My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night. And I don't want prayers. I don't want thoughts. I want gun control. | | | | The late Charles Bradley's final album, "Black Velvet," is out today on Dunham/Daptone.
(David Wolff-Patrick/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night. And I don't want prayers. I don't want thoughts. I want gun control."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// I've run out of words before, and now I've run out of them again. I want to scream. Every.Single.Year that I've been writing this newsletter, there's been a mass shooting targeted at music fans. Rock fans in Paris in 2015. Bachata fans in Orlando in 2016. Country fans in Las Vegas in 2017. More country fans—college kids, line dancers, people looking for a fun, peaceful, music-filled night out—in Thousand Oaks in 2018. I keep writing the same sentence, and it keeps getting longer. This time, the violence happened within an easy drive of my house; if you live in or around LA, there's a good chance you know people who hung out there, or whose kids hung out there. Those parents were my social media feeds on Thursday, along with music people thinking about bands they knew who played there. Kids should not have to worry, ever, if the local music club is safe from men with guns. Bands should not have to worry, ever, if the stage they're booked to play is safe from men with guns. Doctors should not have to worry, ever, if live music is bad for their patients. Exactly 12 hours before a gunman opened fire inside the BORDERLINE BAR & GRILL, with a legally purchased GLOCK 21 handgun with an extended magazine, the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION tweeted, from its official account, that "self-important" physicians should "stay in their lane" and not talk about gun control. The NRA was responding to scholarly articles in ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE in which the professionals who treat gun injuries repeated longtime calls to treat those injuries and deaths as a public health crisis, with research, public discussion, better access to mental health services and modest government regulation. I'm not a physician or a politician or a gun owner, and I don't pretend to have a magic solution. I'm a music fan. I know there are two things that connect these annual tragedies. One of them is music. The other is a problem we should be talking about, today and every day, before it happens again... For the past year, the Borderline Bar had been a refuge, a safe space, for country fans who survived the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in Las Vegas a year ago. A few dozen survivors were regulars, and many were there Wednesday. It was a place to "celebrate life," one told the NEW YORK TIMES. They didn't all survive this time... EVENTBRITE is phasing out TICKETFLY, which it bought a year ago, in favor of a new ticketing service for indie venues, promoters and festivals called Eventbrite Music... "I look at the NBA as the new MTV," says STEVE STOUTE, whose UNITEDMASTERS startup has positioned itself as a data-friendly label alternative for emerging artists. The company's new partnership with the basketball league will put music by its artists into social media promotions across NBA properties. No word on which sports league is the new VH1... You still can't edit a tweet but KANYE WEST can edit his albums any time he wants, even if they've already been released, even if you've already liked them... I can't believe they didn't call it CSI: BERGHAIN. Instead they called it BEAT, and it arrives today on AMAZON PRIME... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the late LIL PEEP and the late CHARLES BRADLEY as well as TRIPPIE REDD, THEY., KANE BROWN, LAURA JANE GRACE & THE DEVOURING MOTHERS, SMINO, CUPCAKKE, JAY DANIEL, MEG BAIRD & MARY LATTIMORE, OBJEKT, TOMMY GENESIS, JONAS BLUE, STEVE AOKI, MUSE, IMAGINE DRAGONS, TEA GRIZZLEY, PLANNINGTOROCK, GOLDEN HORNET WITH JEFFREY ZEIGLER, TEDDY GEIGER, ROGER WATERS, SARAH BRIGHTMAN, ACE OF CUPS, IDK, HANSON, J MASCIS, WILLIAM PARKER, DAVID S. WARE, ALL THAT REMAINS, TED NUGENT, LARKIN POE, the GIBSON BROTHERS, MASTA ACE & MARCO POLO, J FERNANDEZ, the GLANDS, JON SPENCER and JEFF GOLDBLUM (yes, that Jeff Goldblum) & THE MILDRED SNITZER ORCHESTRA... Plus, 50th anniversary editions of the WHITE ALBUM and ELECTRIC LADYLAND, each with just enough material to hold you over until the 60th... ICE CUBE would like you to "ARREST THE PRESIDENT"... RIP HUGH MCDOWELL. