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At the end of the day, everything you chase will run. Is this interest remix not displaying correctly? | View it in your browser. Brushy One String at the Womad Festival, Malmesburg, England, July 28, 2019. (C Brandon/Redferns/Getty Images) Monday - July 29, 2019 Mon - 07/29/19 "At the end of the day, everything you chase will run." -  Burna Boy rantnrave:// It was a food festival, not a music festival, but there was a classic-rock cover band, TINMAN, onstage when the shooting started Sunday afternoon at the GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL in Gilroy, Calif., and three country acts—CAYLEE HAMMACK, KING CALAWAY and WATERLOO REVIVAL—had performed earlier in the day. This is a horrifyingly familiar scene. Two country-music events within driving distance of Gilroy were the scenes of major mass shootings in the previous two tears, in Las Vegas and Thousand Oaks, Calif. All three featured the kind of music traditionally associated with middle-American red states, and all three took place in coastal or coastal-adjacent blue states. We should be standing together, not tearing each apart, over this. And fixing this. Can we? Will we?... MTV is having thoughts about the name of its MICHAEL JACKSON Video Vanguard Award, according to the lone, unnamed source in this sketchy but also kind of obvious PAGE SIX story. In other words, duh. There's "heated discussion" about the name, according to the source, and about "who would present it and who would accept it." How could there not be? I imagine there are plenty of artists who would happily accept it, and I imagine there are far more who'd rather not. As the story notes, MTV doesn't present the award every year and could easily punt this year and revisit the conversation a year or two from now. But how powerful a statement would it be for the channel to simply present a Video Vanguard Award, no further name or branding attached, at this year's VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS? MTV needn't say a word beyond that... Don't forget to tip your guitarist... This is the first end-of-the-decade music roundup I've seen. It's about film scores. It's fond of JONNY GREENWOOD. I wish it were a tad fonder of NICHOLAS BRITELL. More will follow... "That's that player talk right there, man. I'm to blame, baby. You can't change me but I'm to blame. I gotta go. I'm like a free bird"... RIP M. OWEN LEE. - Matty Karas, curator raining in baltimore Cheddar Why The Government Is Interested In Your Spotify Data by Ali Larkin Economists, bankers, and even government officials are looking at patterns in big data to try and predict what will happen next in our economy. Cheddar examines how Spotify could be a tool to predicting economic trends. The Verge Record labels have a new target: streamers and gamers by Emily Gera One way to get around copyright strikes. The Guardian Sleater-Kinney: 'Music has always been the playground of men's sexuality' by Laura Snapes The feminist punks' new album, produced by St. Vincent and inspired in part by a Rihanna song, is their most expansive yet. So why did their drummer just quit the band? GPB News Atlanta's Original Old Town Road: The Site of Country Music's First Hit Could Be Demolished by Emilia Brock and Virginia Prescott In 1923, OKeh Records music pioneer Ralph Peer came from New York to the South and set up a temporary recording studio in downtown Atlanta at 152 Nassau Street. That's where he recorded early country, blues, jazz and gospel artists, including what is known as country music's first hit, "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" by Fiddlin' John Carson.  Variety Put a Fork in Woodstock 50, Please by Shirley Halperin Dear Michael Lang: Maybe this is stating the obvious, but it's time to throw in the towel. The New Yorker The Extreme Highs and Lows of Cuco's Début Album, 'Para Mí' by Hua Hsu In June of 2016, a shy teen-ager named Omar Banos uploaded a short clip to YouTube, in which he played slide guitar along to Santo and Johnny's weepy instrumental hit "Sleep Walk," from 1959. At the time, he was seventeen and a self-described " hermit," a high-school band geek who spent a lot of his time alone, making music in his bedroom. The Trichordist "Spotify Untold" the Corporate Bio Book is a View Into Daniel Ek's State of Mind by Chris Castle The book has curious timing–as does the authors' disclaimer that the book is not connected to Spotify directly, the plausible deniability that is the hallmark of black bag operations. 8Sided Blog Better Living Through Metadata by Michael Donaldson I offer some pie-in-the-sky ideas for fixing music's metadata problem. But, in a better world, who wears the metadata hat? Los Angeles Times The best music to help you fall asleep Forget benzos and weighted blankets: Our music experts recommend the albums, playlists and concertos that help deliver a good night's rest. Rolling Stone Burna Boy Doesn't Care About Crossing Over, But It's Happening Anyway by Elias Leight Nigerian singer follows his sleeper hit "Ye" with 'African Giant,' a new album featuring Future, YG, and Jeremih. lady came from baltimore InsideHook From Portland to Paris, Indie Rockers Are Taking Over the Restaurant Biz by Annie Zaleski Support your local artists (by eating at their restaurants). NPR Music Towards New Musics: What The Future Holds For Sound Creativity by Tod Machover and Charles Holbrow Instead of fostering and clearing new paths for musical expression, the Internet has in many ways had the opposite effect. But there's plenty of potential, as two bright minds from MIT explain. Rolling Stone Did Woodstock '99 Kill Rock? by Brian Hiatt Fire, misogyny, sewage and Fred Durst: Memories of Woodstock '99. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Three weeks before Woodstock in 1969, Milwaukee had a rock festival with Zeppelin, Clapton and lots of rain. Here's how it happened by Chris Foran Fifty years ago this weekend, some of the biggest names in rock gathered at Wisconsin State Fair Park for a three-day music festival. KCRW Quentin Tarantino discusses "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" on MBE by Jason Bentley and Quentin Tarantino Writer and director Quentin Tarantino visited our studios to talk about the soundtrack to his new film "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood." He talks LA radio in the late 60s, how the soundtrack took shape and the sound and look of Los Angeles during that time. The Globe and Mail Every little thing it does is magic: A revered sound board and its Toronto fate by Brad Wheeler After 40 exceptional years of making 'warm, rich and fat' music, the original AIR Montserrat Neve recording console is still fully operational, in Toronto's Subterranean Sound Studios. MTV News The Rallying Cry Of Political Unrest in 2019's Pop Music by Erica Russell With 2020 around the bend, it's unlikely that pop music's current trend of politically charged releases will decelerate. The Guardian Classical music is overwhelmingly white and male. My orchestra shows that can change by Chi-chi Nwanoku This year's Proms include too few female and BME composers and musicians, says Chi-chi Nwanoku, founder of Europe's first majority BME orchestra. The New York Times Blue Note Records at 80: Can a Symbol of Jazz's Past Help Shape Its Future? by Giovanni Russonello The genre is in a state of diffusion and streaming dominates listening habits. But Blue Note is still dedicated to influencing the music's path forward. The Washington Post The 'separate but equal' rules of American music awards by Marian Liu While BTS, the biggest pop group in the world, shatters records, stereotypes are another matter. Online and on television, the K-pop group has gotten backlash for their race. The latest controversy surrounds the Video Music Awards, which introduced a new category for "Best K-pop," prompting fans to ask why the group wasn't included in just pop. MUSIC OF THE DAY YouTube "Streets of Baltimore" Gram Parsons "REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'" — @JasonHirschhorn REDEF, Inc. NY - LA - EVERYWHERE redef.com YOU DON'T GET IT? Subscribe Unsubscribe/Manage My Subscription FOLLOW REDEF ON © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group