There’s no doubt that paying for streaming nets you more music for your money, but for me, purchasing an album allows me to curate and savor it the way I want. | | | | | Probe Records, Liverpool: one-time employer of Dead or Alive's Pete Burns. (Radarsmum67) | | | | | | “There’s no doubt that paying for streaming nets you more music for your money, but for me, purchasing an album allows me to curate and savor it the way I want.”
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| | rantnrave:// Oh MTV, my crazy and wonderful—and now slightly dysfunctional—former home. May your third president since, what, last Tuesday?, be the charm. (Disclosure: REDEF's masthead is crawling with devoted ex-MTV'ers, including me, and we are actively rooting for you)... I was there, for example, 10 years when this was happening. Ten.Years.Ago.Really... Ten years ago is also when PUSHA T was that dude in CLIPSE. Now he's that dude in DRAKE's line of fire. #NewGoldenAgeOfHipHop... "The most relevant music discovery tool I’ve ever used" (hint: it's hardware, not software)... Contrarian dance-poppers DEAD OR ALIVE spent the '80s making records that critics hated (or ignored; I'm talking to you, SPIN ALTERNATIVE RECORD GUIDE, but not you, MTV) and making enemies of peers like BOY GEORGE (whom DOA's androgynous lead singer PETE BURNS accused of stealing his act). They famously left behind a bit of a mess everywhere they went. They also left behind a handful of classic '80s singles, including "YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD)" and "BRAND NEW LOVER." Burns, last seen on the UK's "CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER," died of a heart attack Monday, and will be remembered as a small-but-important of a decade that tried its best to ignore him. And as one of the great snobby record-store clerks. And as "one of our great true eccentrics" by Boy George, with whom Burns had long ago hugged it out...RIP also BOBBY VEE and HERB KENT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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