I like beautiful melodies telling you terrible things. | | | | Man of many mics: Moses Sumney at Union Chapel, London, April 3, 2017.
(Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I like beautiful melodies telling you terrible things.”
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| | rantnrave:// The final, essential step in the art of gaslighting is mocking your victims for believing the thing you were gaslighting them about. Create US SENATE campaign website. Announce it's "real." Declare it's "very possible" you will in fact run for that seat. Do nothing to dissuade the country's biggest newspapers, and officials of both parties, from discussing your candidacy. Stake out positions on the issues. Literally wrap yourself in an American flag. When your questionable past is inevitably called into question, complain that "none of this would be going on if I were not thinking about running for office." Insult the popular incumbent senator you would be running against. Discover she is crushing you in a poll. Explain, finally, three months after you started, "F*** no, I'm not running." Complete the gaslight: "Are you kidding me? Who couldn’t figure that out?" And so on Tuesday KID ROCK joined JEFF FLAKE and BOB CORKER as people officially not running for office in 2018. In so doing, he switched from mocking you for not believing him to mocking you for in fact believing him. Gas. Lit. He also mentioned he has an album and tour on the way, at some point in the future, and please accept this as my announcement that this is the last time I intend to mention either of them. Worst publicity campaign of 2017? (There has been competition)... Ironic epilogue: The political watchdog group COMMON CAUSE claims Kid Rock's non-candidacy fit the legal definition of an actual candidacy and says it will continue pursuing a FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION complaint against him... Is BILLBOARD discounting the youth vote, and thus skewing its pop charts away from pop, by favoring paid streaming services over ad-supported ones including YOUTUBE and the more popular side of SPOTIFY? That's a point that eluded me when I wrote last week about the magazine's upcoming chart tweaks, but PIGEONS & PLANES' ERIC SKELTON makes the case here, and it's compelling... Sexual assault trigger warning: ALICE GLASS on why she left CRYSTAL CASTLES. Ex-bandmate ETHAN KATH responds... All four members of DECAPITATED plead not guilty to kidnapping and and rape charges... TWIGGY RAMIREZ fired from MARILYN MANSON following rape accusation... "Let the music become product placement." "I just posted a photo of me sleeping at the airport. People stay connected like that." LUPE FIASCO, RICH BOY and other rappers offer their ideas on how to fix the music industry, circa 2007... DJs who are women make way less money than, wait for it, DJs who are men... RIP PHIL MILLER of HATFIELD & THE NORTH and MATCHING MOLE (and more) and LARRY RAY of OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Pitchfork |
| The truth about Harvey Weinstein turned on a faucet that’s still running. How we react now matters for long-term change in our community. | | |
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 | Harvard Journal of Law & Technology |
| The commodification of copyright royalties isn't new, but technological advances like streaming have made it newly lucrative. Streaming transforms music from a one-shot asset (such as an album sale) to one with continuing returns. This might seem like a silver lining for artists who have otherwise been negatively affected by streaming to date, but it probably isn't. | | |
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 | Adam Neely |
| The Star-Spangled Banner is an awkward, unsubtle piece of music, but in the hands of great musicians it can be quite effective. Why is the American national anthem the way it is? How did it come to be both a spectacle of the mediocre and the sublime?History of the Star-Spangled Banner, and it’s origin in the Anacreontic Songhttp://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2014...Boston Globe article that more directly tells the story of Stravinsky’s Star Spangled... | | |
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 | Billboard |
| To compete in the increasingly crowded smart speaker market, Sonos is betting on an artist- and culture-centric approach: emphasizing audio quality; maximizing streaming partnerships; incorporating artist feedback into the product development process; and designing ad campaigns that give technology a backseat in service of the musical experience. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| Young Thug's "Group Home" lyrics being misjudged by Genius is an important lesson in unverified interpretation. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Despite a lack of resources and endless bureaucratic red tape, the Cuban extreme metal scene is flourishing. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the actor sang a medley from “West Side Story,” accompanied by a cellist, a pianist, and a violinist. | | |
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 | CNET |
| Live show Hello World brings fans together with Zoella and many of the UK's biggest YouTubers, thanks to rockers Jason and Adam Perry. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| "Billboard’s" new chart calculations may hurt their chances to accurately identify the most popular songs in the country. | | |
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 | Real Life |
| A Tumblr featuring music heard as if “from another room” offers an escape from the pressure to curate your own taste. | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| Martin Aston tells the underground history of some of music's most courageous, trail-blazing performers, from 1921 to the present day. | | |
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 | Taki's Magazine |
| Rolling Stone lied. It had its own concept of the story of rock & roll, and that notion was a pale chalk outline around the actual, useful, ecstatic reality. The death of Rolling Stone is not a symptom of the failing music industry; rather, the very existence of Rolling Stone was a factor in the failure of the music industry.Please share this article by using the link below. When you cut and paste an article, Taki's Magazine misses out on traffic, and our writers don't... | | |
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 | Alice Glass |
| The momentum that’s been created recently by the many courageous women who have opened up about their own stories has inspired me to finally be direct, at whatever cost. This is for my own recovery, for the other women who have been, are currently, or may be in a similar situation with the man who abused me for years, and for those in abusive relationships who are looking to stand up and speak out. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The queen of East Nashville talks about her new album, "All American Made," working with Willie Nelson and what it was like to record at the legendary Sun Studios. | | |
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 | 1A |
| We hear stories of Prince from people who were close to him, and we explore the musical landscape he grew up in and helped shape for the next generation. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| For several years now, music has provided Nico Segal with his share of wild times: playing on "Saturday Night Live" (twice), producing for Kanye West, recording at Rick Rubin's studio with Neil Young. Despite all this, you might not even know him by name. | | |
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 | On An Overgrown Path |
| Using 3D Visualizations to Explore and Discover Music, Predicting genre labels for artists using FreeDB, Optimizing raw audio with convolutional networks, and Building Musically-relevant Audio Features through Multiple Timescale Representations. Those are just a few of the papers cited on one page of the Research at Google online resource. | | |
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 | Daily Dot |
| To fix America, one must first decipher ICP. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Easybeats guitarist and AC/DC producer wasn’t just a star in his own right, but a behind-the-scenes industry giant. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| Martin Eric Stricker was 16 when he and his friend Tom Gabriel Fischer formed Hellhammer. They were teenagers in Nürensdorf, a town outside Zurich, Switzerland that had nothing going on at all, the perfect environment to inspire intelligent, creative teenage boys to make as furious a noise as they could and blast all the bad s*** out of their own heads. | | |
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