The way we used to deal with any problem was if we found out an artist was disrespecting a woman, they were usually brought back behind a tour bus by some people on the tour, and given a few options in life. Your life was not being threatened, but you were educated out there. | | | | Paramore's Hayley Williams on the 2011 Warped Tour in Milwaukee. Next year's Warped Tour will be the last.
(Joey Foley/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The way we used to deal with any problem was if we found out an artist was disrespecting a woman, they were usually brought back behind a tour bus by some people on the tour, and given a few options in life. Your life was not being threatened, but you were educated out there.”
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 | Centuries of Sound |
| In a tiny, bare-walled back room a man sings into a huge metal horn. The sound causes vibrations in the air, which travel down the horn, compressing into a smaller point, causing a diaphragm to vibrate. The diaphragm pushes a metal stylus, which cuts a minuscule groove in a brown wax cylinder turned by a clockwork mechanism. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Royalty-free composers don’t have any control over what happens to their work--even if it ends up scoring a racist diatribe. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| Late Monday, November 13, prominent festival promoter and Coachella operator Goldenvoice announced it had ended its relationship with Sean Carlson, founder of the Los Angeles music festival FYF Fest. Carlson founded FYF Fest, once known as Fuck Yeah Fest, at age 18 in 2004. | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| Cis male music executives, please stop abusing us. We’re not a prize or an enemy. We’re your colleagues and we are creative professionals. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Artists, activists and attorneys weigh in on the strange -- yet not strange -- case of the Philadelphia rapper. | | |
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 | UnitedMasters |
| We believe the music industry should be built by transparently connecting artists with their fans: understanding musical influences, cultural preferences and general listening behavior. We believe the future of music is for artists to have transparency into fans’ data, where their promotional money is being spent, and to have a majority stake in the ownership of their music. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| From Blink-182 to the Buzzcocks, we count down the best of punk's most lovable, lovelorn offshoot. | | |
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 | Genius |
| Roger Gengo started out as a college freshman who blogged about your next favorite rapper-now he has his eyes on something bigger. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The music industry’s last remaining major traveling festival is saying goodbye. Kevin Lyman explains how a mix of factors led him to his decision to end Warped after one last run in 2018. He also teases which bands will make up the final lineup. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| The lyrics on Taylor Swift's new album reveal she might be a more self-centered songwriter than Kanye West. | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| During the last days of summer, writer Juli Thanki and photographer Shelley Mays crisscrossed the state to find out where Tennessee music has been and where it's going. They found every inch of the Volunteer State bursting with music -- and music history. | | |
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 | Paper |
| We talked with Nicki about her passionate and intimate relationship with her fanbase, #TheKingdom, as well as her new music, future acting opportunities and how her spirituality helps her stay cool and calm amidst the entertainment industry's chaos. Also, she broke the internet with a photo shoot. | | |
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| Pigeons & Planes |
| Music legends like Quincy Jones and Damian Marley and new stars like Bryson Tiller and Jorja Smith tell us about the album that changed their life. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| A new film about Banseom Pirates goes inside the lives of the punk band who scream about Kim Jong-Il and whose producer’s retweets got him imprisoned | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Quasi-legal nightclubs were on the verge of extinction — until the city realized how crucial it is to have an underground. | | |
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| NPR Music |
| Indie hip-hop has us asking what artistic freedom really means. The story of a Chicago rapper named Saba offers a few answers. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| The vocalist-guitarist nearly went broke remastering his band's iconic 1991 album. Now he's ready to get back to business. | | |
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 | Drowned In Sound |
| The Detroit band just keep getting better | | |
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 | The Bitter Southerner |
| New Orleans has long been fertile ground for the musical arts, but the music played here today in the birthplace of jazz varies wildly. You get hip-hop producer Mannie Fresh working on Flow Tribe’s new funk record while the Deslondes are touring with their St. Roch honky-tonk. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The non-profit organization that advocates for gun control Everytown for Gun Safety wants to deflate the public’s idea that the National Rifle Association can’t be beat. | | |
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 | SoundCloud |
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