We actually thought there was a problem. We thought it was a glitch. We saw the amount and we emailed the company, ‘Okay guys, we think something maybe went wrong. We got this big chunk of money and we want to check in to know what’s up with that.’ | | | | Charles Aznavour in the studio, Sept. 10, 1974.
(Victor Blackman/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | | | “We actually thought there was a problem. We thought it was a glitch. We saw the amount and we emailed the company, ‘Okay guys, we think something maybe went wrong. We got this big chunk of money and we want to check in to know what’s up with that.’”
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| | rantnrave:// UB40—who a certain federal appeals court judge apparently saw in concert when he was a Yale undergraduate—is a multiracial, working-class reggae band. It was named for a British government unemployment form. It had a solid, traditional reggae thing going before it became a pop-reggae phenomenon in the mid-'80s. Its early records were sharply political and decidedly left-leaning. "TYLER," which you almost certainly would have heard if you saw UB40 in, say, Connecticut in 1985, was about racism and inequality in the American justice system. Others, like "ONE IN TEN," also a live staple, confronted racism and inequality in the UK and served as condemnations of conservative Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER. UB40's breakthrough hit, of course, was about really, really liking wine. And how wine can make you forget. All of which feels relevant today. Consider this a reminder, for anyone who may in fact have forgotten... And hey, no making fun of UB40, not on my watch. ALI CAMPBELL, ROBIN CAMPBELL, ASTRO and crew made some really good records back in the day. And there are other things to make fun of... Further along the intersection of music and current US politics, the RIAA is not happy with the NAFTA replacement that PRESIDENT TRUMP has negotiated with MEXICO and CANADA (and which still needs Congressional approval). The recording industry's issue is with a safe harbor provision, which, says the RIAA's MITCH GLAZIER, "does not advance adequate modern copyright protections for American creators"... The great French chanteur CHARLES AZNAVOUR spent many years early in his career working with, and writing for, EDITH PIAF. Reports the NEW YORK TIMES in Aznavour's obituary: "When Piaf rejected one of his songs, 'I HATE SUNDAYS,' he gave it to JULIETTE GRÉCO, then the darling of the Left Bank philosophers and their acolytes. When Piaf changed her mind, she was enraged to find that she’d lost the song and, according to FRANÇOIS LÉVY, one of her biographers, confronted Mr. Aznavour, shouting, 'What, you gave it to that existentialist?'" If you don't want to spend the rest of your week exploring his enormous oeuvre after reading that, I don't know what to say. RIP to a master among masters... Twenty-two-year-old NATALIE PRASS listening to 25-year-old BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's album BORN TO RUN for the first time and sharing her thoughts in real time is today's salve for everything that's wrong in the world. Pullquote #1: "Wait, is that glockenspiel?" Pullquote #2: "I wonder if Bruce was writing gay love songs."... TICKETMASTER facing class action suits in both the US and Canada over scalping revelations... RIP also JERRY GONZÁLEZ and STELVIO CIPRIANI. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Across its three seasons. Rick and Morty’s co-creator Justin Roiland has chosen unexpected tracks by bands like Blonde Redhead, Belly, Mazzy Star, and Chaos Chaos for emotional, episode-ending sequences. In each case, this placement has resulted in an outsize spike in interest in the song. | | |
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| “I always tell people, ‘Some people play golf. I play in a band,’” Steve Kirsch says in the dingy break room of a rehearsal studio in the Philadelphia suburbs where his band, Lower Wolves, has just finished rehearsing. Kirsch is the drummer and one of the co-founders of R.E.M. tribute group. | | |
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| Country music has spent a year coming to terms with the Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. | | |
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| My experience marketing physical releases at a label was woeful. The standard approach is to do everything you can to keep the CPU as low as possible then mark it up for the highest margin. The result? A cheap looking product sold at a premium. People didn’t buy them, shocker. | | |
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| London artist Miss Jacqui explains why the music industry needs to update it's accessbility problem from every angle for artists with disabilities. | | |
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| Kobalt's liaison to the South on its hip-hop-fueled surge past its competitors. | | |
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| That's when a Swedish documentary crew filmed him singing his rueful song "Going Down to the River." Now Doug Seegers, 66, is one of Scandinavia's biggest stars: a chart-topper playing to sold-out crowds, with a new memoir, "Going Down to the River." | | |
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| As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report. | | |
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| Classic albums are classics for a reason -- the original is always better. | | |
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| A year after losing his best friend, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell is moving on with a new band: Fleetwood Mac. | | |
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| As we waited for The Weeknd and Janet Jackson to take the stage, a wave of people came barreling towards us. It seemed like a slow motion scene from a movie with no sound, then suddenly… real-time kicks in and the sound abruptly returns with the screams of thousands rushing and about-facing. A human tsunami ensued. | | |
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| Lil Wayne’s long-awaited comeback album goes into overtime. Does the Greatest Rapper Alive deliver? | | |
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| Tia Fuller knows about being a road warrior. As featured saxophone soloist in Beyoncé’s all-woman band between 2006 and 2010, she traveled from one mega-venue to another in high style, not infrequently in the leader’s private jet. | | |
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| Denis Ladegaillerie discusses his latest acquisition and Spotify's big move. | | |
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| The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are. | | |
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| The star of Netflix's 'The Good Cop' tells "Playboy" about applause, anxiety--and, ahem, those rumors. | | |
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| The singer/songwriter meditates on collaboration and her lengthy career in a new interview. | | |
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| Many think of him as grandma-friendly, but Aznavour’s chansons are intimate sketches of despair and domestic strife. | | |
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