You never know how long your shelf life as an artist is gonna be. At least I can say now I played the Opry. |
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| rantnrave:// That shocking announcement from the RIAA that vinyl albums generated more revenue for the music biz in 2015 than on-demand free streaming did? Not true, HYPEBOT reports. Turns out the RIAA was comparing the net revenue to labels from all those free streams with the gross retail revenue from vinyl albums. Comparing apples and stereos, as it were. Grrrrrr... Music festival or data-collection festival?... That time when BLUE NOTE RECORDS read the comments on a NEW YORK TIMES article...It's FRIDAY and that means new music from ZAYN MALIK, MARGO PRICE, BWANA, DOMO GENESIS, FATHER, WHITE DENIM, BOB MOULD, ELZHI, PLANET ASIA & DJ CONCEPT, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, THE THERMALS, JOE BONAMASSA and RJD2... And it would be wrong not to mention that there are BEYONCÉ rumors. Then again, there are also AXL-ROSE-fronting-AC/DC rumors. And I would much rather hear BEYONCÉ fronting AC/DC. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Imagine a world where every leisure activity is tracked, recorded and then analyzed as market research according to your age and gender demographic. Imagine the next phase after smartphone payments, when a chip linking your finances isn't in your phone, but on your wrist. | | |
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 | I Am Rapaport |
| In memoriam of Phife Dawg aka Malik Taylor. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Once young and scrappy by necessity, D.C.'s homegrown punk scene is reaching something like maturity. Unknown Threat, Stand Off and Stuck Pigs are among the newest bands to challenge the pit. | | |
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 | NME |
| Exactly one year ago, Zayn Malik quit One Direction. Since then, he's split up with his pop star fiancée, hooked up with Frank Ocean's producer and made a solo album. Gavin Haynes pulls up a stool at the pub in his back garden to hear the full story. | | |
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 | Midem |
| Has the industry still "not come to terms with the core concepts behind the root of its own disruption?" Warp Records' Head of Digital answers. | | |
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 | Katie Couric on Yahoo! News |
| “Hamilton,” the musical smash hit about Founding Father and first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, has taken over Broadway, the White House and likely your newsfeed. Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator, performer and genius (yes, officially), is revolutionizing theater — onstage and off. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Studies suggest young people have fallen out of love with nightclubs. We asked our readers to tell us whether this is really the case -- here’s what they said. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Technically speaking, the end of "American Idol" will come on April 7, when the groundbreaking musical reality show crowns its 15th and final champion, confetti drops from the rafters of Hollywood's Dolby Theatre and a verklempt Ryan Seacrest bids America good night and Godspeed. Historians, though, might trace the show's demise to an earlier date. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| At the nadir of a long life rife with hard livin', Margo Price found herself on a stiff bed in a cold room at the Davidson County jail for three days after a night of hard drinking. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube's shadow over the past several months, despite the two networks' symbiotic relationship. The company recently launched new, more personalized music applications on iOS, Android and Apple TV. | | |
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 | Caught by the River |
| As three of their records get the revival treatment David Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack tells it like it was. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| A rising rapper stays faithful to Columbus, Ohio. | | |
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| Billboard |
| With licensing deals in place, SoundCloud is fully legit and expected to launch a subscription option soon. But can it stand out in a crowded field? | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| When I first started writing about Madonna, over a decade ago, she was the undisputed queen of popular postfeminism. Thanks to cultural studies classics like The Madonna Connection (1992), she was the subject of extensive academic analysis and feminist debate. | | |
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 | The Muse |
| Most of the time when dumbed-down music is marketed towards babies, I find it pretty condescending to babies, who will one day grow into adults and will, at some point, have to overcome having had the disadvantage of being played baby music, as opposed to normal music like everyone else. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The country-music star Hank Williams, Jr., put out a new album in January called "It's About Time." It is his fifty-eighth studio release, but as has often been the case in Williams's career, which is now more than a half century old, much of the attention that's come his way has little to do with music. | | |
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 | Salon |
| It seems like a departure -- and maybe, to some, a betrayal -- but "In Bloom" shows why Simpson is so fascinating. | | |
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 | Complex |
| There’s a scene in "The Art of Organized" (on Netflix now) where Rico Wade, the visionary third of legendary production team Organized Noize, steps inside of a modest brick home in Southeast Atlanta. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| The National have been working for years to re-create the magic that was "Dark Was the Night," a 2009 charity compilation for the HIV/AIDS org Red Hot featuring a who's who of indie rock, back when that genre was thriving. And now we see why it's taken so long. | | |
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 | MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY |
| Google frequently defends what I would call the “Pinto Gap.” Why the “Pinto Gap”? Because one would have to believe that Google has determined, just like Ford, that the cost benefit of programming their search algorithm to play whack a mole with artists profits them more than “doing the right thing.” | | |
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