While many of the issues we work on don’t break down ... along clear partisan lines, Trump's election and the resulting shift in the balance of power could result in hard-fought and historic victories for musicians being rolled back. Musicians and their allies must be prepared to organize and fight to defend these victories. | | | | | Atlanta has one of the best soundtracks on TV. (Courtesy of FXX) | | | | | | “While many of the issues we work on don’t break down ... along clear partisan lines, Trump's election and the resulting shift in the balance of power could result in hard-fought and historic victories for musicians being rolled back. Musicians and their allies must be prepared to organize and fight to defend these victories.”
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| | rantnrave:// On Tuesday, some were angry, some mourned, and some celebrated. KRIST NOVOSELIC called for election reform not only to the electoral college but on a local level, HENRY ROLLINS wrote about the profound sadness of our divided country and what he's seen firsthand while touring around it, the FUTURE OF MUSIC COALITION speculated on what the election could mean for musicians, and AZEALIA BANKS either trolled everyone or was genuinely estactic, who knows... Whatever you were doing, you were listening to music. The PITCHFORK staff shared their picks, while MAC MILLER saw his track "DONALD TRUMP" climb back onto the ITUNES chart... I could tell publishers were in shock Tuesday morning, because my feeds were awash in listicles of musician reactions, reports on the Pharmabro who shall not be named seeking his five minutes of fame by sharing the unheard WU-TANG album, and things pretending to be stories about LADY GAGA protesting rather than the substance I'm used to finding out there every day... You know what? We took a day off. Now it's time to get back to work, as MICHELLE OBAMA has said. Bring on some content to fire people up for the rest of this week. Don't slip into oblivion... If you're searching for a little bit of light, let me point you toward SNOOP DOGG and MARTHA STEWART. Wow... One parting word of advice, as I take my leave filling in as guest curator: Don't sleep on the new HOPE SANDOVAL AND THE WARM INVENTIONS album. It's stellar. | | | - Courtney E. Smith, guest curator |
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| In his new memoir, ‘I Am Brian Wilson,’ the Beach Boys leader describes how he resurrected the legendary ‘Smile’ album, aborted in 1967, and finally finished it. | | |
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| How a gangster rapper became an ageless ambassador of pop culture. | | |
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| Feel like you’re Shazam-ing more than ever while watching TV? We talked to the brains (and ears) behind the tunes you can’t get out of your head. | | |
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| For 13 years, Toyota's Scion A/V division worked with some 1,500 artists, from rappers Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky to DJ Steve Aoki to the Melvins, and sponsored numerous festivals, tours and music-business seminars. | | |
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| Wainwright's singing shows a deep awareness of the multiple meanings that can merge and overflow -- even within utterances as direct as a lover's whisper or a lullaby. | | |
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| She was the frontwoman of Mazzy Star, he was in My Bloody Valentine. We talk kazoos, 'TigerBeat' pin-ups, and the scrutiny of the spotlight with the shy duo. | | |
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| And created a new generation of worshipers in the process. | | |
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| An ode to the pop cultural legacy that the Obamas created that will soon be lost when Trump takes office. | | |
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| How Starset, a four-piece rock band from the American Midwest, created their own world -- and erupted on YouTube on accident as a result. | | |
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| The Rolling Stones asked Trump to stop using their song but he ignored them -- and he’s not the first Republican to defy artists’ objections. | | |
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| The pair tours as part of Neko Case’s band, and while on the road with her last year, they found themselves tossing song ideas back and forth. | | |
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| Ticketmaster sold more than $1bn of secondary tickets in the first nine months of 2016, according to the latest financial results of its parent company. | | |
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| Twenty years after the release of 'Revival,' Gillian Welch and David Rawlings revisit the process of making an Americana masterpiece. | | |
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| He said he had tired of rock ’n’ roll songwriting, but his new album is a complete reversal. He recently discussed it and other surprises. | | |
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| With the most important election of this generation looming-and the conversation around the ethics, corruption, morality, and overt xenophobia associated with the presidential campaigns continuing to heighten-SPIN asked politically-minded musicians to speak on issues that matter. | | |
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| We speak with Danish pop queen MØ about staying true to herself, making music that works for her, and what's it like to collaborate with some of the biggest artists of today. | | |
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| The iconic member of The Grateful Dead talks his first solo record in over a decade, fascination with the American West, and how he's still, somehow, searching. | | |
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| On many issues important to musicians, we still have very limited information about his views and positions. | | |
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| Brian Johnson is not a better singer than Bon Scott. But "Back in Black" is better than any other AC/DC record. | | |
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