If you pour your heart out and you’re honest with yourself and your human experience and your life, and you put that into music, you don’t have to be talented. | | | | | Sturgill Simpson & band at Pickathon 2013, Happy Valley, Ore. (Eli Duke) | | | | | | “If you pour your heart out and you’re honest with yourself and your human experience and your life, and you put that into music, you don’t have to be talented.”
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| | rantnrave:// Now that's what I call curation: The NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! series turns 60 next month (as in volumes, not years), and "NOW 60," like all releases in the series, will be produced as an actual CD, sold in actual stores and will be a top-10 album, at least, in BILLBOARD. The company is also a playlist brand within SPOTIFY and APPLE MUSIC, though as Now A&R consultant JEFF MOSKOW tells Billboard, it's basically been doing playlists since long before the streaming business existed. And it does the hardest kind of playlist, the kind that has to be licensed, mastered and manufactured. And perfectly timed. "It's not that hard to get the biggest hits," says JERRY COHEN, SVP of Now Music at UMG. "The hard part is getting the latest hits"... STEVE JOBS and his team curated the first prototype IPODs 15 years ago this month by pre-loading them with 20 albums, mostly jazz, rock and classical. Can you guess, before you click, which two artists had multiple albums in that collection?... A broader collection of 27 pieces from around the world was sent into space aboard the two VOYAGER probes in 1977. That feat of UNITED NATIONS-level curation is finally available on EARTH, as replica discs are being issued for the first time... VINEs... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from MICHAEL MAYER, TOVE LO, KENNY CHESNEY, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, JEEZY, THE POP GROUP, MANNEQUIN PUSSY, AARON LEE TASJAN, ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, CERRONE, CRX, STEVE HAUSCHILDT, THE OLYMPIANS, HONEYBLOOD, NINA DIAZ, TOY and LARA DOWNES. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| “In 10 years I’ll be the biggest country star on this planet. … And there’s nothing they can do to stop that.” | | |
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| Rappers are speaking up in an election year when artists from other genres have remained silent. | | |
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| The backstory of a modern standard. | | |
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| What are the risks when white producers use signifiers from minority communities? | | |
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| Thanks in part to some powerful musician friends, President Clinton has raised billions for good causes. He also has raised the ire of his wife's political opponent. No matter, says a steadfast and chipper POTUS, who, on the eve of his organization's closure, reflects on the highs and lows. | | |
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| Alejandro Escovedo's first-person account of leaving Austin last year after 35 years. | | |
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| The New York Review of Books |
| The story of the Beach Boys is a kind of philosophical problem. Not that they didn’t make some albums still eminently worth hearing, if we go by the unit of the album: Pet Sounds, from 1966, is the prize pony, full of confident hits as well as deep-purple self-absorption (“God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Caroline, No”). | | |
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| Comuna 13 is the birthplace of a unique blend of activism that combines rap music, social protest and environmental projects. “We call it ‘agrarian hip hop’ because we’ve synchronized hip hop with agriculture,” explained Luis Fernando Álvarez. | | |
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| Smule lets users record music together. | | |
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| We spoke with the iron-willed Russian activist and musician about prison reform, the dangers of a Trump presidency, and vagina power. | | |
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| When Amy Winehouse recorded “Back to Black” her label told her if she didn’t make another record right then, she would be forgotten. | | |
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| "We've had decades of listening to Led Zeppelin,” says Lori Majewski, co-author of the book Mad World: "An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s." "Now people who are in their late 30s through early 50s, they're running the shows, literally." | | |
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| "One of the most commonly shared things on Facebook is music -- specifically covers of songs. Fan versions of hits have produced some of today's biggest stars, but -- there's one problem, Facebook hasn't licensed with any of the publishers." | | |
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| On the eve of new Papa M album 'Highway Songs,' indie legend David Pajo opens up about his recent motorcycle accident and last February's suicide attempt. | | |
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| Hosted at The Lakely at The Oxbow Hotel, Eau Claire, WI, 2 September 2016. | | |
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| The first wave of American True Metal bands were mostly relegated to cult status, but the new standard-bearers of the sound are poised for a big breakthrough. | | |
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| Ms. Ono’s early albums, which broughtthe worlds of rock music andavant-garde art together in an inventivehead-on collision, are being reissued. | | |
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| “I know everyone thinks it’s, like, poetry. But I thought I was rapping my a** off.” | | |
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| Last week, Grammy-winning musician Lila Downs released “El Demagogo”/“The Demagogue,” her first song since 2015's sublime Balas y Chocolate, as part of the 30 Days 30 Songs anti-Trump initiative. | | |
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| "I'd still be doing this today if I was a waitress," Dolly says. "That's how much I love the music." | | |
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| | from "&," out today on K7 |
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