Malik 'Phife' Taylor's verse [on 'Buggin' Out'] was such a gauntlet/flag planting moment in hip hop. Every hip hop head was just...stunned. |
| | | | | Phife Dawg, 1970 - 2016. (fuseboxradio) | | | | | |  | “Malik 'Phife' Taylor's verse [on 'Buggin' Out'] was such a gauntlet/flag planting moment in hip hop. Every hip hop head was just...stunned.”
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| rantnrave:// It takes two to make some of the best pop-music things go right, generally one yin and one yang. One fire and one water. One, as KCRW DJ GARTH TRINIDAD puts it, to season the meat and one to barbecue it. PHIFE DAWG was the barbecuer in the all-time MC duo at the heart of A TRIBE CALLED QUEST. Or, if you will, the LENNON to Q-TIP's MCCARTNEY. Q-TIP had the mellifluous flow, the higher profile, the solo career. PHIFE had the zings, the boasts, the funnies and, as was clear from the outpouring of remembrances yesterday, an extraordinary amount of hip-hop love. QUESTLOVE said it was hearing PHIFE on "THE LOW END THEORY" that made him want to make hip-hop. Q-TIP has credited PHIFE with convincing him he could rhyme. The childhood friends had a rocky relationship in later years, but they reconciled in the end, and they and DJ/producer ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD (and sometimes JAROBI WHITE) left behind one of the great catalogs of '90s hip-hop. We look back in our REDEF MusicSET "REMEMBERING PHIFE DAWG"... And then there's this: the greatest traffic report of all time, or, if you will, A Traffic Report Called Quest... This is not your father's vinyl revival: RIAA CEO CARY SHERMAN says the music biz made more revenue from selling 17 million vinyl albums last year than it did from "billions and billions of on-demand free streams." In a state-of-the-biz blog post, SHERMAN lashes out at "some technology giants" who are "enriching themselves at the expense of the people who actually create the music." PANDO's SARAH LACY helpfully interprets that to mean "YOUTUBE." LACY's sympathetic piece makes a compelling case for why you should be paying for your music, while MARK MULLIGAN takes on the gadfly task of wondering why the music industry continues to insist that that payment be $9.99 a month at a time when other media industries are experimenting with, and diversifying, their pricing models. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| As the yin to his childhood friend Q-Tip's yang, Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor was the heart of one of the most influential hip-hop groups of all. We remember the legendary MC, who died way too young, with reflections, memories and music. | | |
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 | Pando |
| Last August at the Outside Lands Music festival in Golden Gate Park, I had a conversation with Cary Sherman. The conversation was jovial, a lot of nodding and agreement. That alone was surprising because Sherman is the head of the Recording Industry Association of America and I'm 40 years old. | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| The internet, smartphones, app stores, open source software, all have accelerated innovation at a rate that makes Moore's law look positively pedestrian. What defines digital technology markets is disruptive innovation, the constant challenging of accepted wisdoms and of established practices. | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| I called up Newsom and asked whether this analysis was legitimate or if I was just going crazy. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| "Once I was seven years old, my mama told me: 'Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely'." Lukas Graham have plenty of friends now. The band are having a massive worldwide hit with their track '7 Years', which is topping charts around the world. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| "I remember being in a session with a reputable producer and it was going really well and [he] was like, 'Hey, so I think I'm probably going to need to take 60 percent,'" remembers musician and Songspace co-founder/Director of Strategy Jesse Feister . | | |
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 | Vulture |
| With the classic Guns N' Roses lineup (well, most of it) reupping for Coachella, it's easy to get swept up in nostalgia for the band's prime -- unless you remember actually dealing with Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan & Co. Here's what it was like to be caught in the middle of the GNR whirlwind. | | |
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 | Co.Create |
| How a band from Bath, England, that records music in their bedrooms became downright ubiquitous. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| A quick note: I wrote this column yesterday, before Phife Dawg died. At this point, it seems ridiculous to have a column about rap and not have it be about the five-foot assassin with the roughneck business. | | |
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 | A.V. Club |
| 'How do you sleep?' | | by Joshua Alston, David Anthony, Dan Caffrey, Danette Chavez, A.A. Dowd, Drew Fortune, Leonardo Adrian Garcia, Will Harris, Gwen Ihnat, Noel Murray, Evan Rytlewski, Mike Vago, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and Annie Zaleski |
| 23 highly specific rock and roll diss tracks. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Don Cheadle was not looking to play Miles Davis. He had done biopics before, starring as Sammy Davis Jr. in “The Rat Pack” (1998), which earned him a Golden Globe, and as the hotelier and accidental humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina in the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Anohni and THEEsatisfaction are in the vanguard of artists using their music to challenge ecocide and resist big business on behalf of minorities. | | |
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 | Third Bridge Creative |
| West remains a mercurial and restless artist. But one thing has remained constant: the use of classic soul and R&B as his primary sonic palette. He has consistently sampled this music more than any other, even if how he’s utilized this source material has changed drastically over the years. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| By singing directly about their experience of sexuality, artists strike a blow for freedom. | | |
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 | Live Nation TV |
| "We play something for the first time and get the hairs on the back of the neck standing up. That's how you know," explains Brann Dailor, drummer for the heavy metal band Mastodon. "You know if it's good." This type of gut feeling has played an important role for the band from its inception. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The legendary producer sat down at SXSW to discuss his production of the Nirvana classic, the Nirvana/Neil Young album that wasn't, and much more. He is the George Martin of grunge: a mild-mannered Midwesterner in glasses and a vest, surrounded by young fellas in tattered T-shirts and jeans. | | |
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 | Thump |
| "Honestly, this totally feels like Berlin in the early 90s right now!" The two tall sound technicians next to me seemed pleased. Both of them are British, and do the sound for Germany's Fusion Festival. They were responsible for the sound at this party, too. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Derek Serpell-Morris was a cardigan-wearing ex-accountant who became ‘the blackest white man in Bristol’ and a hero to Don Letts and Massive Attack. After going missing in July 2015, his body was finally discovered earlier this month. This is the story of his mysterious disappearance and extraordinary life. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| In interviews, when asked about his heritage, or about being Muslim, he swats the questions away, in some combination of superstar cool and extreme pragmatism: He has a pulpit, but he doesn't seen eager to use it. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| In the fall of 1970, a young musician from London arrived in Los Angeles to work on demo tapes for what he and his manager hoped would be a recording contract with a major label. It was David Bowie’s first trip to the United States. A few weeks after David Bowie’s death on January 10, 2016, sound engineer Ron de Strulle granted an exclusive interview on his work with Bowie. | | |
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