jason hirschhorn's @MusicREDEF: 04/20/2020 - Together at Home, Music's Lost Summer, Fiona Apple, RZA, Westside Gunn, Instagram DJs...

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Zoom Head Soup: The Rolling Stones on the "One World: Together at Home" broadcast, April 18, 2020.
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Monday - April 20, 2020 Mon - 04/20/20
rantnrave:// Happy 4/20... To answer two questions that may have been on your mind this weekend: Everything was pre-recorded, and if you saw, say, four people, or any number of people, playing together in separate ZOOM boxes, they weren't actually playing together; there was editing involved. Which is totally, 100 percent fine. We don't generally turn to TV for raw live performance, Zoom isn't quite cut out for live musical collaboration, and what mattered at ONE WORLD: TOGETHER AT HOME, Saturday's eight-hour, home-alone update of LIVEAID for a different kind of crisis, was the feeling of community, the uniqueness and intimacy of the performances and the fact that it raised $127.9 million for the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION and regional charities without begging viewers for money. That's a good haul of both money and humanity. Shoutout TAYLOR SWIFT and BURNA BOY and STEVIE WONDER and LADY GAGA and dozens of others who performed across six hours of streaming and two hours of TV. The full eight hours is available for viewing here, and there's a live album... I have a feeling that by the time pandemic music programming is over—if it's ever over—I'm going to know what pretty much every pop musician's living room looks like. Have we forever altered the distance between pop star and fan even more than the internet had already been doing for the past decade or two? Will our invitation into their homes be fleeting or permanent? Is the very notion of what constitutes a stage changing?... Happy 4/20 once again... Some songwriters, musicians and engineers will be exempt from California's controversial AB5 gig-economy law under an agreement reached last week between music organizations and legislators. The law, which took effect this year, requires employers to reclassify many independent contractors as full-time employees. But what's good for UBER drivers wasn't necessarily good for session musicians, and there were fears the state's music industry would take an unnecessary hit. Under the agreement, most people involved in recording would be exempt, while the law will continue to apply to symphony orchestra, theatrical and theme park musicians... RIP MATTHEW SELIGMAN, HENRY GRIMES, GIUSEPPI LOGAN, MORAES MOREIRA, BARNEY ALES, EBOW "METROPOLIS" GRAHAM, EDDIE COOLEY, GENE SHAY, SIBEL THRASHER and SAM HARGRESS JR. (At least four of those men and women were victims of the coronavirus. MusicSET: "The Toll: Artists Lost to the Coronavirus.")
- Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator
taking drugs to make music to take drugs to
Bloomberg
The Music Industry's Lost Summer: No Bieber, No Swift and Mass Layoffs
by Lucas Shaw
Many artists and promoters don't think there will be live music at all in 2020.
Los Angeles Times
Artists, live industry brace for a year without concerts: 'Is there is a better place for spreading disease?'
by August Brown
Epidemiologists and government officials agree that large-scale concerts and festivals can't be safely held until 2021, a crushing blow.
Vulture
Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself
by Rachel Handler
"Nowadays, I try to remember who I was before all this started."
The Washington Post
The RZA has made some of your favorite music. Now he wants to help you find enlightenment
by Jeff Weiss
A tete-a-tete with the Wu-Tang Clan mastermind is a psychedelic experience.
The New York Times
Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar
by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
As the world added decibels, so did orchestras.
GQ
'It's a Renaissance of Black Creatives': Westside Gunn and Virgil Abloh on Rap, Fashion, and Everything in Between
by Corban Goble
The Buffalo rapper and the Louis Vuitton designer talk about working together on Gunn's new album 'Pray for Paris'-and plenty more.
Spotify for Artists
What Artists Should Know About the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
by Maura Johnston
The Recording Academy's philanthropic arm is offering grants to music industry professionals whose livelihood has been affected by the pandemic.
Variety
'One World: Together at Home': TV Review
by Chris Willman
Lady Gaga's jaunty "Smile," Taylor Swift's worried "Soon You'll Get Better" and the Stones' playful, practical "Can't Always Get What You Want" hit the right combination of notes.
Slate
How Did Latin Crossover Go From Shakira's Rock en Español to Bad Bunny's Everything en Español?
by Chris Molanphy and Eduardo Cepeda
The idea of "crossover" has become passé in Latin music-the songs travel, in any language.
Pitchfork
The Curious Case of the Bootleg David Berman Literary Collection
by Aaron Calvin
"The Colonial Manuscript" puts together Berman's poems and short stories post-"Actual Air" for the first time.
ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
The New Yorker
Tuning In to Instagram D.J.s
by Hua Hsu
A live feed feels like a sign of life, a connection bridging our social distances.
VIBE Magazine
The Record Store: What Used To Be
by Adam Aziz
VIBE takes a look back at record store release Tuesdays.
Los Angeles Times
Three new documentaries explore the enduring allure of a great record store
by Randall Roberts
"Other Music," "Record Safari" and "Vinyl Nation" offer bittersweet reminders, in a time of coronavirus, of the emotional pull of record stores and vinyl.
Rolling Stone
How Chvrches Scored the Netflix Deal of the Music Industry's Dreams
by Amy X. Wang
As other revenue streams start to dwindle, sync deals are increasing coveted by the music industry - but the window of opportunity is small and fast-moving.
Music Industry Blog
Streaming Services Are Going to Have to Change Their MO
by Mark Mulligan
New music is the fuel in the streaming engine, creating a virtuous circle of increased label and artist output to meet DSP-stimulated user demand. Now though, with COVID-19 disrupting the production of music, everything is set to change. The streaming services haven't realised it yet, but their underlying modus operandi (MO) is going to need to change, too.
The Bitter Southerner
The Hope to Be Heard
by C.H. Hooks
With music venues shuttered, musicians across the South face huge losses — but from young to old, many can't help chasing the notes that might sustain us.
Americana Highways
From The Depression to the Pandemic, The Chuck Wagon Gang Carries On
by Steve Wosahla
Right now the Chuck Wagon Gang should be on the road playing churches, fairs and festivals as they have over two centuries. The perennial touring gospel quartet is used to meeting fans who regal them with stories of how earlier generations of their families gathered around the radio to hear "I'll Fly Away."
Variety
Top Agent Has the Invite-Only Hit of the Shutdown Season with His Own Kitchen-Counter Music Festival
by Chris Willman
It's the second career (or "career," in a loose, charitable manner of speaking) that top agent Richard Weitz never would have imagined he'd have, as recently as a month ago. "I'm like a booker," laughs Weitz, a partner at William Morris Endeavor ( WME) and co-head of its scripted television department, still surprised at his dominant new role during the quarantine.
Billboard
Niche No More: Band Merch Companies See Surge in Demand for Artist-Branded Face Masks
by David Menconi
With the concert industry at a standstill, the music-merchandise business has found some salvation in online sales of face masks and bandanas.
Detroit Free Press
Motown sales exec Barney Ales, who helped label achieve pop crossover success, dies at 85
by Brian McCollum
As head of Motown's sales division in the '60s, Ales helped the black-owned label find pop success in a time when avenues were often closed off.
MUSIC OF THE DAY
YouTube
"Soon You'll Get Better (from 'One World: Together at Home')"
Taylor Swift
"This won't go back to normal / If it ever was."
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