My daughters are listening to Billie Eilish and they're becoming themselves through her music... The connection that she has with her audience is the same thing that was happening with Nirvana in 1991... It's authentic. And I would call that rock and roll. | | | | Billie Eilish's "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is out today on Darkroom/Interscope.
(Mat Hayward/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "My daughters are listening to Billie Eilish and they're becoming themselves through her music... The connection that she has with her audience is the same thing that was happening with Nirvana in 1991... It's authentic. And I would call that rock and roll."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Metal! R&B! Glam! Goth! The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lets its hair down a little bit tonight, pours some sugar on itself and opens its gates to several worthy artists whom rock's gatekeepers have done their best to keep out over the years (and oh the lengths they went to). It's about time. It's about rhythm. It's about pop. It's about some expression in someone's eyes. It's about seeing, and acknowledging, the cultures and subcultures that rock has always drawn its lifeblood from, and without which there would be no music and no people to put in the museum in the first place. It's about accepting that insularity and purity will almost always lead to death. It's about making a little more room on the dancefloor and having a little more fun. It's also, whether you're talking about DEF LEPPARD or JANET JACKSON or ROXY MUSIC or the CURE, rock and roll. MusicSET: "Hysteria: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019"... While we're on the subject of gatekeepers, Nashville's rejection of LIL NAS X's viral trap & western hit "OLD TOWN ROAD," as expressed through BILLBOARD delisting the song from its Hot Country Songs chart, has blown up into a bit of a social media war. Racism. Not racism. Nuanced discussion. An avowal that "we invented country music" and we "will not be erased." Etc. It's a discussion probably worth having about a song definitely worth hearing. But what are we discussing when we're discussing all this? Are we discussing music? (Billboard: "'Old Town Road'... does not embrace enough elements of today's country music to chart in its current version." Which elements are those? Can we see that PowerPoint? Has FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE seen that PowerPoint?) Are we discussing promotional strategies and dollars? Are we discussing literary intent? Are we discussing geography? Are we discussing—and this is where it potentially gets ugly—people? In the middle of all this, ROLLING STONE's MARISSA R. MOSS tweeted out her 2017 story about MIDLAND, a talented and controversial trio that Nashville has welcomed with a combination of ACM AWARD nominations and suspicious glances. "Authenticity in music," Moss wrote, "isn't a blue checkmark on Twitter. At best, it's a feeling. At its worst, it's a cage." Later this year, the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME will induct a man best known as a singer of novelty songs. Some people are unhappy about this. Others are delighted, partly because they're aware of what RAY STEVENS has done beyond novelties. Lil Nas X would like Nashville to know he isn't a novelty singer either. And he gets the last word, for now... "Who came up with payed meet and greets?" Your spelling needs some work, MATTY HEALY, but your concern for, and connection to, your fans is exemplary. Respect... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from BILLIE EILISH, MDOU MOCTAR, QUELLE CHRIS, LION BABE, LAURA STEVENSON, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, GEORGE STRAIT, JUST LOUD, ZAMAERA, STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, JAKE OWEN, FLOATING POINTS, SAWEETIE, CHOOSEY & EXILE, SHOW ME THE BODY, the MEKONS, JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET, AMIRTHA KIDAMBI, DEVIN TOWNSEND, SUZI QUATRO, GRUPO FANTASMA, DJ MUGGS & MACH-HOMMY, BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL, UNKLE, FENNESZ, BETH GIBBONS & THE POLISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY, JONI VOID, YELAWOLF, GANG OF FOUR, EDWYN COLLINS, BEN PLATT, KÁRYYN, BIRDMAN & JUVENILE, WHITECHAPEL, O.A.R., SON VOLT, CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS and MARVIN GAYE's lost 1972 album YOU'RE THE MAN... RIP STEPHEN FITZPATRICK and AUDUN LAADING of the Liverpool indie-rock duo HER'S, killed in a van accident while on tour in California Wednesday. Their tour manager, TREVOR ENGELBREKTSON, was also killed... RIP also JOE FLANNERY, who managed the BEATLES' bookings in the early '60s. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | EW | | Maybe you saw them piled on the klieg-lit couches of Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon, trading light bilingual banter with their starstruck hosts. Maybe it was when they spoke solemnly on mental health and self-love at the United Nations General Assembly last September. | | | |  | The New York Times | | A teenager with more than a billion plays already, Eilish will release her angsty debut album, and may very well become a household name. | | | |  | REDEF | | Metal! R&B! Glam! Goth! The Rock Hall opens its arms, stretches its legs and pours some sugar on itself. Welcome, ye newly anointed paragons of rock. | | | |  | Billboard | | TMWRK co-founders and Diplo's managers Andrew McInnes and Kevin Kusatsu leads Billboard's annual list of leaders and tastemakers who are driving the $7.3 billion global genre. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | A lot has been written about the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont, where dozens of people were beaten and a black teen was killed, but so much of the language around it has been passive, exonerating. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | Working in buzzy groups like Sons of Kemet and with his own lean, commanding trio, the Londoner is putting the focus back on the low end. | | | |  | XXL | | J. Cole speaks on Dreamville's friendly competition with TDE and being a big bro in hip-hop in his Spring 2019 XXL cover story interview. | | | |  | BBC Music Magazine | | Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness is probably the best-known physical ailment of any composer in history. | | | |  | The FADER | | Billboard scrubbed the country-leaning single from the Hot Country Songs chart on Wednesday, drawing more needless boundaries around genres that the next generation of artists won't acknowledge. | | | |  | Pollstar | | "The Bizarre World Of Frank Zappa" hologram tour kicks off next month. While the show's technology is fascinating, the involvement of Zappa's son Ahmet Zappa makes it special. Pollstar met him at ILMC in London, alongside his business partner and friend Jeff Pezzuti, founder and CEO of Eyellusion, the company that produces the show, which includes the lifelike hologram of the late musician. | | | | | Billboard | | As Live Nation and AEG keep shopping, indie promoters worry about whether they should take a big check -- or risk being eaten alive by their bigger competition. | | | | | The New York Times | | How the city's most ambitious new cultural institution in years -- with a commitment to creating new work and reaching diverse audiences -- rose in the wake of failed Olympic dreams. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | In an era of viral stardom, the Houston rapper really earned her moment. | | | |  | Chicago Magazine | | Every week, a group of nonbinary, gender-questioning, and trans Chicagoans gather to rehearse in a North Center church. Sometimes, that means learning to embrace their voices in the process. | | | |  | Noisey | | We talked to the king parrothead about his role in 'The Beach Bum,' working with Snoop Dogg, and why retirement is overrated. | | | |  | Music Industry Blog | | On Tuesday (Mar. 26) Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion's share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super star actors, directors and other personalities to tell the story of their respective Apple original TV shows. | | | |  | The Guardian | | Instead of radio or the music press, today's teens are discovering songs in the background of YouTube videos - creating a new breed of superstars unknown to adults. | | | |  | I Care If You Listen | | Composer, conductor, and educator Evan Williams dissects the myth of the composer-genius and the harmful implications of perpetuating this narrative. | | | |  | CBS News | | One of the anonymous accusers in the R&B singer's criminal case is sharing her story publicly for the first time. | | | |  | Kerrang! | | Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx opens up about addiction, hedonism and the band's genital warts'n'all biopic, "The Dirt." | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | "...and I don't want to." | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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