I didn't make a lot of money. Maybe we did make it and didn't get it. I don't know. But it don't matter. My life is happy, I'm happy, the people that are closest to me are happy. Don't worry about the other part. | | | | The Meters (from left: Leo Nocentelli, Cyril Neville, Ziggy Modeliste, Art Neville and George Porter Jr.) circa 1972.
(Charlie Gillett/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "I didn't make a lot of money. Maybe we did make it and didn't get it. I don't know. But it don't matter. My life is happy, I'm happy, the people that are closest to me are happy. Don't worry about the other part."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// We've lost three New Orleans legends in the past month and a half. DR. JOHN, DAVE BARTHOLOMEW and now ART NEVILLE, keyboardist and driving force behind two of the city's most celebrated groups, the METERS and the NEVILLE BROTHERS. Can someone please send IRMA THOMAS some police protection?... When you think of New Orleans funk and R&B, there's a good chance you're thinking of something Art Neville was at least partly responsible for before you've even reached that ampersand. This LEE DORSEY classic? Dr. John's signature single? The studio band on both is Neville and the Meters. British rocker ROBERT PALMER trying to summon some New Orleans voodoo? That's the Meters, too. That LABELLE song? Yup. And then their own records. And that WILD TCHOUPITOULAS album. And the Neville Brothers' career. Art Neville was the eldest Neville and the eldest Meter, and he was forging a pretty good career as a New Orleans R&B singer when most of them were still in school. He then put together Art Neville & the Neville Sounds, which at various times featured almost everyone who would join him in his later groups, including his kid brothers. Working frequently with producer ALLEN TOUSSAINT—they were the house band at his studio—the Neville Sounds, who morphed into the Meters, perfected the stripped-down, syncopated grooves that came to define their own city while influencing everyone else's. (The sample on this A TRIBE CALLED QUEST jam? You bet. AMERIE's "1 THING"? Why, yes.) You think of the Meters as an instrumental band, but there are a lot more vocal tracks than you might remember, many voiced by Art. You think of the Nevilles as a vocal band, perhaps, but their grooves could, and did, set several bayous on fire. Both figured out how to transcend their city without ever really leaving. Generations have danced as a result. RIP... The three most successful singles in the history of the BILLBOARD pop chart, each spending 16 weeks at #1, are MARIAH CAREY and BOYZ II MEN's "ONE SWEET DAY"; LUIS FONSI, DADDY YANKEE and JUSTIN BIEBER's "DESPACITO," and do I even have to say it?... Entirely unrelated: Here's an attempt to quantify the biggest one-hit wonders of every decade starting with the 1960s (hello, HANK LOCKLIN) through the, um, 2010s (I have some bad news for you, PORTUGAL. THE MAN)... ETSY agrees to buy music marketplace REVERB for $275 million and I'm really really hoping an explosion of homemade guitar pedals and craft synthesizers follows... GIBSON returns the OBERHEIM synthesizer trademark, which it bought 31 years ago, to its original owner, TOM OBERHEIM. Gibson, which sought bankruptcy protection a year ago after several misfires outside its core guitar business, has been trying to get back to that core, so win-win. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | NPR Music | | Chastened since the turn of the millennium, the streaming revolution has now revivified the recording industry - at least, those at the top of it. What are the alternatives, then? | | | |  | VICE | | I tried accessing my favorite songs on Apple Music. A week, two Zip files, and one spreadsheet later, I found them. | | | |  | NOLA.com | | Art "Poppa Funk" Neville spent a half-century shaping the sound of New Orleans music. | | | |  | NBC News | | The feminine-focused rapture is upon us and black female rappers are summoning us to indulge ourselves in more ways than one. | | | |  | i-D Magazine | | We break down exactly what has happened since the rapper was arrested in Sweden. | | | |  | Lefsetz Letter | | I'm shocked, positively shocked I tell you, that Metallica was caught scalping its own tickets. What kind of bizarre business do we have where ticketing is opaque and every customer can't sit in the front row for fifty bucks? | | | |  | Music Business Podcast | | In this episode, we sit down with serial entrepreneur Fabrice Sergent who is the co-founder and managing partner of Bandsintown. Bandsintown is one of the leading concert discovery platforms that helps drive 1-2 million people to different events around the world each month and 500k visitors to ticket sales pages on a daily basis. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | When Ed Sheeran, the British singer-songwriter, moved to London, at the age of sixteen, he was less of a sensation at open-mike nights than at hip-hop clubs and comedy shows, where his folkie, earnest guitar strumming elicited curiosity. Later, after he moved to Los Angeles, Jamie Foxx invited him to perform at a night he was hosting. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | 'The Lion King: The Gift,' a companion album to Disney's latest reboot, features singers from Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, and Cameroon. | | | |  | The Atlantic | | The singer's musical accompaniment for the new CGI remake neglects to include any artists from the region that inspired the film-a curious lapse in narrative fidelity. | | | |  | The New York Times | | Forty years after the groundbreaking soul singer's death, his daughter will perform a full show of his music at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. | | | |  | The Trichordist | | It's been awfully quiet over at Pledge Music. After declaring in May they were going into administration (UK equivalent of bankruptcy) I can find no reporting that indicates Pledge has even started the process. Here is the current website notice. Completely lacking in specifics. Nothing about administration. Maybe this is normal. | | | |  | Popgun | | Popgun is using AI to make pop music. For the past year we have been teaching an AI to sing. This video shows how we can interact with the AI Singer followed by samples from recent songs created with our technology. | | | |  | Highsnobiety | | In this interview and editorial, we delve into the fearless mind of YBN Cordae, a rapper who is "the embodiment of struggle" and a voice of the future. | | | |  | The Guardian | | They're in the cinema and on streaming services. Fans love them, as do record labels -- because they bring in extra sales. | | | |  | Adam Neely | | My band Sungazer plays to backing tracks -- are we cheating? Or are we simply continuing the tradition of Pierre Schaefer and the electroacoustic avant-garde of the 1950's? Or...is that just a pretentious way of justifying lazy practice? | | | |  | Reverb.com | | How Tom Jennings and Dick Denney created an amp that made Britain sing--and set the tone for many guitar-amp designs that followed. | | | |  | UPROXX | | On this episode of People's Party, Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with hip-hop legend and T.I. to discuss his trap past, early albums, Trap Music, his upcoming Flint water movie, ASAP Rocky detained and in jail in Sweden, Jay Z, being "King of the South," and potentially running for mayor of Atlanta. | | | |  | DownBeat | | "Mexicans, we're not getting a lot of love lately; I don't know if you've noticed," drummer and dual Mexican-American citizen Antonio Sánchez told the sold-out house at Montreal's Place des Arts on June 30. | | | |  | The Millions | | Martin Scorcese's new film about Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue is very much in the spirit of its subject: vital, wild, and highly fictional. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | Featuring Art Neville on lead vocals. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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