There's going to be all these avenues of revenue, other than what everybody seems to focus on, which is streaming and incremental tiny bits of money. | | | | Bass, how high can you go? Turnstile bassist Franz Lyons gets some air in at the Copenhell festival, Copenhagen, June 20, 2018.
(PYMCA/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "There's going to be all these avenues of revenue, other than what everybody seems to focus on, which is streaming and incremental tiny bits of money."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// My new all-time favorite music TWITTER thread was started over the Thanksgiving weekend by LAURA SNAPES, deputy music editor at the Guardian. She posted that she'd love to read a feature about the logistics of doing (or not doing) laundry on tour. What followed, in the comments, was all the raw material an editor could hope for, some practical, some stinky, some eye-opening, some dubious. No, FUGAZI did not tour with a washing machine in the van. It was a dryer. NICK CAVE has an assistant dedicated to organizing his laundry. The guys in DON CABELLERO used to buy cheap shirts in bulk at the start of each tour and throw them away instead of washing them. Days off between Minneapolis and the West Coast are good laundry days. Vodka has some FEBREZE-like qualities. Fresh socks are more important than new guitar strings and lots of bands have them in their tour riders. Raiding your own merch supply is common. I swear I will never again make fun of a musician wearing his own band's t-shirt, and I apologize for every time I did. I can't wait for the actual feature. All other music editors, you are on notice... IMOGEN HEAP got some laundering in on the fifth of the seven days on the road that my friend MARK YARM chronicled for @BREAKERMAG. Breaker is a blockchain magazine, and is the correct magazine to check in with once a day if your tour is a blend of concerts, tech workshops and wearable music tech demos. If your tour is not that, you are light years behind Imogen Heap and you have some catching up to do... Under a deal with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, ticket reseller VIAGOGO is now required to tell buyers who is selling each ticket and if they're professional scalpers or not. How, one wonders, will Viagogo identify resellers who work for the concert promoter or the venue or, say, are in the band? Color me a little curious and a little skeptical... A week and a half after he was arrested on federal racketeering charges, TEKASHI 6IX9INE has pleaded not guilty and released his debut album, DUMMY BOY, which was originally scheduled to drop last Friday. He remains in jail... Silent, but not silent enough... KATY PERRY remembers management and publicity exec ANGELICA COB-BAEHLER. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Esquire | | For more than fifty years, he's traveled deep into the heart of America. But with his new Netflix special-a film of his intense, powerful one-man show on Broadway-Bruce Springsteen reveals that his bravest journey has been wrestling with his own mental health. | | | |  | Breaker | | The British electro-pop star is nearing the end of the 13-week European leg of her Mycelia world tour. In between gigs, she's been doing talks and workshops, spreading the word about her various tech projects. Key among them is her upcoming Creative Passport, a blockchain-based digital identity standard for musicians. | | | |  | Billboard | | Beyond their concern for victims of mass shootings, country stars have begun addressing their own worries about stepping onstage and how the shootings affect them and their fans. | | | |  | Vulture | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | If Spotify's expanding into India, its investors should prepare themselves for a tough challenge ahead. | | | |  | Longreads | | Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | Today, with each of the women of Ace of Cups in her 70s, the band has been re-discovered. This month the act released its self-tiled debut album via High Moon Records. "This is a dream deferred," says Denise Kaufman. | | | |  | Seattle Met Magazine | | He's one of the highest grossing musicians alive. So why won't Seattle claim its biggest rock star? | | | |  | Synchtank | | As Spotify adds Publishing Analytics, Eamonn Forde examines what this might mean for publishers and songwriters. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Rivers Cuomo takes us through the alt-rock veterans' concert philosophy, from "Buddy Holly" to "Africa" and beyond. Plus: Why he's excited about Weezer's upcoming 'Black Album.' | | | | | Vulture | | Meek Mill's life can be split almost down the middle, into BP and AP: before probation, after probation. Lately, moments from the first half don't come to him so easily; he's spent more of the past decade bound to the system than he's spent out of it. | | | | | Billboard | | Lyor Cohen seems to be joining YouTube's efforts stake out a reasonable middle ground -- and good for him. But he doesn't say much about a way forward -- he just expresses concern for rights holders and creators who, broadly speaking, support Article 13. | | | |  | TechCrunch | | A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what's offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example. In Playlist, you can find others who share your musical tastes and join group chats where you listen to playlists together in real time. You can collaborate on playlists, too. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | One year after Lil Peep's death, the weirdo-rap icon is finally ready to open up about letting go of anger, his upcoming emo album, and what he believes to be Lil Peep's true legacy. | | | |  | Variety | | "I remember having to dig deep and say to myself, 'Am I just going to let this fall apart, or am I going to try and hold this thing together?' In chaotic situations that are so horrific and so gut-wrenching, you have to kind of show up, you know?" | | | |  | The New York Times | | Conservative governments have been canceling Western-inspired events, which they see as threats to public safety, political stability or social and religious values. | | | |  | Quora | | Why did we evolve to like music? This question was originally answered on Quora by Suzanne Sadedin. | | | |  | Jazzwize | | The democratisation of jazz and its presence in the mainstream has been the talking point of the year in music, with a new generation of musicians kicking out the jams in fiercely life-affirming ways. The rise of grass-roots nights like Steam Down are now being talked about in the "New York Times" as UK artists lead the way towards a new, far more open, future for jazz. | | | |  | Statista | | This chart shows the percentage of Spotify streams in the U.S. that were Christmas songs on given days in 2017. | | | |  | Please Kill Me | | Tav Falco is a musician, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, who has led the psychedelic rock group Panther Burns since 1979. Todd McGovern talks to Tav about his new album "Cabaret Of Daggers," growing up in rural Arkansas, Memphis' cultural underground, his work in film, and much more. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | The Alchemist feat. Earl Sweatshirt | | | | Timely title, NSFW video, from the Alchemist's "Bread" EP, due Friday. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2018, The REDEF Group | | |
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