[Punk] was about changing the consciousness of how people thought about things. So many people came away from it with a different viewpoint on life. Who felt like anything was possible. Some started fanzines. Some became photographers. There was probably a road sweeper who got into punk that swept the roads differently because of it. | | | | Fela Kuti on his tour bus, Paris, Sept. 13, 1986.
(Didier Contant/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "[Punk] was about changing the consciousness of how people thought about things. So many people came away from it with a different viewpoint on life. Who felt like anything was possible. Some started fanzines. Some became photographers. There was probably a road sweeper who got into punk that swept the roads differently because of it."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, which you may remember as the conglomerate that reportedly misled the public about the loss of masters and other historic assets in a vault fire 11 years ago and that more recently has found various ways to downplay the importance of those masters (SVP: "Sometimes the master source is not the best source to work from"; CEO: "all of the released recordings lost in the fire will live on forever"), had an interesting announcement on Wednesday. The company, in partnership with YOUTUBE, said it's in the process of upgrading 1,000 of its most popular music videos—by going back to original film and video sources. The masters, as it were. It turns out that videos originally edited for small TV screens, and later uploaded to YouTube via dubs of old VHS tapes, don't look so hot on high-definition 70-inch screens. And so the company has embarked on a multi-year archival project to fix them. "Once that dirty coloring is removed, it's a lot more vital somehow," BILLY IDOL, whose "WHITE WEDDING" and "DANCING WITH MYSELF" are among the videos getting a facelift, tells the NEW YORK TIMES. Good news: The master footage of the videos exists, and LADY GAGA and BOYZ II MEN are going to start looking better for it. Bad news: This is exactly what can't be done with vintage recordings whose masters no longer exist. They can be upgraded and reissued in all sorts of ways, but if the primary source went up in flames, then so did the best way of making remasters for the future audio version of today's 70-inch hi-def TVs. And why will those remasters matter? It's the difference, in the words of Universal EVP MICHAEL NASH, between "grand cru" and "drinking wine out of a box." That's what was lost on the lot of UNIVERSAL STUDIOS in 2008... Speaking of Univeral, VIVENDI is "not in a hurry" to sell up to 50 percent of the company, but expects the process to start by the end of this year, CEO YANNICK BALLORÉ says... For the first time, submissions for the GRAMMY AWARDS can be made via links to streaming services; previously, CDs were required. But sorry, NAPSTER and YOUTUBE MUSIC. The RECORDING ACADEMY will accept AMAZON MUSIC, APPLE MUSIC, SPOTIFY and TIDAL links only... Did you know ARETHA FRANKLIN helped inspire OUTKAST's "HEY YA!"? And that TIM ROBBINS helped JENNIFER LOPEZ name her debut album? And that GUNS N' ROSES did no such thing for the BEASTIE BOYS, but did find some common ground? MusicSET: "I'm Sorry Ms. Jackson, I'm in the Studio: Album Oral Histories Vol. 4"... Fun TWITTER thread, via JESSICA HOPPER: "What is your favorite band/artist that basically made the same record over and over for their entire career?" Among my favorite answers: NEUROSIS, DJ KHALED... DEF LEPPARD says yes to BROADWAY, 10 years later... RIP PHILIPPE ZDAR and JIM PIKE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | | | | | thursday doesn't even start | |  | Playboy | | MDMA is stronger and more abundant than ever. And unless things change, the death count will rise. | | | |  | The New York Times | | The streaming service and Universal Music Group have teamed up to revamp more than 1,000 videos from artists including Lady Gaga, Tom Petty, Billy Idol and the Spice Girls. | | | |  | Detroit Metro Times | | click to enlarge Michael McDonald is 100 percent that dude. The 67-year-old Grammy Award-winning godfather of yacht rock either genuinely has no idea just how cool he is or he is so aware of how cool he is that he's forced to play it down because that would be the cool thing to do. | | | |  | Fast Company | | Base Hologram has made its mission clear: create premium holographic shows. But will the ethical questions surrounding holograms keep it from success? | | | |  | Louder | | Facebook users say they're being banned for uploading the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Houses Of The Holy." What's going on? | | | |  | The Miami Herald | | In the telenovela of Miami politics, the relationship between City Hall and Ultra Music Festival might be one of its greatest on-again, off-again romances. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | His seven-opera cycle, "Licht," shows that he was not only a master of far-out spectacle but also a composer of impeccable craft. | | | |  | HotNewHipHop | | Do you remember the days of waiting months for your favorite artist's newest record? Do you remember the build up? What about waiting for their newest music video to debut on MTV, or first hearing their singles on the radio? Those days are long gone. | | | |  | Trapital | | It's time for the Billboard 200 to place more weight on streaming and less weight on album bundles. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | How cultural events can bring people together -- within limits. | | | | | | | thursday never looking back | |  | Complex | | Artists can create, market, and distribute their music without ever leaving their bedroom. So are major labels becoming obsolete? Not at all. | | | |  | The Verge | | Metarama is billed as a hybrid event mixing e-sports, music, and streamer culture. | | | |  | The Guardian | | Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis's film, "Yesterday," imagines what might have happened if the Fab Four had never existed. "Guardian" writers and Beatles experts offer their own alternative histories. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | The sui generis composer talks teaming with members of Wilco and Deerhoof for a thrilling new box set -- and how Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin helped set him on his path. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | The Nashville establishment has finally embraced Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road.' Now he's leaving country music behind on his debut EP. | | | |  | Wired | | The antitrust pitchforks are out for big tech. First came the European Union, then Washington, DC. Not to be left out, now comes hip hop lyrics. Over the weekend, the music annotation site Genius publicly accused search juggernaut Google of stealing its crowdsourced song transcripts and natively publishing them on its search pages in knowledge panels Google calls its "One Box." | | | |  | BusinessCloud | | Roxi has backing from stars including Robbie Williams, Alesha Dixon and Sheryl Crow and seeks to fix families' smartphone discontent. | | | |  | NME | | Attended by 1500 hippies, five dogs and one goat, the first Glastonbury festival in 1970 was a different beast to the one we know today. El Hunt speaks to people who were there, man. | | | |  | Hollywood Reporter | | Howard King, an attorney representing several artists, has his eyes on such a lawsuit. | | | |  | BuzzFeed News | | "Madame X" is ostensibly another reinvention in a career full of them. But it feels more like a middle finger to any fan who would actually like an update on Madonna's life in her music. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | From "Keepsake," out Friday on Double Double Whammy. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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