[Taylor Swift is] doing the same thing Eddie Van Halen did in the early Eighties—she’s causing all the young players to want to take up an instrument and play. | | | | | Guitar hero. (Gabbo T) | | | | | | “[Taylor Swift is] doing the same thing Eddie Van Halen did in the early Eighties—she’s causing all the young players to want to take up an instrument and play.”
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| | rantnrave:// We're thrilled to debut the new REDEF website. New UI, easier sharing, ability to follow and watch what your friends are reading, charts, originals, sets, social and reader app sync, full newsletter and account management and of course a neverending mix of the best reading in media, fashion, music, sports and technology... Normally you have to get elected before all the songs protesting your presidency are written and recorded. But DONALD TRUMP is not your average candidate, and songwriters and musicians aren't waiting around to see if it actually happens. Or maybe they're just a little antsy. Or scared. EMINEM sounds like he has so much to get off his chest on "CAMPAIGN SPEECH" ("that's what you wanted? A f***in' loose cannon who's blunt with his hand on the button / Who doesn't have to answer to no one? Great idea!") that he could hardly bother adding a beat; it's nearly a spoken-word track. It's angry, impassioned, smart, a little offensive and pretty good. (And, Emimen being Eminem, Trump is far from the only target of the eight-minute rap.) "We can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't wait" for HILLARY to win the election, electropoppers LE TIGRE sing on "I'M WITH HER," their first new song in 12 years, which sounds like a cheerleading chant. On "BACKWARDS BLUES," the 11th entry in the DAVE EGGERS-curated 30 DAYS 30 SONGS project, singer-songwriter ADIA VICTORIA strips down to voice and acoustic guitar while training her eyes on both candidate and country: "I might be okay if I couldn't say / He was was speaking to half of us." PITCHFORK's MARC HOGAN on "What We Can Learn From the Political Music of Other Depressing Elections," by which he means 2004... The late ROD TEMPERTON was "a white guy at the soul of black pop," BRUCE BRITT writes in a thoughtful remembrance of the "THRILLER" songwriter who died two weeks ago. You can double that for PHIL CHESS, the CHESS RECORDS co-founder who died Tuesday. Though he and his brother LEONARD sold the label almost 50 years ago, they left behind an unmatched legacy of recordings by MUDDY WATERS, ETTA JAMES, CHUCK BERRY, HOWLIN' WOLF and several other 20th century giants. "Phil and Leonard Chess were cuttin’ the type of music nobody else was paying attention to," BUDDY GUY, whose relationship with the label was less than great, says. Pick almost any strain of modern Western pop music and you can draw a line, either direct or indirect, back to the monumental sides Chess released in the '50s and '60s... Is TAYLOR SWIFT the new EDDIE VAN HALEN? Completely serious question... GARTH BROOKS, one of the last big streaming holdouts, is holding out no more... BOBBY SHMURDA sentenced to seven years, after saying he was "forced by my attorney to take this plea." | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| How Kendrick, Young Thug, Mick Jenkins and more are tapping into the painful prayers of a bygone era. | | |
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| From the Residents’ freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap’s meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of “Weird Al,” a chronicle of those who have turned pastiche and mimicry into an art form across the last 50 years. | | |
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| “We made a very conscious decision, very early on, to never be backed into a creative corner.” | | |
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| A creative partner to Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, The Invisible Man lives on in the best music of the 20th century. | | |
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| There are few places that couldn't be improved with better music. Grocery giant Whole Foods has taken this truism into consideration and given managers at some of their more prestigious locations carte blanche to hire disc jockeys for their attached bars and eateries. But behind every DJ's paid gig is a person booking them for it. | | |
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| The iconic hardcore band’s original lead singer writes: there wasn’t a punk rock manual like there is today. | | |
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| With his brother Leonard Chess, he started the Chicago label that recorded Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy and a cast of other top musicians, spreading the gospel of the blues. | | |
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| The comments of artist Gustavo Cordera are only the most recent example of a seemingly pervasive discrimination problem in the country. | | |
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| Years and years before making revolutionary videos for Björk, before 'creating a symbiotic visual aesthetic to help tell the story of Bjork’s endlessly giving album Vulnicura," before the mind-bending and immersive installations in Tokyo, Sydney and New York’s MoMA, Andrew Thomas Huang went viral. | | |
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| This week I had the honour of being invited to mentor schoolgirls on the London Eye as part of the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the UN’s International Day of the Girl celebrations. | | |
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| The duo’s debut is a thoughtful, candid exchange between fan and artist. This interview is not. | | |
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| Recently, Britain’s youth centres had £260m cut from their budgets, making it even harder for kids to break into the music industry. | | |
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| The Virginia rapper/singer discusses his post-"Broccoli" fame, working with Erykah Badu and how he came up with the best album cover of the year. | | |
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| For a fundamentally international city like Shanghai, reggae and dub music has taken a long time to find a place-but thanks to a handful of leading lights, it's beginning to make itself at home. | | |
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| Nineteen nominees on the Rock Hall’s long list this year?! A voter breaks down the induction chances for Bad Brains, Chic, Janet, Pearl Jam, Tupac, Kraftwerk, Journey (GTFO), and a dozen (!) more. | | |
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| Read how Long Island musician Mike DelGuidice went from leading a Billy Joel tribute band to playing with the real thing all over the world. | | |
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| This interactive, animated graphic tells you everything you need to know about the workings of a record player. | | |
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| From Burning Man’s first sound camp to LSD-fueled God delusions, Wicked looks back on their 25 years of hard partying. | | |
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| Few hip-hop producers have changed music quite like Prince Paul. This Amityville, New York maverick (real name Paul Edward Huston) has revolutionised the sound and direction of his genre more than once and continues to do so with his new North-to-South American project Brookzill! | | |
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| A detailed account of an artist’s history with depression, self-medication and therapy, and the value of music and empathy. | | |
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