Rae Sremmurd are only black Beatles in the space of a pop song, but in their dazed self-asssurance, they sound giant-sized, like their tune has been beamed from a dimension where African American Mississippian twenty-somethings could be welcomed as the same musical geniuses a quartet of wisecracking white Liverpudlians were in the 1960s. | | | | | Rae Sremmurd doing an awesome mannequin challenge in June 2015. (The Come Up Show/Flickr) | | | | | | “Rae Sremmurd are only black Beatles in the space of a pop song, but in their dazed self-asssurance, they sound giant-sized, like their tune has been beamed from a dimension where African American Mississippian twenty-somethings could be welcomed as the same musical geniuses a quartet of wisecracking white Liverpudlians were in the 1960s.”
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| | rantnrave:// Hip-hop group with backward name from ELVIS PRESLEY's hometown goes to #1 with a "DAY TRIPPER"-quoting song called "BLACK BEATLES" with a little help from their white BEATLE friend. And HILLARY CLINTON. Go behind the meme with RAE SREMMURD in our REDEF MusicSET "Single-Minded: Rae Sremmurd, 'Black Beatle'"... Who are you supposed to believe when the self-appointed artist-friendly streaming service goes up against THE ARTIST? Asking for (the estate of) a friend... I'm unclear why NAPSTER is trumpeting the fact that it has landed the METALLICA catalog, which mostly serves to remind us that, until this week, Napster didn't have what SPOTIFY has had for several years. But it gives me the chance to link to this pre-YOUTUBE animated classic, which dates to a time when LARS ULRICH et. al. were at war with an entirely different company, also named NAPSTER, that did have the catalog. So thank you, new Napster... SHAZAM promises to fix this, but it turns out the app leaves your phone mic on even after you think you've stopped recording. Which is problematic in about 10,000 BLACK MIRROR-y ways. The company swears there's no "meaningful risk" and says it will update the app in a few days... In the same spirit as CHRIS CHRISTIE's continuing struggle to understand why his love for BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN isn't reciprocated, the JACKSON BROWNE fan who's building the DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE is disappointed that his rock idol is protesting his work. Get to know your heroes, people. Also, doesn't anyone listen to lyrics anymore?... RIP MILTON OKUN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| He is more popular now than ever, but Drake is losing his own identity on the way up. | | |
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| The Rolling Stones discuss why they took a break from an album of originals to make 'Blue & Lonesome,' their raw new LP of blues covers. | | |
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| Hip-hop group with backward name from Elvis Presley's hometown goes to #1 with a "Day Tripper"-quoting song called "Black Beatles" with a little help from their white Beatle friend. And Hillary Clinton. Go behind the meme with Rae Sremmurd. | | |
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| When an artist's lyrics go viral, they often aren't the only ones to cash in on the craze. | | |
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| Colleen "Cosmo" Murphy, Mancuso's most trusted protégé, reflects on the rich life and legacy of her mentor. | | |
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| “I don’t know anything about playing differently to bigger or smaller crowds, you just play. It’s rock.” | | |
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| With its first studio album in eight years, Metallica is reclaiming the attack of its music while jettisoning the image of a band as young, fast and out of control. | | |
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| The sly country superstar carefully unburdens herself on ‘The Weight of These Wings.’ | | |
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| Bas Grasmayer looks at four new-generation startups gearing up to define a new status quo in the music business: Dot Blockchain, Audiokite, Stagelink, and Resonate. | | |
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| Welcome to psychology 101. In today’s class we’re gong to be looking at a host of psychological biases and contextualising them through numerous examples found within the music community. Most people already know what a bias is, but let’s start off with a definition to make sure we’re all on the same page. | | |
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| The Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill" turns 30 this week. Produced by Def Jam cofounder Rick Rubin, it’s the New York trio’s bratty 1986 debut, most famous for “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (to Party!)” This was before they’d become Tibet freedom fighters and renounced some of the juvenile lyrics that are on full display on "Ill." | | |
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| D∆WN aka Dawn Richard's music seems to spring from another dimension. The artist might have begun her career singing for pop girl groups--first with Making the Band's Danity Kane and then for Puff's Diddy-Dirty Money--but over the last five years she's transformed herself into one of the most fiercely original forces in electronic music. | | |
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| As financial pressure increases, ensembles are going beyond merely making music to offer more educational programs and community engagement initiatives. | | |
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| From the troubadour to Donald Trump, pop culture has a nasty habit of celebrating bad behavior. | | |
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| We caught up with her to chat about riot grrrls, her personal heroes, and the importance of hype for female musicians in the industry. | | |
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| A copyright lawsuit follows Roc Nation's insistence in probate court of having a license deal that allows for the exploitation of the late artist's catalog. | | |
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| Queer love stories and high school myths in a post-Frank Ocean universe. | | |
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| Stream the German power metal institution's new album, 'Master of Light,' and read Chris Bay's thoughts on career slumps and "happy metal." | | |
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| As the waves from Donald Trump’s shock election victory continue to ripple, the business of lobbying the president-elect is swinging into gear. | | |
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| In late 1972, a hippie native New Yorker named David Mancuso went to a Jamiacan record store in Brooklyn and found a single he liked called “Soul Makossa,” by Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, on the small French label Fiesta. | | |
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