It's difficult to listen to yourself. That's why I'm not working on any more records where I can smell A&R being heavily involved—go f*** yourself. The artist’s vision—and their actual sounding board, whether it be their mom or their brother or lover—are plenty of confusions already. | | | | | Cellphone concert: Warpaint in Utopia, Texas, September 2014. (Ralph Arvesen) | | | | |  | “It's difficult to listen to yourself. That's why I'm not working on any more records where I can smell A&R being heavily involved—go f*** yourself. The artist’s vision—and their actual sounding board, whether it be their mom or their brother or lover—are plenty of confusions already.”
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| | rantnrave:// SIRIUSXM has agreed to pay as much as $99 million to artists who released records before 1972, settling three complicated—and closely watched—class-action suits led by the TURTLES. Artists are over the moon. Digital radio services, not so much. (AM/FM radio companies, meanwhile, can sit back and pretend nothing happened—or maybe not; see below—while continuing to play all the Turtles and SLY STONE and DRAKE and RAE SREMMURD songs they want to, free of any pesky artist payments, because copyright law is weird.) All this because the US didn't think to extend copyright protection to recorded music until 1972. Next time you're wondering how little artists are respected in AMERICA, remember that. As to whether the settlement is a short-term win for artists at the long-term expense of the digital radio business, or a short-term loss for radio that will benefit the long-term health of the entire music industry, I think the question kind of answers itself. Pick your bias, answer accordingly. Here are some good explainers from the archives, from the LA TIMES' JON HEALEY (writing about the Turtles' parallel case against PANDORA) and law professor TYLER OCHOA (who happens to have a pro-radio bias, and who suggests AM/FM radio could actually be vulnerable to a similar suit)... WARPAINT, TEGAN & SARA, JACK JOHNSON, MOBY and many more "play in bed for sick kids stuck in theirs." BEDSTOCK 2016...This, from FashionREDEF curator HK MINDY MEISSEN, is one of the best bits of media advice I have read lately: "I always thought the best fight against mediocrity was to not chatter on about it, in any medium." And I will hereby ignore it to chatter on about the mediocrity of JOE CORRÉ's great punk-rock fire of 2016 one last time, only because sometimes mediocrity inspires great writing, like this healthy perspective on the meaning of punk-rock in 2016 from VIVIEN GOLDMAN... Guess who's performing live in 2017?... Guess what war crime revelers at AUSTRALIA's EARTHCORE festival participated in for their own amusement? (Seriously, 2016, please go away)... Drive drunk in CANADA's PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND and police may force you to listen to NICKELBACK's 2001 album "SILVER SIDE UP." O Canada, true patriot love in all thy sons command... RIP RUSSELL OBERLIN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Pitchfork |
| After writing with Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira, Justin Raisen spent 2016 co-producing Angel Olsen’s My Woman and the debut solo single from Kim Gordon. How did he earn their trust? | | |
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 | Thump |
| How dance musicians find their identities by losing themselves. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Now 95 is sweeping all before it in the Christmas sales rush. How has the no-frills anthology series managed to prosper in the era of streaming? | | |
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 | The Quietus |
| Tariq Goddard didn't realise that he liked metal until he went to see Neurosis live at Koko and found their "songs of engagement and endurance" chimed with his own advancing years. | | |
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 | The Vinyl Factory |
| Meet the experimental electronic music labels, producers and artists who've made a new home for the music on cassette tape. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| SiriusXM, the satellite radio giant, has agreed to pay up to $99 million to settle a group of lawsuits over an obscure aspect of music copyright that has seen a flurry of litigation recently: recordings made before 1972. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Hillary Lindsey co-wrote two songs on Gaga's new album. With songwriting partners Lori McKenna and Liz Rose, she's also crafted hits for Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood. | | |
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 | Fusion |
| The Kominas talk about creating through tragedy. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Featuring Nas, Dave East, Queen Latifiah, Busta Rhymes and more, the album reimagines the groundbreaking musical. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| For the times when your music-listening experiences falls somewhere between “love” and “dislike." | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Carly Simon talks about consoling Hillary Clinton, trolling Donald Trump with "You're So Vain" and a lost duet with Mick Jagger. | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI and Brit Awards, wrote this foreword for Music Ally and the BPI's recent Music's Smart Future report. | | |
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 | GQ |
| The brothers from Virginia sit down for a chat about the dark period that was their sophomore album. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Stream their new album 'The Irrepassable Gate' and read a rare interview with guitarist, vocalist, and Psychic Violence Records mastermind K. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| The hypnotising Youarelistening.to mixes live feeds of police scanners and emergency channels with ambient music to create a real time audio portrait of cities around the globe. | | |
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| The Vinyl Factory |
| Underlying The Burning seems to be a naïve belief that punk is bigger than history. Sorry to disillusion you, mate, but that big wheel is guaranteed to roll over all of us in the end. | | |
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 | The Talkhouse |
| New music is on the horizon. | | |
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| Thump |
| Eleven years later, we caught up with the former American radio DJ and Australian university manager behind Dean Gray's 'American Edit.' | | |
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| The Guardian |
| The country music star talks about remaining relevant while authentic and the changing nature of the industry as he releases his new album "Gunslinger." | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| As if life in the post-election United States weren't depressing enough, I recently had to toss hundreds of music magazines into a recycling bin. I was forced to dispose of these precious belongings in preparation for a move from a one-bedroom Capitol Hill pad to a two-bedroom Beacon Hill apartment that I'm sharing with my girlfriend. | | |
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 | from "Awaken, My Love!," out this Friday on Glassnote Records |
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