You have some kind of experience that you live through and have to make something out of. The good and the bad is all put into the music. It's me. | | | | "I'm no good with chords": B.B. King playing his "Lucille" guitar circa 1963.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | | “You have some kind of experience that you live through and have to make something out of. The good and the bad is all put into the music. It's me.”
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| | rantnrave:// They're the first to come and the last to leave, workin' for that minimum wage. And probably no health insurance. As LABOR DAY approaches, we honor music's hardest working and most undersung labor force. MusicSET: "We Are the Road Crew"... Is terrestrial radio on the verge of being disrupted out of existence by connected cars, on-demand music and other digital music players who have cornered the millennial market, or is it a unique local medium with a rock-solid connection to music and news fans, millennials included? The disruption warning comes in a must-read 32-page report from LARRY MILLER, director of NYU's STEINARDT MUSIC BUSINESS PROGRAM, that's structured like an epic tweetstorm. The somewhat snarky blowback comes from NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS EVP DENNIS WHARTON, who says Miller is the latest in a long line of "critics of broadcast radio who have mistakenly forecast its demise." The most interesting point of disagreement, at least from where I sit: Miller says the fact that terrestrial radio doesn't pay artist royalties incentivizes record companies to look for alternative discovery platforms, of which there are many. Wharton counters that "no one told the record labels this" and they continue to use radio to drive discovery and, further, 206 congressmen and 23 senators are on the record opposing artist royalties for radio. Who's right? Is radio good for now but in trouble in the long run? Is radio, like heavy metal, more resilient than anyone ever gives it credit for being? Is winter coming, and do millennials care if it does? And, the FINAL JEOPARDY question: Should terrestrial radio be paying those royalties or not? Just kidding, that's a rhetorical question. Of course it should. Not. Maybe... Helping HOUSTON: BUN B and SCOOTER BRAUN. SOLANGE. FALL OUT BOY. MIRANDA LAMBERT. DEMI LOVATO... Are brothers gonna work it out?... PRINCE's favorite color was orange, according to his sister. Not everyone is prepared to believe this disturbing news... Talkin' VEVO... The fact that SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY tix are all over STUBHUB does not mean the BOSS' "Verified Fan" program is a failure. The goal can't be to stop all re-selling; that would be impossible. The goal should be to put as big a dent as possible in that market. The question isn't, are the tickets on Stubhub?, but rather, how many more would have been on Stubhub otherwise? This, however, is worth two raised eyebrows... The show's run has been extended by 10 weeks, btw... SIMPSONS composer ALF CLAUSEN axed after 27 years. His best songs. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| They're the first to come and the last to leave, workin' for that minimum wage. And probably no health insurance. For Labor Day, we honor music's hardest working and most undersung labor force. | | |
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| Over a few months, one tiny Atlanta-based company made $67,000 booking Migos and Rae Sremmurd concerts across the country that never happened. Their business model is surprisingly common in the live rap music industry. | | |
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| The one and only Stevie Wonder talks to Stretch, Bobbito and DJ Spinna about making music at Motown Records, pushing for the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and missing his friend Prince. | | |
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| There’s no swag in “swag.” | | |
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| AM/FM radio has been a resilient medium in the Internet era, but that resilience is weakening. While it was able to survive and adapt to the introduction of television, new digital services are beginning to change the way people listen to music, endangering radio once again. | | |
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| Since its inception, critics of broadcast radio have mistakenly forecast its demise. This silly report – backed by SoundExchange (a group bankrolled in part by giant record labels pushing a radio “performance tax”) – continues that tradition. | | |
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| "I Miss You" is a love song by Tanzanian superstar Diamond Platnumz. This song of the summer touches on a big social problem for a booming part of the African continent. | | |
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| Why do they have to dress alike? | | |
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| She's one of the only artists using a long-lead album release cycle -- and it's working. | | |
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| True liberation requires discipline, as he demonstrated in his music. | | |
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| Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016 and close to double the size of the entire recorded music business in 2016). | | |
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| Legal requirements put clips in grey area | | |
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| "Free Fire," "Alien: Covenant," "Okja," "Logan Lucky," and "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" all feature Denver’s voice. | | |
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| The Discogs clamp down dissected. | | |
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| New York City recording studio Avatar, known throughout the music industry as The Power Station, has been sold to Berklee School of Music, sources tell Variety. The price tag for the 33,000-square-foot midtown Manhattan complex is believed to be between $23 million and $28 million. | | |
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| Like with many STEM-oriented fields, music production and sound engineering are dominated by men-though that’s very slowly changing. | | |
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| I asked myself “How did this happen?” “How did a two day music festival located between the projects and the Navy Yard turn into this larger expression?” | | |
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| We break down who you need to know that's making a name for themselves on the troubled streaming site. | | |
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| "I thought it was time for him to do a very honest album," producer says of 1987 smash that spawned "Man in the Mirror" and four other Number Ones. | | |
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| Earlier this summer, the legendary band--once called “the unwitting godmothers of outsider music”--played its first full set in more than forty years. | | |
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