If a million hands can build a wall / A million hands can break it down. | | | | | Justin Tranter, co-writer of "Hands," onstage with Semi Precious Weapons. (Megan Westerby) | | | | |  | “If a million hands can build a wall / A million hands can break it down.”
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| | rantnrave:// How do men keep coming up with new ways to make life miserable for women in the music industry? And why can't they do something more productive with all that negative energy, like form metal bands or something?... An all-star charity single to raise money and awareness for an important cause is "not an original idea," according to the songwriter who put together "HANDS," which is raising money for LGBT organizations in the wake of the ORLANDO shooting. But it's a good idea, and almost always, as in this case, an impressive display of pop-star collaboration... APPLE MUSIC: Good at acquiring subscribers, not so good at holding on to them... PRINCE's REVOLUTION will reunite for two SEPTEMBER shows at FIRST AVENUE at MINNEAPOLIS... LOL of the week: Veteran music mag editor says "only a schmuck" would review records from labels that send digital files instead of CDs because those CDs are the only way his writers get paid. Because he's not paying them. Because he thinks the labels are somehow responsible for providing "equity" to his writers. This is a magazine with some accomplished writers on its masthead, and I am not making this up. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| I walked into the venue and found the sound guy. I introduced myself, handed him my audio transmitter and asked if he could give me an XLR mix out. "Why," he asks. "I am filming the show and need clean audio." "Yeah, but what is this going to?" he asks. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Don't be fooled by supposed pop-chart equivalence - a lot changed between 'Thriller' and 'Views.' | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Has ever a rock band fallen so far? | | |
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 | NPR |
| In this concert video, filmed in March before a sold-out crowd at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., the London band Savages is by turns tender and ferocious as it showcases tracks from its latest album, "Adore Life." | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| Founded in an era of segregation, the New Amsterdam Musical Association is one of New York's most fascinating-and unknown-cultural landmarks. | | |
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 | Okayplayer |
| What hip-hop can do to step up. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The day after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Fla., last month, the songwriter Justin Tranter got on a plane there to lend a hand. Arriving from Miami, where he was on tour with Selena Gomez, Mr. Tranter spent the day volunteering at an Orlando L.G.B.T. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| "I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus,' " says actor-turned playwright John Ross Bowie, referencing Peter Shaffer's 1979 drama chronicling the tension between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Twenty-four-year-old Sonny Corey Uwaezuoke, who you may know better as Sonny Digital, has produced all your favorite club bangers. All of them. You know the digitized voice that cuts in at the beginning of songs like iLoveMakonnen's "Tuesday" or Future's "Same Damn Time" and says "Sonny Digital"? | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| Kingston studio legends shifted the rhythmic focus to the bass and drums, where it has remained ever since. | | |
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| | | kacey, mary, jason, imagine dragons, j.lo |
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| The New York Times |
| This is J Balvin’s version of crossing over — synthesizing the sound, feel and delivery of modern American rap and R&B before bringing it all back to his own cultural turf. Everyone is invited, though concessions to pop hegemony are relatively minimal. | | |
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| Los Angeles Times |
| There's no crying in hip-hop. Especially not at a concert. But there I was, standing at the back of a cramped venue at this year's South by Southwest festival, doing just that. I don't like crying in public, so it wasn't much solace that a good half of the room was doing the same thing. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Rob Sheffield's new book, "On Bowie," is a celebration of the late, great rock legend's life and career. In this excerpt, Sheffield revisits the moment Bowie conquered the U.K., with his classic 1972 performance on Top of the Pops. | | |
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 | Red Bull TV |
| In the birthplace of the North American rave scene, Tommie visits with Dirty South, meets South Central native 12th Planet, who recalls how he was judged for getting into EDM, and visits The Gaslamp Killer, who keeps his brand and work underground. | | |
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 | Amplify |
| Vans Warped Tour is not a sprint. It's not even a 10k. The country's last traveling festival, with its 700-person road crew and 60+ bands, is an ultra-endurance marathon that traverses America, beginning with a scaled down show in Alaska before landing stateside in Dallas. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| He’s taking on all comers one passive-aggressive meme at a time. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| The indie heroes' latest single once again proves how uninterested they are in their own legacy. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The music major responds that the suggestion of antitrust violations are "nothing but speculation and conjecture" and pretext for avoiding $17 million claims plus allegations of fraud. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Anohni discusses Hopelessness and the fragile world we live in today with Australian media artist Lynette Wallworth. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Ten years after her solo debut, it's time to pay proper respect to the Dutchess of Pop. | | |
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 | All-star song for Orlando, via Interscope Records |
| | | | Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, Adam Lambert, Gwen Stefani, Juanes, Mary J. Blige and others |
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