My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. | | | | Alicia Bognanno of Bully at Bonnaroo, June 9, 2016.
(Josh Brasted/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”
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| | rantnrave:// BILLBOARD can expect to receive some flowers and chocolates from labels and publishers and maybe from APPLE and TIDAL, too, after announcing it would tweak the formula of its major charts to emphasize paid streaming and de-emphasize free, ad-supported streaming. A thousand plays on Tidal will now be worth more than a thousand plays on SPOTIFY in the eyes of the chartmakers, and a thousand plays from paid Spotify subscribers will be worth more than a thousand plays from the service's free users. (YOUTUBE and other video plays will continue to count on the singles chart but not on the albums chart.) I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of which albums and tracks will benefit, and which will suffer. Who has more paying Spotify subs in their fanbase: POST MALONE or CARDI B? And interesting that while the magazine will continue to distinguish between on-demand services and programmed radio services like PANDORA and SLACKER—the latter have lesser chart weight—it still thinks of Spotify playlists as "on-demand" rather than "programmed." Arguably, programming a Pandora radio station is a more on-demand experience than leaning back and listening to a playlist like RAP CAVIAR, which an awful lot of Spotify users do every day. Should a playlist play be worth the same as a play where the user does all the work? Should we not be suggesting ways to add more layers of complexity to an already confusing chart calculation? How does all this affect marketing and promotion? Does it give labels a reason to hate ad-supported streaming all over again even if it doesn't change how artists, labels and publishers are paid, not even by a penny?... Here's a proposal to change—and simplify—how everyone gets paid, with publisher and PRO support and Republican sponsors... Well now I really want to read that JANN WENNER bio that Jann Wenner doesn't want me, or anyone, to read. It's possible MICK JAGGER doesn't want us to read it, either. STICKY FINGERS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JANN WENNER AND ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE comes out Tuesday. In the meantime, kick back for a couple hours this weekend and remember Rolling Stone the way everyone wants to remember it. And if you have a couple more hours, here's how no one wants to remember it, maybe not even JOHN TRAVOLTA... There are legit reasons for a label to want to sign the indisputably talented XXXTENTACION right about now (too late, everyone who isn't CAROLINE), and legit reasons for a label to say no. But "it's part and parcel of the business" is not the way I'd choose to put it two weeks after the HARVEY WEINSTEIN news broke... God bless you, JASON ISBELL... It's FRIDAY and that means there's a "GORGEOUS" new TAYLOR SWIFT song along with new music from MARGO PRICE, BULLY, FUTURE & YOUNG THUG, JACKIE SHANE, NIALL HORAN, KEYSHIA COLE, LINDSTRØM, COLLEEN, SNOH AALEGRA, DESTROYER, JESSIE WARE, WILLIE NELSON & THE BOYS, CHRIS YOUNG, GIRAFFAGE, YOUNG DOLPH, KLLO, RØDHÅD, TRIVIUM, WE CAME AS ROMANS, JOHN CARPENTER, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, NAI PALM, TYMINSKI, DARIUS RUCKER, BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN and BOYZ II MEN... And FEVER RAY's first new song in eight years... And a deluxe reissue of THE QUEEN IS DEAD.
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| As "Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine" nears its Oct. 24 publication date, Wenner has made it clear: He does not like Joe Hagan’s book. Two pages into the prologue, Wenner is likened to a “boy vampire” and, according to his own staff, a “starf***er.” (With good reason, as the next 500 pages makes clear.) | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Indigenous tongues around the world are under threat-and modern musicians are trying to keep them alive. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Everything from Metal Gear Solid to Donkey Kong has provided rich inspiration. | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| Joshua Kloke has seen almost 50 Tragically Hip shows across Canada, the United States and Europe and has written a book about that intense fandom. | | |
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 | Toronto Star |
| The producer of Introduce Yerself says the late Tragically Hip singer used it to take his anger at his fate ‘and turn it into love.’ | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Post Malone’s Rockstar, the No 1 song in the US and UK this week, is a tale of drugs and loveless sex - and joins similarly empty-sounding hits from 21 Savage, Future, Lil Uzi Vert and more. Why has mainstream rap become so bleak? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| "If it's a big tour and you're a high-profile artist and you gather tens of thousands of people per show, you have to have it," says an attorney who represents Britney Spears and Steven Tyler. | | |
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 | Nashville Scene |
| When it comes to Nashville's next big up-and-coming rock act, it's Bully for us | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How the icon's 1992 projects (her own 'Lemonade') tackled homophobia, AIDS hysteria and female, queer desire, and set the blueprint for modern pop. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The music industry has long backed artists in the face of controversy. | | |
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 | Hazlitt |
| Songwriter Jim Steinman found his muse in the performer-and, forty years ago, they released their iconic, operatic rock album, Bat Out of Hell. | | |
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 | MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY |
| For songwriters, the holiday season is a good time to remember the most terrifying words in the English language: I’m from Washington and I’m here to help. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| She’s always been outspoken, honest and unfiltered. But now the singer is taking more control of her sound, with a new album, “Meaning of Life.” | | |
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 | The Panoptic |
| College radio had the potential to be a radical space for sharing ideas and building communities and movements … there was something about that possibility that intrigued me. | | |
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| Billboard |
| A proposed fix: a blanket mechanical licensing for the U.S. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The Public Enemy frontman, whose self-titled debut album with Prophets of Rage is available now, sounds off on President Trump-and the ‘sinister’ people in his orbit. | | |
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 | Passion of the Weiss |
| Monitoring famous people’s online activity is maybe the only purpose of social media. Following celebrities on Snapchat is, so far, the most successful way to: 1. Escape reality and 2. Become a professional stan. Anyway, I follow YG on Snapchat and since Still Brazy dropped, he is living greater than you. | | |
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 | Audio Media International |
| After a decade of dormancy, the legendary Sound City Studios on the west coast of the US finds itself back under the spotlight. Colby Ramsey speaks to studio operator Olivier Chastan to find out more. | | |
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 | On An Overgrown Path |
| Classical music's biggest challenge is not ageing audiences, disruptive business models, institutionalised discrimination, unsatisfactory concert halls etc etc. The biggest challenge facing classical music is adapting to a society in which no one cares about anything except staying firmly within their own algorithmically defined comfort zone. | | |
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 | Watt |
| If you’re looking to make money doing this, you can quit reading now. If you have a voice and you want to use it, if you love music and want to share it and if you can stand marking a bunch of sexist emails (particularly ones from a persistent being known as Mr. Satan) as spam, then you’re ready. | | |
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| | | | Willie Nelson and the Boys |
| | Studio version on "Willie's Stash, Vol. 2," out today on Legacy. |
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