God decided for me that my job of singing for people down here is my legacy, and he needs me singing up there. That’s how I look at it. |
| | | | | Joey Feek of Joey+Rory (1975-2016). (Cindy Funk) | | | | | |  | “God decided for me that my job of singing for people down here is my legacy, and he needs me singing up there. That’s how I look at it.”
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| rantnrave:// Dear music industry, TV industry or whichever industry wants to take credit for this one: If you want people to believe you genuinely care about the careers and copyrights of your big artists, then stop trying to steal the careers and copyrights of the little artists knocking on your doors. This is embarrassing. Actually, I have no idea if it's embarrassing. But it should be. Please fix it, ADAM LEVINE... The always amazing WORDLESS MUSIC, whose stated purpose is to bring together rock, electronic and classical audiences, was responsible for SATURDAY's screening in LOS ANGELES of PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON's "PUNCH DRUNK LOVE" with a live orchestra performing JON BRION's percussion-heavy score and BRION and JOANNA NEWSOM sitting in on vocals. Such a moving performance that it literally brought rain to downtown LA. It's happening one more time, MARCH 19 in BROOKLYN... I get why TUMBLR withdrew its invitation to CRYSTAL CASTLES to play its SXSW showcase spotlighting gender inequality. But the site deserves some kind of award for fumbling both the original booking ("I don’t get involved in the politics of the things," said the man who booked the expressly political show) and the un-booking ("We don’t know the facts around comments made about a member of the band, and we’re not going to engage in an investigation around it," said the site after said comments were brought to its attention)... NANCY REAGAN almost meets MICHAEL JACKSON... BOB DYLAN almost makes music with BARBRA STREISAND... RIP JOEY FEEK, BANKROLL FLESH, NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT and PIERRE PERRONE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Noisey |
| Without Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Grand Theft Auto, and Dave Mirra, my music library would probably be a near empty vessel. | | |
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| Rihanna's "Work" joins a rich tradition of pop hits about hard work. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Last week it was all about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. That was about racism. This week, social media erupted over something that has long been an issue within the black community. Colorism - the idea that your skin tone and not only your race determines your opportunities. | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| Music messaging app Musical.ly has created an utterly different use case, one that challenges the very essence of what music consumption actually is, and what a song should be. | | |
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 | Ars Technica |
| Three researchers attempt to bring some rigor to the math of melody. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| When you look at an album or a DVD featuring Joey+Rory Feek, it would be easy to put a space between their names and the plus sign. I did that, early on, only to be corrected (very nicely) very quick. It wasn't "Joey" and "Rory"; they were a team, perhaps one of the best examples of what being a true couple meant -- in the business or not. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Joe Bataan was bouncing around behind his keyboard onstage at the B. B. King Blues Club in Times Square, turning to cue his 14-piece band and clearly enjoying himself. It was a good crowd for a Wednesday night, and the dancers were getting after it, so he was mixing in a dose of mambo with his signature doo-wop-tinged Latin soul songs like "Subway Joe" and "Ordinary Guy." | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Backed by gunfire and explosions, a new wave of electronic musicians are providing a soundtrack to the apocalypse. | | |
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 | Complex |
| In his first interview since 2010, Cassius reveals the ups and downs of what it was like working for the hottest rapper alive -- and what came next. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| Gordon Gano discusses reuniting the indie rock trio and relating to songs they wrote as teens. | | |
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 | The California Sunday Magazine |
| No one suspected the Los Angeles Beat Scene would rewire the circuits of international underground music, but over the past year its influence has become pervasive, shaping some of the biggest hip-hop albums and dictating the future of modern jazz. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Your band probably shouldn't put out an album without telling anybody in advance. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| It’s going to get worse before it gets better. | | |
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| NPR |
| The R&B singer-songwriter - known for his lending his voice and songwriting skills to Usher, Mary J. Blige and more - puts himself front and center on his new album, "In My Mind." | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Since emerging from the bedroom of Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll – AKA Kygo – in 2013, the genre has gone global and made a superstar of its creator. With upbeat tunes and an everyman appeal, perhaps it’s no surprise. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| There's a joke/meme doing the rounds of professional audio and live music event circles. Picture the scene: a heaving arena, packed with thousands of expectant fans. A huge PA flanks a fully equipped stage, its lighting rig already spangling the crowd with state of the art moving head fixture beams. Onto the stage bounds the evening's entertainment, which everyone has come to see. | | |
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 | Vanyaland |
| Tanya Pearson has a goal, and it's one that is pretty awesome: "I'm determined that five years from now, every girl or genderqueer kid playing in a band will know who or Julie Cafritz or Alice Bag or Phranc is." | | |
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| MTV News |
| K.Dot breaks free of all expectations. Now what? | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| "My mother told me, 'Richard, you’re the most naïve child I’ve ever known. And if you don’t get some savvy, the world is going to crush you.' I took that to heart." | | |
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| The New York Times |
| When the Bangles formed in the 1980s, the band sought out an ace melodist to produce its music: Emitt Rhodes. "We hunted him down at his house, like little Nancy Drews," the group's lead singer, Susanna Hoffs, recently recalled. Mr. Rhodes, a thwarted '70s power-pop singer and songwriter, wasn't exactly welcoming. | | |
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