According to the Oakland Fire Department, this fire has taken more lives than any in the city’s history. And yet for many of us, these spaces are what have kept us alive. In a world that demands its inhabitants to be a certain way, think a certain way, or live a certain way, we gravitate to the spaces that say: Welcome. Be yourself. | | | | | Cash Askew, 1994–2016. (Facebook) | | | | |  | “According to the Oakland Fire Department, this fire has taken more lives than any in the city’s history. And yet for many of us, these spaces are what have kept us alive. In a world that demands its inhabitants to be a certain way, think a certain way, or live a certain way, we gravitate to the spaces that say: Welcome. Be yourself.”
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| | rantnrave:// Monday brought stories of some of the victims of the GHOST SHIP fire, including guitarist CASH ASKEW of the BAY AREA band THEM ARE US TOO; JONATHAN BERNBAUM, a visual artist who worked with KNIFE PARTY and other electronic acts; TRAVIS HOUGH of the OAKLAND band GHOST OF LIGHTNING; KIYOMI TANOUYE, a music manager at SHAZAM; BEN RUNNELS, a musician who performed as CHARLIE PROWLER, and way too many more. The official death toll as of Monday night was 36. RIP also: EM BOHLKA, DAVID CLINE, MICAH DANEMAYER, CHELSEA DOLAN, RILEY FRITZ, ALEX GHASSAN, NICK GOMEZ-HALL, MICHELA GREGORY, SARA HODA, ARA JO, DONNA KELLOGG, EDMUND LAPINE, DRAVEN MCGILL, JENNIFER MORRIS, FERAL PINES, PETE WADSWORTH, BRANDON "CHASE" WITTENAUER... BILLBOARD's ADRIENNE DAY profiles the LA label 100% SILK, which had three artists performing at the Ghost Ship Friday night... PAPER's SANDRA SONG on "What's Missing from the Ghost Ship Narrative"... GRAMMY nominations will be announced this morning. VULTURE predicts the Feb. 12 ceremony will be the ADELE-BEYONCÉ Super Bowl. Unless DAVID BOWIE intercepts one or both of them... Billboard, which could only find 13 women to include among the 141 music executives featured in this year's POWER 100 (don't ask me about the math, please), managed to find 100 for its WOMEN IN MUSIC 2016 list, published this week. Maybe the mag can refer back to this list when it begins compiling next year's Power 100. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | KQED News |
| For all those who have lived in, performed at, or been to unsanctioned DIY artist spaces around the world, the warehouse fire in Oakland hits sadly close to home. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Anya Taylor was supposed to go the party on Friday night. She wanted to be the side of her girlfriend, Cash Askew, enjoying a night of electronic music with their fellow musician friends - the "bunch of beautiful, weird queers" they felt accepted them most. | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| There’s no need to feel powerless in the face of such a big issue. Start by creating change where you can. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| With her acclaimed Rebel Heart Tour, she shattered box-office records throughout 2016, but even more than that, her compassion, inclusiveness and utter fearlessness is just what’s needed at year’s end -- and beyond. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| For more than a decade I carried a shame within me, a secret so embarrassing I kept it hidden from anyone new I met for fear of their ridicule. I was a cultural leper, lower than the lowest among us, including nu-metal-heads, fans of early-aughts emo, and Juggalos. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| For the show “Exhibitionism,” a curator brought together the band’s artifacts and reconstructed the rooms where the Stones worked and lived. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| The rise in popularity of Beats 1 and independent stations like Rinse, NTS, and Radar shows just how much we still desire a human touch over algorithm-curated playlists. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Solange, Beyoncé, David Bowie, Frank Ocean, Bon Iver... | | |
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| Billboard |
| Since its formation in 2012, the label has played a key role in the evolution of independent dance music in Los Angeles. | | |
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 | University of Washington |
| What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music | | |
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 | The Fader |
| DMX’s second album solidified his place in rap history. This is the extraordinary account of how it all came together. | | |
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 | Okayplayer |
| Our guest columnist, Adebisi Adewusi, wrote this piece about Dr. Dre, N.W.A. and the abusive culture they've created for black women in the rap world. | | |
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 | Midem |
| Did you know "China's Spotify", QQ Music, has 100 million active users? Read on for more stats. | | |
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 | Clash Magazine |
| “It’s f***ing weird London, isn’t it?” | | |
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 | NPR |
| The historic organ of New York City's Trinity Church has been silent for 15 years. That's because Trinity is on Wall Street, and it was buried in dust and debris during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Now the organ is in Georgia and has just been reconsecrated. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| In an exceptional year for historical windfalls in the jazz record industry, Resonance Records, a young label with an obsessive sense of mission, stands out. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, and Kanye all questioned what it means to make an album this year — and reinvigorated the format in the process. | | |
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 | Birthplace Magazine |
| Yes, Dave East and Young M.A. are representing lovely for the region, but to be honest, the only thing 'coming back' to New York hip-hop, is your attention. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| In his near-century of life, Murray confronted race by re-constructing American identity as omni-American-that out of many, we are one. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Nadya Tolokonnikova, who was imprisoned for a 2012 performance, sees similarities between the situation in Russia and post-election America. | | |
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 | RIP Cash Askew |
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