It took me a little while to figure out that the money was elsewhere. Unless you’re in the top 10 percent of rappers, you’re not getting what the numbers dictate you should get. | | | | Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands at Bonnaroo, June 10, 2017.
(FilmMagic/Getty Images) | | | | | | “It took me a little while to figure out that the money was elsewhere. Unless you’re in the top 10 percent of rappers, you’re not getting what the numbers dictate you should get.”
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| | rantnrave:// "Everything is a remix" is a lesson we never stop learning, a basic fact of cultural life that perpetually re-asserts itself. Fashion designers borrow from rappers who sample rockers who rewrite BOB DYLAN who steals from—SPARKNOTES? In one of the all-time strangest entries in Dylan appropriation literature, author (and Dylan fan) ANDREA PITZER makes a convincing case that his NOBEL PRIZE lecture borrowed liberally from the SPARKNOTES for "MOBY-DICK." SparkNotes, for the uninformed, are basically a web version of CLIFFSNOTES. Dylan: "Some men who receive injuries are led to God, others are led to bitterness." SparkNotes: "...someone whose trials have led him toward God rather than bitterness." HERMAN MELVILLE: None of the above. Etc. Dylan has not commented, and surely will not. He doesn't have to. He is Dylan. Like all artists, he repurposes, rethinks, restates, remixes, re-everythings. From literature. From folk and blues. From painting. From thin air. From thick air. He has taught generations of musicians how to do the same and how to create something new and good while doing so. Maybe his Nobel lecture—which I loved—was his way of telling the Nobel people that's how he thinks and works, and that's what they were honoring. Maybe the Nobel people already know that and that's partly why they Nobelled him in the first place. Maybe that was their way of telling the rest of us something about all literature, and all art. Or maybe that's just how Dylan likes to work... JOE BUDDEN isn't the first rapper to be obsessed with ESPN's STEPHEN A. SMITH, but he may be the first who preferred Smith's job to his own. The RINGER's JUSTIN CHARITY profiles an artist who has always dreamed of being a loudmouth talk-show pundit and who, given the opportunity, is embracing it like CHANCE THE RAPPER embraces CHICAGO... The NEW YORKER's KELEFA SANNEH dives deep into the musical and cultural history of prog-rock, which has survived a half-century of persistent derision while subtly (or not so subtly) influencing artists from JOANNA NEWSOM and FRANK OCEAN to HANS ZIMMER and MESHUGGAH... ASCAP makes a landmark licensing (and data-sharing) deal with YOUTUBE. BMI calls YT "a good partner." IRVING AZOFF begs to differ... A month after its career was derailed by sexual assault allegations, PWR BTTM has a new manager and is trying to regain control of its currently unavailable second album back from its label, POLYVINYL... RADIOHEAD vs. the BDS movement, continued... RIP ANITA PALLENBERG and ROSALIE SORRELS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| One of hip-hop's biggest comebacks is still unfolding—but not without complications. | | |
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| Charlie Lyne tries to put into the words the brilliance of Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's highly underrated creative non-fiction series. | | |
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| How the perennial loudmouth turned a contentious career in rap and reality TV into a new life as hip-hop’s preeminent media pundit on a daily web talk show called "Everyday Struggle." | | |
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| In a rare appearance, Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek and Swedish producer Max Martin came together to discuss women's issues in Stockholm on June 12. | | |
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| KEXP.ORG presents The xx performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 24, 2017. | | |
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| Philadelphia’s Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship takes best practices honed by successful music moguls and imparts them to young founders who have been shut out of more traditional business education. | | |
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| Something extraordinary has happened to the Beatport Top 10 over the past couple years: it’s regained its credibility. | | |
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| Several portions of Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture-which he turned in just days before his six-month deadline-seem to be closely paraphrased from SparkNotes. | | |
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| Mikal Gilmore chronicles Gregg Allman's epic, tragic life, from the Allman Brothers' glory days through his lost years and late-career redemption. | | |
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| John Freeman meets the band tQ once described as “laughably vanilla” to discuss their excellent third album Relaxer, find out why they turned down a chance to work with Gary Lineker and to reveal the mysterious condition of 'tour toes.' | | |
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| Score, a documentary about the world of movie composing, which opens Friday (16) in New York, reveals the history and magic behind some of the world’s most beloved scores. | | |
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| The US loves to celebrate success. Little wonder, then, that every music form is honoured with centres across the States, from a new hip-hop home in Harlem to a venue celebrating the heroes of South Dakota rock. | | |
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| Salon talks to singer-songwriter Jason Isbell about politics, poverty, religion, fake news & "The Nashville Sound" | | |
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| New Jack Swing married Hip Hop and classic R&B to give birth to something entirely new for the 90s, paving the way for today's artists like Kehlani, Ty Dolla $ign, Dreezy, and Phantogram, while helping make millions of babies. | | |
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| The singer’s last album disappointed, and the genre has mostly moved past corny slow jams. But who wants to live without Mr. Steal Yo Girl? | | |
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| From Pissed Jeans inviting Lindsay Hunter onto a song to Lynne Tillman writing for Y Pants to Kathy Acker performing with the Mekons, there’s a unique energy and catharsis in these collaborations. | | |
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| The return of Guns N’ Roses and Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow underlines how logos and audience loyalty are more crucial to a group’s success than who is on stage. | | |
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| Jake Paul's Team 10 has leveraged its viral fame into musical success. | | |
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