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | | | | | tons o' gunz real easy to get | |  | Forbes | | In just three years, Marshmello has gone from being completely unknown to entrenching himself as one of the world's highest-paid DJs. He reveals his journey in a rare interview with Forbes. | | | |  | The New York Times | | For the second year in a row, the CMA Awards will closely follow a mass shooting of the industry's own fans, but talk about guns is unlikely to come up during the show. | | | |  | Billboard | | Nearly burned up in the "hot lava" phase of his career, John Mayer withdrew to the foothills of fame. Now, as he pumps up his social media profile, collaborates with the likes of Travis Scott and tours in Dead & Company, he's undertaking a risky new mission: finally restore "truth" to music. | | | |  | The Brooklyn Rail | | You can buy Beethoven in a box. Lots and lots of boxes, or on individual flat discs of various sizes. You can rent him, temporarily and in the moment, through your computer or other streaming device. That is, you can own him, but do you deserve him? | | | |  | Pitchfork | | From Travis Scott's queasy emptiness to Khalid's lowkey miserabilism, how did the pop charts become a destination for despair? | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Milk + Honey founder Lucas Keller on the songwriting business, streaming's impact, his history in the industry – and where Milk & Honey is headed next. | | | |  | The Tennessean | | Even with the loss in the Tennessee Senate race, there's reason to believe "the old Taylor" — i.e., the one who wouldn't touch political matters with a 10-foot pole — is dead. And the new one could continue to make waves and wield significant influence in the years to come. | | | |  | Penny Fractions | | More than 160,000 listeners. But only 895 followers. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Ryley Walker on how remaking the DMB's file-shared fan favorite 'The Lillywhite Sessions' helped him come to terms with his teenage tastes. | | | |  | USA TODAY | | A survivor of the Las Vegas shooting, a club worker who sang, a kid who stood up to bullies. These are the victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting. | | | | | | | tons o' gunz bringing nothin' but death | | | Pitchfork | | Aviary, Holter's most audacious record yet, was the result of asking questions with no answers, and finding answers for questions she hadn't even begun to ask yet. | | | | | Billboard | | An onslaught of artists eager to hit the road has the industry scrambling to devise a new kind of crowd control while it works to shake up its leadership to reflect the diversity of new faces driving the business. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | The collection of contact sheets in Vikki Tobak's "Contact High" reveals the care and consideration photographers put into each frame, the unavoidable mistakes they made and how they coaxed a public persona from a private person. | | | |  | GQ | | After years of making cultish records under pseudonyms like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Palace Brothers, Louisville songwriter Will Oldham is releasing an album and a book under his own name. Which doesn't mean he's gotten less elusive. Oldham says he might not release—or even record—his next album at all. | | | |  | British GQ | | When it comes to broadening the definition of masculinity, musicians are essential vanguards. We pay tribute to the ones who changed our lives. | | | | | Music Business Worldwide | | September Management founder and CEO Jonathan Dickins discusses how some tricky past experiences with record labels taught him that his company must "try and be self-sufficient." | | | |  | Resident Advisor | | One of the world's deepest conflicts became a major talking point in electronic music this year. In this article, seven people present their perspectives on the cultural boycott of Israel. | | | |  | Red Bull Music Academy | | How the inclusive electronic networks of Brazil's musical mecca are working to educate and unite the local scene. | | | |  | Detroit Metro Times | | On the cover art for "Stranger," the sophomore album from Flint-based performer Tunde Olaniran, the artist is shown emerging from fiery red clouds with a look of enlightenment, despite the ghostly, disembodied white hands that reach at him. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | The two writers and longtime friends discuss Christgau's new book and why they're as passionate about music as they were fifty years ago. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | From "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2," out today on Columbia. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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