Social media doesn't last forever. There's always going to be new 13-year-old girls who catch the attention of your fans. | | | | | Usher would like you -- you know who you are -- to not use his song. (U.S. Army) | | | | |  | “Social media doesn't last forever. There's always going to be new 13-year-old girls who catch the attention of your fans.”
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| | rantnrave:// A random portrait of the music industry circa 2016: Ambitious, tech-friendly artists with decent budgets and adventurous record companies behind them have spent the better part of a decade trying to come up with the perfect album-app. Here's a survey of the apps they built, many of them "no longer available, usually because they were originally funded by the marketing budget for a specific album, which made no provisions for future updates," plus "there is precious little evidence of anyone making their fortune from an album-app," plus also, do you remember any of these? Have you ever seen any of them? Meanwhile, an internet full of teenagers are in their bedrooms, making 15-second videos that are getting millions of views on sites like MUSICAL.LY and then extending their reach to YOUTUBE and monetizing themselves on the very platform that the entire music industry says it can't make any money on. Some days I just want to say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯... This explanation of why QUEEN doesn't have a great case against DONALD TRUMP for using their music at the RNC but the ROLLING STONES might is one of the best explanations I've read of how music copyright works in politics... This song featuring USHER, IMAGINE DRAGONS, CYNDI LAUPER and MICHAEL BOLTON is easily the best reaction against politicians co-opting pop songs, like, ever. Thank you, JOHN OLIVER, for making protest music great again... THIRD EYE BLIND cap off their own protest week with a new song about police brutality... On SUNDAY we lost the great MARNI NIXON, HOLLYWOOD's favorite ghost singer, the voice of a who's-who of proto MILLI VANILLIs from AUDREY HEPBURN to NATALIE WOOD to MARILYN MONROE (MONROE actually did much of her own singing but NIXON supplied the intro and the higher notes here). All art involves showbiz and illusion, so if you want to lip-sync, go right ahead. But neglecting to compensate or credit the wizards behind the curtain is a whole 'nother story. NIXON struggled with that for a long time, but her fight helped others who followed her get both recognized and paid. RIP. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | ELLE |
| In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...by ninth grade. And the platform for that tween infamy is Musical.ly. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| As long as there have been app stores for smartphone and tablets, there have been musicians and developers exploring the potential for albums to be delivered as apps. Many of these projects have been creative and technologically inventive, but few have been demonstrable commercial successes. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Willpower, positivity, and a lot of pillows have brought DJ Khaled and Tony Robbins to the top. But how do you make it in a world where they want you to fail? These two monsters of motivation go head-to-head to break down their secrets to success. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| An ASCAP license covered much of what was played at the Republican National Convention. But maybe not everything. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| From Led Zeppelin's debut to Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' look back at 10 times our critics' takes didn't quite line up with history. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| One of my most prominent memories from childhood involves my hair. I remember those warm summer afternoons when my mom would have to drag me to her room to get my hair done. I remember crinkling my nose and squinting my eyes shut from the pain of that baby pink comb pulling through my thick tresses. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Summer is the season of playlists. Every occasion calls for one-beach days, barbecues, parties, quiet nights at home, long afternoons in a hot office. While Spotify's Discovery Weekly is a go-to for exploring new songs, television is also an increasingly great way to broaden your musical horizons. | | |
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 | Complete Music Update |
| What if, each month, my subscription money was exclusively shared among the artists I actually streamed, so that consumption share was calculated on a user-by-user basis rather than industry wide. | | |
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 | The Walrus |
| It's hard to enjoy the Tragically Hip's music knowing Gord Downie has cancer. | | |
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 | Between the Liner Notes |
| Every Sunday since the end of World War II, musicians journeyed to Washington Square Park to sing folk-songs. Until one Sunday-after the City of New York denied the musicians a singing permit-they decided to protest instead. What resulted was a formative moment in folk-music history. | | |
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 | MTV News |
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 | The [DIY] Musician |
| Getting on the charts (it's not that hard to do, and you can do it too). | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| The issue of ticket bots snapping up tickets before fans have a chance is one that has long been acknowledged in the industry, but rather than using an increasingly closed system to ensure fans get to more events at a reasonable price, Jack Groetzinger believes a more open system may be the solution. | | |
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 | Bandcamp Daily |
| Over the course of the last several years, Canada's three Territories in the North-Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut-have become home to a community of musicians dedicated to pushing creative boundaries, sharing stories with the world that are as unique as the places in which they were made. | | |
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 | Tyler the Creator |
| "The song that really hit me was 'You Can Do It Too.' The jazz cadence with that Sade-ish bassline that reminds me why I love sound, the string pad with chords that you claim only Q-Tip, you and I like, the Jamie Cullum outro, uhhggg! That song specifically made me feel safe, and is why I created Odd Future that same summer." | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Nixon, who died Sunday, dubbed the singing voices for Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, and Deborah Kerr. Here’s why you never saw her face-and why you need to hear her story. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| If you're writing alternate histories of rock, Andrew Wood has to come into play. The frontman of the Seattle band Mother Love Bone died just before his band's debut Apple came out in the summer of 1990. | | |
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 | Moshcam |
| Metal bands seem to always be characterised by three factors; searing riffs, massive drum beats and a steady rotation of lead vocalists. No seriously, metal bands seem to cycle through singers all the time, leading to fans constantly arguing as to which one gave the band their best sound. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| Speaking to us about photographing Drake and being on set with Skepta, here’s how she found herself documenting the forefront of one of the UK’s biggest subcultures. | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| While My Bloody Valentine and Pharmakon may test the limits of music’s loudness and strangeness, other artists experiment with music in ways that are quieter and perhaps more scientific. "Resonantia," released last year by artists Jeff Louviere and Vanessa Brown, for example, explores the phenomenon of cymatics—the patterns that sound waves induce in physical objects | | |
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 | via "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver" |
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