They started it—they have no idea what they started. I'm expecting congressional hearings. I'm expecting this to open up a whole look in how artists get screwed. | | | | | For her 27th birthday, DirecTV gave her channel 1113. (Jana Beamer) | | | | |  | “They started it—they have no idea what they started. I'm expecting congressional hearings. I'm expecting this to open up a whole look in how artists get screwed.”
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 | The Ringer |
| And the market is only getting more saturated. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Steve Karmen wrote a number of famous jingles, including Budweiser Beer's, "When You Say Bud," the New York State song, "I Love New York", the jingle, "Here Comes the King," the Exxon Song and Wrigley Spearmint Gum's, "Carry The Big Fresh Flavor." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Solange, Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, David Bowie, Kanye West... | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| I tried to pinpoint when exactly I started pretending to love Bob Dylan. I racked my brain for the boy who first put on "Like a Rolling Stone" and stared at me with misty eyes. Then I realized: There was no boy. It was all the boys. Every boy. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Streaming-only label compilations from Epic, RCA and Def Jam are opening up a new avenue for breaking artists and establishing hits. Will the rest of the business follow suit? | | |
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 | RIAA |
| As you meet tomorrow with some of the world’s major corporate technology executives, we wanted to highlight some points that are assuring the continued dynamism of music as one of America’s nationaltreasures. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| From awards to Billboard hits to a “Saturday Night Live” appearance, this 26-year-old country singer marvels at how many things she’s crossed off her bucket list. | | |
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| NPR |
| Pop stars Abel Tesfaye and Ebba Nilsson court our shadow sides with songs about sex, drugs, sex on drugs, and -- crucially -- sex as drugs. | | |
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 | DJ Tech Tools |
| As originally reported by the German site Groove, Soundcloud founder Eric Wahlforss is claiming that DJ mixes can now be legally uploaded. We decided to test out his claims -- and today we're going to start uploading DJ mixes that were previously taken down. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| "Fashwave," the sound of young white nationalism. | | |
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 | The Creative Independent |
| Nicolas Jaar is a Chilean music producer, mixing engineer, and DJ based in New York City. Since 2008 Jaar has released nearly a dozen EPs, a variety of remixes, two film soundtracks, and a couple of critically-acclaimed full-length albums (2011’s "Space is Only Noise" and 2016’s "Sirens"). | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| Across Britain, a new generation of outspoken young Muslim rappers are interweaving Islam and hip hop to create a lyrical tapestry that’s all their own. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| Weekends like this one suggest that rock and roll is nowhere near its death rattle. | | |
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| Billboard |
| How Eleven Seven Music is Saving Rock 'n' Roll for Fans of Motley Crue, Buckcherry and Hell Yeah. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| Playing a show every night is sport, it’s not art | | |
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 | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Urge The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to Protect Internet Subscribers in BMG v. Cox. | | |
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 | Jazzfuel |
| Guest post by US saxophonist & composer Mike Casey who writes about how he crowdfunded his debut jazz album 111% in under 30 days using Pledgemusic. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Meet Anna Straker, a promising new dance artist who is refusing to feed the industry machine. | | |
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 | The Combat Jack Show |
| On this episode we have arguably the hardest rap group of all time, The Lox in the studio. The trio, Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch discuss their longevity, rap's new generation, Puff, new deal with Roc Nation, new album, the elections and tons more. | | |
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 | The Muse |
| As we trudge towards the end of the 2016 and the beginning of America’s final year in existence, there is one final celebration/time suck standing in our way: Christmas. | | |
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