When I listen to other people's music, like [the Grateful Dead's] 'Ripple,' chills come over my whole body. And I think, 'This might be the last day of my life.' | | | | Epiphone Limited Edition Union Jack Sheraton Outfit guitar, 2015.
(Neil Godwin/Future/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “When I listen to other people's music, like [the Grateful Dead's] 'Ripple,' chills come over my whole body. And I think, 'This might be the last day of my life.'”
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| | rantnrave:// Maybe you love DISCOGS because you want to know what your vinyl copy of A MOON SHAPED POOL is worth, or because you really really want that BILLY YEAGER test pressing. For me, and I know I'm far from alone here, it's still all about the metadata. Where else can you find out the barcode of FRANK OCEAN's BLOND or who A&R'd TAME IMPALA's CURRENTS or what numbers are etched into the run-out groove of SONGS FROM DAWSON'S CREEK? SPOTIFY isn't going to tell you any of that. You aren't going to find it on ALLMUSIC either. In a content-heavy, information-light digital era where it can be a chore just to find out who played the bass on any given track on any given album, Discogs and its user base have done an exemplary job of collecting and cataloguing the minutiae of album liner notes. The next step, product director NIK KINLOCH tells THUMP, is to "link together tracks, look into that musicology of where they came from, who wrote them, what other versions are there of the tracks. How they've changed over the years, how they've been remastered." Yes. Please. Thump's long Q&A with Kinloch and the rest of the Discogs exec team on where they came from and where they're going is very much worth the read. And breaking news within: A Discogs music gear marketplace launches next month... REDEF pal BILL FLANAGAN goes one-on-one with BOB DYLAN, asks the essential question "If you can sing like that, why don’t you always sing like that?," and gets a great answer. And much much more... My friend TIM QUIRK has some thoughts on TED LEO's in-progress-and-way-overfunded KICKSTARTER and what it says about the music biz's need to embrace an ARPU model... My friend GIL KAUFMAN catalogs 10 artists and music projects that have benefited from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, including the KRONOS QUARTET, the MONTEREY JAZZ FEST and HAMILTON... Bonus non-musical thing we can thank the NEA for: MAYA LIN's VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL... Hearts, thoughts and prayers to LONDON. Here are TIME OUT LONDON's 100 favorite London songs, from the KINKS and BLUR to ED SHEERAN and KATE TEMPEST... The late CHUCK BERRY has a new single and we're continuing to expand our REDEF MusicSET "Remembering Chuck Berry." Lots of quality essays by GREG TATE, ELVIS MITCHELL and more added in the past 24 hours... QUEEN MONOPOLY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Thump |
| A rare interview with Discogs' core team about the company's fascinating evolution from a barebones haven for data-obsessed techno heads to an industry behemoth. | | |
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 | bobdylan.com |
| "These songs are meant for the man on the street, the common man, the everyday person. Maybe that is a Bob Dylan fan, maybe not, I don’t know." | | |
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 | Between the Liner Notes |
| Deejay Joey Carvello, RFC Records owner Ray Caviano, author Tim Lawrence and co-host of Sound Opinions Jim DeRogatis, discuss how the Disco Sucks movement forced the genre back into the underground. | | |
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 | Vinyl Me, Please |
| We unpack the history of music being sold via cartoons, and vice versa. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Pennsylvania duo are reaping the rewards of a gravity-defying Apple ad. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| How The Honey Drippers’ Nixon takedown ended up being sampled in over 696 songs. | | |
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 | Tape Op |
| This year marks the 20th anniversary of "Either/Or," the third album by my late friend and co-conspirator Elliott Smith. I was asked by his family and label, Kill Rock Stars, to oversee the remastering process for this record "Either/Or: Expanded Edition," source and mix bonus tracks, as well as to come up with text for the liner notes. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| On the playlist, each sound is geographically mapped and celebrated. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Whether onstage or in film, Berry refused to mask his anger. And his fans, and the camera, loved him regardless. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| PJ Harvey and Charles Bradley to get ready for school, Alabama Shakes to console her mom--this is the mystery we want solved, because Chloe’s soundtracking skills sure as hell did not come from her parents. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| A handful of artists share their major label horror stories. | | |
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 | USA Today |
| The 'You're Beautiful' singer is making a comeback thanks to Ed Sheeran and viral tweets. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| Every rap empire goes into decline eventually, but Maybach Music Group hit its decline phase before it ever really became an empire. Crew figurehead Rick Ross has, over the past few years, slowly slid into his dotage, releasing sleepy and indolent music that didn't seem that concerned with seizing anyone's imagination. | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| Members of the post-No Wave New York City scene tell the tale of Moore’s first experiences in a band in '70s Lower East Side. (Excerpted from "We Sing a New Language: The Oral Discography of Thurston Moore.") | | |
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 | Song Exploder |
| David Longstreth breaks down the song “Up in Hudson” and the winding road he went down to create it. | | |
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 | CDM Create Digital Music |
| Circular Ruins' auditory landscapes are rich and strange, hypnotic rituals of loops and layers. We listen to the latest, then talk process with the artist. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| We talk to the 26-year-old electronicist about her work, the affect of the occupation on nightlife cultures, and how she's challenging perceived gender roles daily. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Costello recalls collaborating with the former Beatle in 1987--songs that are newly released on a reissue of McCartney's "Flowers in the Dirt." | | |
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 | American Songwriter |
| "Getting inside the other’s mind is a cornerstone of the aspirational idea called humanism." | | |
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 | BBC |
| Zara Larsson reveals an unusual medical condition, and how she escaped her talent show past. | | |
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