When we were kids, we were fed the single, we were fed what they told us to listen to, and you either didn't like it or you heard it so many times you began to like it. Now, you put out an album, and the kids decide what the big song's going to be. | | | | Cassettes you know it's true.
(Brian Pennington/flickr) | | | | | |  | "When we were kids, we were fed the single, we were fed what they told us to listen to, and you either didn't like it or you heard it so many times you began to like it. Now, you put out an album, and the kids decide what the big song's going to be."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// SEYMOUR STEIN is stepping down from SIRE RECORDS after a half-century that included signing the RAMONES and MADONNA and—wait, do you need more info than that? OK, he signed ICE-T, too, meaning he is to LAW & ORDER what RICK RUBIN is to NCIS. One of the greats. Sire has long been part of WARNER MUSIC and, at age 76, Stein says he wants to stay in the business but return to his indie roots. Is QOBUZ hiring? Do CHANCE THE RAPPER or FRANK OCEAN want to take a meeting? Flashback to my notes on Seymour after hearing him and HENRY ROLLINS chat about his memoir last week... Did someone mention Chance the Rapper? After threatening, and then un-threatening, to release an album this week, he surprise-dropped four new songs Wednesday night... Are cassettes the new vinyl? They're cheaper and easier to produce, and what they lack in vinyl's pristine sound they make up for in unrivalled grass-rootsiness. And they've got avid fans from Chicago to Chile. MusicSET: "Rewind to the Future: The Unlikely Resurgence of Cassettes"... How long till someone starts an MP3-only label as a nostalgia play? Or is that sort of what BANDCAMP already is? Seymour Stein, think about it... This is from the first batch of presumably a lot of music 03 GREEDO will be releasing from the TEXAS prison that will be his home for the next five to 20 years. STEREOGUM and ROLLING STONE check in with major features on one of 2018's most intriguing rappers... Rap beef of the week: JAY-Z vs. Philadelphia Mayor JIM KENNEY... Gun-control beef of the week: TED NUGENT vs. himself... SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY is coming to NETFLIX in December. The Boss filmed invite-only shows Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon for the streaming giant, then popped down the street to join BILLY JOEL onstage at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. Billy's 100th (!) Garden show... Death metal grandma... Philosophical tweet of the week: "does ABBA exist in the MAMMA MIA universe?"... RUTH BADER GINSBURG, the album... I can't not (see what I did there?) post this: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! 2018: "DOUBLE NEGATIVE JUNCTION." | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | The Line of Best Fit | | Forget established stations and music journalists, if you want to keep your finger on the pulse of music and the creative underground, internet radio is the place to go. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Why the music industry is throwing money into hip-hop at a speed and scale that could spell danger. | | | |  | The New York Times | | The producer and songwriter has worked with Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Kanye West and just about everyone else. Now he's putting out songs of his own. | | | |  | REDEF | | Move over, vinyl: A growing community of rappers and underground rockers is embracing a cheaper, more flexible and more defiantly vintage format. | | | |  | BuzzFeed News | | "When somebody you know from real life - somebody you're afraid of -- makes it known that they are still watching, it's scary and manipulative and can make you feel trapped in your own life." | | | |  | Philadelphia Inquirer | | Jay-Z slammed the mayor's decision to move the festival off the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. | | | |  | Consequence of Sound | | In a few short years, American festivals went from cultural phenomena to endangered species. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | Looking for hope in a lifeless place: a silent disco at Madame Tussauds, hosted by "Calvin Harris" | | | |  | Noisey | | ABBA's songs were never that kind to women, but 'Mamma Mia' provides a surprisingly feminist re-telling of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' music. | | | |  | Rookie | | A comic about outgrowing a version of myself and leaving my high school band. | | | |  | British GQ | | As Dan Hancox's "Inner City Pressure: The Story Of Grime" recounts the history of the new young establishment, we reveal how Grime artists brought the charts, politicians and mainstream cultural consciousness to heel. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | The most exciting voice in Los Angeles rap went from a breakthrough year to a 20-year prison sentence. | | | |  | Music Industry Blog | | Perhaps the most telling part of Netflix's stock performance was that the $9.1 billion of market cap it lost is more than a quarter of Spotify's entire market cap ($33.3 billion on Tuesday). | | | |  | Billboard | | David Massey, the newly named president/CEO of the rejuvenated Arista Records, declares returning to Sony Music Entertainment feels like "coming home." | | | |  | Afropop Worldwide | | Our producers have long been fascinated by the ways in which drums, in Africa and the diaspora, are used to communicate. A drummer herself, producer Christiana Athena Usenza has studied Ghanaian Ewe drumming and dance for many years. But she wanted to know more about the meanings behind some of the rhythms in other parts of Ghana. | | | | | The New York Times | | Joe Russo's Almost Dead has gained a loyal following for reinventing the Dead's quirky songs with extreme tempos and shredding that are anything but laid-back. | | | |  | NPR Music | | Tara Rodgers has spent her career investigating the world of electronic sound, while advocating for equal representation within its community. A new suite of songs smoothly continues that work. | | | |  | Saving Country Music | | In the late 80's, there was a commercial for Pace Picante Sauce that featured a bunch of cowboys sitting around a campfire eating a chuck wagon dinner. When the cowboys ran out of Pace made in San Antonio, the cook handed over a jar of a different Picante sauce made in New Your City. Simultaneously the cowboys responded, "New York City?!?" | | | | | Billboard | | The Senate needs to act on the bill before this Congressional term ends, otherwise lawmakers and music industry lobbyists must start the legislative process again next year. | | | |  | OffBeat Magazine | | Playing music in New Orleans is hard work. Who wants to play for tips? | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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