When those blues records came out, they were, in a sense, for their audience, pop music. They would play it like we would play Kendrick Lamar. To me, take away the genres for a minute and it's all pop music. | | | | | Mick Jagger in Macau, March 9, 2014. (xiquinhosilva) | | | | | | “When those blues records came out, they were, in a sense, for their audience, pop music. They would play it like we would play Kendrick Lamar. To me, take away the genres for a minute and it's all pop music.”
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| | rantnrave:// In "I SAW THE LIGHT," NOISEY's 33-minute documentary about the long-running CREATION FESTIVAL in Eastern PENNSYLVANIA, host ERIC SUNDERMANN wanders over to the fringe stage to see a hardcore band called SLEEPING GIANT. "Moshing," someone has told him, "is a form of worship." Sundermann imagines the band's singer punching a dude in the face and then saying "Praise JESUS." That's not quite how the Christian moshers at Creation Fest roll, it turns out. The doc is an insightful, loving look into a parallel summer-festival world of kids seeking God, community and salvation through hardcore, hip-hop, rock, blues and more. "Christian music goes a lot father than just worship," one young woman tells Sundermann. "You have the music where the purpose behind it is to remind people these are my demons, and they exist and they are real and they are painful and they are dark and they are huge, but they can't eclipse God. This is the music that gets so many of us through it all"... One of the breakout hits from this season of "THE VOICE" is SUNDANCE HEAD's cover of TOM T. HALL's "ME AND JESUS," and BILLBOARD's ANDREW UNTERBERGER wonders if a mainstream revival of Christian might soon be upon us... STEPHEN CARLISLE digs into the complexities in SIRIUSXM's settlement with FLO & EDDIE for pre-1972 recording royalties... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the ROLLING STONES, CHILDISH GAMBINO, JOHN LEGEND, SMOKE DZA & PETE ROCK, KATE BUSH, CHARLES HAMILTON, DEADMAU5, PETE DOHERTY and "THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE" featuring CHANCE THE RAPPER, NAS, USHER, QUEEN LATIFAH, MIGUEL and more... RIP SEAN MCKEOUGH. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| A documentary film from Noisey called 'I Saw the Light.' | | |
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| Here’s how the settlement breaks down, and please bear with me, there are a lot of moving parts to contend with. | | |
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| In the year of Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter, Tirhakah Love shows how hip-hop artists like Chance, YG and D.R.A.M brought positivity to the protest. | | |
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| How the rave scene responds to crisis is what really matters. | | |
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| Questlove and crew have an in-depth discussion with singer-songwriter Solange about the people and incients that inspired her powerful new album, "A Seat at the Table." | | |
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| The band’s best album in decades is an ‘accidental’ covers collection of songs by their early heroes. Backstage in Boston they talk about playing until they’re dead, Prince opening for them in his knickers and what Bob Dylan really thinks about his Nobel prize. | | |
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| "I faked my way through that whole set, trying to guess what syllable I could logically mouth next." | | |
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| Scott Wilson looks at the glut of lo-fi house tracks released in 2016 to ask if things have stagnated. | | |
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| For those in New York City grieving the results of the presidential election, the "Subway Therapy" wall of sticky notes inside New York City's Union Square station has been a source of solace and inspiration. The wall was set up within hours of the Nov. | | |
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| The popularity of Sundance Head's performance of Tom T. Hall's "Me and Jesus" on 'The Voice' may point the way to more conservative and Christian-influenced music in the mainstream to come. | | |
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| "Black Moses" by Isaac Hayes is the one thing you're not listening to right now that demands your attention. In the post-Trump age, Black people can have Iyanla Vanzant fix our broken lives or we can all listen to Isaac Hayes' magnificent performance on "Ike's Rap II" from his groundbreaking and iconic 1971 album and achieve the same result. | | |
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| "I don't see how we could go out and play without the guy who started the band," says Henley. | | |
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| Thanks to Spotify, Apple Music and co, musicians such as Glass Animals and Anne-Marie can go global without radio support. But can they convert streaming stats into fans? | | |
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| New legislation is a good first step, but the accountability rests with those greedy institutions enabling scalping in the first place. | | |
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| Gothic folk duo The Handsome Family meet up with Marc while he's in Albuquerque to talk about American roots music, carnival sideshows, meeting your heroes, and dealing with bipolarity. But first, documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard joins Marc in the garage to talk about his new film "Two Trains Runnin'," a look at the summer of 1964, as history converged in unexpected ways. | | |
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| This report is about record companies’ enduring value to music. In the digital world, the nature of their work has evolved, but their core mission remains the same. It is the mission of discovering and breaking new artists, building their careers and bringing the best new music to fans. These are the defining qualities of record companies’ investment in music. | | |
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| Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. | | |
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| The jazz saxophonist went from 1960s pop stardom to years of self-imposed exile, but he’s now producing some of the best music of his career. | | |
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| I'm not sure how many times I've listened to this song since it was released last week, but it's definitely in three digits. | | |
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| The documentary “Oasis: Supersonic” is a gripping chronicle of the band and what was so clearly another time. | | |
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| | live at Desert Trip, Indio, Calif., Oct. 14, 2016 |
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