I don’t like victim songs. I love the ones that the girl fights back. | | | | Happier days on the best coast: The Beach Boys in Paradise Cove, Malibu, Calif., 1962.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I don’t like victim songs. I love the ones that the girl fights back.”
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| | rantnrave:// A short list of things I won't be commenting on this morning: ICE-T's history with bagels, or lack thereof. "White people.. Don’t lose your Fn minds because I’ve never eaten a Bagle," he tweeted Friday, using perhaps the Canadian spelling of the popular New York breakfast carbohydrate, and I believe no further discussion is needed, and I believe he'll eat whatever he usually eats for breakfast today, and I'll have a poppy-seed souvenir from my most recent New York trip, and maybe one day we can compare notes... MORRISSEY fans' habit of bumrushing the stage and trying to hug him, which they've been doing nightly since around the time Ice-T released O.G. ORIGINAL GANGSTER. TMZ posted a video clip of this happening in San Diego on Saturday night and made it sound very foreboding, and by the time it got to the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, the story required three reporters and 15 paragraphs. I am not making this up and as far as I can tell neither were they... This LA hard-rock dude who booked a European tour via a fake record label, fake booking agent, fake live footage and fake social media, and who sold fake tickets to fake fans, pissing off a lot of club owners along the way. Kudos, I guess, for the effort. He has a name, which I'm sure he would want people like me to spell out in bold, capital letters... A short list of things I *will* be commenting on: That "PERMISSION" video on SNL, in which FUTURE and LIL WAYNE joined cast members CHRIS REDD, KENAN THOMPSON and PETE DAVIDSON in sending up sexism in hip-hop and pop culture while rapping about sexual consent. Genuinely funny and genuinely helpful. A favorite moment: After learning they can't call women the B-word or the H-word anymore ("Oh, they got names!," Thompson says in an aha moment), Redd humbly interjects: "Thank you for that, man. We need a kind of pushback in our life." Future then steps in for 16 bars, threatening to "steal your girl—but only with her permission"... This provocative BEASTIE BOYS thread started by DEF JAM exec NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER about their possible role in the creation of gangsta rap, inspired by BEASTIE BOYS BOOK, with reasonable pushback in the comments... CALIFORNIA is on fire, and a lot of artists, execs and regular people that you care about are directly affected. Here are some suggestions on how you can help... Best wishes to JOE PERRY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Former FBI Agent Phil Carson, who led the investigation into the LAPD’s alleged role in the murder of rap legend Notorious B.I.G., speaks publicly for the first time. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As artists blow up quicker than ever in the streaming era, labels are encountering an issue when it's time to send their stars out on tour: some have never been on stage before. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Lil Peep's family, friends, and creative partners worked tirelessly to execute his posthumous 'Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2' album. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Sales are plummeting, and the music industry is returning to the era of track-led consumption. Is the LP doomed? | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Two rappers find themselves in a comedy skit as foils for a serious message. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Rock and roll artwork has become a multi-million dollar business with artwork associated with Pink Floyd and the Beatles both going over a million dollars. The hub of this world is the SF Art Exchange. I spoke with the co-owners about the booming business. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| “I went on a mission because I was like, maybe if I go on a mission, God will talk to me, but he never did. Or she never did, or whatever it is. I only felt emotion, never what people call the spirit.” | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The attack on a bar in California follows an attack on some of the very same music fans in Las Vegas. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Hip-hop is about self-expression and fashion provides the tools now. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Rockstar Games is making billions in video games. It's not making them for the music industry. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| In 1998, two best friends went to their first concert together to see their favorite band: Hanson. Twenty years later, they see them live again and wonder if it's good to meet your heroes. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Fifty years later, the record is still good, still indelible, still as clean and pure as its sleeve, requiring no explanation or description beyond the band’s name. | | |
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 | Trench |
| From disco and funk to 1960s pop and weird studio sound FX. We also owe James Brown a big thank you. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| For 41 years, Dom Salvador has been playing jazz standards at the River Café under the Brooklyn Bridge. He’s ready for the spotlight again. | | |
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 | Trapital |
| Quavo and Takeoff would have sold more records if they took the time to differentiate instead of flooding the market. | | |
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| NPR Music |
| At a concert in Los Angeles this week in honor of her 75th birthday, Joni Mitchell listened carefully as a hand-picked group of peers and proteges entered into a dialogue with her inexhaustible voice. | | |
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 | Certified Classics |
| Taking viewers on a tour through 36 Chambers, this film explores each song via untold stories from Wu-Tang Clan members, alongside personal reflections from artists like A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, Joey Bada$$ and more. | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, towered over the tow-haired first-grader he’d just pulled on stage in Martha, Kentucky. The kid wasn’t supposed to be part of the show, but the audience kept shouting for Monroe to let “little Ricky Skaggs” play. Monroe unstrapped his mandolin and hung it on the boy, then asked what he wanted to sing. | | |
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| The New Yorker |
| E-mails from the Bad Seeds’ bandleader include a candid meditation on grief, recalling the sudden death, in 2015, of the singer’s fifteen-year-old son. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältsko and Björn Ulvaeus |
| | Before they were Abba, on the Swedish TV show "Five Minutes Saloon" in 1970. |
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