My mistakes are very loud. When I make a mistake, it echoes through the canyons of the world. It’s clickbait, and it’s a part of my life story, and it’s a part of my career arc. | | | | Elvis in Vegas, summer 1969. The 11-CD box set "Live 1969" is out today on RCA/Legacy.
(Bob Klein/Shore Fire Media) | | | | | | “My mistakes are very loud. When I make a mistake, it echoes through the canyons of the world. It’s clickbait, and it’s a part of my life story, and it’s a part of my career arc.”
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| | rantnrave:// CARLOS SANTANA hallucinated through his band's legendary set at WOODSTOCK 50 years ago this month, thanks to a mis-timed dose of mescaline provided by JERRY GARCIA, and spent his Saturday afternoon stage time wrestling with his guitar ("like a surfer, wrestling to maintain and sustain a balance") and praying to stay in tune. JOAN BAEZ was straight-edge sober and spent her three Woodstock days avoiding "anything that looked weird." (And she cut a verse out of "I SHALL BE RELEASED" during an impromptu performance on the festival's Hog Farm stage so she could escape before a naked stranger with flowers in his hair reached her.) Security guards responded to festivalgoers experiencing bad trips with "soothing, understanding talk and assurances that a sufferer is not dying or going insane." The going rate for a glass of water was 25 cents. The sound system, featuring 16 clusters of speakers on giant towers, were designed by BILL HANLEY for about half as many people as actually showed up, meaning a good chunk of the crowd didn't hear much of anything. People yelled at people in front of them to "sit down!" JIMI HENDRIX played "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" because "I'm American. I used to have to sing it in school." Bus drivers who delivered damp, disheveled fans back to the Port Authority in New York said they were exceptionally polite and "I'll haul kids any day rather than commuters." It would be another 50 years, to the month, before it became legal to buy, sell and smoke marijuana at a major American music festival. MusicSET: "Retracing Woodstock's Three Days of Peace and Mud"... The cursed HUICHICA HUDSON festival, originally to have been headlined by ROKY ERICKSON and then by DAVID BERMAN's band PURPLE MOUNTAINS, is going ahead Saturday in upstate New York with a lineup topped by HELADO NEGRO and HOWLIN RAIN... DE LA SOUL to TOMMY BOY: drop dead... DONALD TRUMP to anyone who wants to buy a Chinese-made guitar (or any other electric musical instrument): same... ABBY AGUIRRE's VOGUE profile of TAYLOR SWIFT is fantastic, featuring Swift's nuanced thoughts on getting involved (or not) in politics, cancel culture, songwriting, and apparently there's a group of religious protesters that regularly shows up outside her concerts with picket signs but also "so many [other] artists have them at their shows," and suddenly (this is me speaking, not Taylor) I feel like watching THE LEFTOVERS again... It's FRIDAY and that means 11 new CDs of THE KING in Las Vegas in 1969 as well as new music from MARIKA HACKMAN, UGLY GOD, BLUEFACE, BON IVER, TORI KELLY, the REGRETTES, RICK ROSS, TRIPPIE REDD, G&D (GEORGIA ANNE MULDREW & DUDLEY PERKINS), CHE APALACHE, WHY?, BIOCHIP, WILDER WOODS, MARC COHN & THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, PP ARNOLD, TOWKIO, RIFF RAFF, MURS & 9TH WONDER, SLIPKNOT, STRUNG OUT, DIRTY HEADS, FEEDER, BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS, JESSE DAYTON, JOANNE HOGG, ELECTRIC YOUTH, FIONN REGAN, RA RA RIOT, the NICK MOSS BAND and the BLINDED BY THE LIGHT soundtrack. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After watching rappers like 6ix9ine launch careers on the strength of impressive Instagram engagement, newer artists understand the significance of likes and how they can ultimately translate to money in the bank. Many of them are actively protesting a potential hidden likes update. | | |
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| Celebrated, canceled, obsessed over-is Taylor Swift our most endlessly debated pop star? With a new album, and a newly assertive political voice, she opens up to Abby Aguirre about sexism, scrutiny, and standing up for herself. | | |
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| David Berman, the ingenious poet, songwriter, and performer behind the bands Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, died on Wednesday, at fifty-two. His music and lyrics are so indelible-so beloved, like old friends-that his devotees carry them around with us, as part of the way we experience the world. | | |
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| Here’s the thing about the ‘user-centric’ model of music-streaming payouts: it’s nowhere near as simple as a lot of people think it is. | | |
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| For Billboard’s inaugural Pride List, 40 executives who hail from every sector of the music business and self-identify as LGBTQ share their most recent professional achievements, why they’re optimistic in an era of unprecedented cultural change and their determination to see doors open wider -- for the benefit of the entire creative community. | | |
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| Long after the cameras and crowds are gone in El Paso and Dayton, there are people who must cope with a pain that may never heal. | | |
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| She’s got a fashion label, a festival and a million Instagram followers -- but the South Korean DJ and producer says she’s had to fight hard for it all. | | |
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| As each digital streaming provider builds its own 'RapCaviar,' they will need to do more than just copy Spotify's flagship playlist. | | |
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| The jazz saxophonist gave a legendary after-hours performance at Jack’s Basket Room in 1947. No photos or recordings captured it, and last year a suspicious fire destroyed the L.A. building. | | |
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| The list that launched a thousand Twitter threads this week is catnip for old heads. But do the youth even think in these terms? | | |
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| It’s only a year old, but it already faces significant challenges around the world. | | |
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| 10 years on, her chaotic debut single lives on in your favourite video sharing app. | | |
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| The infringement verdict against Katy Perry and her “Dark Horse” co-writers could lead to a new wave of lawsuits against songwriters | | |
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| Christian rap is having a mini-moment. Don't laugh! Maybe it seems impossible in this post-Christian era, but the facts are indisputable: From the album chart to the court of law, MCs who love Jesus have been racking up wins and seizing the public's attention these past two weeks. | | |
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| Sony is releasing an 11-CD set to mark the 50th anniversary of the singer’s 57-show run in Vegas and his return from Hollywood purgatory. | | |
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| The strange case of a president, a rapper, a celebrity power couple, and the Swedish criminal justice system. | | |
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| The Houston Hottie on her quick rise to the top. | | |
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| "Cuphead." "Persona 5." "Undertale." "Sunset Riders." "The Legend of Zelda." Fans know these titles first and foremost as video games, but they all have something else in common, too: each of them has inspired a vinyl record that has charted on the Billboard 200. | | |
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| An oral history of Woodstock ’94, the funnest Woodstock of all. (Read on if you don’t believe us, and also if you do.) | | |
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