If you ignore the fact that the artists aren't being paid and are having their careers destroyed, people's having access to all this music could be a wonderful thing. | | | | A.J. Haynes of Seratones at the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, New Orleans, Oct. 26, 2019.
(Erika Goldring/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "If you ignore the fact that the artists aren't being paid and are having their careers destroyed, people's having access to all this music could be a wonderful thing."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// While SPOTIFY's paid subscription base continues to grow (it's now 113 million globally) and its average revenue per user shrinks—these two things are related—noted streaming skeptic THOM YORKE is here to tell us that what's missing between the numbers, besides sufficient artist royalties, is a way to connect those users to each other. There are endless paths to discovering music on streaming services, but how many of them feel truly communal? Do any of them? In Yorke's words: "I feel that 'If you like this, you'll love this' or 'share this' is commodifying a deeply personal human experience between people. That experience is why music matters, because the experience stays with you forever." In mine: Could you maybe do a little work on your "Friend Activity" sidebar, SPOTIFY? The one you don't seem to have touched since the last time a team from Washington was in the WORLD SERIES? Or anything, really, to heighten the feeling that I'm listening and sharing and trading ideas with someone else? This is, of course, not entirely a music streaming problem. It's a digital universe problem. But gamers, at least, get to game with each other. And texters and tweeters get to text and tweet with each other, even if they literally never see each other. How can Spotify or APPLE or AMAZON or anyone get us to music with each other? How can they get us 113 million subscribers into fewer than 113 million individual rooms? Who's working on solving that?... FACEBOOK, meanwhile, wants to fill a gap in the digital ecosystem in how artists connect with fans, says TAMARA HRIVNAK, head of music business development and partnerships. That's important, too. As long as Facebook can convince the artists that those are actual fans and the fans that those are actual artists... A melancholic tip of the hat to MARISSA R. MOSS, one of my favorite country music follows on TWITTER, for predicting that LUKE BRYAN's "WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT" "will get 90% more adds than songs from women about what they actually want." She was, of course, right. Whether Luke Bryan is right about what the woman in his song wants ("my hands on her body") may depend on whether you're hearing the song on one of the 110 radio stations that added it last week or watching the video, which adds a twist. Either way, he told ROLLING STONE, "I think women listeners are going to like that the girl in the song controls the dynamic of the situation." Which apparently is intended to make sense in the world of country radio, which plays both kinds of music: songs by men about what men want and songs by men about women want. There's said to be another kind, but maybe it's just a rumor. It's also rumored that the greatest country singer of the 21st century, who "couldn't get a single on the charts to save my life" when her last album came out but who did win the Song of the Year trophy at the 2018 ACM AWARDS, has a new album coming this Friday. Pass it on, if you can figure out anyone to pass it on to... NPR MUSIC is streaming surprise live shows all week from the TINY DESK inside its Washington, D.C., HQ. The Tiny Desk Fest kicked off Monday night with MEGAN THEE STALLION and PHONY PPL... Baby, it's woke outside... MORRISSEY invents the autographed album once removed. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | |  | Billboard | | What are the hip-hop star's plans for three properties he has purchased in the Equality State, and what do locals make of his arrival? Billboard sent a reporter to investigate. | | | |  | British GQ | | The app is facing a make-or-break moment. | | | |  | amc.com | | How one song tore down the barriers between rock & hip hop, race and class on American radio and television. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | The half-hour documentary "Lazarus," directed by David Darg and produced by Bryn Mooser, follows the Malawian musician Lazarus Chigwandali, who performs as Lazarus, on his rise from street busking to international recognition and activism-a process that the filmmakers and their friends helped instigate. | | | |  | The New York Times | | "It has been good for me getting out of the bubble and understanding how, for some people, the work that I've done is important." | | | |  | The FADER | | Mina Lioness is finally getting credit for her viral tweet used in Lizzo's "Truth Hurts," but it didn't come without a trail of anguish, and receipts. | | | |  | NPR | | In the past decade, LGBTQ issues hit the mainstream in unprecedented ways, and music played a big part, with songs about queer love on the radio and anthems of allyship coming from all major genres. LGBTQ musicians helped reimagine pop sounds, from openly expressing queer desire to cyborgian shapeshifting. | | | |  | CBS Sunday Morning | | Composers and scientists discuss how the scores for such horror films as "The Shining" and "Get Out" work their magic. | | | |  | Gibson | | In the brand new series "Behind the Board," Gibson takes music fans on an in-depth look at the creation of some of music's favorite albums. With Halloween upon us, we are reminded that no horror film would be as scary without a bone chilling score to accompany it. | | | |  | Audiophile Review | | Steven Stone asks, are music files, by themselves, enough for us humans? | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | The hip-hop producers have had similar careers, and for good reason. Says Khaled, 'He's the blueprint.' The latest in a series of intimate conversations between artists. | | | | | The New York Times | | The country singer and songwriter on her new album, "Wildcard," scooping the tabloids and her life as a teenage goody-goody. | | | |  | Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals | | Surveilling, arresting, and deporting fans at shows and festivals? That sounds evil. Help to stop it at banfacialrecognition.com/festivals. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Tamara Hrivnak explains how FB is "filling a gap" in the marketplace. | | | |  | Slate | | "Where he would've continued making music glorifying sin, West now glorifies God." | | | |  | NPR Music | | The musician left behind an unfinished memoir when he died in 2016. Dan Piepenbring, his co-writer, recalls the moment he knew he could make "The Beautiful Ones" happen -- even in Prince's absence. | | | |  | Consequence of Sound | | Legendary co-founder of The Band talks The Irishman and teases new book. | | | |  | Hypebot | | The Music Modernization Act and CASE Act are two of the most important pieces of U.S. legislation for musicians in decades. This week Rachel Stilwell from Stilwell Law joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert in the music business weekly podcast to explain everything you need know about both. | | | |  | CityLab | | Restaurateurs wanted a special attraction, and theater organs had been gathering dust since the silent-movie era. "Pizza and pipes" was born. | | | |  | FLOOD Magazine | | Matt Saincome, Bill Conway, + Krissy Howard on the satirical history of their satirical punk news site. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | I'm home and safe in Los Angeles. Sending California soul and love to others who aren't so lucky. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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