jason hirschhorn's @MusicREDEF: 01/11/2019 - Reconsidering Threatin, Halsey Flips, Women & Hip-Hop, Women & Film Scoring, Frank Ocean...

She was my ultimate singing partner. No one ever came close. We were two soulmates. Is this interest remix not displaying correctly? | View it in your browser. Clydie King taping a performance for "Shindig!," Los Angeles, June 9, 1965. (ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images) Friday - January 11, 2019 Fri - 01/11/19 "She was my ultimate singing partner. No one ever came close. We were two soulmates." -  Bob Dylan, on background singer extraordinaire Clydie King, 1943 – 2019 rantnrave:// Here's a followup I wasn't expecting to read: Remember JERED EAMES, aka THREATIN, who booked a European club tour via a fake booking agent, fake manager, fake publicist and fake FACEBOOK page powered by fake fans, who lied to everyone he met along the way and played to completely empty rooms, in front of befuddled club managers, until he was found out and abandoned by his own hired-gun fake band? A carefully staged "illusion," according to him. A poorly executed hoax with real victims, everyone else said. This was back in November. The story went viral, and not in the good way. I was happy to share a few stories detailing the strange plot and its unraveling and then forget about him. I have a fondness for culture jammers, but this seemed more like culture scamming. I was stunned when several readers told me they were fascinated by the story and eagerly following every plot twist. But not as stunned as I was to read POLLSTAR's interview with three of the club owners and promoters who Eames scammed, all of whom now say they admire the moxie and the hustle and one of whom has invited Threatin back. "We're basically impressed," said PATRICE LOVELACE, who's bringing Eames back to London's UNDERWORLD on Nov. 1, 2019. "Anyone who's gone to that amount of length kind of deserve the spotlight. A lot of the real bands don't put that much effort in." So there. I appreciate Lovelace for what appears to be a healthy sense of humor and a willingness to take a flyer on this strange escapade. I sincerely hope Eames isn't still lying to her. And—my hot take of the day—I assume he still is. Because is there any reason not to believe that? The challenge now, either way, is to come up with songs worthy of the hustle. I'm reasonably sure, I think, that you can't fake that part forever... Anglo-French rapper OCTAVIAN wins the BBC Sound of 2019 poll. Past winners of the poll, which asks music bizzers and writers to pick the year's most likely breakout star, include ADELE, SAM SMITH and HAIM. Brooklyn singer-songwriter and gay icon KING PRINCESS was the runner-up... More public breakups with R. KELLY: PHOENIX, who brought him onstage at COACHELLA in 2013, and Kelly's daughter. The women's rights group ULTRAVIOLET plans to fly a banner over SONY MUSIC's Los Angeles offices this morning asking it to drop Kelly... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH, ALEX LILLY, RANDY HOUSER, GREG WARD, GREGORY PORTER, ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE, the DELINES, JACK & JACK, GNASH, SOILWORK, YOU TELL ME and TOMMY EMMANUEL & JOHN KNOWLES... RIP JOSEPH JARMAN, avant-garde jazz pioneer associated with the ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSICIANS and the ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO, and KEVIN FRET, an up-and-coming star celebrated as the first openly gay Latin trap artist. Fret was murdered Thursday in San Juan, Puerto Rico. - Matty Karas, curator i said i'd catch you if you fall Slate America's New Favorite Song Is a Gender-Flipped "Cry Me a River" by Chris Molanphy With "Without Me," Halsey cites Justin Timberlake to make her case for herself as a solo superstar. XXL Are Women Finally Getting the Respect They Deserve in Hip-Hop? by Kathy Iandoli Last year, female rappers dominated the Billboard charts and received critical acclaim. Are women finally getting the respect they deserve in hip-hop? The New York Times Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film's Sound Barrier by Tim Greiving They're rarely hired to score movies, even female superhero films like "Wonder Woman 1984." The academy and women in the field are trying to change that. Billboard With Stocks In Flux, Why Analysts Think the Music Business Can Weather