Most brands that work with music want to work with the biggest artists in the world or the coolest artists of the moment. So it leaves us, 99.9% of all the music that's ever been made. We don't chase after the biggest stars, we'd rather work with a wide spread of musicians in different genres. | | | | John Coltrane's "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album," is out today on Impulse!
(Bettmann/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "Most brands that work with music want to work with the biggest artists in the world or the coolest artists of the moment. So it leaves us, 99.9% of all the music that's ever been made. We don't chase after the biggest stars, we'd rather work with a wide spread of musicians in different genres."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Happy DRAKE day. Or, if you're so inclined, happy JOHN COLTRANE day. We need distractions. These are good distractions... The MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT, which may be the last federal legislation we'll ever see that creates a new government entity and has bipartisan support, moved one step closer to reality on Thursday. The complicated, omnibus act has its supporters and its detractors, but maybe just maybe it will bring tangible financial rewards to artists who depend almost completely on streaming, like, say, Drake, as well as artists who did the bulk of their work before 1972, like, say, Coltrane. We can disagree on a million things but not this: Musicians should be paid more. MusicSET: "Money for Something: Debating the Music Modernization Act." And how about a bipartisan congressional playlist for the occasion?... Words in defense of JOE JACKSON, by writers and thinkers I deeply admire. QUESTLOVE: "to raise/navigate the lives of 9 kids in Gary Indiana in the early 60s PRE civil rights to just merely 'survive and thrive'—-nevermind rule the world—was BEYOND an achievement. He raised 9 superheroes without a manual." GREG TATE: "Wrestling with the masculinites of classic R&B's most patriarchal demi-urges means wrangling with the Jim Crow America that made their enormous successes possible and problematic in the same breath"... KANYE WEST idea of the day: Record 52 albums in 52 weeks (48:45 mark of this podcast)... Might one of these people replace NEIL PORTNOW?... Instragram + music... Welcome back PITCH, my favorite music podcast, which has returned from a lengthy sabbatical by dropping nine new episodes on AUDIBLE. One is about the music of ISIS. One is about the music of cats. There are seven more... Couch-potato specials: 13 movies on NETFLIX every music lover should watch. 10 films about dance music culture that we actually like. Or, if you're up for leaving the apartment on a hot sticky weekend: BOBBITO GARCÍA's self-documentary (is that a genre?) ROCK RUBBER 45S opens in New York this weekend... Runner-up prize for classic bands who haven't made it into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: making it into this JEOPARDY! category... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from Drake, John Coltrane, FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, GORILLAZ, RAY DAVIES, CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS & LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LET'S EAT GRANDMA, JIM JAMES, CASANOVA, PROTOJE, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, WILD FEATHERS, STANLEY CLARKE BAND, MILK CARTON KIDS, KITTLE & CO., the INTERRUPTERS and the ESSEX GREEN... Rest in punk peace, STEVE SOTO of the ADOLESCENTS and AGENT ORANGE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Smithsonian Magazine | | A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom. | | | |  | Slate | | Though he's far from the first troubled victim of gun violence to go to No. 1. | | | |  | Forbes | | Amidst the chaos of the monthlong Red Bull Music Festival in New York, Adam Shore, Red Bull's head of live programming for North America, discussed the evolution of Red Bull's live music strategy and how it became one of the most respected brands working in the music world. | | | |  | The Outline | | The whistleblower is holding on to the comfort she's long found in dance music as she embraces her role as activist. | | | |  | Vanity Fair | | Pulitzer Prize–winning "poet laureate of hip-hop" Kendrick Lamar has made history with his music. As Compton's favorite son headlines this summer's blockbuster Top Dawg Entertainment tour, he grants an intimate look at what drives him. | | | |  | The New York Times | | The Music Modernization Act moves one step closer to law. It aims to bring analog-era music copyright law into the digital age. | | | |  | Billboard | | Dozens of dream jobs in five categories, with the people who scored them explaining how they got there (and just what it is they do all day). | | | |  | The A.V. Club | | Tyler Joseph does something few lyricists have been able to do, which is dance close to the despair without drowning in it. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Capitol Records' Nick Raphael on why 5SOS 'stuck to their guns' in the studio. | | | |  | Hollywood Reporter | | Investment bankers. Bowie bonds. Paternity challenges. And alleged adoption concealment. When it comes to a copyright lawsuit over "Thinking Out Loud," alleged to be a rip-off of Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get It On," there's fireworks. | | | |  | NPR Music | | If Drake truly wants to take his career to the next level, he might try something unprecedented: conceding defeat. | | | |  | The Verge | | A combination of bad business practices, an outdated marketing strategy, and the lingering derision born from the botched relaunch of the company in 2015 have kept the service from becoming a serious challenger. Sources say Tidal's subscriber growth has stalled, and the company has been late on numerous payments to music labels in the past two years. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | How the nostalgia-saturated electronic subgenre is reviving the long-abandoned format. | | | |  | Stereogum | | Daniel Lopatin on his most ambitious LP yet and working with everyone from David Byrne to Anohni. | | | | | Music Business Worldwide | | Omnian Music Group's Matt Brinkworth pleads with would-be entrepreneurs to think carefully | | | |  | Genius | | Babyface recently drew on his experience as the co-founder of LaFace Records to start a new music publishing group called Good Vibes. To discuss the new venture and his storied career, Babyface invited Genius' Rob Markman to his Brandon's Way studio in LA for the latest episode of For The Record. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | The voices of Sophie, Ms. Boogie, Macy Rodman, and more are both of the body and the cloud, living in Adam's apples and circuit boards alike. | | | |  | Noisey | | Being a super-fan of a band who broke up five years ago is a unique situation, but one that persists with MCR. | | | |  | Soundfly | | From the bands of this universe to the venues that showcase them, there are a lot of holes in the symbiotic relationships that make the music industry work. | | | | | Hollywood Reporter | | Sil Lai Abrams was ready to go public with MSNBC's Joy Reid about horrific claims against the music mogul and A.J. Calloway. But as the vetting process dragged on and Reid accused her employer of "slow walking" the story with "stupid" requests, Abrams feared being "silenced." Now, her account of the men - and the network - is revealed. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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