If I think I want to work with you, I let you know. I go for it. I really go for it. I know it's going to work out for both of us. You may not know it yet, but I do. | | | | Lorde at the Bowery Ballroom, New York, June 16, 2017.
(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) | | | | | | “If I think I want to work with you, I let you know. I go for it. I really go for it. I know it's going to work out for both of us. You may not know it yet, but I do.”
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| | rantnrave:// The new LORDE album is all that and more. Just needed to say that. Happy melodramatic Monday... For Father's Day, JAY Z worked with organizations including SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND and COLOR CHANGE to help men who are in jail simply because they can't afford bail reunite with their families in time for the holiday. He wrote this powerful essay for TIME on the subject and then, apparently, became a father again, times two. That's how you do Father's Day, kids... And yes, I'm aware of this #exclusive #selfpromotional Jay Z thing... NEW YORK is unofficially one of the world's greatest cities for dancing, and officially one of the not-so-greatest. But there's light at the end of the dancefloor. MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO on Friday announced the establishment of a nighttime ambassador and office to advocate for the city's nightlife community. And today the City Council is scheduled to discuss repealing the city's notorious Cabaret Law, which music and nightlife fans have been fighting for years... Is it possible for a rapper whose debut album sold 46,000 units in its first week to have made $13 million in the 16 months up leading up to that disappointing debut? Is it possible for any of us to calculate with any kind of certainty what any celebrity made in the past 16 months? With the understanding that no, we generally cannot, COMPLEX's SHAWN SETARO set out to verify LIL YACHTY's label head's boast about his moneymaking prowess. And the results are as educational as they are inconclusive... Congrats to ROLLING STONE for continued achievement in contrarianism with a 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time list that's topped by someone who isn't HANK WILLIAMS, that has GEORGE JONES at #9 (9th best team in basketball this year, for comparison: the WASHINGTON WIZARDS) and no currently popular male artists higher than #85 (ERIC CHURCH). Actually, I'm OK with that last stat. MIRANDA LAMBERT is #33 and TAYLOR SWIFT #80, and all of country's current male stars *should* line up behind them... Three hours of music from a single note... RIP PHILIP GOSSETT and JAMES and KATHY STOCKDALE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| These are the Anti-Summer Anthems. Their sounds are dire and minor-key; numb. Their creators are consuming substances stronger than alcohol out of necessity, not desire. They look exactly like Mark Wahlberg near the end of Boogie Nights—vacant stares to nowhere, sweaty paranoia and itches that can’t be scratched, wondering just how the hell my life arrived here. | | |
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| Even though he produced hits for legends like U2 and Patti Smith and sold Beats to Apple for $3 billion, the co-founder of Interscope Records isn't finished. | | |
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| The music icon made history in becoming the first rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. But it’s these institutions that need hip-hop, not the other way around. | | |
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| With skepticism from Hollywood and no support from the rapper’s estate, the makers of “All Eyez on Me” are under pressure to produce a hit. | | |
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| Recent battles between female pop and rap stars have been ruthlessly stoked by the media and characterised as catfights, but they are built on levels of complicity. | | |
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| In today's article, follow an all-too-familiar tale: a new DJ's promo mix, uploaded to Soundcloud, resulted in a copyright strike. Instead of ignoring it, guest contributor Elizabeth de Moya decided to dig into the current state of Soundcloud's content recognition system -- and how takedowns like these really work. | | |
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| Trey Pearson reflects on life since coming out and what it means to stay a follower of Jesus while calling out "toxic" Christianity. | | |
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| Spotify has published its much anticipated 2016 revenues. Because the company is under so much analytical scrutiny, there is little that is particularly surprising but there is still plenty we can learn from the results.. | | |
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| Watching a Rancid and Green Day concert, I note their parallels to the Abstract Expressionists and beyond. | | |
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| Even with the economic model still uncertain, more artists are realizing they have to get on the streaming bandwagon or face irrelevance. | | |
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| Thom Yorke and the band look back at their 1997 masterpiece in honor of its 20th anniversary. | | |
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| The pop phenomenon captures the magic and anxiety of being young on her sublime sophomore album, proving she really is one in a million. | | |
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| Lauded by Bowie, pals with Taylor Swift, Lorde was the New Zealand dreamer whose debut album changed her life for ever. Now 20, her new record packs new life experiences into an album about that most noble of pursuits: partying. | | |
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| Coffee was once thought to be a devilish drink unfit for children, women, and men concerned about their virility (seriously!). | | |
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| The Chainsmokers' manager Adam Alpert leads Billboard's annual list of DJ-producers, tastemakers and other movers and shakers who are driving the $7.4 billion global genre. | | |
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| Partying at Bassiani is a political statement against homophobia and Georgia’s narrow-minded drug policy. | | |
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| "I kind of felt like I was driving myself insane. But at the same time, I really enjoyed having that freedom." | | |
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| How Bob Dylan took a "long piece of vomit about twenty pages long" and turned it into a six-minute masterpiece. (Excerpted from "Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited" by Mark Polizzotti.) | | |
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| Chinese censorship may stymie artist flow, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways around it. | | |
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| The year was 2007. A young upstart from Chicago was promising change we could believe in. Meanwhile, another son of the Windy City, Kanye West, had an idea for a quintessentially Yes We Can pursuit: a puppet-based sketch comedy show. | | |
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