Telling your girlfriend you’re spending the day at Mom’s when actually you’re at an amusement park with your other girlfriend? How very Christine McVie telling John that 'You Make Loving Fun' was about her dog. | | | | Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen performing at WOMAD in Wiltshire, England, July 28, 2012.
(C Brandon/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Telling your girlfriend you’re spending the day at Mom’s when actually you’re at an amusement park with your other girlfriend? How very Christine McVie telling John that 'You Make Loving Fun' was about her dog.”
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| | rantnrave:// Sometimes—not always, but sometimes—mo' money means few'r problems. That's the unequivocal message of CARDI B's fantastic single "MONEY," which she surprise-dropped Monday morning. Over a minimalist piano line spiced with digital handclaps, Cardi, who knows a thing or two about money moves, informs us there's "nothing in this world that I like more than checks"—not diamonds, not jets, not "morning sex." (It's up to you decide if afternoon or evening sex might in fact be preferable to those checks; Cardi offers no guidance on that point.) She's quite clear that her preferred format for receiving those dollars is via check, a format that's traceable and accountable and better for doing business than the cash that Cardi has been known to throw around onstage. Of course, if the business you happen to be in is music, it's never been easy to trace or account for that money; it sometimes seems as if the entire business was designed specifically to prevent you from ever being able to account for a single dollar, even if you're the person to whom that dollar is owed. Kudos, therefore, to IMOGEN HEAP, whose just-launched LIFE OF A SONG website is an attempt to break down every dollar earned in the past decade and a half by her influential 2005 vocoder hit "HIDE AND SEEK." The interactive site allows you to separate out and compare recording and publishing income from such sources as physical sales, broadcast, sync and, least but not last, sheet music (the source of 2,126 British pounds' worth of publishing income in the song's best year). It's a beautifully designed site and fun to play with even if, I confess, some of the math didn't quite make sense to me. Heap is missing some info, whose absence she details. A project diary chronicles the enormous effort her team put into collecting and organizing the data over the past 20 months. It took a team of nine people nearly two years to do this. For a single song. Heap is a vocal proponent of using blockchain technology to make this a little easier for everyone, and perhaps to make those checks arrive a little bit sooner, with a little more confidence on the part of the recipient... GIBSON, the guitar company, has had money problems of its own in recent years, and on Tuesday is announced the appointment of a new CEO, JAMES CURLEIGH. He'll take over on Nov. 1, the day the company is scheduled to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Curleigh, currently at LEVI STRAUSS, another iconic American brand that lost its way for a while, tells ROLLING STONE he plans to focus on fretted instruments in the near term. The company's wandering eye for other kinds of music-making tools is widely seen as a significant contributor to Gibson's financial woes... Classic rock beef of the week: TED NUGENT vs. many inhabitants of the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME vs. DAVID CROSBY... ASMR content creator of the week: Cardi B... RIP NICK BREED and JON JAMES MCMURRAY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Mycelia |
| Life of a Song explores the workings of the music industry through the contracts, biography and revenue data for the song “Hide and Seek” by Imogen Heap. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Hip-hop has evolved each year since its birth, not only lyrically, but sonically. Here are the best hip-hop producers, from the genre's beginnings to today. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| When Apple introduced the iPod in 2001, they pioneered a new kind of physical listening experience and changed music forever. | | |
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 | Music Biz 101 |
| Do the bankruptcies of Sears and Toys R Us mean something to the radio business? Is Netflix simply Blockbuster Pt. II? | | |
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 | City Pages |
| Show me a more metaphorically on-the-nose group than the one that penned "Rumours" to soundtrack a friendship forged in such a strange emotional chaos. | | |
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 | The Quietus |
| Label founder Brian Shimkovitz talks to Richie Troughton about how his blog of obscure and rarely heard cassettes from Africa became a record label determined to locate artists and see them finally get the acclaim they deserve for their work. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| One of the year’s most successful hip-hop producers -- a favorite of Drake, Migos and Travis Scott -- is a Canadian who resembles Shaggy from “Scooby Doo.” | | |
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 | EW |
| Twenty years after its release (on Oct. 23, 1998), we take a deep dive into one of the most groundbreaking hits in history. | | |
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 | Reverb.com |
| Psycho. Jaws. Halloween. It Follows. For every scary movie that haunts our dreams, there is a carefully crafted score that helps to enhance the experience for thrill-seekers. Join Reverb's Joe Shadid as he discusses the history of horror film scores...IF YOU DARE! | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Rihanna turned it down, but it might be harder for an ATL musician to walk away from a home gig in front of 100 million people. | | |
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 | GQ |
| He's battled critics, depression, and, at times, Kanye West. But now, as he re-emerges with a new creative optimism, the 34-year-old is blissfully focused on something much more dynamic: his future. | | |
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 | Daily Dot |
| This week on 2 Girls 1 Podcast, Alli and Jen untangle the livelihood of the internet's most prolific composer and Creative Commons pioneer, Kevin MacLeod. | | |
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 | CDM Create Digital Music |
| Streaming is coming to DJing. Last week saw new announcements from Tidal, SoundCloud, Serato, and several other software makers. But progress is uneven -- expect these features at first to be primarily about discovery, not what you do at a gig. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| The sounds of that year have reverberated through overground indie and buzzy major-label pop in the decade since. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In an extract from her new book in the 33 1/3 series, Amy Gentry explains why its rejection of the ideals of feminine and musical beauty are crucial to an understanding of Amos’s 1996 album. | | |
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 | On An Overgrown Path |
| Classical music's new audience is conditioned to the 'in your face' sound' of head-fi and home cinema. If classical music wants a new audience, that audience should be given, within reason, what it wants. | | |
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 | Nashville Post |
| James Curleigh, who goes by JC, will take the helm at Nashville-based Gibson Nov. 1, the day the company is expected to emerge from Delaware Bankruptcy Court, where it filed for protection from its creditors on May 1. He comes to Gibson from Levi Strauss & Co. | | |
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 | Talkhouse |
| Gender may be fluid, but your opinion on ska is binary. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| The leather trousers, the cars -- it once seemed so thrilling but now looks ridiculous, says "Guardian" columnist John Harris. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| As the composer, writer and gay icon lives quietly on the Upper West Side, his music and books warrant reconsideration. | | |
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