I never wanted to be a feature—that was never the goal with my music. I didn’t want to just live through other people’s work. | | | | | JoJo. (Brooke Nipar) | | | | | | “I never wanted to be a feature—that was never the goal with my music. I didn’t want to just live through other people’s work.”
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| With a rich network of sound-obsessed cafés, bars and small clubs, Aaron Coultate explains why Tokyo might be the best place in the world to listen to music. | | |
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| JoJo discusses "Mad Love," reclaiming the spotlight, and being true to herself. | | |
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| The members of Phish discuss how they overcame internal conflicts and overhauled their creative process in the lead-up to new LP 'Big Boat.' | | |
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| Contemplating the fate of an evolving industry. | | |
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| Joanne is as theatrical as anything Gaga has ever done, touching on styles intimate and overcooked and upholding her romantic belief in broad gestures and bold declarations. | | |
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| While Solange has seen huge success by staying quiet, Lady Gaga and Bon Iver have struggled despite huge promotional campaigns. | | |
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| We corresponded with company founder and musician Eron Bucciarelli-Tieger about how their service will put Performing Rights payments into the proper pockets. | | |
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| Mature beyond their years, the four teenagers in this New York band are forging a feminist pop-punk sound all their own. | | |
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| Marshall Chess literally grew up in the music biz. He was five years old when his father Leonard and uncle Phil Czyz purchased a portion of Aristocrat Records, which ultimately became the iconoclastic, independent blues and R&B label Chess Records. | | |
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| Andre Young has had a abusive past, but why are we just now getting upset about it? Andreas Hale breaks it down | | |
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| The free concert festival put on by the Stones outside San Francisco was poorly planned, hastily thrown together, and heedlessly run. The tragedy forever haunts the band. | | |
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| With a winning debut album, D.R.A.M. has every reason to smile. | | |
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| 17 and from Pittsburgh, Daya’s released her debut album. And it shows she owes a debt to dance music, but isn’t bound by it. | | |
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| One of the themes my MIDiA colleague Tim Mulligan (the name's no coincidence, he's my brother too!) has been developing over in our online video research is that of next generation TV operators. With the traditional pay-TV model buckling under the pressure of countless streaming subscriptions services like Netflix (there are more than 50 services... | | |
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| In Simon Reynolds’ Shock and Awe, glam rock is more than Bowie and Bolan-it’s a fame-obsessed philosophy that lingers in pop still. We talk all things glitter with the author and critic. | | |
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| "I feel like he’s got a sense that he’s in over his head, and he’s a rat in a corner, and he’s really fighting and scrapping and biting and freaking out." | | |
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| The original freaks on a leash are back with a new album that tackles methamphetamine addiction, finding religion and learning to like yourself. | | |
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| Her work in the 60s helped shape American music, but today the composer and accordionist is embracing being a “digital immigrant.” | | |
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| Members of the Danish rock band, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, say their unconvential launch strategy will result in an album that may be "totally schizophrenic, but in a really wonderful way." | | |
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| "Just because racists seem to have the loudest voices, doesn't mean they have a point." | | |
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