I feel like, deep down, everybody wants a real song, with emotion and that familiar classic thing. | | | | Ella Fitzgerald at Mr. Kelly's nightclub, Chicago, 1958.
(Yale Joel/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I feel like, deep down, everybody wants a real song, with emotion and that familiar classic thing.”
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| | rantnrave:// JENN PELLY's longread for PITCHFORK on the imminent return of the indie-rock band PINEGROVE, which spent 10 months in seclusion after an accusation of "sexual coercion" against frontman EVAN STEPHENS HALL, is a great piece of journalism and an important, nuanced, complicated read about accountability and justice in the #MeToo era. Emphasis on "complicated." I have mixed feelings about it and I can make no guarantee as to how anyone else will, or should, receive it. It was met with a mixture of praise, contempt and nuanced contemplation on indie-rock Twitter. Pelly is an avowed fan of the band, and her piece began as a planned profile before Hall was publicly accused. She has written insightfully and unflinchingly about abusive behavior and misogyny in a music scene she grew up idolizing. She believed, before the allegations, that Pinegrove "pointed in a better direction" than many of its peers in that scene. She starts with a story about guitarist NICK LEVINE giving her a tattoo, just over a year ago. She gives Hall plenty of space to talk through his experiences as a manipulative/abusive boyfriend, as a #MeToo target and as a feminist trying to reconcile his beliefs with his actions while also trying to continue his career. She's skeptical of the motivations of SHERIDAN ALLEN, the founder of the musician therapy organization PUNK ROCK TALKS, who served as a mediator between Allen and his accuser (Pelly isn't alone in this), but she doesn't minimize the accusation itself. At least I don't think she does; I assume some readers will disagree. She writes movingly, in a very personal way, about the band's music, which I'm quite sure not everyone is prepared to read a mere 10 months after Hall acknowledged the allegations and removed himself from public view. That's the same length of time it took LOUIS CK to go from allegations to controversial comeback performance. Hall originally promised to take a year off, at the request of his victim. The victim, who declined to speak to Pelly, reportedly approved the band's album release and touring plans. Whether the world will approve it is an entirely different, and valid, question, one that is largely unexplored here. Pelly writes that she initially didn't want to finish the piece, "But to ignore the story ultimately felt like a denial—of nuance, of truth, of the complications of the world we live in now." There are a number of ways one might respond to that, whether in approval or not, and normally I would search for one. But I'm not interested in trying to have the last word here. I'm not sure there's a last word to be had... Our friend ANDY WEISSMAN is curious why there are 90 tickets available on STUBHUB, as of this writing, to PHISH's New Year's Eve show at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, which doesn't go on sale until mid-October. And by curious, he means, "Ticketing is so so so sleazy." Does anyone on any side of the ticketing biz, from promoters to venues to sellers and resellers, want to take a crack at a response?... BILL MURRAY makes his GRAND OLE OPRY debut... KANYE WEST may not be the most observant film viewer... RIP KATHERINE HOOVER and DALE BARCLAY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Last year, the frontman of a promising young indie rock band made a confusing statement about being accused of sexual coercion. Now, a search for answers about what happened and what it means. | | |
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| CD sales are declining, and quickly, but the numbers don't show exactly what you think. | | |
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| How the world's leading voice-recognition app could shake up the streaming game. | | |
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| Have you ever wondered how Shazam works? I asked myself this question a few years ago and I read a research article written by Avery Li-Chun Wang, the confounder of Shazam, to understand the magic behind Shazam. The quick answer is audio fingerprinting, which leads to another question: what is audio fingerprinting? | | |
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| Friday night in Las Vegas, a consortium of Avnet, Zappos and Music: Not Impossible made history, unveiling new "wearable" packs that allow deaf fans to experience music through vibrating technology. Here's what it was like to be there as fans feeling music for the first time were moved to tears. | | |
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| As Noah Cyrus, musical family royalty, seeks to find an identity, Bhad Bhabie, viral star, arrives at one naturally. | | |
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| From his surreal sounds to his uncanny visuals, French musician Yves Tumor defies genre. | | |
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| The population of Johnstown was once 60,000; by the year of “The River” it was barely half that. | | |
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| It’s been four years since Nashvillians rallied to save RCA Studio A from demolition. But in the time since then, other redevelopments have continued to change the Music Row neighborhood, perpetuating a tussle between competing visions of preserving and developing the prominent area. | | |
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| Multiple Wall Street analysts expect the next step for the combined company could be a deal for the concert and ticketing powerhouse. | | |
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| For ‘Piano & a Microphone 1983’ and ‘An American Treasure,’ the estates of two beloved rock stars raid their respective vaults, tastefully. | | |
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| A decade into his career, this 38-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist is still marching to his own inscrutable, enchanting beat. | | |
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| As U.S. senators ask questions about Ticketmaster’s TradeDesk platform, the Star compiles the facts to date. | | |
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| RIAA President Mitch Glazier reflects on the sometimes-bumpy road the industry has traveled to get here, and what lies ahead. | | |
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| After owning a right-wing troll who objected to his song “White Man’s World,” Isbell proves he’s a master of the medium. | | |
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| Remixes and re-edits/edits have been an integral part of dance music culture since the early days of Disco. In today's article, guest contributor Harold Heath looks at the history of the Re-Edit and the Remix and examines what defines them. | | |
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| Herb Alpert and Lani Hall return to the Café Carlyle in Manhattan, Oct. 9-13. The legendary trumpeter and producer, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and creator of the Tijuana Brass joins his wife of Brazil 66 fame, performing songs from Tin Pan Alley to Jobim's Brazil. | | |
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| Apple’s ability to promote its own services like Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple Pay represents a meaningful competitive advantage. We looked at the three major music streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora) to quantify how iOS ownership impacts paid subscribers and market share. | | |
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| Emboldened by their mother’s death, Tina Hutchence’s nuanced book challenges the tabloid take on her brother. | | |
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