Art has to bring the abstract world into a much clearer view for viewers or listeners. | | | | Muhal Richard Abrams conducts the AACM Big Band in Chicago, circa 1965.
(Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Archive Photos/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Art has to bring the abstract world into a much clearer view for viewers or listeners.”
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| | rantnrave:// Things that nobody can explain: What PRINCE is doing in the guitar intro to "WHEN DOVES CRY." What FUTURE is trying to tell those commas. What mastering engineers do. They're the last people to touch an album before it's finished, and what exactly happens in their studios is one of music's great mysteries. Admit it, you have no idea. The artists whose albums they're running through fancy EQs and compressors don't always know either. But they have a lot to do with why Prince and Future and everybody else sounds good on the radio, in your car and on your phone. MusicSET: "What Is Mastering and Why Is That Record So Damn Loud?"... As a pianist, composer, bandleader and artistic director, MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS was one of the most important voices of 20th century avant-garde jazz. I spent three years at my college radio station (shoutout WMFO) trying to fully understand the wide-ranging output of the players and ensembles who gathered under the umbrella of his ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSICIANS. I'd be lying if I said I achieved that understanding, but I couldn't help but notice its complicated beauty. I played it on repeat and my universe is richer for it. Abrams' ideas on how musicians and other creators can and should live and work are as resonant as ever at a moment when artists are rewriting the rules of what independence means. RIP... I support my local police force but aren't there any other options in LA to perform the national anthem before game 7? KENDRICK LAMAR? THUNDERCAT? The EAGLES? LISA SIMPSON?... Other People's Playlists: In case you're not clear what event DAVID BYRNE is referring to with his One Year Later mix, which he says he listens to while cooking and commuting, the 49 tracks include LORDE's "LIABILITY," ARTO LINDSAY's "COMPLICITY" and BIG K.R.I.T.'s "KEEP THE DEVIL OFF." On the nose *and* musically enriching, which is not easy to do. Meanwhile on the MUSIQOLOGY blog, PhD student JOHN VILANOVA scoured TA-NEHISI COATES' WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER for musical references and came up with this improvised soundtrack to the acclaimed collection of essays. Coates once sat next to his parents' stereo and spent an hour transcribing LL COOL J's "I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT MY RADIO" (god I miss life before the internet, I really do). He describes hip-hop drums as "a line stretching across an ocean to our ancient black selves." He listens to Kendrick Lamar a lot. Anyone who questions hip-hop's cultural, artistic or aesthetic value—you know who you still are—should read him and then maybe rethink their life... RIP also: JOHN KORDOSH, whose irreverent writing in CREEM magazine (under the mysterious, to me, byline J KORDOSH) helped me navigate the very idea of rock and roll during some of my most impressionable years. I never met him and didn't know his full name until this week, and yet the impression he left runs deep. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Medium |
| Even for industries shaken to their core, if people are creative and innovative and are able to understand the changing relationship of the thing they make and the society around them, then there is a future for everything.Of course, there’s a but; you have to be creative and innovative, and you cannot turn your back on technology. | | |
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| Get an unprecedented glimpse into Taylor's songwriting process as she shares personal videos of herself at the piano playing and creating the song "Gorgeous". "The Making of a Song" is a revolutionary new series shot by Taylor herself, coming to Taylor Swift NOW on Nov. 13. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| The Kobalt boss on his optimism for the future of the record business. | | |
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| Mastering engineers are the last people to touch an album before it's finished and yet, admit it, you have no idea what they do. You are not alone. The mastering masters do their best to explain, and they kindly ask you to let them turn down the volume. | | |
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 | Variety |
| The head of the biggest music publicity firm in Nashville plans to "take some time away from the business" and remove his name from the firm, a rep announced Wednesday (Nov 1), the day after an article appeared in the Nashville Scene with allegations that founder and CEO Kirt Webster had sexually assaulted a client in 2008. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| "IN THE LONELY HOUR" was a little more than a half-hour crying jag about longing for a man -- a straight, married one he was in love with whom he never so much as kissed. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The brilliant, mostly self-taught pianist and composer created new pathways for musicians, both aesthetically and with his benchmark Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. | | |
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 | Musiqology |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates, the preeminent black intellectual of our time, is a scholar whose work engages in many registers. I say this not only because of his wide profile-from the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" to the James Baldwin-esque Between the World and Me-but also because his work is inflected by the great themes and epistemological orientations of contemporary race work. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| What was the Rolling Stone publisher thinking when he cajoled Joe Hagan into writing a biography of him? Whatever it was, Wenner isn’t happy now. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| On Tuesday (Oct 31), the New York City Council voted to repeal the Cabaret Law from 1925, and the scene outside of City Hall was one of jubilation. | | |
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| Medium |
| 22 ways that we are looking to alter the traditional approach to media rights. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Fans are going gaga over the 28-year-old’s new 45-song album--while conveniently overlooking his dark side. | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| Viceland show might be the best Canadian content on TV, but no one seems to be watching it. | | |
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 | DJBooth |
| "This is the motherf***ing gold rush, especially for black art." | | |
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 | The Howard Stern Show |
| Kelly Clarkson talks about how she has only watched “From Justin to Kelly” once, presenting an award to Avril Lavigne, dating Justin Guarini but only after “American Idol,” what her first few days on “American Idol” were like, and performs “Breakaway,” “Since U Been Gone,” “A Moment Like This,” and more. | | |
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 | Loud And Quiet |
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 | National Geographic |
| The music legend speaks about his passions and how everyone can make a difference. He also talks about his inspiration for writing the Beatles' "Lady Madonna"—a National Geographic photograph of a Malayo-Polynesian woman surrounded by three small children, one of them nursing. | | |
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 | David Gerard |
| After the “Tiny Human” disaster, Ujo has returned with a new offering to musicians, and a publicity video. It’s Bandcamp, but on the blockchain, and worse in every way. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The young singer-songwriter has a gift for writing with a male antagonist in mind -- and dismissing him. | | |
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 | Lefsetz Letter |
| This is incredible. My problem is I have too many Echos and too small a house. I set up the Sonos One but it was getting confused with the Echo nearby. So I decided to do some surgery and screwed it up completely. Then Thomas Meyer hooked me up with Sonos support and not only did Adrian fix the problem, he made me aware of all these capabilities I had no idea of. | | |
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