Making the decision to be the whistleblower for country radio lunacy is either going to sink me or allow me to fly. But at least I'll know I've been honest. Which is what I'm good at. | | | | ScHoolboy Q at Coachella, April 22, 2017.
(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Making the decision to be the whistleblower for country radio lunacy is either going to sink me or allow me to fly. But at least I'll know I've been honest. Which is what I'm good at.”
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 | The Atlantic |
| The Piano Man hasn’t released a new pop album since 1993. How does he continue to sell out stadiums? | | |
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 | Beats 1 Radio |
| Zane Lowe interewed Kendrick Lamar in Indio, Calif., while Kendrick was headlining the Coachella festival this past weekend. | | |
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 | Musonomics |
| China has the largest population in the world and an economy that keeps growing at a steady pace. But their music industry is still much smaller than that of European countries like Austria or Sweden. Why is that? | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| His albums are back on Spotify. New releases full of unheard recordings are on the way. For a fan, there is joy and pain in knowing the work Prince guarded so tightly won't stay that way for long. | | |
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 | Electronics360 |
| Technologies developed for specific uses sometimes unexpectedly jump to another totally unrelated application. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Harry Styles, former One Direction member, defies his own fan mythology, remaining a candid pop star with a mysterious public persona. | | |
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 | Digital Music News |
| Spotify is great for superstars like Drake and Ed Sheeran. But Big Machine's Scott Borchetta says the numbers are tricky. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| A century-defining album’s improbable genesis. | | |
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 | Tim Quirk |
| Here's a longer version of the presentation I gave at this year’s Pop Conference, about Too Much Joy’s brief moment of playing protest music, and what that taught me about the skepticism that so often greets artists who take political stands. The | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| As the New York City duo play their final shows this weekend, they talk about what’s changed, what’s next, and what it was like being at the forefront of pop getting hip to indie. | | |
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 | The Quietus |
| With Damon Chazelle’s "La La Land" released on DVD at the end of the month, we shouldn’t let its toxic reading of musical film history obscure the form’s politically radical manifestations. | | |
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 | Office of Copyright |
| A recently introduced bill in the current session of Congress would, for the first time, require radio stations to pay a fee for the performance of sound recordings. Any radio station that refused to pay the fee would allow the owner of the sound recording to prohibit that station from playing the sound recording. Three companies control 87% of all commercially available sound recordings. | | |
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 | NME |
| With Spotify playlists you can tell your crush you like them/dump the person you're seeing without the embarrassment of doing it in person. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| Now partially digitized, former Def Jam publicity head Bill Adler’s archive of personal correspondences, photos, and press clippings chronicle a budding conglomerate and the personalities that shaped it. | | |
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 | The Current |
| Minneapolis was always home for Prince, but another Midwestern city loomed large in his heart from the very beginning of his career. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Lorde, Kanye West, and Dev Hynes all have a neurological condition that allows them to visualize music - but is it real? | | |
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 | CBC |
| Neil Young appears to be shifting his digital music gears away from his high-fidelity Pono project towards a form of high-resolution streaming. | | |
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 | Ottawa Citizen |
| The benefits of music therapy to those with dementia are well known. Stories are often told of patients who are completely unable to speak yet able to sing. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| TI talks to us about the his new short film and artists in speaking out against social injustice. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| A Texas fan is suing the band, claiming she was injured by a bottle of Faygo soda thrown from a concert stage. But just to be clear, she swears she’s still a loyal fan. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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