain good sound quality. Also, the sections on cleaning and handling records is useful for any person who owns a record deck. | | |
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| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a bizarre institution that manages to simultaneously be one of the highest honors in music and also be extremely peripheral. Last month, when Cars frontman Ric Ocasek passed away, just about every article covering the news mentioned his status as a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. | | |
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| The first of a two-part Chart Beat Podcast sparked by Tayla Parx's Burnout Camp. | | |
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| "We are not bratty kids fighting for attention. We understand what we want," says the pop star. | | |
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| Ten years ago, a collaboration between an indie act and a pop artist was something to marvel over. Now, it’s just how things are. | | |
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 | Gothamist |
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