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
she just couldn't stay
Esquire
Call the Babysitter, We're Going to a Rave
by Piotr Orlov
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.
Noisey
Danny Fields Is the Music Industry Wild Man You’ve Never Heard Of
by Cameron Cook
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.
Glamour
Demi Lovato Opens Up About Body Shaming: 'Maybe I Don't Even Want a Six Pack'
by Emily Mahaney
She's finally in control and speaking her truth.
NPR
Common: Tiny Desk Concert At The White House
by Bob Boilen and Common
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.
Complex
Warpaint Reveal How to Keep an Indie-Rock Band Going for a Decade (Without Killing Each Other)
by Dana Droppo
Jenny Lee Lindberg on Warpaint’s new album ‘Heads Up,’ decades-long friendship, and relinquishing control in the interest of good times.
Huck Magazine
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina learnt young the price paid for standing up to injustice
by Sam Williams
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."
Vulture
The Musicians Behind 'Luke Cage' on Creating a 'Timeless' Sound and the Lack of Opportunities for Black Composers
by Matthew Giles
"Black composers don’t really get the opportunities to support things of this magnitude. It is a cyclical process."
Billboard
From Bon Jovi to Prince to Van Morrison: 5 'Get Me Out of My Record Deal' Albums
by Michele Amabile Angermiller
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.
Thump
Kaytranada Is Winning for Montreal
by Max Mertens
A few days before his Polaris Prize victory, the 24-year-old Haitian-Canadian producer reflects on his whirlwind year.
Pitchfork
How Iggy and the Stooges Invented Punk
by Judy Berman
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.
she had to break away
The Fader
Meet The Black Madonna, A Spiritual Producer Working Hard To Be Herself
by Sophie Weiner
“Late 2000s dance music was really unfun. Everything was just so male.”
Noisey
Where NYHC Meets Muay Thai: Physical Culture Collective's Gavin Van Vlack Feels the Burn
by Mike Hill
This artist-run Brooklyn martial arts Mecca inspires local hardcore musicians to stay strong onstage and off.
Huck Magazine
Solange’s ode to blackness is exactly what America needs
by Kemi Alemoru
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.
Forbes
If Terrestrial Radio Is Dead Why Didn't Anyone Tell U2, Bruno Mars And More
by Steve Baltin
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.
Medium
How Spotify helped me as an artist
by Pip
This is my story about finding an audience, finding fans and building up relations in a digital age.
Thump
susy.technology: Are The Montreal Collective Making Music For The Approaching Singularity
by Vincent Pollard
Following sets at Canada's most groundbreaking electronic festivals, the duo behind Sibian & Faun discuss their new audiovisual group.
The Guardian
Donny McCaslin on David Bowie: 'We had this amazing connection, then he was gone'
by Jim Farber
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."
Rolling Stone
Christine and the Queens: Meet French Artist Restoring Pop's Radical Edge
by Sophie Harris
"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
[a]listdaily
Sonos CMO Talks About Connecting With People Through Listening
by Steven Wong
Sonos CMO Joy Howard sat down with [a]listdaily to discuss creating listening out loud experiences that truly speak to audiences.
Decibel
Decibel Hall of Fame: The Locust -- 'Plague Soundscapes'
by Kevin Stewart-Panko
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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