[A]s we move creative scenes from cities and neighborhoods and onto the web, we outsource the publishing, storage, and archiving of their products to young, for-profit businesses — and therefore run the very serious risk of losing huge and important libraries of culture to the vagaries of a new and quickly moving economy. | | | | Headbanging: Chris Chronicles of DVBBS at Festival d'été de Québec, July 12, 2017.
(Ollie Millington/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “[A]s we move creative scenes from cities and neighborhoods and onto the web, we outsource the publishing, storage, and archiving of their products to young, for-profit businesses — and therefore run the very serious risk of losing huge and important libraries of culture to the vagaries of a new and quickly moving economy.”
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| | rantnrave:// If you've ever freaked out because a favorite song suddenly went missing from SPOTIFY or a beloved video disappeared from YOUTUBE, you may have a tiny speck of a hint of what it would feel like to lose the entire SOUNDCLOUD catalog. The company didn't inspire confidence in its future by responding to TECHCRUNCH's report that it only had enough cash to last "until Q4" by claiming that it's actually "fully funded into the fourth quarter." Great. It's July and you have enough money to make it through the rest of the baseball season. You and the MIAMI MARLINS. The death of the most prominent user-generated audio platform wouldn't stop rappers, DJs and bands from putting their music online—there will never not be an easy way—but it would be a dispiriting blow to musicians and fans around the world who've spent a decade building their community center there. If Spotify or TIDAL were to go out of business, a competitor could replicate their entire catalog almost overnight. All you need are licenses. SoundCloud's catalog, not so much. The INTERNET ARCHIVE's JASON SCOTT tells VULTURE it would cost $1.5 million to $2 million to host SoundCloud's data for the foreseeable future. What is that data worth to you? To labels? To fans? To CHANCE THE RAPPER?... DAVE CHAPPELLE interviewing KENDRICK LAMAR on self-expression, audiences and inspiration is as good as it gets. Chappelle: "I'll think of certain people when I'm writing certain types of jokes. For instance: 'What would my mother say?'" Lamar: "I've got to take Mom out of the equation"... EMMY nominees: JACK WHITE, Chance the Rapper, SNOOP DOGG, COMMON and, for the first time, five music supervisors including BETTER CALL SAUL's THOMAS GOLUBIC and STRANGER THINGS' NORA FELDER... FLEETWOOD MAC, THE EAGLES and famous friends kick off their two-city CLASSIC WEST/EAST fest this weekend at DODGER STADIUM. Moderator at this week's VENUESNOW conference in BEVERLY HILLS: "I've got my [vintage] Eagles ticket stub. Six dollars for that ticket." Panelist IRVING AZOFF, not missing a beat: "Yeah well tomorrow night it's four hundred and fifty." Who says you can't make money doing music?... Did someone mention money?... One of a thousand reasons, this one from BILLBOARD itself, why you should take the dollar figures and rankings in the previous link with a grain of salt... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from SHEER MAG, WIZKID, FRENCH MONTANA, MURA MASA, SHABAZZ PALACES (two albums!), COLDPLAY, WAXAHATCHEE, ALAN VEGA (RIP), JAPANESE BREAKFAST, BORIS, SILVERSTEIN, LO TOM and OFFA REX... RIP 2 LIVE CREW's FRESH KID ICE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| What is the weight of greatness, of expectation, of an entire city--a city with deep, powerful, profoundly musical roots? What is the weight of a coast, of the title “Greatest Alive”? For Kendrick Lamar, Compton, California, and family are everything, but the weight of the outside world is nothing compared with the demands that come from within. | | |
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| How Adam Grandmaison, a BMX blogger and former criminal, built No Jumper into a platform for discovering rap's rising talent. | | |
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| Some musicians in the Bay Area are criticizing a popular house-show startup over paltry compensation, while others challenge its very existence. | | |
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| As artists and their record labels try to muscle their way to the top of the streaming charts, Spotify calls all hands on deck to field the promotional onslaught. | | |
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| It’s still not a good song, but five years later, there’s no denying that PSY’s pony dance rewrote the rules of both viral success and K-pop around the world. | | |
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| In the Slate Plus bonus segment of Wednesday's edition (Jul 12) of the Culture Gabfest, Dana, Stephen, and Julia chat with music critic Chris Molanphy about Hit Parade, his new podcast for chart nerds that explores the history of our favorite songs. | | |
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| Music’s ultimate power couple are giving us a glimpse into their marriage, but they are showing us exactly what they want to show us. | | |
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| Sweden’s first man-free rock festival is going ahead next year and frankly, it's about bloody time. | | |
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| Streaming killed the music gadget years ago. Just up and drove a stake through its silicon heart as listeners traded 99-cent song downloads for $10 monthly subscriptions to all-you-can-listen services. OK, maybe you have some "Baby Driver"-induced nostalgia for an iPod. But when was the last time you ripped a CD, or dropped 15 bucks on an album? | | |
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| Eva Moreda Rodríguez on the formative years of the recording industry, focusing on the culture surrounding the gabinetes fonográficos of fin-de-siècle Spain. | | |
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| They may be down one sister since Camila Cabello’s messy exit from the group in December, but the women of Fifth Harmony are counting their blessings. | | |
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| I just really f***ing love being a woman and I wanted an anthem for anyone else who wants to yell about being self-sufficient and strong. | | |
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| The Distant World philharmonic orchestra is celebrating three decades of the classic game with a rousing and nostalgic world tour. | | |
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| Morton Subotnick’s seminal “Silver Apples of the Moon” will be celebrated with 50th-anniversary performances at the Lincoln Center Festival. | | |
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| The art of the cut-and-mix symphony. | | |
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| I'm looking at the half year BuzzAngle report where the rock format is #1 in both Album Sales, with 14.3%, and also #1 in Physical and Vinyl, and #2 in Digital Alum Sales and #1 in Song Sales, but when it comes to Audio Streams...it's dwarfed by Hip-Hop/Rap, which has 24.4% to rock's 6.9%. | | |
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| My fourth suicide attempt landed me in rehab, but the power of music brought me back to life. | | |
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| Kali Uchis fought hard to get where she is. In today’s world, is that enough? | | |
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| It's the one album you almost certainly won't hear any tracks from at Classic West (even though Christine McVie's contributions are pretty great). | | |
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| | From "Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines," out today on Sub Pop. |
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