I sit at a dashboard where I pile through ASCAP / BMI [databases] and publishing statements showing the publishing revenue across the board on all of my clients, and I have a really good idea what track nine isn't worth. | | | | Jazz lived here circa 1970, and still does.
(David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "I sit at a dashboard where I pile through ASCAP / BMI [databases] and publishing statements showing the publishing revenue across the board on all of my clients, and I have a really good idea what track nine isn't worth."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// It's a playlist world we're living in, and we REDEFFERS are not immune. This newsletter, obviously, aims to be a playlist of the day's most interesting reading (and/or listening and/or watching). REDEFSETS are our themed playlists, curated collections around specific topics, from mysterious, dark arts to music-making weapons to the history of pre-BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY cinema. We've recently updated our MusicSET "Everything They Ever Did, Ranked" because people keep ranking things, from every LADY GAGA song in existence to every NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC album in existence to all 239 SUFJAN STEVENS compositions, and we are here to salute those efforts. Our "Behind the Song" series is up to Vol. 9, which features behind-the-glass stories about praying your laptop won't crash while SHECK WES is on the mic, digging through your crates in search of a perfect sample for CARDI B, that time you recorded way too many parts for that KACEY MUSGRAVES song (you know who you are, all of you), and many more. Dig in, if you will... And speaking of that playlist world: Albums are, and always have been, playlists. They're playlists curated, generally, by the artists who recorded them. There are exactly two differences between RAPCAVIAR and the average hip-hop album: 1) Someone else is doing the curating and 2) he or she has a wider selection of music to choose from. But otherwise, they're the same: playlists of tracks, curated and sequenced for anyone who might want to listen, no more, no less. I get, I really do, the stories about how singles and playlists will soon kill the album star. But I also, for the above reasons, do not... Oh, one more difference: RapCaviar and a few other playlists are now sprinkled with video documentaries, like this well-done TIERRA WHACK mini-feature. Then again, artists sometimes include video extras with their albums, so take that out of the "different" category and add it to the "same" category... FACEBOOK has launched its LASSO app, which puts its music rights deals to TIKTOK-like use... Congrats to all of BILLBOARD's Digital Power Players, and a special shoutout to my old MTV colleague NICK LEHMAN, now chief strategy and digital officer at ASCAP... Who's the biggest pop star without a BILLBOARD #1 hit? (ARIANA GRANDE has been happily disqualified from that conversation, as of this week)... Band name: VAN MORRISON COPYRIGHT DUMP... Curating it old-school: Our top two stories today go deep into the music theory behind JOHN COLTRANE's "GIANT STEPS" and the small-town beauty behind my fellow New Englander JONATHAN RICHMAN's long-ago adventures in Maine. They're both exquisite examples of the art of storytelling and of the timeless and limitless possibilities of music. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Vox | | "Giant Steps" is known across the jazz world as one of the most challenging compositions to improvise over for two reasons - it's fast and it's in three keys. Braxton Cook and Adam Neely give me a crash course in music theory to help me understand this notoriously difficult song. | | | |  | Popula | | What happened? Jonathan Richman moved to Maine. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | "Yes, I had to sing with someone with a penis to get a No. 1," Lambert said matter-of-factly in a recent interview with The Washington Post. "I do like this person, Jason Aldean, a lot . . . so it was a great song with an old friend." | | | |  | REDEF | | Praying your laptop won't crash while Sheck Wes is on the mic. Digging through your own vinyl crates in search of a perfect sample for Cardi B. Recording way too many parts for that Kacey Musgraves song. And more harrowing tales of how songs come to be. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | New releases from Jeff Majors and Mary Lattimore bring the classical instrument to a range of new spaces. | | | |  | Broken Record | | Our introductory episode is a conversation between Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell, covering everything from Rick's role in the beginning of hip-hop to his role in introducing Johnny Cash to a new generation. Rick and Malcolm delve deep into Rick's back catalogue to reveal more about the artists that defined a new era, and why they are still vital listening today. | | | |  | airbnbmag | | In St. Petersburg, the electronic music scene is experiencing an unexpected resurgence -- and, one dance party at a time, quietly flying in the face of an authoritarian government. | | | |  | Noisey | | 'Come Over When You're Sober Pt. 2' was put together by close collaborators in the year following the rising musician's tragic death. It's beautiful, and so hard to listen to. | | | |  | The Daily Beast | | Franklin spent years in courts trying to block "Amazing Grace" from release. Now that she has died, her estate is allowing it to screen. The film is phenomenal. Should that matter? | | | |  | Red Bull Music Academy | | SPOT, a house engineer and producer for SST Records, gave early '80s hardcore the space to be itself. | | | |  | MusicAlly | | At Music Ally's Sandbox Summit London conference last month, I gave a talk about what "Fortnite" and esports could mean for music marketing. | | | |  | Billboard | | The songwriter and mastermind behind late '90s group New Radicals has quit the business three times. But he still finds a way back. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | "The Break," which explores the hip-hop industry, plays from inside the music-streaming service. | | | |  | Variety | | "We're a band in that transitional period between a 50-year cycle of rock and what could be a 50-year cycle of laptop music," says Matt Bellamy. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | The festival is a vivid snapshot of what's happening in music and youth culture in 2018. | | | |  | DownBeat | | When David Sanborn talks to people during tours, they often bring up "Night Music" (aka "Sunday Night"), the late-night TV show the alto saxophonist hosted from 1988 to 1990. But it's not just fans who remember the show fondly for its emphasis on live performances that frequently mixed musicians from different genres. Musicians bring it up, too. | | | |  | Global News | | Airlines know we're bored with standard pre-flight safety videos. Some carriers have decided to do something about it. | | | |  | The Fader | | A rare interview with London's preeminent masked 17-year-old, known for songs like "Tropical" and "Nothing to Say." | | | |  | Clash Magazine | | "I feel like I'm still a rookie -- there's so many things I'm still learning." | | | | | Billboard | | This fall, A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie Alumni Tour announced its first European dates while making its second round through the United States without its namesake, with cameos by stars like Sting. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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