Korean pop music likes differentiation and changes. The average American song is four melodies, maybe five. The average K-pop song is eight to 10. | | | | Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at Jazz Fest, New Orleans, April 27, 2018.
(Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Korean pop music likes differentiation and changes. The average American song is four melodies, maybe five. The average K-pop song is eight to 10.”
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| | rantnrave:// If fans are expecting a five-star album, you'd better not come at them with a four-star album. Are you listening, DRAKE? On Thursday, SPOTIFY released its first earnings report as a public company. Paid subscriptions are up 45 percent over a year ago, revenue is up 26 percent year-over-year (but down quarter-over-quarter), gross margins are up, churn rate is down. The key number, however, is 1.01 euros per share, which is how much money the company is losing. Wall Street was expecting losses, but much smaller ones, and after-hours on Wednesday investors made like SONY and dumped a bunch of their brand new stock. It was a four-star report at best. No one's running for the hills yet, though. Here's an analysis of how Spotify is tracking relatively closely to how NETFLIX was doing at the same point. The WALL STREET JOURNAL (paywall) notes that none of Spotify's competitors has ever turned a profit either, and "FACEBOOK Inc., TWITTER Inc. and, most recently, SNAP Inc., all struggled to meet investor expectations initially." Spotify is projecting 92–96 million paid subs by the end of 2018 along with around 200 million monthly active users. It's still emphasizing long-term growth over short-term profit and presumably not freaking out that its stock price dropped 7.7 percent to $156.99 late Wednesday... VULTURE's BILL WYMAN, who doesn't appear to like pop music all that much, is reliably unreliable in ranking the 214 current members of the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME from CHUCK BERRY (#1) to BON JOVI (#214). But sprinkled within the lengthy, uneven read are a bunch of short interviews and anecdotes that add up to a good glimpse into how the RRHOF voting process works and how, for example, some wings of the hall (hello Cleveland!) haven't always been so fond of other wings (New York, just like I pictured it). Fun fact #1: The great doo-wop group the MOONGLOWS, who were inducted in 2000, were passed over at some point before that when an executive on the hall's nominating committee said, "They aren't going to sell a single ticket to the dinner." Fun fact #2: JANN WENNER, who's on the hall's four- or five-member executive committee, could only summon the name of one other member. This year's induction ceremony, which took place in Cleveland three weeks ago and includes Vulture's all-time least favorite inductee, airs on HBO Saturday night... SHAZAM for album covers... Even more fun with album covers... RIP TIM CALVERT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| As a musician, I spent more than 10 years touring at various times. So when I think of being in a band, I generally think about two things: guitars, and vans. And since guitars aren’t really a thing we cover so much here on Jalopnik, you can guess what this episode of the Tempest podcast is about: the magic of the tour van. | | |
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| When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times. | | |
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| While the rapper trumpets his new messages on Twitter and in interviews, a collective global rescue effort for his mind, soul and legacy rages on. | | |
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| In recent years, mainstream American pop has relied less and less on R&B songwriters. So they took their talents to Korea - and the hits followed. | | |
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| The explosion of creative energy around London’s jazz-schooled musicians has expanded to forge connections with likeminded artists and city scenes around the world. Emma Warren investigates this has fuelled a new global localism between London, Chicago and Johannesburg. | | |
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| My cousin introduced me to Prince. Then he disappeared. | | |
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| Some have asked why the Chicago singer hasn't faced any real repercussions. The reason is because his victims are young black girls. | | |
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| The Time's Up and #MeToo movements are fighting to make it a brand-new day for women in America. Women in country, it seems, are poised to make it a "brand" day. | | |
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| "Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music" portrays an artist of strength and verve who’s committed to being exactly who she wants to be on her terms, no matter what the traditional paternalistic power structure dictated she should do. | | |
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| A South Korean violinist endeavors to stage a peace concert with musicians from his country and North Korea. | | |
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| London-based tech start-up JAAK has announced a successful pilot of its blockchain network, KORD. Pilot participants include BMG, Global Music Rights, Outdustry, Phoenix Music International Ltd, Sentric, Warner Music Group and Warner/Chappell Music. | | |
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| Sci-fi is reckoning with blackness—and making good-ass music and movies in the process. | | |
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| Most rap fans would name RZA as the head of the Wu-Tang Clan. But Wu purists know that GZA, or The Genius, is the crew's unspoken elder statesman. | | |
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| Despite vinyl holding a strong footprint in the consumer market, the company has decided to cease production of their turntable cartridges this year. Keep reading for details and other options for DJs. | | |
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| There shouldn't be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The idea of a bunch of self-satisfied music-industry fat cats in tuxedos having rock stars assemble for a command performance in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom once a year is precisely the sort of thing rock was created to be the antidote to. | | |
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| His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States. | | |
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| Artists from Kehlani to Harry Styles are openly singing about both sides - and doing it on their own terms. | | |
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| The man behind the music in ‘God of War,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Outlander,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and myriad other sci-fi, fantasy, and horror creations on his composing idols, his aversion to being typecast, becoming the sound of sci-fi, and more. | | |
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| The Austin City Limits Music Fetival has delivered on its commitment to genre diversity, but women and artists of color are still underrepresented. | | |
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| Untangle the wires of the radical groups that unified psych-rock and the ’60s electronic avant-garde. | | |
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