Actually, do you mind if we don't? I have a lot of queer and Mexican fans, and I don't want them to think that I support your views. | | | | Youthman at Afropunk Brooklyn, Aug. 25, 2018.
(Jason Mendez/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "Actually, do you mind if we don't? I have a lot of queer and Mexican fans, and I don't want them to think that I support your views."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// I am happily reminded every August that AFROPUNK, in addition to being a safe space for a well curated rainbow of black musical expression, is also a safe space for a self-curated community of 30,000 people to sprout into existence. This is music not just as beats and melodies, but as positive sociopolitical force. "We're gonna celebrate the things that make us unique even if it makes other mother***ers uncomfortable," JANELLE MONÁE said by way of introducing "I LIKE THAT" during her Sunday night set. If people being comfortable with each other makes other people uncomfortable, then so be it. The crowd at BROOKLYN's COMMODORE BARRY PARK this year, as always, was heavily African-American and probably as close to 50/50 male/female as a major festival gets. (The same mix was reflected onstage as well.) The vibe was people making space for each other. Space to dance, space to strut, space at the TRADING RACES card table, space to jump rope, space in the dumplings line, space to listen. Space to listen to hard rap from DENZEL CURRY, pillowy R&B from MAHALIA, metallic rock from the FEVER 333, three hours of house from THEO PARRISH, and 40 other flavors of rock, rap and soul while a peaceful army of men dressed as T'CHALLA (OK, I saw four over the course of the weekend) sauntered by. Space to make space for everybody else. This is the America I want to live in. This is the America that music could help harmonize into existence. This is the America that still can be... In the strange legal saga of SONY MUSIC vs. MICHAEL JACKSON FAN who's pretty sure some of the lead vocals on that posthumous MJ album aren't actually MJ, the most interesting/telling thing is what Sony hasn't said. The four-year-old civil case blew up on the internet Friday. Given a choice of saying "Yo, shut up, that's Michael Jackson's voice" or "Sorry, no comment, this is an ongoing court case," the label instead went with, "No one has conceded that Michael Jackson did not sing on the songs." In other words: "Did you steal that candy bar?" "Well, I haven't said that I did." OK then. Shamone... A newspaper reviewer in Tampa, Fla., mentions that [Name of Band Recently Inducted Into Rock Hall of Fame] paid tribute to ARETHA FRANKLIN by scrolling photos of her on a video screen during a guitar solo. The guitarist's publicist writes an email to the reviewer a few hours later with a curious complaint: "You said that the band scrolled photos of the late Aretha Franklin. The tribute was done solo by [Name of Guitarist] himself. Can you please change the word band to he?" The guitarist writes to the reviewer, too: "The correct way to say (it is) [Name of Band]'s [Name of Guitarist] did the tribute to Aretha Franklin. That would be honest journalism of what it was and is." Honestly. What was and what is, for real. If you haven't figured out who the band is yet, here you go... Are streaming services too family-friendly?... EVENTBRITE is IPO'ing... NICKI MINAJ has added IRVING AZOFF to her impressive enemies list... RIP KYLE PAVONE, MR. BONGO, LINDSAY KEMP, DJ READY RED, CARLOS DENOGEAN and SPIRIT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | | | | | if the world should end tonight | |  | Boston Magazine | | Forget New Kids on the Block-New Edition is the greatest pop group Boston has ever produced. So 40 years after they rocketed out of Roxbury, why don't they get their due in their own hometown? | | | |  | Complex | | The Based God has been sharing dough with his fans recently. Here's why. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | In the five years since launch, GTA V and GTA Online gamers have listened to more than 75 billion minutes of music, according to Rockstar Games. | | | |  | The Atlantic | | The singer-turned-legislator Bobi Wine disappeared into government custody more than a week ago. When he re-emerged, he could barely stand up. | | | |  | The Daily Beast | | The writer was the lead guitarist of MC5, which played for the protesters in Lincoln Park. He once thought that five decades later, we'd be farther along. | | | |  | Chicago Reader | | Fifty years ago, Phil Ochs performed at the bloody and chaotic protests in Lincoln Park and left a changed and broken man. | | | |  | Billboard | | With streaming's momentum accelerating, Alliance Entertainment -- the largest U.S. wholesaler of physical music -- has no choice but to take a contrarian approach. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | On a milestone birthday, a look back at 1964, a pivotal year in the career of Wayne Shorter. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | Before she could have a career unlike any other pop star, she had to learn how to live. | | | |  | The New York Observer | | The saga keeps getting weirder. | | | | | | | i had a crazy, classic life | | | Billboard | | Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, Eric Avery and producer Dave Jerden look back on the origins of Jane's Addiction and the group's influential debut album, "Nothing's Shocking," which was released 30 years ago. | | | |  | BuzzFeed News | | When I first heard Mitski's songs, I recoiled from what seemed like pining frailty. Now I see how radical her angst is. | | | |  | The Tennessean | | Katy Summers dreamed of moving to Nashville to be a country music star. But at 16 she committed suicide after relentless cyberbullying. | | | |  | Motherboard | | And the evidence "proving" your guilt could be little more than fluff and nonsense. | | | |  | Okayplayer | | It's time we examine how Lauryn Hill's superstar underdog story transitioned into an unfair tale of music's hero-turned-villain. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | Nicki Minaj has been making headlines all week as controversy swirls around her new album, her upcoming tour and her beef with a baby, leading some to wonder: Darling Nicki, are you OK? | | | |  | PopMatters | | The writing in "Lemon Jail" is at times as anarchic as a tour, occasionally bordering on incoherent. | | | |  | Village Voice | | 'We're in the right area of the country for where I should be living,' says Ben Gibbard. 'I think that comes out in the music.' | | | |  | Marketing Week | | When Spotify's brand chief joined five years ago the plan wasn't to build an in-house creative function; she now manages a team of 90 but still believes external perspectives are crucial. | | | | | Los Angeles Times | | After the acclaimed vocalist took her own life this month, fans gathered to share stories and their favorite hard-hitting songs. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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