Everybody has their own form of grief, everybody is fighting some battle. Some people know how to deal with it and some people don't or can't... For us, our way of dealing was making a record and saying it out loud. |
| | | | | Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius. (Levi Manchak) | | | | | |  | “Everybody has their own form of grief, everybody is fighting some battle. Some people know how to deal with it and some people don't or can't... For us, our way of dealing was making a record and saying it out loud.”
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| rantnrave:// THE NEW YORK TIMES' great online feature "25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going" does not in fact tell us where music is going, and it's not even clear that that was the intent. But if you can get past that headline, you get a beautifully designed, well written (and novella-length) snapshot of where music is right now, from SYD THA KID to "HAMILTON" to TWENTY ONE PILOTS to MARGO PRICE and beyond, and why it feels and sounds and communicates like it does. Hook your laptop up to a nice set of speakers and settle in for an afternoon... BILLBOARD's DANIELLE BACHER talks at length to KESHA's mother, PEBE SEBERT, on the eve of a pro-KESHA protest planned for today outside SONY's NEW YORK headquarters. The resulting piece has plenty of ammunition for those protesters, not all of it coming from the SEBERT family... A STURGILL SIMPSON point / counterpoint... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the late JEFF BUCKLEY, LUCIUS, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, BRIAN FALLON, MIND SPIDERS, SHOOTER JENNINGS and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE... New MUSICREDEF feature: Clickbait for old people. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going | | by Nitsuh Abebe, Mary H.K. Choi, Wesley Morris, Sam Hockley-Smith, Jenna Wortham, George Saunders, Jace Clayton, Carlo Rotella, Jeff Himmelman, Doreen St. Felix, John Wray, Jia Tolentino, Marlon James, Bijan Stephen, Max Read, Jeremy Gordon, Jamie Lauren Keiles, Jody Rosen, Mark Levine, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Amanda Petrusich, Miriam Markowitz, Jayson Greene, Jazmine Hughes, Mac McClelland and Will Hermes |
| It's not as if I made some principled choice not to listen to it. It's just that Beyoncé released " Formation " on a Saturday, and then performed it at the Super Bowl on Sunday, and as of Monday I hadn't gotten around to it, for reasons that are incredibly uninteresting: I happened to have been doing other stuff, which seems as if it's probably among my rights as an American. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Pebe Sebert speaks out on her daughter's 10 years as a "prisoner" under contract: "Luke almost destroyed us." | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Expressing anger freely and publicly as a woman is a political act so turn those amps up and grab the mic. | | |
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 | Priceonomics |
| The hits of the 1960s were "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "You're All I Need to Get By" and "Devil With a Blue Dress On". Today's hit songs are titled "Rude" and "Work" and "Baby". What's driving the rise of the one-word song title? | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The rise of Action Bronson, the rapper and former chef, is the apotheosis of hip-hop and food culture. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| What does the rise of the surprise album release mean for careful, considered music writing? | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| "I'm not that mentally stable, if I'm honest with you," says singer Matt Healy. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Composer Bear McCreary -- yes, that's his real name -- has been obsessed with film music since he was 6 years old, when he snuck a tape recorder into "Back to the Future" just to record the soundtrack. "When I grew up, I loved movie music," he says. | | |
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 | Future of Music Coalition |
| A few months ago, we published an article about mechanical royalties not being properly paid out to publishers and songwriters. At that point, there was not yet a sense of how this issue would be resolved. | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe have just finished screaming into each other's faces. It's a rainy Tuesday night at the Gramercy Hotel's Rose Bar, and the singers are catching their breath before a wide-eyed crowd that witnessed the pair howling over the din of the band behind them. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The 21-year-old singer/songwriter/social media sensation has an out-of-nowhere hit album and a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, but that hasn't kept her from (over)sharing every detail of her life with her hyperpassionate followers, from her history of mental illness to her love of boy bands and Bernie Sanders: "I talk to them like real f---ing human beings." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| On April 22nd, "Nina," a movie inspired by -- but not an accurate reflection of -- Nina Simone will be released in theaters. Starring Zoe Saldana, a black Latina actress best known for her roles in "Avatar" and "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Nina" continues to court controversy years after the project was first announced and filmed. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| Apparently, not everybody liked it! Per an Open Records Request filed by SB Nation, enough people filed angry complaints to the FCC about the Super Bowl broadcast to fill 47 pages of emails, which you can read below. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| To make his new album, the Seattle MC had to finally confront his demons - not to mention his place in hip-hop, and white America. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. -- In February 2015, Gwen Stefani joined Maroon 5 onstage at the Grammys to perform the ballad " My Heart Is Open." After the awards, she got Mexican food with the band's singer, Adam Levine, a fellow coach on the NBC reality-singing competition "The Voice." | | |
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 | Song Exploder |
| Daniel Lopatin has been making experimental electronic music as Oneohtrix Point Never since 2007. In this episode, he takes apart the song "Sticky Drama," from his 2015 album Garden of Delete. He breaks down how he created artificial voices using software for the vocals, and how he sees his songs as pieces of science fiction. | | |
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 | Impose |
| In an excerpt from volume 4 of his fanzine Life Stinks I Hate the Kinks, Daniel Stewart reflects on the darkness of "Wicked Annabella." | | |
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 | Thump |
| Defending the Indefensible is a semi-regular series which sees us trying to find merit in the abject, the terrible, and the deathly dull-or vice versa fault in the otherwise lauded. | | |
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| It's important to remember that David Lowery could have just sued Spotify over his own catalog. He didn't do that. He brought a class action for the good of all songwriters who get overlooked and disrespected by Spotify and that's a lot of people. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Singer Brian Johnson has had to pull out of the rockers’ tour or risk losing his hearing. His departure is one loss too far. | | |
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