In a nutshell, this record is based around our stats, which are two husbands, two ex-husbands, two kids, one on the way, and 25 animals. | | | | Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley and Miranda Lambert of Pistol Annies at CMT's Artist of the Year show, Nashville, Oct. 17, 2018.
(Rick Diamond) | | | | | |  | "In a nutshell, this record is based around our stats, which are two husbands, two ex-husbands, two kids, one on the way, and 25 animals."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Three things we've learned about Nashville supergroup PISTOL ANNIES in the past week: 1) The upbeat divorce song "GOT MY NAME CHANGED BACK" ("It takes a judge to get married, it takes a judge to get divorced, well the last couple years I spent a lot of time in court") isn't about anyone in the band, according to ANGALEENA PRESLEY, the two divorces on the band's resume notwithstanding; 2) Presley is "full of s***," according to her bandmate MIRANDA LAMBERT, owner of the most famous of those divorces; 3) the three Annies like to say "suck it." Should a pregnant Presley have chosen a flowy dress for the group's first full concert in five years, at the RYMAN AUDITORIUM? "Suck it," she said. Will the Annies' third album, INTERSTATE GOSPEL, do well on country charts and radio? "Suck it," Lambert said. The smart money in Nashville is on female-challenged country radio pretty much taking a pass on an album whose songs are about life's little ups and downs as experienced by three women, no matter how funny, sad, smart, rocking or catchy it is, no matter how sharp and detailed they are as lyricists in a genre that prides itself on sharp, detailed lyrics, and no matter that one of the three women has been the ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC's Female Vocalist of the Year for nine years running. "The frustrating reality," Nashville journalist MARISSA R. MOSS writes, "is that 180 consecutive seconds of LUKE BRYAN coughing would stand a better chance of getting airplay." But suck it, y'know? "I've got the hankering for intellectual emptiness," Presley sings in "BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE." And if intellectual emptiness isn't enough to get you on the radio in 2018, then maybe don't bother trying?... The advance word on BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, opening in the US today, is that RAMI MALEK is award-worthy-ish as FREDDIE MERCURY and that the movie itself might have been award-worthy-ish if producers had made the more outré version that their original Mercury, SACHA BARON COHEN, and original director STEPHEN FREARS wanted to make but the surviving members of QUEEN apparently did not. VULTURE has a well-reported account of the critically drubbed film's long, chaotic gestation. Meanwhile, if you've ever wondered what "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY," the song, would sound like as an all-star jam featuring the likes of JOHNNY CASH, ABBA, SKRILLEX and KENDRICK LAMAR, well, that's what the internet is for... SPOTIFY is up to 87 million paid subscribers and inching closer to profitability, according to its Q3 results. Its stock continues to fall. The company's Q4 revenue forecast is below Wall Street expectations, and investors apparently aren't happy with the company's plan to increase spending on content and development in the year ahead, at the expense of its operating margin. Music world meet real world. "Spotify," writes analyst MARK MULLIGAN, "is building its business at a decent rate that meets / exceeds music industry expectations, but not investor expectations." The company also faces renegotiations with all three major labels... BILLBOARD's Latin Power Players... LIVE NATION had a booming quarter... Will APPLE invest in IHEARTRADIO?... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the aforementioned Pistol Annies as well as VINCE STAPLES, TAKEOFF, EXO, KRIS WU, JACOB BANKS, ROSANNE CASH, METRO BOOMIN, MONEYBAGG YO, MOLLY NILSSON, YUNG LEAN, BARBRA STREISAND, DEVIL MASTER, the OCEAN, the PRODIGY, MARIANNE FAITHFULL, DEAD CAN DANCE, MIKKY EKKO, PUMA BLUE, SWIZZ BEATZ, SUN KIL MOON, TENACIOUS D, GABBY'S WORLD, DRUG CHURCH, MOONFACE, DOUG PAISLEY, RAPPER BIG POOH, BILL RYDER-JONES and RICHARD LLOYD. Also: BOB DYLAN's MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS, and an expanded, remastered—but not remixed—version of METALLICA's ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. You'll have to find your low end somewhere else this weekend. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | The New York Times | | The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times. | | | |  | Vulture | | Having taken nearly a decade to reach the screen, the movie must overcome the meta-narrative around it, including numerous false starts, production shifts, and mudslinging dust-ups over the film's casting, tone, and plot. | | | |  | Billboard | | Publishing maverick Kobalt raised $150 million to get into the label services game and snap up today's rising stars. Can it support thousands of "middle class" acts without taking their copyrights? | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | "People know not to trust the music industry anymore," says Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | Meek Mill, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Yaeji, ANOHNI, Bun B, Jeff Tweedy, and more share the issues driving them to the polls. | | | |  | Nashville Scene | | Talking with Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe about "Interstate Gospel." | | | |  | Music Industry Blog | | Headphones have been centre stage of the digital music market since the launch of the iPod in 2001. Portable music started more than two decades earlier with Sony's Walkman, but it was digital's ability to fill a device with catalogues of music, rather than just one album that empowered music listeners to cut the cord from their home stereos. | | | |  | TuneCore | | Here at Sage Audio Mastering, we realize that for years, mastering has been viewed as 'mysterious'. It has been described as a "Dark Art", and some think of it as the "Wizard" behind the curtain. | | | |  | MTV News | | Chance the Rapper, Travis Scott, SZA, John Mayer, and more gathered to celebrate the late rapper's life. | | | |  | PEOPLE.com | | Almost 27 years after the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, he continues to be an enigma. | | | |  | i-D Magazine | | Suzi Analogue, Bunny Michael, Hether Fortune, and Fielded are bucking the traditional music label system - and breaking up the industry boys' club. | | | | | Billboard | | Biracial, streaming-savvy and unafraid to touch topics like school shootings, Kane Brown is the future country music didn't know it had. He just needs to keep proving the traditionalists wrong. | | | |  | Celebrity Access | | Lyor Cohen, global head of music at YouTube, has sent out his global monthly newsletter to industry execs and, in the one sent out today titled "How to Build Fandoms on Open Platforms, with John Shahidi," Cohen talks with John Shahidi, CEO of Shots Studios, about the implications of Article 13. | | | | | Pitchfork | | The memoir by surviving members Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz stays true to the pioneering rap group's wit and slap-happy spirit. | | | |  | Please Kill Me | | For a bright and shining moment, the Laurel Canyon 'log cabin,' once belonging to Tom Mix, was home to Zappa, his family, his band and staff, and a crossroads to a musical who's who. An assistant to Zappa tells all. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | The new photography book "Contact High" provides a fascinating prehistory of our present, a glimpse into a time when nobody quite knew where hip-hop could go. | | | |  | Magnetic Magazine | | We chat with longtime industry veteran Jane Slingo about how to best put on a music conference and what is happening with the lockouts. | | | |  | Dummy | | Peckham's new station is tearing up traditional radio templates and championing diversity. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Brands and developers can now license SoundHound's music search technology. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | With the release of a new career-spanning Cornell box set, the Soundgarden guitarist explains how the track list came together and shares memories of his late friend. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | From "Interstate Gospel," out today on RCA Nashille. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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