Here’s a tip: when you’re deejaying a party, open with ‘Rock Steady.’ |
| | | | | Aretha Franklin at the White House. (Pete Souza/The White House) | | | | | | | “Here’s a tip: when you’re deejaying a party, open with ‘Rock Steady.’”
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| rantnrave:// Is PC MUSIC's A.G. COOK the next MAX MARTIN? He's a few hundred pop hooks short at this point, but NOISEY's DAISY JONES makes a good case for the how BRITISH sugar-pop outsider (and/or art project) has been an insider all along in both ambition and style. I like his CHARLI XCX collaboration more than some people do, and JONES paints it as part of an inevitable continuum in which pop's inside repeatedly absorbs its outside... "Naturally, she has lost range and stamina, but she is miles better than SINATRA at a similar age." That's the NEW YORKER's DAVID REMNICK on ARETHA FRANKLIN, from a must-read on the emotional power and personal fragility of the 74-year-old QUEEN OF SOUL... You'd think, from some of the reaction to LCD's resurrection, which officially began on EASTER (of course), that no band had ever broken up and reunited before. NPR's PIOTR ORLOV celebrates the music and the community. The MUSE's RICH JUZWIAK condemns the optics... CORNELL UNIVERSITY is using a NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES grant to archive AFRIKA BAMBAATAA's music collection, which includes "20,000 vinyl records, many of them annotated by BAMBAATAA and numbered in the order he acquired them"... TIM WESTERGREN returns to PANDORA... RIP JIMMY RILEY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The ascent and influence of the greatest singer in the history of postwar popular music. | | |
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| When PC Music affiliates AG Cook and SOPHIE released their first official single via XL Recordings in 2014-QT's " Hey QT"-they quickly became one of the most talked-about (and argued over) music phenomena of the year. | | |
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| Contained within the recent "New York Times" article about the University of Tulsa and the Kaiser Foundation's acquisition of Bob Dylan's heretofore mythic archives was a paragraph that leaped out at me. "Jon Landau, the longtime manager of Mr. [Bruce] Springsteen, declined to comment on his client's papers," wrote Ben Sisario. | | |
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| Thanks to an iOS cellular device and staunch commitment to Spotify streaming services I was not one, but two steps behind in the unfolding frenzy of ANTI's late January release. "Kiss It Better" was clear and away the top trending track and I could merely sit and scroll as, even in the wake of "Work," that title was soon dubbed the rightful and "true" first single. | | |
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| Emily White writes about the troubling reality of sexism in the music industry, and how even companies which purport to promote gender equality in the workplace, are often guilty of indirect sexism. | | |
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| Do not mention the word "biopic" to Don Cheadle. He doesn't want to hear it. He's played that tune before, as streetball legend Earl "The Goat" Manigault, Sammy Davis Jr., and of course, his gripping turn as the refugee-sheltering Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, for which he received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. | | |
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| Ethan Hawke has a thing for playing musicians. Certainly it helps that, depending on his haircut, he just looks like the kind of guy who's never more than ten feet away from an acoustic guitar at any given moment. | | |
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| Remembering the album that put T.I. on top of the rap game, 10 years later | | |
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| On Sunday, James Murphy's reformed dance-rock troupe performed its first concert in five years at New York City's Webster Hall. | | |
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| LCD Soundsystem reunited last night at New York’s Webster Hall for the first in a string several gigs planned for this year. A new album is in the works. It’s worth underlining that LCD Soundsystem’s resurrection occurred on Easter Sunday, a scheduling decision consistent with the band’s flair for grandiose self-regard. | | |
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| Irish rock icon Bono leads a widely acclaimed, data-driven, global organization that influences governments, rallies C-suites, and raises hundreds of millions of dollars for people living in poverty. What’s his secret? An ability to convince others that they are the true leaders of change, not him. Here’s what business can learn from a music legend. | | |
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| k.d/ lang, Neko Case, and Laura Veirs are making music together, and yes, you can definitely call them a "supergroup." Plus, listen to their song "Best Kept Secret"! | | |
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| There wasn't much to look at in terms of set design during Rihanna's Sunday-night (Mar. 27) concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Oversized plastic cocoons throbbed with pulsing air on either side of the stage. | | |
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| Is college radio too small for its own good? Or is its smallness a hidden asset? Those are the questions we take up this week with guest Ken Mills. He's a radio consultant who works with non-commercial, commercial and college stations. | | |
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| Earlier this week a meme passed around Rap Twitter featuring a picture of four young rappers and a caption saying "No one over 30 can name all 4 of these n****s w/o Google." The rappers were Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, and Playboi Carti, a few of whom have skyrocketed to nationwide renown in the young year. | | |
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| Many brands have tried to make YouTube work for them, creating premium content for consumers to engage with and hopefully share. A few have done it well, but they'll all tell you that it isn't easy. Even more artists have attempted the same, and the success rate might be slightly [...] | | |
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| Although traditional crowdfunding has been around for some time a new kind of crowdfunding, one which allows investors to actually purchase an ownership stake and gives them the opportunity to make a profit from their investment, may be about to take the music industry by storm. | | |
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| On his new album, "Call It What It Is," the musician reflects on police brutality, ageing, and a pink balloon. | | |
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| In our jobs, when we're told to redo something, it usually means we've made a mistake. That's not the case for Javier Camarena. Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Opera, the tenor had the chance to retake an aria during a performance of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" because the audience went bonkers after the first time he sang it. | | |
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| The dearth of female nominees for engineer and producer of the year at next Sunday’s (Apr. 3) Juno Awards reflects an industry issue. | | |
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| from "Soul Train," April 28, 1973 |
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