I don’t really believe in advice. Sometimes when I’m given advice, I do the opposite. It’s just how I’ve been my whole life. Nobody has ever been through exactly what you’re going through, ever. | | | | Roy Hargrove performing during the Red Bull Music Academy, Brooklyn, NY, May 1, 2013.
(Matthew Eisman/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I don’t really believe in advice. Sometimes when I’m given advice, I do the opposite. It’s just how I’ve been my whole life. Nobody has ever been through exactly what you’re going through, ever.”
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| | rantnrave:// I kind of feel like stepping out of my lane and writing about nothing but sports today, but I'm not sure my boss would even care so where's the fun in that? So instead I'm going to share some music stories from over the years at DEADSPIN, which has been ordered by its parent company, G/O MEDIA, to stay in its lane and stick to sports, which is kind of like ordering TAYLOR SWIFT to stick to country or DAMIAN LILLARD to stick to basketball. Blogs, like artists, athletes and most other interesting people, are complicated and multidimensional. That might just be why anyone pays attention. Even journalists have multiple lanes on the highways of their lives. Like WATERGATE reporter CARL BERNSTEIN, who I can tell you, thanks to DEADSPIN, began his WASHINGTON POST career as a rock and roll and counter-culture reporter. And here's SAMI SHILONI straying from sports to publish "A Taxonomy of Calls for Unity in the Hardcore Scene," which catalogs songs by AGNOSTIC FRONT, MADBALL and others as if analyzing and comparing different kinds of football defenses. DAVE MCKENNA wrote about what it's like to be a guitar hoarder in an era when the guitar may or may not be dying (which is kind of like being a NEW YORK KNICKS fan in an era when, oh, nevermind), and did some pretty good reporting along the way. McKenna also wrote a deep, serious profile of JAMES DOLAN not as owner of the aforementioned New York basketball team but as frontman of the world's most improbable—and possibly poorest-selling—touring rock band. Maybe that last one would pass muster in the new stick-to-sports regime, as, perhaps, would my friend JULIANNE ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD's passionate and detailed defense of PITBULL, who at the time had supplied FIFA with the official anthem of soccer's 2014 World Cup and was performing at its opening ceremony. But DREW MAGARY's critical investigation into whether VAMPIRE WEEKEND does or does not rock? Not a chance. McKenna's sweet remembrance of SKIP GROFF, the owner of YESTERDAY AND TODAY RECORDS in Rockville, Md., who "has gone the way of the neighborhood record store. He’s dead"? Nope. That kind of work also appears to have gone the way of the neighborhood record store. Here's hoping these links haven't been vaporized by G/O Media by the time this newsletter gets to you. It's all good-to-great work, and it's the exact kind of cultural writing that interests the sports fans who've been reading Deadspin all these years, or else—call me crazy—they probably wouldn't have been published in the first place. RIP old Deadspin. It's our loss and you'll be missed... Good news/bad news elsewhere on the music web: The RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY ends it 21-year-run this week—that's the terrible news, which we've known was coming since April—but it's going to leave some significant footprints behind. A virtual footprint via artists like FLYING LOTUS and OBJEKT whom the Academy has nurtured, and a literal one through a deep archive of the Academy's invaluable lectures and journalism. There had been some concern that the online content might not survive, but YADASTAR, the consulting firm that ran the Academy from the beginning, has preserved all of it. The miles and miles of music journalism is organized into packages like "Soundsystems," "Studio Science," "Berlin," "South Africa" and countless more. The lectures page could keep curious minds busy for years. May the archive survive at least that long.
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 | Houston Chronicle |
| Brad Jordan, better known as Geto Boys' Scarface, takes us for a tour through his South Acres neighborhood, which he’s hoping to help by getting elected to City Council next month. | | |
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 | Stan |
| By being transparent about being a work in progress Noname has built a fanbase that unintentionally combats cancel culture and exists beyond her music. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| A cross-platform push behind "Someone You Loved" marks SiriusXM and Pandora's first joint effort to break a song since merging in February. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Katy Perry, Tove Lo, and more are picking up where Ariana Grande left off. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The smooth-jazz icon pops up on ‘Jesus Is King,’ but it’s not for LOLs. | | |
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 | The FADER |
| Universal Music Group has digitally released hundreds of compilation albums over the past three years, lifting some titles from non-UMG artists such as Lil Nas X and Megan Thee Stallion. | | |
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 | Trapital |
| DJ Semtex, award-winning DJ, radio host, author, and podcast, came on the pod to talk about the moment UK is having in hip-hop, how Brexit has impacted the hip-hop landscape, why he still loves radio. | | |
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 | Complex |
| As the 2010s draw to a close, we take a look back at how much of an impact grime-and its surrounding culture-has had on the UK music landscape. | | |
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 | NPR |
| NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to WNYC's Jad Abumrad about his new podcast which explores the life and legacy of the prolific songwriter and her ability to bridge the divide in America. | | |
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| The FADER |
| For this month’s edition of Abundant Living, Zachary Lipez breaks down the three categories of Halloween music: soundtrack, Otherwise Goth, and “oh s***! Monsters!” | | |
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 | Pollstar |
| For the first time in my eight years of touring, there was a sit-down with the women on tour (there are five) and they were asked a super simple question: Is there anything we can do to make this tour better for you? What shook me up was what came after. One by one, they each told me that in all their years of combined touring, no one had ever asked them this question. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The teen-pop superstar asks her hero about early Green Day, staying sane in the industry, and that time he got into a fight with a guy in the audience. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Bounce wants to help artists collaborate better-and eventually, change the way people consume music. | | |
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 | Jacobs Media Strategies |
| Tickets for the Epicenter Festival starring Metallica are on sale in a novel purchase format -- a layaway plan. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Check out what gospel stars Erica Campbell, Koryn Hawthrone, Marvin Sapp and others had to say about Kanye West's 'Jesus Is King.' | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| When the singer first arrived for a ‘Jesus Is King’ session, he was greeted by West, Chance the Rapper, and right-wing provocateur Candace Owens. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| Concert promoters in the U.S. are stepping back from plans to scan festivalgoers with facial recognition technology, after musicians and others gave it some serious side-eye. | | |
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| Pollstar |
| While most bands announce a tour, release an album and then put tickets on sale, wholesome ’90s hitmakers Hootie & The Blowfish took a different approach for its recent tour, a sold-out “Group Therapy” trek with Barenaked Ladies that played 47 arena and amphitheater dates across the U.S. | | |
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 | JazzTimes |
| Acclaimed tenor saxophonist David Sanchez explores his--and jazz’s--roots on a new series of albums, his first in 11 years. | | |
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 | Music Week |
| A new report titled The Birmingham Live Music Project has revealed Brexit-related concerns voiced by policymakers, academics, industry figures and media representatives during a one day event held in Birmingham earlier this year. | | |
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