To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.' | | | | | Demi Lovato. (machechyp) | | | | |  | “To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.'”
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| | rantnrave:// There’s a lot of power in speaking up, from sparking discussions about empowerment (see: SOLANGE's new album), to standing up for injustices like PUSSY RIOT’s Maria Alyokhina or just standing up for yourself like THE BLACK MADONNA, to helping institutions like LONDON's FABRIC and LOS ANGELES' THE SMELL potentially avoid their doom. That's the freedom and spirit the RAMONES championed in a scene that PITCHFORK says IGGY AND THE STOOGES invented, and part of the significance of their new NYC street... Speaking up can also of course get you in trouble: DEMI LOVATO got some blowback TUESDAY for opening a new line of attack on TAYLOR SWIFT's feminism (and questioning the shapes and sizes of Swift's squad). By the end of the day, she was threatening to take "a break from music and the spotlight." But as LOVATO told GLAMOUR, "Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out" … REDEF friend PIOTR ORLOV takes us to an epic rave revival in NORTHERN WISCONSIN... NYHC gets more hardcore... Music for the approaching singularity... Music for the end of times. | | | - Jen Guyre, guest curator |
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 | Esquire |
| Twenty years ago, an electronic music movement was born in rural Wisconsin. Two decades later, those original ravers are dusting off their glow sticks...one last time. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| He devastated The Beatles with a headline, gave the world the Ramones, and caused mischief throughout the 60s and 70s. With Danny it was always right place, right time, all the time. | | |
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 | Glamour |
| She's finally in control and speaking her truth. | | |
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 | NPR |
| It was an offer we couldn't pass up: The veteran rapper fronting an all-star band at the White House, for the very first Tiny Desk Concert to take place outside NPR's offices. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Jenny Lee Lindberg on Warpaint’s new album ‘Heads Up,’ decades-long friendship, and relinquishing control in the interest of good times. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| Maria Alyokhina is having nightmares. The worst in her life. She's been up since 5.20am, writing them down on her phone. "I need to sleep", she says. "But let's be honest. It's not going to happen." | | |
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 | Vulture |
| "Black composers don’t really get the opportunities to support things of this magnitude. It is a cyclical process." | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Cynics might say that releasing the final album of a long-term contract feels more like an obligation than a creative achievement. Here are five examples of artists that bid adieu to their labels in not-so-subtle ways. | | |
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 | Thump |
| A few days before his Polaris Prize victory, the 24-year-old Haitian-Canadian producer reflects on his whirlwind year. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Jim Jarmusch’s "Gimme Danger" chronicles the construction of a band that seemed to come out of nowhere--and reconciles two very different ways of looking at Iggy Pop. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| “Late 2000s dance music was really unfun. Everything was just so male.” | | |
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| Noisey |
| This artist-run Brooklyn martial arts Mecca inspires local hardcore musicians to stay strong onstage and off. | | |
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| Huck Magazine |
| Having spent years in the margins, Solange's empowering new album proves why she's a progressive bad-ass with a message worth believing in. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| While the music industry focuses on Pandora, Spotify and streaming services, CBS Radio in L.A. keeps booking A-list music acts for their shows. | | |
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 | Medium |
| This is my story about finding an audience, finding fans and building up relations in a digital age. | | |
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| Thump |
| Following sets at Canada's most groundbreaking electronic festivals, the duo behind Sibian & Faun discuss their new audiovisual group. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The jazz saxophonist’s band helped make Bowie’s final album one of his most musically daring -- and now McCaslin is paying tribute to the late star with an album that includes a song riffing on one left off "Blackstar." | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| "Queer is taking the shame and anger and taking it as a fuel for it to be something else," singer-songwriter says ahead of U.S. tour | | |
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 | [a]listdaily |
| Sonos CMO Joy Howard sat down with [a]listdaily to discuss creating listening out loud experiences that truly speak to audiences. | | |
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 | Decibel |
| If any band has endured and persevered through extreme music’s potential for divisive conservatism and pedantic nit-picking, it’s the Locust. | | |
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