Everyone wants to produce festivals. Dreams are easy, but the execution is the hard part. | | | | Neneh Cherry's "Broken Politics" is out today on Smalltown Supersound.
(Jordi Vidal/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Everyone wants to produce festivals. Dreams are easy, but the execution is the hard part.”
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| | rantnrave:// The late XXXTENTACION reportedly has been ruled ineligible to compete for BEST NEW ARTIST at the GRAMMY AWARDS. This saves the RECORDING ACADEMY from having to worry that a man who'd been accused of multiple instances of domestic violence might win a major award—a bad look in any year, but especially this year—while also serving as further proof that the Academy pretty much makes up the Best New Artist rules as it goes. HITS DAILY DOUBLE reveals the reasoning was that XXX, whose stardom was sealed with a #1 album that came out in the middle of the Grammy eligibility period, had released his debut album seven months earlier, outside that eligibility period. That reasoning would have made sense if the same Academy committee hadn't approved Best New Artist submissions by TROYE SIVAN, whose debut was a hit in 2015, and MARGO PRICE, who started hitting the charts in 2016. Whoever wins the award will be picking it up in 2019. Is the Academy demonstrating that it's not quite sure how to stand up and invoke a morals clause, or that it's good at diplomacy? Or both?... LITTLE BIG TOWN's KAREN FAIRCHILD stood up at CMT's ARTISTS OF THE YEAR special and, in 45 seconds, "provided one of the most powerful award show moments of the year," no diplomacy necessary... RIHANNA stood up to the NFL, turning down the 2019 SUPER BOWL halftime show in solidarity with COLIN KAEPERNICK, US WEEKLY reports. MAROON 5 took the gig... Which songs from the past 25 years will still be on the world's playlists 100 years from now? SLATE put that question to 19 bizzers, musicians and critics, and their best educated guesses constitute what the site is calling the NEW AMERICAN SONGBOOK. The package of five stories is a delicious music-nerd read. Here are some tips for artists, writers and producers who want their work to last into the 22nd century: Come up with "the best hook in history." Appeal directly to New Yorkers. Write a Christmas song. Aim for weddings and bachelorette parties. complain about the inability of men to stick around... SPOTIFY rejiggers its mobile app... Artist managers have some questions for TICKETMASTER... The first of three unaired episodes of TOM PETTY's SIRIUS XM show BURIED TREASURE premieres on Saturday... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from GRETA VAN FLEET, EMPRESS OF, NENEH CHERRY, YOKO ONO, LIL YACHTY, JASON ISBELL, REM, MØ, HOW TO DRESS WELL, GEOTIC, FUTURE & JUICE WRLD, KHALID, CLOUD NOTHINGS, PHONY PPL, AMERIE, JESSIE REYEZ, WILL OLDHAM, ESPERANZA SPALDING, DJ MUGGS & ROC MARCIANO, DISTURBED, ELLE KING, OPEN MIKE EAGLE, JEAN DEAUX, PAPERCUTS, SOFT CENTER, MINUS THE BEAR, KINGS OF SPADE, FARAO, SUMMER WALKER, DEM ATLAS, ARKELLS, TOM WALKER, ACE FREHLEY, SOULFLY, RAHEEM DEVAUGHN, DOE PAORO, AMARANTHE, BECKY WARREN, BRENT FAIYAZ, LIL MOSEY, PETER BJORN & JOHN and HERB ALPERT. Plus: JOHN CARPENTER's HALLOWEEN score and a three-disc celebration of the protest label APPLESEED RECORDINGS featuring new recordings by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, TOM MORELLO, JOHN WESLEY HARDING and others... RIP BOB "ROBERTO BIANCO" BILES. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The 30 songs that we’ll be listening to for the next 100 years. | | |
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| When did merch drops become so controversial, and are the industry’s biggest players using it to game the system? | | |
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| In an excerpt from his new book, "Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest," writer Hanif Abdurraqib talks about the art of the mixtape, The Source's rigorous rating system, and what it means to be a rap fan. | | |
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| In leaked emails obtained by CBC, several prominent managers demanded answers from Ticketmaster president Jared Smith. They were angry over the revelations the box-office giant is recruiting scalpers to help boost profits from the resale of large volumes of sports and concert tickets. | | |
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| “I can’t say enough about CMT for just honoring women and celebrating women when it’s really important right now,” Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild said. Then she turned her attention to her phone and started reading. | | |
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| With the industry in full boom, October has become prime time to lock in festival acts so agents can then route tours. As the 2019 festival season is already on the horizon, Pollstar submitted five questions to numerous festival promoters, producers, booking agents and talent buyers working with various-sized events throughout North America. | | |
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| The event will debut in 2019. | | |
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| “Buy an amazing shirt and send a girl to school," declares the pivotal punk singer. | | |
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| Tyler, the Creator is an exuberant rap star and a thoughtful polymath working across fashion, animation, and film. WarnerMedia, Nike, and Sony have hopped aboard. Are you ready to ride? | | |
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| In the lead-up to fabric’s 19th birthday, we speak to key players behind the vision and behind the decks of the forward-thinking Farringdon club about its birth, impact and evolution. | | |
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| He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades. But do we really know Elton John? | | |
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| Def Jam’s Steven Victor kicks off Billboard’s annual 40 Under 40 list of young music executives, revealing how his 14-year business alliance with Pusha T fueled his growth and success in the industry. | | |
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| Grammy Whisperer Paul Grein takes a look at who’s making the cut in one of the most contentious top-tier categories. | | |
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| Fender’s CEO Andy Mooney looks to new audiences for the future of the storied guitar company. | | |
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| Tom Krell didn't expect Los Angeles to feel like this. The 34-year-old songwriter known professionally as How To Dress Well is sitting cross-legged on his bed, struggling to describe the tension at the heart of a city he calls both "extremely beautiful" and "borderline psychotic." | | |
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| Who were Skull Snaps and why did it take forty-five years to find out? | | |
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| Danny Bennett's arrival at Verve two years ago saw him move to open up the label’s core music and catalogue to all. Everything, he argued, had to be accessible.“ | | |
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| How 2018’s most stylistically daring R&B/art-rock group went from a Crown Heights basement to international stages. | | |
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| The singer and co-founder of Them Are Us Too lost her best friend and bandmate in the Oakland fire that killed dozens of underground music fans. But a regal new solo record has helped her move forward. | | |
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| Take a step back, and Weezer’s novelty hit cover of Toto's "Africa" is not so novel. As I’m writing this, on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, it’s one of three covers in the Top 10, one a hard-rock take on the Cranberries’ 1994 hit “Zombie” by the band Bad Wolves, and the other Disturbed’s metal version of Simon & Garfunkel’s 1965 “The Sound of Silence.” | | |
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| | | | | | | From "Us," out today on Terrible Records. |
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