This is the music experience in 2016 — ultralight beams streaming into your home from all directions, a bombardment of the unfinished and unvarnished. Endless has this effect, like waving a flashlight in the fog. You can’t hold the light. | | | | | Frank Ocean had an "Endless" summer. (Def Jam) | | | | |  | “This is the music experience in 2016 — ultralight beams streaming into your home from all directions, a bombardment of the unfinished and unvarnished. Endless has this effect, like waving a flashlight in the fog. You can’t hold the light.”
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| | rantnrave:// Counterpoints aplenty today. Skeptical thinking, righteous thinking and/or both. I'm going to refrain from mentioning the points that they are counterpoints to, since you have the entire internet for that. Sometimes it's OK to only hear the minority voices. Sometimes majoritysplaining is not needed... MEG WHITE was/is a great drummer. Ask JACK WHITE. Ask DAVE GROHL. Ask your own prejudices... "ENDLESS" was the best FRANK OCEAN album released in 2016. "[I]t’s the rolling tide that carries in 'Blonde'’s crashing wave. It takes its time, it ebbs and releases — it’s inconsistent and unpredictable. It is, in many ways, music in 2016"... MADONNA's BILLBOARD Woman of the Year speech was about "white misogyny, white ageism, white ableism, white sexism, and white pain she’s experienced in her career"... This one's a point begging for a counterpoint: The prez-elect's team dangled ambassadorships in front of two music bookers in its continuing effort to book A-list talent for the inauguration, the bookers tell THE WRAP. Trump's team officially denies. Trump's team also officially says, "First-class entertainers are eager to participate in the inaugural event"... Spin the globe, listen to radio stations around the world. Amazing... "I felt the humiliating sting of failure, but also the strange realization that I had somehow entered and truly lived the world of the lyrics"— PATTI SMITH on singing at the BOB DYLAN NOBEL event... RIP VALERIE GELL and BOB WASHINGTON. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Radio Garden |
| Explore live radio by rotating the globe. | | |
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 | Watt |
| Indeed, it’s often hard to untangle the criticism and evaluation of Meg White: The Musician from Meg White: The Female Body. In the fan communities, on the forums and the message boards and blogs, the criticism is most unyielding and brutal. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| A music-theory-and-globalization explanation doesn’t fully account for how a gay anthem became popular in stadiums across the world, with often-conservative supporters’ groups, ultras, and hooligans spending decades arm-in-arm singing versions of a song written about a homosexual utopia and man-on-man love | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| ‘Blonde’ was the most celebrated of Ocean’s two 2016 releases, but ‘Endless’ came first. It also represented a feeling few other artists were able to capture about the year. | | |
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 | 8tracks |
| As many of you are aware, we announced new listening limits in October. We’re not happy about having to establish these limits, and we wouldn’t be taking this path if we had another option. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| On the unrelenting power of Sam Cooke’s essential civil rights anthem, “A Change Is Gonna Come.” | | |
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 | Genius |
| The Miami rapper’s 1998 LP pioneered rap's Ethernet connection. | | |
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 | Fact Magazine |
| In the face of Fabric's near-closure and warnings of the death of UK nightlife, Oli Warwick argues that there's life beyond the superclub. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The opening chords of the song were introduced, and I heard myself singing. The first verse was passable, a bit shaky, but I was certain I would settle. But instead I was struck with a plethora of emotions, avalanching with such intensity that I was unable to negotiate them. | | |
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 | NPR |
| This year, major pop artists changed the definition of an album with unconventional releases. NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen joined host Audie Cornish to discuss this phenomenon. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| In a world that feels more and more like it's ending every day, Justin Vernon's fleeting falsetto provides a bizarre and quiet solace. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| At 90, Mr. Bennett has no plans to slow down. Tour dates and an NBC special are the next stops on his 70-year career. | | |
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 | Clash Magazine |
| When the frontman of Interpol met RZA. | | |
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 | Wear Your Voice |
| Madonna addressed the white misogyny, white ageism, white ableism, white sexism, and white pain she’s experienced in her career. While calling out the “double standards” within the music industry, she also mentions her experiences in being assaulted and navigating a world that is geared towards white men. | | |
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 | The Wrap |
| “My first thought was, ‘Are you joking?’ But no, it was serious.” | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Can the genre evolve fast enough to catch up to today’s American realities? | | |
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 | SPIN |
| In 1982, a male English trio named Imagination released In the Heat of the Night. Produced by Tony Swain and Steven Jolley, who’d soon work with Bananarama, In the Heat of the Night was the lightest of R&B albums. It shimmered; it was the sort of record that left colored sparkles as it gently thumped, with the lightest of bottoms, toward a PG-rated closer. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| What’s remarkable about the Anthology Revisited podcast is how thoroughly it expands the source material-and how it could inspire fans of other sprawling musical topics to do the same. | | |
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 | Sodajerker |
| In this episode, Robyn Hitchcock shares insights into his decades-old relationship with songwriting. Reflecting on the creative process behind such titles as 'Do Policemen Sing?', 'I Often Dream of Trains', 'My Wife and My Dead Wife', 'Balloon Man', 'Strawberries Dress' and 'Trouble in Your Blood', Robyn unpicks an array of Hitchcockian classics in his own inimitable style. | | |
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 | Salon |
| "Metal Frames" is rougher than "Fragmented World" and it's much darker, but it's a darker day in America. | | |
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