Imagine had Diddy just encouraged us to be our greatest selves at that time. Imagine had he made us believe in it at that age, what we could be right now. | | | | Phoebe Bridgers of boygenius sporting a California "I Voted" sticker on "Late Night With Seth Meyers," Nov. 5, 2018.
(Lloyd Bishop/NBCUniversal/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "Imagine had Diddy just encouraged us to be our greatest selves at that time. Imagine had he made us believe in it at that age, what we could be right now."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Here's a startling video, courtesy of the Australian startup POPGUN, showing how far artificial intelligence's musical chops have come in the past year or so, from playing call-and-response piano with a human player in May 2017 to producing tracks to accompany human vocal loops in July 2018. There appears to have been some serious digital woodshedding going on. The full tracks aren't, subjectively speaking, very good. But they're competent and, let's say, plausible. And startling, if I may repeat myself, when you consider the source. Popgun's AI, called ALICE, will continue to woodshed, as will a number of competitors, and they'll get better. More complex. More agile. More surprising. And then what? According to MUSICALLY's STUART DREDGE, Popgun has gone back-and-forth on whether its technology, which can play piano, guitar, bass and drums like a silicon-based TODD RUNDGREN, should be developed as an educational and creative aide for non-musicians or as a hit-making collaborator for music pros. The company seems to have both in mind these days. After describing some intriguing—and cool-sounding—creative possibilities to Dredge, CEO STEPHEN PHILLIPS throws a bone to human artists and producers, who he swears will still be in charge of any such collaboration: "I'm sure if we gave this tech to DAVID BOWIE, he would do it better than anyone else on the planet. He's Bowie! This is another instrument." Still, many questions linger. Who will own Alice's music? Phillips says he has no idea. Can she play jazz? Not yet... Dear music gods: Please send me one commercial radio station that curates music as carefully and creatively as the companies providing music for hotels, restaurants and stores. A fantastic read, from the GUARDIAN's JAKE HULYER, on "the booming business of background music"... Tonight on ABC's THE GOLDBERGS: "Bohemian Rap City." Get it? Of course you do... MAC MILLER died of an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl, the same opioid blamed in the deaths of PRINCE, TOM PETTY and LIL PEEP. Right on cue, the FDA has approved a new opioid that's 10 times stronger than fentanyl, over the objections of its own advisory committee... Welcome to hip-hop's "post-post truth era".. This is adorable: BILLIE EILISH answers the same questions, one year apart. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | The Guardian | | Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated -- and influential -- than any of us realise. | | | |  | MusicAlly | | "It's going to be a new instrument that producers will use," says Stephen Phillip, CEO of the Australian tech startup. | | | |  | The New York Times | | Tensions between the most prominent figures of rap were once confined to music. The social media era demands another approach. | | | |  | Cosmopolitan | | In a raw, candid convo, the reunited members of Danity Kane talk Diddy, racism and sexism in the music industry, and toxic exes. | | | |  | Forbes | | Trends like ridesharing, 5G and edge computing are poised to alter transportation, and its accompanying music and media ecosystem, as we know it. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | In Mosul, an orchestra performance marked an artistic rebirth in a city still trying to rebuild after the Islamic State's rule. | | | |  | Slate | | Ariana Grande's meta-message to the world: She won. | | | |  | Billboard | | Newbury Comics head of purchasing Carl Mello says that his Northeast-based chain has been having a strange problem lately: It can't keep in stock "those CD things that supposedly nobody wants anymore." | | | |  | The Fader | | Georgia Anne Muldrow's innovative albums predated -- and inspired -- a renewed fascination in jazz music. She discusses her new album, "Overload." | | | |  | The New Yorker | | In 1950, Guthrie moved into an apartment at Beach Haven, a cluster of buildings in Brooklyn. His landlord was Donald Trump's father. | | | |  | Vulture | | I went to see "Bohemian Rhapsody" on opening day, against the advice of my critic friends, whose admonitions of "Mediocre!" had by then all blurred together like a choir of falsetto "Galileos." It's nothing but serviceable fluff, they said. | | | |  | NPR Music | | A hologram of the legendary opera diva is on tour with a live orchestra. But behind the dramatic music, truth and fiction are blurred. | | | | | Billboard | | After a rough couple years and a mounting debt crisis, Guitar Center is back on the upswing and looking to chart a new path forward. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Jeffrey Osborne, L.J. Reynolds and Lenny Williams, Seventies soul hitmakers, are all pushing to reach new listeners on the airwaves. | | | |  | RealClearLife | | A New York Hardcore scene legend passes away, and the music family he left behind mourns. | | | |  | i-D Magazine | | No Shade -- a DJ collective, club night, and training program -- is transforming Berlin nightlife one rave at a time. | | | |  | The Verge | |  | A.V. Film Club | | In the film, Maine visits an otolaryngologist, played by Cooper's real otolaryngologist, Dr. William Slattery. Last week, Dr. Slattery invited us to his offices in L.A. and talked us through some of the science behind Jackson Maine's condition. | | | | | Forbes | | "With 'Hamilton,' it never once hit me we were working on 'Thriller.'" | | | |  | SPIN | | The legendary Can keyboardist talks his new solo music, his love for Beyoncé, and his youthful days exposing Nazis in his school magazine. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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