These are the issues rapped about in trap music—Southern trap music. | | | | Singer Lee Spielman of Trash Talk flips out at the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Los Angeles, Oct. 29, 2017.
(Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “These are the issues rapped about in trap music—Southern trap music.”
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| | rantnrave:// So I'm watching part one of the two-part HBO doc ROLLING STONE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE, and early on there's an anecdote about IKE TURNER complaining about how Rolling Stone burned him by running a profile with too much behind-the-scenes dirt after he invited the magazine into his home, and it reminds me of how Wenner is currently at war with his official biographer, JOE HAGAN, for exactly the same reason, with Jann in the role of Ike, and I'm thinking that a rolling stone gathers some irony, doesn't it? And that's going to be the subject of today's RANTNRAVE, but then, but then... really, HBO? Really, Rolling Stone? Are you seriously trying to convince me and anyone else who might be watching that JON LANDAU's 1974 "rock and roll future" review of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, quite possibly the most famous rock review ever, was written for Rolling Stone??? Because it wasn't. I rewind to make sure I'm not hallucinating like HUNTER S. THOMPSON, who was onscreen a minute ago, and no, I'm not. I pause and scan the screen to make sure I'm not missing any details. I am not. That's what the doc is strongly implying. That's what it's in fact saying. Landau, who did work for Rolling Stone and who eventually became Springsteen's producer and manager and lots of other things that job titles don't quite cover, wrote it for the REAL PAPER, a groundbreaking, influential CAMBRIDGE, MASS., alt-weekly. The long-forgotten Real Paper. Which not even Rolling Stone or HBO can remember even though JEFF DANIELS is reading extensively from Jon Landau's Real Paper article on my TV screen at this very moment. And I am now throwing a copy of the LA WEEKLY, which is all I have handy here in 2017, at the TV. It's a totally fun doc, no question. Amazing, rare performance footage and home-movie-like footage of life at RS. Funny stories. Moving stories. Pop-culture history. Naked groupies (hey, it *is* HBO). Worth watching. But. But. Part two airs at 9 pm ET tonight... One of the greatest pieces of music journalism ever written did appear in Rolling Stone, in May 2000. RIAN MALAN's chronicle of the long, complicated copyright history of the song "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT" is a beautifully researched and written post-graduate course in how music is created, how it travels around the world, how it's co-opted, how creators are forgotten and unpaid, and how they can eventually be remembered and paid if someone cares enough and is willing to fight like a lion. Essential reading... The ACLU takes the music blog POPFRONT's side against TAYLOR SWIFT... BJÖRK really wants to turn her fans on to the cryptocurrency AUDIOCOIN... I'm all for theater and satire and confrontational speech, but this was a really bad idea, MARILYN MANSON... The hip-hop community is stunned by MEEK MILL's two-to-four-year sentence for probation violations... RIP "EVERLASTING LOVE" singer ROBERT KNIGHT and "DOCTOR WHO" composer DUDLEY SIMPSON. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper. (Originally published in May 2000.) | | |
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 | Complex |
| The hip-hop media icon talks about his journey from ego trip to Tidal and beyond. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In March of 2009, when Jack White, Ben Swank, and Ben Blackwell opened Third Man Records' headquarters in Nashville, they didn't have grand ambitions to invade the city's already-bustling music scene. Their plan was to absorb Tennessee's rich music history while they began to press and distribute White's and his colleagues' records. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On his new album, “Beach House 3,” Ty’s spiritual change is as thorough as the transformation of his genre. | | |
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 | The Bitter Southerner |
| Atlanta is about to elect a new mayor. What does that mean for a city where hip-hop music and culture are major economic exports? | | |
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 | Improvised and Experimental Music |
| Thank you, Tarana Burke, for starting the Me Too movement. Yes, #MeToo. And the parallels between Hollywood and the music industry are clear. There was the bizarre guy who reached out and ran his thumb down the center of my face and over the bridge of my nose when I talked to him about booking my band. | | |
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| Complex |
| The leading dot-connector when it comes to the growth of British music. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| In the latest Beat Construction, the 28-year-old DJ and producer talks. | | |
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 | Curbed LA |
| How the tony suburbs of the West Valley launched early 2000s alternative rock. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Alma Deutscher was playing piano and violin by the time she was 3 years old and wrote her first opera at 10. For her, making music seems as natural as breathing | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| What happened when Jann Wenner traded the hippie dream for pop-star friends and luxury. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| We've come a long way since the wild west of lyrics, which are now easily searchable and provide artists with an additional source of income. Moving forward, lyrics will provide essential contextual metadata in the age of voice command. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| A judge leans towards making Kesha disclose PR documents, including one strategy document where the goal of winning contractual freedom would be accomplished by "inciting a deluge of negative media attention." | | |
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 | Medium |
| Inside a photography-free world of 33.6 hour days, 77-note drones, fifty year collaborations and music designed to carry you away to heaven… | | |
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 | Electronic Beats |
| Gear wizard Remute explains his decision to release his music on a format that many of today’s generation have never even used. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| If Asheville is the best-kept music secret in the country, the secret is starting to get out. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The highest honor at the 18th annual Latin Grammys goes to Spanish hitmaker Alejandro Sanz. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The British crooner’s new album ‘The Thrill of It All’ contains some of his best music yet. Whether that is enough to quell the backlash is a whole different story. | | |
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 | Salon |
| In communities the government has neglected, rappers are stepping up to promote health and wellness. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| The New York Philharmonic concludes a centennial tribute to its most illustrious maestro with one of his grandest works. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds |
| | The original version of what became "Wimoweh" and "The Lion Sleep Tonight." |
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