a Possible Recession by Steve Knopper As stocks founder and analysts warn of a possible recession, the music business could face another storm - and come through better than it did in 2008. Longreads Blackstars by Michael Gonzales Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie. GQ Frank Ocean Is Peerless by Emmett Cruddas and Vegyn The enigmatic artist talks about his evolving approach to music, his pop-up activism for the mid-terms, and his fashion plans for 2019. Pollstar 'I Actually Thought It Was Quite Ingenious': Venues Respond To Threatin's Fake Tour by Gideon Gottfried "Good on him, he's not doing anything that half a dozen other people wouldn't also have done: he set out to become famous." Variety Why Queen Was, and Still Is, Even Bigger Than 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Chris Willman For anyone paying attention to the band's tour grosses or synchs, the film's nearly $200 million gross in the U.S. shouldn't be a huge surprise. Musonomics New Report Illustrates How Modern Record Labels Remade Themselves in the Streaming Era In our new report, 'Same Heart. New Beat. How Record Labels Amplify Talent in the Modern Music Marketplace', we examine how modern record labels have remade themselves to thrive in the era of streaming music. Superhype David Bowie Blows Your Mind in Augmented Reality by David Deal David Bowie visited my home on his birthday this week. He sang "Life on Mars" in my dining room. He performed a mime on my front porch. He showed me the handwritten lyrics to "Ashes to Ashes" while I was sitting on my sofa. All thanks to a mind-blowing augmented reality app, David Bowie Is. and if they laugh then f*** 'em all UPROXX Uproxx's Music Critics Poll 2018: Songs by Stephanie Stoneback Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, Mitski, Janelle Monáe, Lucy Dacus... Vulture An Attempt at Defining Indie Music in the 2010s by Larry Fitzmaurice The beginning of the '00s offered multiple moments of major shifts in indie music, but this decade has been significantly murkier. Billboard Black Music Executives Are Rising Faster In 2019 by Gail Mitchell After a wave of progress, leaders call for more change. The Undefeated R. Kelly's stardom shouldn't have blinded us to the truth by Tonyaa Weathersbee As with Bill Cosby, we can't let the excuse of saving black men keep us from doing what's right. NPR Music For Opera Singers, There Is Life After Retirement -- At Least At One Very Special Rest Home by Rebecca Rosman Founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi and funded by royalties from his popular operas, Casa Verdi in Milan opened a century ago as a home for opera musicians in their golden years. Stereogum Songs You Might Know From Artists You Probably Don't: Sifting Through 2019's Potential Pop Hits by Chris DeVille Could these artists be household names by the end of the year? The Bitter Southerner Sam Bush, Revived Again by Lee Zimmerman A new Amazon documentary dives into the triumphs and trials of the mandolin player who changed the direction of an old Southern form: bluegrass. The Daily Beast Pro-Slavery SoundCloud Artist 'Lil Plantation' Divides School in Maryland by Tarpley Hitt A SoundCloud account from a teen student in Mardela Springs, Maryland, uploaded two incredibly racist tracks: "Whips Don't Hurt Them" and "Whip Hands Free." Los Angeles Times What 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'A Star Is Born' get wrong about pop music by Mikael Wood 'A Star Is Born' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' both winners at the Golden Globes, depict the music scene as a place thoroughly defined by compromise and artificiality. The Washington Post To find out how stars are really born, you need to go to an Ashley McBryde concert by Chris Richards In the movies, stars get born in grocery store parking lots. But in real life, true starbirth happens during fifth-period algebra whenever a teacher promises a sophomore that their dreams won't last five minutes outside the walls of their miserable high school. MUSIC OF THE DAY YouTube "Squidward Nose" CupcakKe Warning: NSFW (and great) hook. "REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'" — @JasonHirschhorn REDEF, Inc. 25 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10014 redef.com YOU DON'T GET IT? 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