I think for so many people, music is just like a part of their life. It’s what they do while they cook or while they work or something. They have music they love, but music discovery as a concept maybe isn’t so central. It’s not a core problem to their lives. | | | | Like they just don't care: Fans at Coachella, April 15, 2018.
(Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I think for so many people, music is just like a part of their life. It’s what they do while they cook or while they work or something. They have music they love, but music discovery as a concept maybe isn’t so central. It’s not a core problem to their lives.”
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 | The Verge |
| It seems basically impossible to build a music social network | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The camera knew where to be and when to be there; one never felt something essential was being missed. | | |
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 | Ultimate Classic Rock |
| "I’m looking at the TV and I’m so stoned, I don’t even know where [I am]. I’m watching this guy on the TV, in this car, running [into] the session, they’re playing Christopher Cross and I went, ‘Am I having a psychotic breakdown?’ It’s like, I’m going, ‘I know that guy!’ And I’m going, ‘Who is that?’ I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God.’" | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The rapper’s win for “DAMN.” is overdue recognition for hip-hop but raises concerns about the shrinking number of platforms for noncommercial work. | | |
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 | Medium |
| The world loves trap, but (still) can't jump. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Matthew Covey’s work as an immigration fixer has assumed greater urgency in the Trump era. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| As the second anniversary of Prince's death approaches, his heirs have yet to collect a dollar of his estimated $200 million estate. But bankers, lawyers and consultants have earned millions from it. | | |
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 | KCRW |
| Pirate radio station WBAD in New York was a beloved source for fans of underground, unsanitized hip-hop in the 1990s, but how high could this illegal operation fly while also staying under the radar? | | |
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 | Complex |
| KOD’s unconventional rollout shows that Cole can do whatever the hell he wants and still succeed. | | |
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 | Slate |
| “Uh-oh! Cardi B rejects the narrative that you must to sacrifice your unborn baby to have a satisfying career.” | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| “Grace onstage can be so extreme and then she comes backstage and she’s like, ‘I’ve had a chicken marinating for three days, do you want to have dinner?’” jokes the director of “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami.” | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| "It’s pernicious, and it’s widespread," says our mystery spinner. | | |
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 | AListDaily |
| The Coachella festival, with marquee 2018 headliners like Beyonce and the Weeknd, is a music fan's paradise. Coachella is also something else, and something almost as important: One of the biggest annual scrums for the advertising industry. | | |
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 | Variety |
| It seems impossible that such a world-beating, meaning-laden, meticulously planned and executed — not to mention completely awesome — performance could just vanish into the ether, existing only in the memories of those who saw it before the livestream expired, but that’s at least the official word at the moment. | | |
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 | The Creative Independent |
| Musician Billy Corgan discusses the ways in which his process has (and hasn't) evolved over the years, why you actually need a good producer, and the big questions all artists should try and ask themselves. | | |
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 | Lenny |
| "The monotony is meditative." | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| French collecting society Sacem has reported that in 2017, its collections from online surpassed those from physical music products for the first time. | | |
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 | CNN |
| Rapper Meek Mill speaks to CNN's Don Lemon after District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a hearing that Mill's sentence should be thrown out, and he should be granted a new trial. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| The woman who performed the cult hit has completely disappeared - those connected to her and a Q Lazzarus bandmate try to shed some light. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ and its contemporaries are sensory soothing software several decades in the making. | | |
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