Pulse was a place where I didn’t have to worry about being caught. Passing through its threshold, I could shed off any embarrassment I felt about being too feminine, not liking the correct things. Here was a place where everyone liked the wrong thing. | | | | Sonny Rollins in the 1980s.
(Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Pulse was a place where I didn’t have to worry about being caught. Passing through its threshold, I could shed off any embarrassment I felt about being too feminine, not liking the correct things. Here was a place where everyone liked the wrong thing.”
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| | rantnrave:// Why PULSE mattered, in 8,500 words... If playlists are the future, or the present, we could use more sites like THE DOWSERS, a curating-the-curators service that collects playlists from a variety of other sites and streaming services and adds its own, with better editorial and artwork than any streaming service is currently offering. A playlist magazine, basically. Or, to put it in older-school terms, playlists with liner notes. Here's WU-TANG FOREVER, fixed. Here's a brief musical history of JESUS freaks. And here's PHILIP SHERBURNE's best electronic tracks of 2017 so far. (Disclosure: The founders are friends and former colleagues of mine.) The Dowsers doesn't have enough content yet to keep you listening forever, which is what we demand of any music service these days, but the potential is there. The SPOTIFY integration is hinkier than it needs to be, for which I'll blame Spotify. The idea is right on... As long as friends and former colleagues are on my mind, I'm looking forward to the launch of the hand-programmed GIMME RADIO, which will bow soon with a metal station... Looking for some vintage STUDIO ONE or TUFF GONG vinyl? You may want to divert your flight from KINGSTON to JAPAN, which is where as much as 90 percent of classic JAMAICAN reggae and dancehall vinyl now lives, if you can believe WINSTON "WEE POW" POWELL, founder of the STONE LOVE sound system. Powell may be exaggerating the number, but he tells the GLEANER: "I talking classic vinyl that your grandparents used to collect. The Japanese came here and they knocked door to door and bought out the vinyl records. So most of our catalog is in Japan." A 2014 piece from GUERNICA MAGAZINE documented Jamaicans' lack of interest in vinyl—but noted their interest in the music itself remains strong... I'm watching WARRIORS-CAVALIERS game 5 as I write this and pardon me for the commercial interruption, but does anyone think KEVIN DURANT or LEBRON JAMES actually has "SEVEN NATION ARMY" on their phones, as this BEATS BY DRE ad would have us believe? I'm referring to this KD and this LeBron, btw... BONO gives a shout-out to MARCO RUBIO... MOBY vs. the president... LCD SOUNDSYSTEM vs. the ticketing system, part 3 (or is it part 4, it's hard to keep track)... LCD SOUNDSYSTEM vs. RHINO RECORDS?... RIP NIGEL GRAINGE and BENNETT MORGAN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Longreads |
| On the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Edgar Gomez reflects on what a safe haven the club was for him and others -- maybe even shooter Omar Mateen. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Physical Album sales and digital downloads are down. But more people are listening to more music than ever, which presents staggering opportunities to artists like the Weeknd who connect with an audience. | | |
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 | Music Tech Solutions |
| The truth about blockchain is that at its core, it requires its regime to be enforced on rights owners in order to scale--and that is its essential flaw. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| TransCyberian is the Parisian hacker-run noise party guiding artists in online safety and showing nerds how to dance. | | |
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 | The Combat Jack Show |
| Directors LT Hutton and Benny Boom talk about their new film, "All Eyes On Me," the process of black films in Hollywood, the journey of making AEOM, the legacy of Tupac and so much more. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Radio 3 is considering removing BBC branding from its new podcasts to trick young people into listening. Bravo! | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Tim Minchin, the multiple Tony-nominated composer most recently known for his work on "Groundhog Day," has had a career in musical comedy that’s hinged on his incisive lyrical wit, which often dances around themes of skepticism and exploring what means to be a morally good person. | | |
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 | NPR |
| The legendary saxophonist, who recently donated his personal archives, speaks with Christian McBride and Audie Cornish about improvisation, innovation, mentorship and legacy. | | |
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 | Watt |
| I’ve always been one for songs that get you right in the heart. You know the ones: They get stuck in your head and live there, not because the melody is catchy but because you caught in it, or in the lyrics, something that your subconscious has identified as truth. | | |
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 | Variety |
| The recording industry is gaining traction with its Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which has added 15 more bi-partisan sponsors since its introduction March 30. The bill, H.R. 1836, now has the support of 21 house members who support radio stations paying artists and labels for airplay -- the United States is the only major country in the world that does not pay such royalties. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| New projects by Google and Sony use machine-learning technology to create music that essentially writes itself. Should we be scared-or excited? | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| From Led Zeppelin's U.S. debut to Jay Z and Kanye West's 'Watch the Throne' spectacle, and beyond | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Tranter pulls back the curtain on the industry's bigotry, shares stories about working with Halsey and Julia Michaels, and remembers the moment when old friend Lady Gaga discovered their success as a songwriter: "I got 25 texts in a row." | | |
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| The Guardian |
| The Flame singer on ‘colourism’ and sexism in the music industry - and when her second album will see the light of day. | | |
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 | The Creative Independent |
| "Success is weird. Now we’re back at this place of being like, “Oh, we just need to be a band again and not worry about the stuff.” You try and not let it get to you, but mostly you just hope that it doesn’t impact the stuff you make in a bad way." | | |
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 | Noisey |
| The new Tupac biopic 'All Eyez on Me' hits theaters this weekend. We remember one of Suge Knight's most absurd moves. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| The Devo don discusses his second and third careers making music for film and television, and creating politically-charged art | | |
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 | And The Writer Is... |
| With credits like Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer," Joan Jett & The Blackhearts's "I Hate Myself For Loving You," and Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca," Desmond Child's catalog of collaborations is seemingly endless. He is showing no signs slowing down either, having just collaborated with Zedd on his single "Beautiful Now." | | |
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| Noisey |
| Whatever Summer Jam means to you. | | |
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 | U2 Songs |
| One of the names you hear when any discussion of "The Joshua Tree" comes around is that of Greg Carroll. The album is dedicated to Greg. It was Carroll’s death and U2’s attendance at the subsequent funeral, or “tangi” as they are called by the Maori that lead to the writing of “One Tree Hill." | | |
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