Musicians have a really big part to play in spreading messages because they’re able to reach a large portion of people on an emotional level. Artists reach people at their heart. | | | | | Album insert from Minutemen's "3-Way Tie (For Last)" (1985). | | | | | | “Musicians have a really big part to play in spreading messages because they’re able to reach a large portion of people on an emotional level. Artists reach people at their heart.”
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| | rantnrave:// Nov. 8 is the latest date a US election can take place. If this campaign season has seemed a little longer than usual, maybe that's why. Or maybe not... The final weekend found JAY Z using a few vulgarities at a pro-CLINTON concert and TED NUGENT grabbing his crotch at a TRUMP rally. Guess which one Trump was offended by... The NEW YORK TIMES' WESLEY MORRIS weighs in on the more subtle, and more powerful, politics of BEYONCÉ's performance with the DIXIE CHICKS at last week's CMA AWARDS... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and BON JOVI will bring the power of NEW JERSEY to Clinton's final swing-state campaign stop tonight in neighboring PHILADELPHIA... OZZY OSBOURNE says TRUMP is "all right, a very quiet man" (maybe they've never been in a locker room together) and is not sure who he would vote for if he were AMERICAN... DAVE EGGERS' anti-Trump "30 DAYS, 30 SONGS" project has morphed into "30 DAYS, 50 SONGS" because apparently a lot of artists want in. Recent entries include COLD WAR KIDS' "LOCKER ROOM TALK," OPEN MIKE EAGLE's "HOW TO BE SUPER PETTY TO YOUR EX" and JPEGMAFIA's "I MIGHT VOTE 4 DONALD TRUMP" ("just 'cause it's legal," he raps)... LOCAL NATIVES, THE HEAD & THE HEART and WATSKY & ADAM VIDA are releasing new music on election day that you can stream only if you're near a polling station, via the ELECTION FM app... VOTING MATTERS. Please vote. If you are AMERICAN, you should want in on this election. You should *need* in. This has nothing to do with music. This has everything to do with everything. REDEF founder JASON HIRSCHHORN makes a powerful case for CLINTON... 24 hours to go... This 30-minute meditation playlist of music by the late tenor saxophonoist DAVID S. WARE—whose birthday is today—seems especially right for this particular day... RIP JEAN-JACQUES PERREY, ZOLTÁN KOCSIS and KAY STARR. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Founder Blaise Bellville explains how he grew his live-streaming series while keeping his creative vision intact. | | |
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| When the rapper was a kid, he skipped his class field trip to the White House. As an adult, he's fighting to put the first female president in it. | | |
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| Together with several partners, Harm Theunisse is developing a more environmentally friendly record pressing process: injection moulded records. | | |
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| The pop star’s appearance with the Dixie Chicks at the Country Music Association Awards was powerful - and sly. | | |
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| Donald Trump does not approve of Jay Z's use of foul language - not one bit. And neither does his campaign manager. | | |
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| The legendary crew's biggest names give us the inside story on their past, present, and future. | | |
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| There’s an adage that posits “If everybody’s thinking the same thing, then nobody’s thinking.” This line of reasoning seems to be on display at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. | | |
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| New Christmas albums from country artists Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Young, Kacey Musgraves, Rascal Flatts | | |
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| Come on, man. "My Way" isn't really about a grocery store, and that's OK. | | |
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| Bob Dylan is the author of America over the last 50 years. Donald Trump is the vandal trying to roll it back | | |
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| Donald Glover and Vince Staples are both willing to depict violence as mundane-and to find comedy in horrific moments. | | |
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| The Polaris Prize winner’s gripping new album speaks to the deep-seated trauma of Canada’s Indigenous population, which she chronicles here with a powerful as-told-to. | | |
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| This year’s turn, especially at the 50 marker, is notable less due to Beyonce but rather down to the fact that at a time when Bro-Country is waning and Taylor Swift has defected for pop, country (&western) still has a glaring race problem and its related business wing cannot develop or sustain virtually any artists of color not named Darius Rucker. | | |
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| The implication is that contemporary classic music is a specialty that an ordinary audience doesn’t appreciate. But there are ways out of this kind of thinking. | | |
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| Shirley Collins was a huge part of the British folk scene - but for a time, heartbreak silenced her voice. We talk with her and The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, who's captivated by Collins' music. | | |
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| Even though he's Scottish, Gary McClure's new LP 'Goodbye Terrible Youth'--out now on Fat Possum--is the jangly guitar record this country needs right now. | | |
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| The formality and reticence of "Zayn: The Official Autobiography" - which doesn’t once mention his former One Direction bandmates by name - jars with the singer’s handwritten lyrics and online presence. | | |
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| The music biz legend who discovered Talking Heads and The Ramones speaks frankly about his groundbreaking career. | | |
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| Get to know the artists behind some of the most iconic visuals in dance music. | | |
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| The music that gave our lives meaning can bring comfort at the end. | | |
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