[Ed Sheeran] has asked my advice. And what I've said to him is, 'Slow down. Don't burn it all up too fast.' But he seems to be committed to go as far as he can. He wants to conquer the globe. But what do you do then? Where do you go from there? It can't always be up—for anybody. | | | | Portugal. The Man kicking it like it's 1986 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, July 20, 2017.
(Mat Hayward/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “[Ed Sheeran] has asked my advice. And what I've said to him is, 'Slow down. Don't burn it all up too fast.' But he seems to be committed to go as far as he can. He wants to conquer the globe. But what do you do then? Where do you go from there? It can't always be up—for anybody.”
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| | rantnrave:// My least favorite band-name cliché is [blank] the [blank], where the first blank might be CAGE and the next one ELEPHANT, or YOUNG followed by GIANT, or, you get the idea, with the middle word being THE, which is the annoying part. (Note to self: GET THE IDEA might actually be a good name.) Why are they always rock bands? Why isn't there a country band called EXIT THE HIGHWAY? (Note to everybody else: Please don't.) I have a list of a dozen such bands on my IPHONE, all currently going concerns as far as I know, and I have an irrational fear of every one of them. I am human the man and that is my right, and that is why I resisted hitting play on PORTUGAL. THE MAN's "FEEL IT STILL" for a very very (it's embarrassing exactly how) long time. The period didn't help. But I finally did and then I was like, oh, right, that song. That irresistible single with that irresistible retro dance bassline and that surprisingly irresistible falsetto vocal that rings of a thousand lesser bands trying to do the same retro dance thing and that undeniable "I'm a rebel just for kicks" hook (which I am doing my best to assume has nothing to do with FOSTER THE PEOPLE's "PUMPED UP KICKS"). The video is interactive and cool and explicitly political. The song is supposed to be political, too, and I'll have to take the band's word on that. I love that frontman JOHN GOURLEY's parents both ran the IDITAROD, which I'm guessing is a BILLBOARD HOT 100 first, and that he's connected to reality enough to have multiple friends who could tell him that the title of P.TM's 2017 album, WOODSTOCK, is "the f***ing stupidest thing I've ever heard." I love that a great pop single can come from anywhere, at any moment, with no rhyme or reason except that there was an invisible space that needed to be filled and it knew exactly how to fill it. I love surprises. The followup single, "LIVE IN THE MOMENT," has la-la-la's and is catchy and sounds a bit too much like a bid for more syncs, but it also may simply be letting us know that there are more hooks and more easter eggs available, should the pop gods ever come calling again... MEEK MILL, in jail on PHILADELPHIA on a controversial sentence for a probation violation, was denied bail Monday because he is a "danger to the community," which, um, have you seen some of the people who *have* been granted bail in this country lately?... Director BRYAN SINGER fired from QUEEN biopic "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" in the middle of filming. The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER says there was tension between Singer and his star, RAMI MALEK... NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER jumps from COMPLEX to DEF JAM. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How a midcareer band - with roots in Sarah Palin's hometown - got out of their own way and scored one of 2017's biggest hits. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Inside the rise and fall of Last.fm, the social network that understood how online music worked and that resembled bits of Facebook, Songkick, Blogspot, and Spotify. | | |
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 | Complex |
| <p>As a kid, A-Trak was a natural turntablist who became a five-time world champion by age 18. His love for DJing and knack for remixes put him in connecti | | |
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 | The Howard Stern Show |
| Bono and the Edge talk about hanging with Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney, how U2 created "Where the Streets Have No Name," the advice Frank Sinatra gave them and why Bono doesn’t like hearing himself sing on "The Joshua Tree." And they perform "Get Out of Your Own Way," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," and "You’re the Best Thing About Me." | | |
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 | Medium |
| Everything terrible comes from this. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In February, in Geneva, the Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert stage-dove into the audience at one of his shows. Afterward, he checked his pockets and realized his phone was missing. | | |
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 | American Songwriter |
| Margo Price, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Angaleena Presley, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, JD McPherson... | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The gates are down and independent artists are dashing into the music world like no other time. It's got many people outside the independent music scene looking over their shoulders. What's the cause of all this? YouTube. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The Mnet Asian Music Awards aren't as catholic as its unabbreviated name suggests - rather, the show has evolved into a sort of Trojan horse for the K-pop genre across the continent. | | |
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 | Paper |
| Finding solace in the material success of black celebrities. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| DJs who don't have a hefty back catalogue of released records behind them, such as Ben UFO, are often considered anomalies for being lauded solely for their style, technique and selection in the booth. But in 2017, there has been a stratospheric rise in the success of selectors. | | |
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 | On An Overgrown Path |
| There are longstanding overlaps between classical music and Buddhism. Wagner's study of Buddhism is confirmed by his short prose sketch for a Buddhist themed opera titled Die Sieger (The Victors), a theme developed by Jonathan Harvey in his opera Wagner Dream. | | |
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 | HipHopDX |
| Viral sensation Danielle Bregoli opens up about her Atlantic Record deal and why she doesn't care much about her haters. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Indie Management Label Electric Feel speak on their roster of talent and helping piece together Post Malone's "Rockstar" and Camila Cabello's "Havana." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Thirty years after Candlemass’ seminal Nightfall, we highlight new albums that revitalize its themes, from well-studied occult imagery to battles between good and evil. | | |
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 | The Irish Times |
| Iron Maiden’s lead singer talks about his childhood, fame, cancer, boarding school and Brexit. | | |
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 | Post to Wire |
| The guitar is synonymous with country and folk music, it’s the glue that ties it all together and has always been an essential songwriting and performing instrument in those genres. | | |
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 | Afropop Worldwide |
| So for me, I'm a walking man. [Anewal means "walking man"] For me, the planet is open for walking wherever you want. So migration is a central theme of my life [ever] since I was born. I know some other migrants-some people from Niger as well-who came here and did this migration through Libya and so on. | | |
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 | Mic |
| At this point, the question of whether we can separate the art from the artist feels naive and, worse, narcissistic. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| It's the year 2017. You're in the car, listening to the radio. The opening notes of "My Heart Will Go On" start to play. You: (a) Scramble to change the station, turn down the volume or throw yourself out of the vehicle, because you would rather be a passenger on a doomed cruise ship than hear that gentle flute again. | | |
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