It took me ninety years to understand Bach’s Goldberg Variations. If only I had ninety more; I’d still not know what to do with them. | | | | Jazz bassist Marcus Miller in Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 22, 2015.
(Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It took me ninety years to understand Bach’s Goldberg Variations. If only I had ninety more; I’d still not know what to do with them.”
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| | rantnrave:// There are worse crimes than putting 45 tracks on your album as part of a flagrant attempt to juice the album's chart position—if I'm not mistaken, CHRIS BROWN has committed some—but can the chart gods please start working on a way to dis-incentivize artists from asking their fans to get free SPOTIFY and APPLE MUSIC accounts and "leave the album on repeat"? I mean, it's sort of the same as asking your fans to flood the request lines at their local radio station, and no one had an issue with that, right? But it's also sort of not the same, whatwith there being no phone to pick up and dial, no receptionist to answer it and no DJ to say "hey, we've already played that 150 times today, I wanna play some KHALID now, OK?" I love that fans *want* to do this. I would equally love if the chart gods would figure out a way to compensate and adjust... Speaking of CHRIS BROWN, NETFLIX canceled HOUSE OF CARDS and suspended production on the final season with 48 hours of the KEVIN SPACEY news becoming public. Just sayin'... "TAYLOR SWIFT hugged and kissed these guys. So did KELLIE PICKLER and KELSEA BALLERINI. If you choose not to, then that's up to you and your career will be impacted. Advising you to dress edgy is not out of line either"... Feel free to read that last quote on repeat... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS will semi-retire after his 25th season with the SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY. Which gives you two and a half years to get to DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL. Which you should do... Coming soon: FYRE FESTIVAL, the documentary... The best songs about NEW YORK, per the VILLAGE VOICE and TIMEOUT. A big hug to my favorite city in the world. Nothing's equivalent and I don't want to waste more time. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Billboard |
| Last week, as Grammy nomination announcements began pouring in, the buzzworthy news cycle churned out an interesting bit: Drake did not submit More Life for consideration for any Grammy Award this year -- both as a whole project and its individual songs. What does that mean, and why should we care? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| To explain Zuzana Ruzickova would mean explaining how music is more than entertainment, how every faculty of the mind and the heart devoted to music is energy well spent. | | |
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 | Integrated Talent |
| In his lifetime, Jared Houser witnessed and personally recorded over 1,000 concerts. Making him one of the most prolific tapers of all time. Those recordings, otherwise lost to history, if not for his efforts, are his legacy. | | |
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 | Complete Music Update |
| Apple stresses – to you, me and any anti-trust lawyers reading – that other music apps can play on the HomePod, they just won’t be integrated with Siri, meaning you’ll control the app via an iPad or iPhone using the Airplay feature, as you would with other wireless speakers. | | |
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 | The Howard Stern Show |
| Adam Levine asks Ronnie about his personal fantasy, talks about meeting Blake Shelton for the first time, performs a cover of Chris Cornell's “Seasons,” and more. | | |
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 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| The move, announced to the orchestra on Tuesday, Oct. 31, is scheduled to coincide with both the end of Thomas’ 25th season at the organization’s helm and his 75th birthday in December 2019. He will remain with the Symphony in the newly created post of music director laureate, conducting at least four weeks each year and undertaking a variety of special programming projects. | | |
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 | TuneCore |
| We will now continue our examination of some of standard clauses contained in the music publishing company’s exclusive agreement with a songwriter. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Pop music is a lot like television: The good stuff is gripping and expressive, but also beholden to rules of structure and format. A good song grabs you by the 30th second and turns you loose in the third or fourth minute; an airtight sitcom plot is set up in 5 minutes and resolved in under 30. | | |
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 | Space Age Mixtapes |
| Carly Rae Jepsen saved an entire generation from going insane. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| And believe it or not, New Yorkers don’t have it that bad. | | |
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 | Oxford American |
| We both loved Gary Stewart, and we both loved Grace. | | |
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| Billboard |
| When country singer Katie Armiger told Fox News last week about the numerous incidents of sexual harassment that she experienced by an array of radio station employees before leaving her label, Cold River Records, two years ago, Cold River’s president Pete O'Heeron issued a statement denying that the singer had made the same complaints to his label. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Via his cult compilations, Lance Barresi has dug up rare and oddball hard rock and heavy psych cuts that provided the soundtrack to the hippy comedown. | | |
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 | Slate |
| The art of recovering lost indigenous voices, preserved in wax for 100 years. | | |
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 | Switched On Pop |
| Nate sits down with singer/producer Amber Mark to explore the different levels of Kendrick’s hit "Humble." Then, they turn to the diverse influences (including house music, Carnatic samples, and autodidactic piano chords) behind Mark’s own track “Lose My Cool.” | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
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 | On An Overgrown Path |
| We live at a time when the alleged influencing of the result of a presidential election by Russia triggers an avalanche of righteous indignation; but the possible skewing of the same election by Facebook's news feed algorithms triggers very little protest. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| There's a thriving country music scene in the Philippine mountains, and the Philippine National Police want to use it to help fight Duterte's drug war. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| From Lil Pump to Matt Ox to Bhad Bhabie, what happens with children become stars? We asked a child and adolescent psychiatrist. | | |
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 | Vox |
| From Kanye to Clair de Lune, Reddit's crowdsourced list of beautiful songs has it all. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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