If you're an artist, songs are your principles. We're not just in our f***ing rooms making beats. | | | | Nino Castelnuovo and Catherine Deneuve in "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg." RIP composer Michel Legrand.
(Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "If you're an artist, songs are your principles. We're not just in our f***ing rooms making beats."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// The burning question about FINDING NEVERLAND, which premiered Friday at SUNDANCE to an audience of film insiders who had to walk by exactly two protesters, is what happens when it shows up on HBO this spring, exposing the lengthy firsthand accounts of two men who say Jackson sexually abused them when they were kids to the rest of the world. Can victims' intimate firsthand stories do to MICHAEL JACKSON what they did to R. KELLY? Can TV testimony do what years of books, news accounts and a criminal trial could not? Can DAN REED's four-hour documentary stand up to what will no doubt be the intense scrutiny of more than two protesters? Are we, as a culture, more inclined to forgive the alleged horrible acts of the shy, soft-spoken, world-changing KING OF POP than the alleged horrible acts of the defiantly creepy guy who sang "TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET"? Will we be? Should we be?... MICHEL LEGRAND's songs and score for THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG were nominated for three OSCARS in 1966 and won none. If A STAR IS BORN does better than that, I will be sad. Which is why I am already sad. RIP to the composer of one of the greatest film musicals of all (and many more classic films and songs)... FASTBALL, one of the many bands owed money by troubled crowdfunding company PLEDGEMUSIC, suddenly got about half the $20,000 it was due on Friday—three days after it went public with its fight with the company, via BOB LEFSETZ. Half is better than nothing and worse than everything. "We want the rest!," frontman TONY SCALZO tells VARIETY, vowing never to work with the company again. I'm sympathetic to this pro-PLEDGEMUSIC take by veteran industrial musician/college professor MARTIN ATKINS, who has also wound up on the short side of the company's accounts payable ledger but says its execs have expressed "acute embarrassment about the situation they are in and a desire to fix it in a meaningful way." Is a company that can't account for its own artists' money but is sorry truly better than a company that can't account for its own artists' money but isn't? In the end, that's going to be up to the artists. But one question they may well be asking themselves: If the funds to cut a 10K-plus check to a band like Fastball were available three days after the company was publicly embarrassed, why weren't they available three days before all that? There are blockchain proselytizers circling the industry at this very moment, trying to disrupt the system with promises of instantaneous, transparent payments. If the promises are real—a big if—then stories like this will make their job significantly easier... This theft of a BANKSY is worse than most thefts of BANKSYs. Heartless... Kinda loved RENT. Kinda didn't... GUITAR HERO's new guitar hero... RIP also ANDY SKOPES, ROBERTO LIVI, BRUCE CORBITT, TERRY JENNINGS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | They might not work directly with artists, songwriters, charts or hit records. But they can change the course of the global music industry just by hitting "send" on an email. | | | |  | Playboy | | Artists like Drakeo the Ruler are getting swept up in a problematic prosecutorial trend. | | | |  | Vulture | | Director Dan Reed talks about the allegations and how he approached making "Leaving Neverland." | | | |  | Billboard | | Now that Sony has parted ways with R. Kelly, music executives are thinking about how to handle allegations against artists - and wondering what will happen next. | | | |  | GQ | | A new documentary crashes us into one of the crazier music stories you've never heard. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | After flourishing in two different groups - Danity Kane and the hip-hop fusion project Diddy-Dirty Money - Dawn Richard continues to be a shape-shifting disrupter. She's back with her latest project, "new breed," which leans on her New Orleans heritage. | | | |  | AppleInsider | | The Apple Watch is gorgeous, but you're not alone in being confused about how to play music on it. Apple has made it all inconsistent, contradictory and impossible to know at a glance where your music is coming from. AppleInsider has complaints -- and a wish list of solutions. | | | |  | Fast Company | | The musician duo, who have teamed up for "The Art of Process," talk to Fast Company about their new podcast and appreciating different approaches to creativity. | | | |  | Variety | | From "Windmills of Your Mind" and "Summer of '42" to "Papa Can You Hear Me?," here are clips of key moments when the maestro made us swoon. | | | |  | Salon | | Netflix's Fyre Festival documentary tells an all-too-familiar tale of bad managers and exploited contractors. | | | |  | USA TODAY | | Once one of music's so-called biggest nights, the halftime show has been a source of controversy this year. | | | |  | Trapital | | Hip-hop's misguided perception of Jay Z's success and Damon Dash's struggles has influenced how the next generation of artists approach business. | | | |  | Vanity Fair | | The outspoken ex-Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young frontman gets candid about his new documentary ("David Crosby: Remember My Name"), the evils of Spotify, and his drug-addled past. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | MBW reveals that plays were being falsely attributed to users as far back as March last year. | | | |  | British GQ | | Jonathan Heaf takes a closer look at Apple's iPod, or more specifically, at the brand's all-white earbuds. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | Dolphy's music emerged from the bebop revolution of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell and opened it into a new dimension. | | | |  | The Guardian | | In this extract from her second memoir, Tracey Thorn describes growing up in a dull commuter village in the 70s, her summer of disco - and the first stirrings of wanting to escape. | | | |  | Public Radio International | | Pill testing would allow people at festivals, who plan to take MDMA or ecstasy, to test the pills for things like harmful chemicals, or dosage, first. | | | |  | CNN | | Days before the release of his 14th studio album, Russian pop star Emin Agalarov abruptly canceled his North American tour. | | | | | Vulture | | Earlier this month, Hrishikesh Hirway ceded the front-man duties to Thao Nguyen, the singer-songwriter and lead musician of Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, who takes over as the podcast's guest host for 2019. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | Written by Michel Legrand, with English lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, for "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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