It was just a strange marriage of between a bluesy jazz song and having words that embellished Christmas. I don't know why it worked. It shouldn't have, but it did. | | | | | Foxy ornament. (bwats2/Flickr) | | | | |  | “It was just a strange marriage of between a bluesy jazz song and having words that embellished Christmas. I don't know why it worked. It shouldn't have, but it did.”
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| | rantnrave:// Will 2017 be the year the music blockchain morphs from sci-fi wishful thinking to viable future? If so, BENJI ROGERS, founder of the DOTBLOCKCHAIN MUSIC PROJECT, will likely be near the center of the conversation, and in his latest blog post and presentation on the project, he makes a solid case for why artists, songwriters and the rest of the music biz should be paying attention. Hopefully consumers are paying attention, too, and are represented in that conversation. This is potentially worrisome: "A world in which ownership data [embedded within a music file] is required in order to make the song actually work." Rogers writes that the idea of literally encoding usage permissions and restrictions into a song "is the opposite of digital rights management or DRM, which was all about limiting usage." I read that sentence 10 or 12 times and still don't understand it. But I do understand the ambitions and dreams behind the work, and my modest wish for 2017 and beyond is a music world where consumers have the open access they've been promised for years, and musicians, writers and producers have the income streams they've been promised. Everyone else can fend for themselves, right?... BJÖRK on sexism in the music media: "eat your bechtel test heart out"... TWICKETS' new model for ticket resales... Crowdfunding campaign to support 77 employees rendered jobless by the collapse of rock and metal magazine publisher TEAMROCK... New tunes for your holiday playlists: DEJ LOAF ft. KODAK BLACK " All I Want for Christmas"... MAJOR LAZER ft. PROTOJE "Christmas Trees"... KACEY MUSGRAVES "Ribbons and Bows"... BEST COAST "Christmas and Everyday"... LESLIE ODOM JR. "Merry Christmas Darling"... CHANCE THE RAPPER & KENAN THOMPSON "Jingle Barack"... KYLIE MINOGUE "At Christmas"... LYDIA LIZA & JOSIAH LEMANSKI "Baby It's Cold Outside"... FIONA APPLE "Trump's Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire"... WINDY & CARL "A Christmas Song"... Baby it *is* cold outside (a crisp 63 degrees in LA as I write this, sorry not sorry), and MusicREDEF will be on a reduced schedule for the holidays. We'll be sending out an Artists-of-the-Year special edition on Christmas day, and the next regular edition of MusicREDEF will hit your in-box Wednesday morning, Dec. 28. Happy holidays! | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | SPIN |
| In 2016, artists from all genres–hip-hop, electronic music, rock dipped into Sunday services, nodded along to the sermon and then went back to the studio, infusing gospel music into their sound. Listen closer to the year’s music highlights and you can find them hearing the Holy Ghost within themselves and putting it to tape | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| The 16-year-old singer who will perform at Trump’s inauguration has a transgender sister who’s vocal about anti-LGBTQ policies. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up, Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette/Matt Garrison/Ravi Coltrane, Mary Halvorson Octet, Michael Formanek/Ensemble Kolossus... | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| Benji Rogers bemoans the devaluation of music, and shares how the implementation of blockchain tech could make it so that ownership data was required for a song to even work, thereby restoring its value to the artist's benefit. | | |
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 | Thump |
| The smiley in electronic music isn't merely cute-it's a symbol of defiance. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Eliminate me and all the other voters. Kill us off. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Why Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson should’ve been a package deal for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Samantha Harvey has nearly 2m Facebook Likes -- but her page is under siege. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| NBA YoungBoy is in jail right now, and he might not come out for the next decade or two. A few weeks ago, Austin police raided the club where YoungBoy was booked to perform that night, taking him out in handcuffs and sending him home to Baton Rouge. There, he's being held on a $200,000 bond, awaiting trial for two counts of first-degree attempted murder. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| A crowdfunding appeal to raise funds for the staff of a rock music publisher that has gone into administration -- similar to chapter 11 bankruptcy -- leaving over 70 journalists jobless, has raised over £44,000. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| What started out as a quick corporate check for a San Francisco trio blossomed into one of the most popular jazz albums of all time. | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| We are not simply having a wonderful Christmastime. Which is precisely why we need a little Christmas. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Diamond says that for him and other Jewish artists, Christmas music is a way to catch up on what they missed as kids. | | |
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 | Switched On Pop |
| White Christmas holds the Guinness World Record for most singles sold and has been covered over 500 times. Pop stars from Elvis to Ella have recorded it, with interpretations from doo-wop to country to punk rock. We use our scientific formula for holiday hit success to break down what makes this song so timeless. | | |
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| Noisey |
| Alex Skolnik, Al Pitrelli, Russel Allan, and more explain how a group of heavy metal veterans created one of the biggest sensations in holiday music | | |
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 | NME |
| ‘Christmas Wrapping’ -- undoubtedly one of the greatest festive hits of the past 50 years, and covered this year by none other than Kylie -- has become a cruel legacy for The Waitresses, who wrote it to please their label and eventually split because of it. Cian Traynor speaks to the cast behind an accidental festive classic. | | |
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| NPR |
| Musicians Lydia Liza and Josiah Lemanski have reimagined the holiday classic to emphasize consent -- but at the time it was written, the song was actually something of a feminist anthem. | | |
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 | HipHopDX |
| You probably know the lyrics to "Christmas in Hollis" just as well as you know "Jingle Bells." What you probably didn't know is its dopeness is attributed to the King of Queens member who didn't even rap on the song. | | |
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 | Salon |
| The solo-guitar record "The New Possibility" combines familiar and age-old tunes with wild playing. | | |
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