Listening to [my] songs, detaching myself from [them], there is an interesting narrative there: someone growing up in an era, diary of a nobody. An ordinary person growing up in London. Maybe that's some sort of legacy. | | | | Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Lee Segarra at the Hangout Music Festival, Gulf Shores, Ala., May 21, 2017.
(Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "Listening to [my] songs, detaching myself from [them], there is an interesting narrative there: someone growing up in an era, diary of a nobody. An ordinary person growing up in London. Maybe that's some sort of legacy."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// It's unclear how expanding the number of nominees in the top categories will address any of the issues that have got the GRAMMY AWARDS in hot water the past couple years. With a gravity-defying 84 categories and room for more than 400 nominees, the Grammys don't have a quantity problem. They have a quality problem. Au courant pop music gets nominated in the major categories but tends to not win. And outside a handful of superstars, women have trouble even getting nominated. (And when they do, the RECORDING ACADEMY sometimes forgets to put them on the air.) Those pop songs and albums need more votes, not more nominations. And those women deserve the first or second nomination slots, not the seventh or eighth. But if the idea is simply to give the system a jolt and put more music in front of voters who may not otherwise hear it, I'm willing to be a little optimistic. And I'm willing to hope the Recording Academy's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, which only recently began its work, will put better, deeper ideas on the table, with an eye not only on better appearances, but on better results. Here's hoping they do, in fact, step up... The Grammys have also taken a stab at redefining alternative music, which going forward shall refer to that which "embraces attributes of progression and innovation in both the music and attitudes associated with it," and which is "often a less intense version of rock or a more intense version of pop." I'm hereby nominating GUSTAVO DUDAMEL and the LA PHILHARMONIC for Best Alternative Music Album in 2019... AXS has what it says is a "game-changer" in the effort to let fans resell concert tickets while cutting bots and scalpers out... LIVE NATION, ST. VINCENT and science combine to prove, beyond the shadow of a biometric doubt, that live music is better... RAY DAVIES and DAVE DAVIES both say the KINKS are kinda sorta maybe getting back together, and I will kinda sorta maybe believe it when I see it. Give the people what they want, boys... 03 GREEDO is scheduled to turn himself in today to begin a 20-year sentence for drug trafficking and gun possession in Texas. Name the most heinous crime you can think of; there are currently plenty of people serving way less than 20 years for that. But anyway. His goal was to finish recording 30 albums before going into lockup, and on Tuesday he released the 27-track GOD LEVEL, not bothering to wait for New Music Friday for perhaps obvious reasons... SPOTIFY has a new chief content officer and she comes from the world of TV and video, which you are free to take as some sort of hint regarding the company's future... He made a movie about IBIZA but he never went... PRINCE CHARLES stabs BARRY GIBB... MEGADETH holds the door... RIP XIOMARA ALFARO and JAKE RAYMOND. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Pigeons & Planes | | Taz Taylor, Nick Mira, and the rest of Internet Money are changing the game for young producers. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | The choice isn't between Tidal and Spotify-it's between streaming and stealing | | | |  | The Vinyl Factory | | A home to London's flourishing jazz scene and one of the few venues to foster community over commodity, Total Refreshment Centre last week announced it would close down following an intervention from Hackney Council. Few people have embedded themselves in TRC's world like journalist Emma Warren, who paints a picture of a space rooted in London's creative and collaborative heritage. | | | |  | Channel 4 News | | I went to meet him at his studio today, and just as we started our interview, Ray Davies' phone rang. It was his old Kinks band mate Mick Avory. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | After wildfires ravaged an idyllic valley where outdoor concerts are presented each June, a dark program spoke with eerie aptness to a place that had faced an apocalypse. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | The changes arrive as the Grammy Awards are facing increased scrutiny over diversity, a conversation that accelerated after Recording Academy President and Chief Executive Neil Portnow stated that women in the music industry needed to "step up" after this year's male-dominated Grammy Awards results. | | | |  | The Fader | | Boy bands like BTS can score chart-topping albums in 2018. So what about the girl groups? | | | |  | The Drum | | I spoke at Cannes Lions last week (22 June) about 'putting craft at the heart of creative work'. I focused on the techniques used in the films and award-winning advertising that have inspired me over the years. | | | |  | The Quietus | | The story behind the newly discovered 1963 recordings, released this week, helps us to hear the music and to understand how Coltrane reshaped jazz. | | | |  | BuzzFeed | | "I'm afraid there might not be a place for us all to come together." | | | | | | | i see you staring back at me | |  | Noisey | | Frank Ocean, Kacey Musgraves, and Kanye West's tripped-out experiences suggest hallucinogens are infiltrating an anxious generation. | | | |  | Mixmag | | It's completely against the original ethics of being a working DJ. | | | |  | Lenny | | A deep dive on M.I.A's history of being outspoken and how her new documentary aims to explain her motives. | | | |  | Digital Music News | | Spotify now has the power to make an artist famous — with one playlist add. It also can dramatically boost an artist's earnings with a simple drag n' drop. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | A clear business opportunity is opening up for Spotify in the live events space. | | | |  | MusicAlly | | Since 2016, renowned British record producer Steve Lillywhite has been running Jagonya Music & Sport, a company that places music in Indonesia's Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. | | | |  | misteramazing | | I think that most music today tends to move too fast and I think that a lot of people like that feeling a bit more bitter when a minor song plays then immediately moving to a place that's more positive if things become major. | | | |  | Literary Hub | | The tango studio was in an ordinary office building, on the second floor. I had only just enrolled myself, and now I stood in one of several rooms walled off by dark pink curtains, strapping on a pair of grandmotherly pumps. The maestro entered, heels slapping as he thrust himself across the floor. | | | |  | The Line of Best Fit | | Let's Eat Grandma deconstruct their ever-changing pop experimentalism. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Britain changes the rules of its music charts after Billboard does the same in America. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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