Sandy created the band. There would not have been any Blue Öyster Cult without Sandy Pearlman. | | | | | In memory of Sandy Pearlman, 1943-2016. (H. Michael Karshis) | | | | |  | “Sandy created the band. There would not have been any Blue Öyster Cult without Sandy Pearlman.”
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| | rantnrave:// Is the BILLBOARD HOT 100 broken? That's the question the RINGER's JUSTIN CHARITY poses in a story that tracks how the top pop chart has tried, with mixed success, to keep up with an ever fracturing world of digital sales, streams, windowed releases, YOUTUBE, TWITTER and a marketplace that has lost interest in distinguishing between official singles, album cuts and mixtape tracks. But even if the particular formulas the magazine uses are less than ideal, you have to give it credit for its continuing effort to triangulate all that data and zoom in on the world's "PANDA"s and "ONE DANCE"s. Those are no less a part of the current cultural zeitgeist, for better or worse, than any #1 song has ever been. And I don't think BILLBOARD deserves the blame for BEYONCÉ's "FORMATION" failing to make the HOT 100 at a time where the only place you could legally stream or buy it was TIDAL. That's BEYONCÉ's and TIDAL's fault, and a symptom, if you ask me, of a distribution system that's broken, not a chart that's broken. I doubt MARIAH CAREY's "WE BELONG TOGETHER" would have hit the chart, either, if you couldn't find it at TOWER or SAM GOODY... This haunting, heartbreaking and super-spare LYDIA LOVELESS ballad stopped me in my tracks yesterday... BILLBOARD wonders which borough's music clubs will be hurt most by the impending 18-month shutdown of the L TRAIN, which is how every NEW YORKER who owns a guitar, a bag of vinyl or a blog gets around. I was looking for something snarky to put here but couldn't come up with anything, maybe because I relied on the L for more more than 15 years and I know how much that one is going to hurt people in both BROOKLYN and MANHATTAN, incuding lots of people whose lives do not revolve around music... Incredible boombox collection available at auction... RIP producer and manager SANDY PEARLMAN, a rock and roll legend who, among many other things, was responsible for there being more cowbell, though not quite as much cowbell as "SNL" may have led you to believe. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| Many companies are ready to create VR concerts, but not enough consumers have the headsets needed to experience the immersive performances. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| Ahead of his debut album, "Generationwhy," the L.A. musician explains how he caught the ears of a generation overloaded with choice and information. | | |
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 | NPR |
| It's been about a month since Amjad Sabri's voice was silenced. He was shot dead in his home city of Karachi by two men on a motorcycle, and his millions of fans are still in shock and anger. So are his family. Sabri's oldest brother, Sarwat, hopes the police will soon arrest the culprits. | | |
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 | recode |
| It's time for a transparent rate structure. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Living legend Mariah Carey peels back the diva facade to reveal details about her career, love life, and relationship with the late Prince. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Low End Theory started small. By most accounts, attendance on that first Wednesday night at Lincoln Heights' Airliner in October of 2006 was roughly 30 people, and almost all dudes. It was the beginning of a transition, and the emergence the now internationally renowned "beat scene." | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Why ‘Panda’ went to no. 1, and the nature of a “hit” in 2016 | | |
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 | Vimeo |
| I sat down with Jad Abumrad and talked about sound, music and the function of music. Then I turned that conversation into a film. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| The nominees for this year's Video Music Awards reflect just how top-heavy pop's economy has become. | | |
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 | Future of Music Coalition |
| A world-class raconteur with a depth of musical knowledge that is virtually unmatched today, Sandy Pearlman is best known as a producer (Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash, Dream Syndicate, Black Sabbath, Dictators, and many others). | | |
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 | Current Affairs |
| The American elite can’t get enough of a musical that flatters their political sensibilities and avoids discomforting truths. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The travails of life on the road for rock stars are well known -- but the problems may be even more acute in dance music, as DJs and musicians from Moby to Above & Beyond reveal. | | |
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 | Thump |
| Elysia Crampton's new live set is a mammoth production, at least temporally speaking. "It starts in September of 1782," she tells me, sitting across from me at a table in Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium on a grey June afternoon in Manhattan. "Actually... it starts with the creation of the world." | | |
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| The New York Times |
| This artist held a listening session for his new album, and it was a chance to see him at his self-promoting best. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| “Yet another one bites the dust. And it’s happening faster than I can keep up at the moment. I’m not even talking about Crowdmix (which I will eventually get to separately). I’m talking about Omnifone. It’s a sad moment when one of the earliest digital music businesses has finally made its way to the electronic scrapheap in the cloud(s). | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Sia's "Cheap Thrills" topped the charts, and it could have been Rih's victory. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| “So who here hasn’t had a chance to set this up?” The eight women standing around the plastic table set near the center of the cavernous concrete space that is Portland, Oregon's scan each other for a response. After a beat, a young lady dressed in a crisp pinstriped shirt timidly raises her hand. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| AAlongside artists like Christine And The Queens and Years & Years, electropop singer Shura is challenging stereotypes and helping to ‘queer the mainstream.’ | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| For the tabloid audiences, Blake Fielder-Civil-lately, just Blake Fielder-is an infamous page six villain linked inextricably to his ex-wife, the late, legendary Amy Winehouse. It was a romance so intense that she would reframe her answers in interviews to be about what "Blakey" liked or what "Blakey" thought. | | |
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| Noisey |
| I was a living cliche: a failed musician who then spends his time criticizing other musicians. | | |
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