I wanted to do for the keyboards what Hendrix ... was doing for the guitar. |
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| rantnrave:// If you're of a certain age, there's a good chance the first time you truly noticed a MOOG synthesizer -- maybe any synthesizer -- was three minutes into an acoustic ballad by EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER called "LUCKY MAN." It's an unhinged solo performed by an influential keyboard maestro who set out to loosen a few hinges in pretty much everything he did, whether covering AARON COPLAND, stabbing his organ with knives or scoring a classic horror film. KEITH EMERSON "did more than anyone else in the rock realm," my friend JIM ALLEN writes, "to push keyboards to the forefront as a lead instrument capable of challenging the hegemony of the guitar." RIP to a prig-rock legend whose death appears to have been particularly tragic... THE LA TIMES' DEXTER THOMAS wrote this last week about the idea of adapting the gaming industry's "day one patch" -- in which products are released, then fixed after the fact -- to music and movies. His poster boy is KANYE WEST, who, it now appears, has been quietly editing the only legal version of "THE LIFE OF PABLO," on TIDAL. So does the original version of KANYE's "FAMOUS," for example, no longer exist? Has it been officially disappeared? Is it possible to make art disappear? Is it wise? Questions for a future panel on "The Artist as Curator of His Own Work"... h/t PIOTR ORLOV for this great LOVE INJECTION RADIO podcast with DOUGLAS SHERMAN, music selector for THE LOFT... RIP SXSW co-founder LOUIS JAY MEYERS, jazz singer ERNESTINE ANDERSON and pioneering rock journalist BEN EDMONDS... At this point, I'm thinking let's hurry up and get 2016 over with, please. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics. | | |
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| In a list of artists most likely to make a Giorgio Moroder tribute album, Shooter Jennings probably won't be the first name that comes to mind. | | |
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| >From Kesha’s case against Dr. Luke to Miles Kane’s objectification of a female journalist, the industry has to admit there’s a problem before sexism is curbed. | | |
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| The Hendrix of the Hammond pioneered prog and became rock's first real keyboard king. | | |
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| What can we say about Keith Emerson that hasn't been said already? Nothing. That's why this time, you're asking the questions. (Originally published in Keyboard magazine, December 2010.) | | |
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| We can't change time, but we can change how it feels - through music, through drugs, through strategic combinations of the two. Or we can just keep bending our brains in digital space, where our collective past has never felt more claustrophobically present, where the process of forgetting has become more difficult than the act of remembering. | | |
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| Last week saw a settlement in the closely watched fair use case of Equals Three v. Jukin Media. It's a good thing Equals Three settled the case. The jury would have ruled that all 48 videos at issue were not fair use, and damages would have been assessed accordingly. | | |
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| Tell somebody from the year 2003 that the producer half of Lex Records cult-rap act DM & Jemini would team up with the recently solo Goodie Mob alumni CeeLo for one of the decade's most definitive singles, and they'd think you were out of your mind. | | |
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| The time will gradually come when turning on the car radio won’t be as easy as it is today in most cars. As that reality inches into automobile use, radio’s reach in the car will be challenged by loss of ease and dashboard presence. The years of push-button radio dominating the head unit are numbered. | | |
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| For those who were indulging in the early-90s dance music underground, it hit with like a bolt of lab-built lightning- all Tesla-coil pulses, spiraling smoke trails, and Frankenstein kicks, soaked in a catalytic vat of synthetic compounds. | | |
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| Midway through "Miles Ahead," the soon-to-be-released movie about Miles Davis, directed by and starring Don Cheadle, the famously irascible musician tells a freelance writer (played by Ewan McGregor) in a dowdy corduroy blazer, "You're not driving me around looking like that no more." It's 1979. | | |
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| "If I wanted to make a lot of money, I would have done it as a personal lawsuit." | | |
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| The most important American band of the last 35 years is Bad Brains. Nirvana may have re-shaped popular music by bringing the ethos and aesthetics of hardcore punk to the mainstream charts, but that ethos and aesthetic largely came courtesy of Bad Brains a generation earlier; a band that solidified punk's second wave by stripping away much of the nihilism and "trendiness" that had been associated with the genre under the reign of British bands like the Sex Pistols and the Damned. | | |
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| A smattering of Nine Inch Nails tracks aside, the melding of dance and metal is a pretty horrifying amalgam. | | |
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| DJ Mel-born Mel Sandico-is a decorated veteran of the war on wallflowers, and he's determined to make you dance. He's spun soul and hip-hop for the NFL draft, for President Obama's 2013 inauguration, and again opened for Obama during this year's South By Southwest Interactive conference, on DJ Mel's home turf of Austin, Texas. | | |
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| "Kiss the freak, f****t," spat Travis at my friend David and me. Travis was the ringleader of the jocks at my elementary school. Even in the fifth grade I f***ing hated that word: f****t. I didn't like being a freak either, but I knew I was one. | | |
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| Inspired by a new generation of Jamaican roots artists, young UK musicians are embracing reggae again. | | |
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| A club owner at Croydon's Dice Bar has accused the police of racial profiling after they allegedly told him the music attracted "the wrong type of clientele." | | |
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| Melissa Ferrick likes the idea of online music streaming services -- she just wants to make sure she gets paid when they play her compositions. Right now, the folk-ish singer-songwriter says that's not always happening. So on Jan. | | |
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