When one song stops in my head, another one begins. | | | | Starfish and Lemonade: Beyoncé and Prince at the 2004 Grammy Awards.
(L. Cohen/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “When one song stops in my head, another one begins.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm still not cool with the idea that PRINCE is no longer here. I'm still unable to process it. It still sucks. It still snows in April, and my personal experience tells me it has snowed more in the past couple of Aprils than in previous Aprils. There's still ridiculously great music coming out of his Vault (which—are you sitting?—still looks like this). We're still not doing enough about opioids. This is still the best album anyone has ever made. I still can't handle that he never got to say goodbye, though maybe he wouldn't have wanted to. He was more the type to keep saying hello. He was open like that. He wasn't afraid to die. Saturday will be two years. Dammit... Minneapolis' STAR TRIBUNE on Thursday published a huge cache of public documents chronicling Prince's final days, including this detailed and tough-to-read account of his addiction... There will be a memoir... JANELLE MONÁE is one of the great inheritors of the Prince mojo—and his synth lines—and she tells the NEW YORK TIMES his death was one of the reasons it took her so long to complete DIRTY COMPUTER, which comes out next Friday. Prince "was the person that I would literally call and talk to about sounds or: ‘How should I say this? Is this saying too much?’" No, this is not saying too much... COACHELLA isn't live-streaming its second weekend on YOUTUBE, but you can hear the music on SIRIUS XM's Coachella Radio... Men should not be allowed onto the Coachella grounds this weekend until they sign an affidavit confirming they have read this horrific account of what it was like to be a woman on the Coachella grounds last weekend... The idea of VIVENDI spinning off UMG has moved from rumor to open conversation... Songs about getting high with WILLIE NELSON, ranked: 1. TOBY KEITH & SCOTTY EMERICK (2003). 2. WILLIE NELSON (2012). 3. JACK JOHNSON (2018). 4. BROTHERS OSBORNE (2018). (Brothers Osborne docked one spot because they're getting high with a Willie album, not Willie himself. Willie docked one spot because of conflict of interest)... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from J. COLE, ASHLEY MONROE, SLEEP, A PERFECT CIRCLE, BROTHERS OSBORNE, STING & SHAGGY, SMOKE DZA, OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, TERENCE BLANCHARD, HIRS COLLECTIVE, DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN & AMP LIVE, LORD HURON, KIMBRA, BLACK STONE CHERRY, EXITMUSIC, JOSHUA HEDLEY, WALTER WOLFMAN WASHINGTON, MARCIA BALL, SHUGGIE OTIS, THIEVERY CORPORATION, DRINKS, ALEXIS TAYLOR, PETER ROWAN, DONOVAN WOODS, TESSERACT and PENNYWISE... Fun game: Guess how many of those acts are releasing music today because it's 4/20. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Gizmodo |
| David Cope didn't set out to make anyone mad. In 1980, the composer envisioned a tool to help cure his creative block: a machine that could keep track of all the sounds and loose threads running through his mind, find similarities, and produce an entire piece of music inspired by it. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| If we take the long view on how technological innovation has made it progressively easier for artists to realize their creative visions, we can see AI’s genuine potential as a powerful tool and partner, rather than as a threat. | | |
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 | Teen Vogue |
| During the 10 hours I was reporting on this story, I was groped 22 times. | | |
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 | Star Tribune |
| A long-awaited trove of new investigative documents released Thursday reveals a clearer narrative of the singer's struggles with opioid addiction in his final days. | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| There was a lot of hype and excitement around the news that "High-Definition Vinyl" would be available as early as 2019, but not a lot of explanation about what that actually means. It's Hi-Definitely not as simple as it sounds. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| After hiding behind an alter ego for years, the pop star is ready to step into a more authentic self with "Dirty Computer." | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Producers like the Martianz, who came up by selling beats online to aspiring rappers all over the world, used to be internet curios. But now they and other producers relying on a similar business model are frequently creating some of the most popular songs in the country. | | |
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| Billboard |
| The world of critics and creatives is vastly different from that of the radio biz, and the new rock stars of the 2010s aren't getting the hits they deserve. | | |
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 | No Effects |
| Download / Subscribe on Apple Podcasts EPISODE 100!!!! Now that we've gotten that out of the way, please listen to my great conversation with Phoebe Bridgers. We talk about arts high school, Ben Harper's mom's folk night, European tour observations and much much more. She's on tour right NOW. R | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| From Dylan and the Beatles to Afroman and Snoop - with a little bit of Willie sprinkled on top - the best songs for stoners of all stripes. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Artists including Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper, Wilco, and the Roots are giving the festival market a much-needed jolt. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Need cash to pay for studio-recording time? A label can foot the bill. Dream of playing late-night TV or other high-profile gigs? A label’s got the connections. And don’t even think about flashy tour buses or trendy digs without some heavy label backing. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| "There's a lot of blind hate out there, but rock & roll is the best way to get to know each other." | | |
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 | Slate |
| The award implores serious admirers of all music to contemplate hip-hop just as seriously as we engage with a baroque oratorio or a modern opera. | | |
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 | Revolver |
| Hip-hop duo Killer Mike and El-P reveal how heavy rock music has inspired them in first episode of "Secret Metalheads." | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| A new biopic covering her later years, Nico, 1988, is part of an ongoing reconsideration of her art and life following the Velvet Underground. | | |
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 | Crudo Volta Radio |
| A documentary that follows the trip of Hagan, a music producer from London of Ghanaian origin. In search of the rich zeal of Ghanaian music, Crudo Volta travelled last August 2017 from London to Ghana with Hagan to capture the creative authenticity and heritage of contemporary Ghanaian culture and music. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| An expert negotiator, he went to bat for stars as big as James Brown and Muddy Waters, but he also clawed back royalties for countless forgotten artists who’d never gotten their due. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Her triumph on the country’s TV talent show wasn’t all about winning or the money. It was about enabling her to show the Chinese "a western performer and hear music some had never heard before." | | |
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 | The Independent |
| Weed has of course been closely associated with the music industry as both subject and creative stimulant since the earliest days of recording. Marijuana’s roots in song go back at least as far back as the Jazz Age of the 1920s. | | |
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