As a person who grew up in Los Angeles, that's a very diverse place, I've always felt like that diversity is a blessing; it's not a problem to be solved, it's a gift to be thankful for. | | | | Sly Stone thanking Clive Davis, perhaps, falettinhim be his elf agin. Sept, 27, 1972.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "As a person who grew up in Los Angeles, that's a very diverse place, I've always felt like that diversity is a blessing; it's not a problem to be solved, it's a gift to be thankful for."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// I'm thankful, right now, for LEIKELI47, whose weird and wonderful second album, ACRYLIC, opens with two songs set inside a Brooklyn nail salon and makes you believe the entire world is rotating somewhere inside that salon. Which maybe it is. Current politics and deep personal experience are woven into the masked rapper's conception of the salon, an environment she views as "safe havens for all of us—all women, but especially the African-American community," even if it hasn't always worked out that way. It's a sprawling album, freely ranging across the hip-hop (and hip-hop-adjacent) map as short songs collide into one another. Hooks jump out at you from all angles, and novellas hide among lyrical details: "Extension cord across the hall / Is how we keep the power on." Every song makes me want to hear the next... I'm thankful also for artists like JULIA HOLTER, who are processing current politics and personal experience in an almost abstract expressionist way, filling our 2018 ears with dreamily distorted colors and shapes... And for artists like MARIAH CAREY, who have figured out how to shut out the noise of the world and keep making good-to-great pop albums, and who probably don't care what you think (unless what you think is they should start performing songs from their most notorious flop in concert, in which case they're kind of all about that... I'm thankful for the half-century of music that ARETHA FRANKLIN gifted us... I'm thankful for congresswomen who can fluently quote CARDI B... I'm thankful for what Cardi B can do for Cardi B's mom... I'm thankful for the natural acoustic qualities of bathrooms... I'm ever thankful for the existence of ARLO GUTHRIE, who plays his annual Thanksgiving show at CARNEGIE HALL Saturday, and who says next year, the 50th anniversary of the ALICE'S RESTAURANT movie, which is based on the song of the same name, which is the reason he plays Thanksgiving shows in the first place, will probably be the last one. Sorry for the long sentence. It's a long song. You can also, of course, hear it on the radio on Thanksgiving day, which is the best place to hear it... I'm thankful for every Friday that isn't Black Friday, but even Black Friday is still FRIDAY and that will mean new music from the DIPLOMATS (aka DIPSET), RITA ORA, LAIBACH, JACCO GARDNER, CLIFF RICHARD, ART BRUT, MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, ED HARCOURT and new old music from BAUHAUS. It's also release day for the second album by 6IX9INE, who is being held without bail in Brooklyn on federal charges that could land him behind bars for life... RIP CYRIL PAHINUI, BLANCHE BURTON-LYLES and SCOTT ENGLISH... MusicREDEF is off for the rest of the week. We'll be back in your inbox Monday morning. Thank you for reading, and have a happy Thanksgiving. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | | | | | thank you for sending me an angel | |  | Oxford American | | Sex, money, God, and slow jams. | | | |  | Billboard | | Sources familiar with artist contracts say that whatever deal Swift signed with UMG might have contingencies built in to ensure that Swift would eventually gain ownership of her old masters, if UMG wins the Big Machine auction. | | | |  | The Fader | | On her latest album, "Acrylic," the masked rapper celebrates the people and places that give her strength. | | | |  | Mixmag | | A drum solo that changed the face of electronic music. | | | |  | The Daily Beast | | He's a darling of the indie music scene, but women have taken to Instagram to accuse him of sexual misconduct. | | | |  | Popular Mechanics | | Legendary guitar builder Wayne Charvel lost his workshop and home in the Camp Fire. His building partner and son Michael tells us the story. | | | |  | Heavy Blog Is Heavy | | This month, I thought I'd do something a little different. Eight months ago, I met the most wonderful woman. We'll call her Hilldawg. She's the best thing ever in so many ways. One of those myriad ways is not only does she support my work with Heavy Blog, but she's also a metalhead herself. | | | |  | Broken Record | | Nile Rodgers, the mastermind behind the disco band Chic and producer of artists like David Bowie, Daft Punk and Madonna, plays live with his band and talks about his life and long musical career in the studio that was built for him to produce Bowie's "Let's Dance" album. | | | |  | The New York Times | | Walk on the Wild Side NYC offers a tour of sites from '90s and '00s indie rock, and things that happened 10 or 15 years ago are feeling more like history. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | The album envisioned a post-racial utopia founded on the power of groove, where performance could be its own kind of genius. | | | |  | YouTube for Artists | | I recently met with artists, policy makers and partners in Europe to find a better way forward on Article 13 of the European copyright directive. In my conversations, there was one question that never came up: what will happen to artists if the European Parliament version of Article 13 becomes law? The answer is, the music industry will make less money from YouTube, not more. | | | |  | Okayplayer | | The rapper's contentious social media persona, criminal controversy, and thirst for beef helped him ascend, and also led to his downfall. | | | |  | GQ | | After Pardison Fontaine linked up with Cardi B on some of her biggest hits, the 28-year-old realized just a taste of success wasn't enough. | | | |  | MusicAlly | | Brazil has currently more active smartphones than inhabitants. According to Getúlio Vargas Foundation, there are 220 million cell phones in operation. | | | |  | The Denver Post | | Proposal would locate Dean Ween's Honeypot Lounge near Coors Field in LoDo. | | | |  | The Atlantic | | The Miami duo, out with a new record, has rapidly risen to success with cheeky, libidinous raps that gleefully resist the industry's ubiquitous misogyny. | | | |  | NME | | All the world's a stage, darling, and many of your musical faves are turning themselves into theatrical players. | | | |  | Tape Op | | He turned his nerdy love of electronics and music into a long and storied career that includes being a studio owner, songwriter, and producer/engineer, as well as working with iconic bands like The Replacements to helping groups like Faith No More and Maroon 5 craft their multi-platinum breakthrough hits. | | | |  | Trench | | A 12-track album centred on the immigrant experience. | | | |  | NPR Music | | Pahinui, who succumbed to health complications possibly caused by exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam, was drawn at a young age to the backyard sessions his father regularly held. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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