I had already been making a living off the sale of my music, had an album that was on the Billboard charts for 54 weeks, sold 30,000 albums, had millions of Pandora streams and steady terrestrial performing and digital performance royalties. What happened to my mechanical royalties during that period? I have no idea. | | | | That thing you ddu-du: Blackpink at Coachella, April 12, 2019.
(Rich Fury/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "I had already been making a living off the sale of my music, had an album that was on the Billboard charts for 54 weeks, sold 30,000 albums, had millions of Pandora streams and steady terrestrial performing and digital performance royalties. What happened to my mechanical royalties during that period? I have no idea."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Live from Indio, Calif., on Friday night and live (more or less) from New York on Saturday night, K-pop bicoastally and bilingually claimed its place in the pop sun this weekend. Or maybe it was the pop clouds; it was raining sugar from coast to coast. A detail from EVE BARLOW's report for VULTURE on BLACKPINK's landmark performance at COACHELLA (on a night that was on fire from several bold performances and also from actual fire): She notices festivalgoers, presumably not hardcore fans, coming and going throughout the set. She notices they seem happy. They "leave and are immediately replaced by new arrivals who've come for their own chance to assess the Blackpink phenomenon. It's just as well every single song they play is a carnival of never-ending hooks and stimuli; it doesn't matter when you get here. Something new happens every other second in a Blackpink hit." Pop as SNAPCHAT feed. Pop as pure sensation and saturation. Which is not a new phenomenon. But a phenomenon worth celebrating every time someone does it well, and every time someone connects. A detail from BTS on SNL: After each dizzily choreographed performance, of the summery pop singalong "BOY WITH LUV" and the hip-hoppy "MIC DROP," the SNL cameras stay on the seven members of BTS for 15 or 20 extra seconds before cutting to commercial, as they take in the adulation of the unseen audience and the unseen audience takes in them. This is the first K-pop group to grace the SNL stage, and the moment is staged, credibly, as a coronation. I have one and only one quibble: Their aggressively non-matching footwear gives me a small headache. Sometimes I'm looking for one or two fewer pieces of visual information than I am given. I'm probably weird. Aspirin fixes this... Latin acts left a big impression, too, at Coachella... According to BILLBOARD, AMAZON is in discussions with labels on a free, ad-supported streaming music service with a "limited catalog" (boo) that would pay a fixed per-stream rate (yay) to "some record labels" (huh?) regardless of ad revenues. Boo + yay + huh? = I don't know, maybe?... Billboard is also reporting that DEBORAH DUGAN, a former EMI/CAPITOL executive and current CEO of AIDS nonprofit (RED), will succeed NEIL PORTNOW at the RECORDING ACADEMY... Old URBAN Road... I never met GARY STEWART, the longtime RHINO and APPLE MUSIC exec and tireless champion of catalog music, but the outpouring of love I read after his death last Thursday, from artists, colleagues, writers and my own friends, made me wish I had. His generosity and enthusiasm was frequently expressed in a variety of ways in a variety of places, such as the trunk of his car. It was habitually stuffed with DVDs and box sets he was eager to gift to anyone he thought might love a certain band or, say, THE WIRE. The music business needs more mensches. As does the world. RIP... RIP also SAM PILAFIAN, PAUL RAYMOND, MICHIEL EIKENAAR, CORNELIUS "CON" MURPHY, JAMES WINN and BOBBY GALE... Guest curators MARCUS K. DOWLING and COURTNEY E. SMITH will be overseeing the MusicREDEF shop for the next few days, sharing their own generosity and enthusiasm. I'll be back next week. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Billboard | | The more than decade-long battle over the .music top-level domain extension has finally come to an end. The victor: DotMusic Limited, a company founded by Cypriot entrepreneur Constantine Roussos that won out over such heavy hitters as Google and Amazon. | | | |  | Medium | | I've joined the board of the American Mechanical Licensing Collective. I'm not being paid to do this and I'm not on anyone's payroll — I'm a single mom who makes a living as a recording artist and I hardly even have time to even write this — but I feel compelled to speak out because time is short and I don't see anyone else doing it. | | | |  | The Outline | | White supremacists have long seen extreme music scenes — from hardcore to industrial to neofolk to, yes, black metal — as fertile recruiting grounds. | | | |  | Highsnobiety | | Not so long ago, a Las Vegas residency meant your career was in the can. Now everyone from Drake to Lady Gaga is fighting for a spot. What happened? | | | |  | Vulture | | If this year's diverse lineup says anything about Coachella, it's that this festival is the internet transposed to a physical space. It makes all the sense that the biggest female girl group in the world - not just in K-pop - are here. | | | |  | Water & Music | | Today's episode is inspired by Amber Horsburgh's blog post "Playing to Strangers." | | | |  | Red Bull Music Academy | | Examining the expanse of time at one of the world's slowest performances. | | | |  | Slate | | The debate about Lil Nas X's No. 1 hit is only the latest sign that Billboard's methodology is broken. | | | |  | them. | | For them.'s debut cover story, Lizzo and Janelle Monáe sit down to discuss coming out, freedom, and living and loving out loud. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | As a music enthusiast for Rhino Records and Apple, Stewart advocated for lesser known, unjustly dismissed or overlooked music by artists including the Monkees, Love, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, the Neville Bros. and hundreds of others. | | | |  | Massive Science | | Macaques, chimps, and one very smart bird take a Dutch scholar down a winding path. | | | |  | The Quietus | | With his new book out now from Strange Attractor Press, A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, former Wire editor Mark Sinker tells Colm McAuliffe about the highs and lows of the old inkies and weeklies. | | | | | Vulture | | Somehow, the festival booked Elba to play a two hour DJ set that clashes with Aphex Twin, Juice WRLD and - arguably the biggest artist in the world right this nanosecond - Billie Eilish. Not that this matters at all. | | | |  | The FADER | | For slightly over 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon, JPEGMAFIA existed as more than just a nostalgic throwback to what Coachella once was. | | | | | Billboard | | When Spotify acquired both Gimlet and Anchor in Feb. 2019, the streaming company wasn't just getting into the podcast business; it was also diving deeper into the brick-and-mortar studio business. | | | |  | The Times Literary Supplement | | 'A trauma-etched memory: to start us off in rehearsing a Percy Grainger piece, the conductor always gave two ticks before the upbeat. Then in performance: no ticks, just the upbeat and a nanosecond's panic -- are we starting now? Somehow we did.' | | | |  | NPR | | The world-renowned cellist brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday. | | | |  | The Guardian | | It was based on a French pop song, never made it to No 1 … and yet, thanks to Frank Sinatra, has become a staple at funerals, karaoke bars and everywhere else. Why? | | | |  | Pitchfork | | Now on display in New York City, "Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything" features works inspired by the iconic singer-songwriter that largely match his spirit of elegant austerity. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | A phone call to Blick Art Materials leads to love, tragedy, a trial, compensation, and more. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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