My dad taught me a lot of things. First of all, it's the same people you meet on the way up that you see on the way down, so it's really important to be polite to everyone and try and build friendships. He also told me a lot of things that he had done wrong in his career, so I try my best not to do those things. | | | | | Sundance Head in Roman Forest, Texas, July 2015. (Jill Carlson/Flickr) | | | | |  | “My dad taught me a lot of things. First of all, it's the same people you meet on the way up that you see on the way down, so it's really important to be polite to everyone and try and build friendships. He also told me a lot of things that he had done wrong in his career, so I try my best not to do those things.”
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| | rantnrave:// Can UNIVERSAL RECORDS make an actual star out of "THE VOICE" star SUNDANCE HEAD? This will be the company's second chance. UNIVERSAL MOTOWN signed him after he appeared on "AMERICAN IDOL" in 2007, made him do an album of MOTOWN covers against his wishes and then a) didn't release it, b) refused to drop him and c) refused to let him buy his way out of his deal. Oh, and d) I'm shocked. Shocked! This time around, Universal inherits a barroom-tested, 37-year-old, crazily bearded Texan with a fantastic voice and a soulful ease around a microphone who reminds people of CHRIS STAPLETON, which, depending who you are, either means "superstar" or "oh god, not another one." As BILLBOARD noted a couple weeks ago, he broke through on "The Voice" with a throwback take on a TOM T. HALL song about his personal relationship with JESUS that may turn out to be prescient vis-à-vis the zeitgeist of AMERICAN music in 2017. (Were you watching, DONALD TRUMP?) He also has a savvy mentor in BLAKE SHELTON, who issued a direct challenge to Universal within minutes of Head winning "The Voice": "This is the guy that I think can break the mold and become a star out of this show. And I give my word that I’ll put my work in, and I know [Sundance] will." The onus is now on you, record industry. Treat him right... Sundance's dad... PRESIDENT OBAMA signs anti-scalping BOTS act... KENDRICK LAMAR will livestream his show at BROOKLYN's MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG at 9pm ET tonight... SPOTIFY's email to me on Thursday of "upcoming concerts near you by artists you love" was 100 percent on point. And included zero extraneous info or upsells. It's little things like that that make me a loyal customer... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from KID CUDI, GUCCI MANE, THE LOX and LITTLE SIMZ. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Needle Drop |
| The second installment in our On Track interview series, in association with Skype, I'm talking with Detroit's own Danny Brown about grills, rap-metal, Christmas sweaters, and his new album. We've got some surprise callers, too. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| When I was a kid, my dad tasked my brother and I with a fun challenge: edit The White Album to fit onto one CD. That meant shaving off about 14 minutes, down to a cool 80. Which songs you selected supposedly said something about what kind of Beatles fan you were, but after living with my edit for years, I can’t deny there are obvious weak spots on the original. | | |
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 | The Creative Independent |
| What I learned from years of co-running and living in a DIY space. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| On a chilly Monday afternoon last month, a group of record-collecting nerds of the highest order were listening to music and shooting the shit in the basement of Frank Dukes’s low-slung house in the sleepy Toronto suburbs. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| 2016’s perfect mascot was a dancing marshmallow, blissfully trolling America. | | |
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 | Polygraph |
| Analyzing 21,000 words for relational and thematic insights | | |
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 | Quartz |
| It's okay, some classical music experts couldn't either. | | |
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 | The Line of Best Fit |
| Jenny Hval's Blood Bitch is our album of the year for 2016. We catch up with Hval to talk about the record's meaning in the context of the year's outstanding tragedies and failures. | | |
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 | Loud And Quiet |
| At the end of an "exhausting" year Jehnny Beth discusses finding friendship with her alt. music icons, her flourishing radio career and the next steps for her band | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane to discuss his three-year incarceration and 2016 release, his humble beginnings in Alabama, what is unique about Atlanta's music scene, Atlanta's club culture, his goal of owning the "East Atlanta Hawks," collaborating with Malcolm Gladwell, and more. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Many view rock as a dated genre, but some bands are hoping to channel their punk predecessors and embody the US’s collective sense of post-election unrest. | | |
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 | Chicago Reader |
| Adele Nicholas of Axons and Impossible Colors is also a self-employed civil rights lawyer-and she’s releasing a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund. | | |
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| SPIN |
| The first time I heard Hawaiian Punch-braided teen rapper Lil Yachty was, fittingly, in a viral video. There’s no way in a million years would I have thought the artist behind what I assumed was literally a joke song could be a respectable rapper, but once I poked around his SoundCloud, I thought he had a sincerity that made him more than a novelty. | | |
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 | Insomniac.com |
| We analyze the year that was and preach on the one that could be. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Since Beyoncé sneakily stopped the world with her eponymous album in 2013, the onslaught of covert rollouts has made music fans accustomed to blind-siding LP drops. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| We talk to the icon about spending his birthday protesting at Standing Rock and keeping the spirit of the 60s alive in Trump's America. | | |
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 | Hypebeast |
| An honest conversation with one of Odd Future's pioneers. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer meditates on his relationship to environmental sounds. | | |
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 | Bandcamp Daily |
| The two-year-old imprint--run by Joyce Lim, Sami Yenigun, and Dawit Eklund--has become a major force in a short time. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Read how David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg each issued a brave musical farewell in 2016. | | |
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