jason hirschhorn's @MusicREDEF: 08/14/2020 - Being Dolly, Black Music History Library, Kamala's Music Biz Base, Burna Boy, Tomorrowland...

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As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don't be a dumba**. Is this interest remix not displaying correctly? | View it in your browser. Burna Boy's "Twice as Tall" is out today on Atlantic. (Nicolas Gerardin/Atlantic Records) Friday - August 14, 2020 Fri - 08/14/20 "As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don't be a dumba**." -  Dolly Parton rantnrave:// DOLLY!!! (is a shining example of how to live as an artist and as a human in 2020, or any time at all, and if you read nothing else today, read this profile)... RZA!!! (had a better, non-racist idea for an ice cream truck jingle and went ahead and recorded it, and it's available for free, courtesy GOOD HUMOR, in industry-standard ice cream truck music box format, which I didn't know was a thing)... JENZIA BURGOS!!! (is a music journalist from the South Bronx who has launched the BLACK MUSIC HISTORY LIBRARY, a carefully curated collection of more than a thousand books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, etc., about "the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day." Which means a wide and deep and growing collection of reading/watching/listening about pop—"Top 40, K-Pop, Latin Pop, West African, and more"—and punk and hip-hop and jazz and electronic/dance and classical and minstrelsy and música tropical and and and and, and it's as inviting as it is overwhelming, and it's clear how much work and thought went into the curation and, first impression, wow)... SPOTIFY can empathize with FORTNITE's battle with APPLE's APP STORE... Facing 15 years in prison for the crime of playing its music, Iranian metal band ARSAMES has escaped the country (current location: secret)... BAD BUNNY, KAROL G and J BALVIN were big winners at UNIVISION's PREMIOS JUVENTUD 2020, which took place at the HARD ROCK CAFE & CASINO in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday night with no live audience but with (I'm out of exclamation points, but they would normally go here) artists in the house... Indoor music venues in England can reopen starting Saturday... BILLBOARD's 2020 Country Power Players... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from BURNA BOY, FANTASTIC NEGRITO, HOLLY HUMBERSTONE, KATHLEEN EDWARDS, BILL FRISELL, OSCAR JEROME, BLACK NOI$E, KAASH PAIGE, DAVE EAST, BOLDY JAMES, YOUNG DOLPH, COI LERAY, GLORIA ESTEFAN (first album in seven years features reworkings of several hits), BRUCE HORNSBY, ORVILLE PECK, KATH BLOOM, EMMA SWIFT (BOB DYLAN covers album), LINDSAY ELL, ARLO MCKINLEY, A.G. COOK (released Wednesday), TORI KELLY, TANYA DONELLY & THE PARKINGTON SISTERS, KIESZA, WHITNEY, BIFFY CLYRO, MATT ROLLINGS, RUMER, CAYLEE HAMMACK, ERIC PASLAY, ASHLEY RAY, JACOB COLLIER, SON LUX, HIRO AMA, PRIMITIVE MAN, HALESTORM, KING BUZZO, YOUNG JESUS, TWISTED PINE and MALI MUSIC. - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator snail mail Billboard Dolly Parton Steers Her Empire Through the Pandemic -- and Keeps It Growing by Melinda Newman With a company that employs thousands, the country icon is making hard choices, expanding her slate of music, screen and branding projects — and even planning for a world without her. Variety How Kamala Harris Built a Powerful Base in the Music Industry by Jem Aswad A number of music executives have supported her since her days as the district attorney of San Francisco, a role she held from 2003 until 2011, and many more since she successfully ran for California attorney general in 2010 and then U.S. senator in 2016. NME Burna Boy: "A revolution is needed. I want to inspire it." by Kevin EG Perry Colonialism, political correctness and the UK Afrobeats chart turn fiery on the African Giant's tongue - just don't ask him about Beyoncé. Pitchfork Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Three Women by Amy Zimmerman Sources tell Pitchfork the acclaimed songwriter exposed himself without consent, forced a woman to touch his penis, and pressured a 19-year-old into nonconsensual sex. NPR Music How Live Music Is Coping, And What The Near Future Will Bring by John Paul Titlow The damage done to independent live music by the pandemic has been catastrophic -- and a future where it thrives will, regardless and inevitably, arrive. DJ Mag Tomorrowland's virtual festival set a new standard for digital events -- here's how they did it by Declan McGlynn With an IRL event impossible this year, the team behind Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland created a revolutionary interactive virtual world in under three months. Here's how they did it. Complex Gorgeous Glitches and Nightcored Melodies: The New Generation of SoundCloud Music is Here by Kieran Press-Reynolds Genre-hybrids, gender-oscillating vocals and meme-infested themes-this might be the zeitgeist of our near future. Los Angeles Times How isolation is a golden opportunity for musicians by Inna Faliks My teacher, the great American pianist Leon Fleisher, taught his pupils about playing music for music's sake, which COVID now forces musicians to do. VICE How Studio Engineers Keep Making Music While Artists Are Incarcerated by Ashwin Rodrigues Engineers who've worked with Drakeo the Ruler and Gucci Mane told VICE about the responsibility and challenge of working with incarcerated artists. Los Angeles Times The ice cream truck song has a racist past. So Wu-Tang Clan's RZA wrote a new one by Christi Carras Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA partners with ice cream maker Good Humor to create a new ice cream truck jingle as an alternative to 'Turkey in the Straw.' the postal service The New York Times Tobe Nwigwe Never Planned to Go Viral. Then He Rapped About Breonna Taylor by Leslie Pariseau The Houston rapper and singer has been making music with a close-knit team for five years. A 44-second track released in July brought his message to a larger audience. Billboard What It's Like To Be Black in Country Now by Gail Mitchell Artists like Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen and executives like Warner Music Nashville's James Marsh and Big Loud Records' Candice Watkins know the genre is becoming more inclusive — but is Music City taking enough action to help them thrive? ABC Australia Phoebe Bridgers loves her fans and hates Eric Clapton by Tim Shiel and Dan Condon The singer-songwriter takes us through her astounding second album "Punisher." Decibel Darker Than Darker Than Black: U.S. Black Metal Artist Galdr Rages Against Fascism by Draugr Draugr, the multi-instrumentalist of the U.S. black metal bands Galdr, Ancalagon and Obscurum, pens an op-ed on his anti-racist political awakening in underground black metal. Variety The Music Industry's Side Ways: Top Execs Often Hold Down Separate Gigs Simultaneously by Chris Willman It's not uncommon for a music exec to hold down a top label or publishing job while also maintaining a distinct manager or producer gig. For power players, it signifies prestige as well as an abundance of creativity... but on lower rungs, double duty can also be a result of a single salary not cutting it. Midia Research The Song Economy Part 3 -- creating in the song economy by Keith Jopling In ' The Song Economy is just getting started' I looked at how major catalogue songs such as Journey's Don't Stop Believin', Toto's Africa and Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You had all spent many years accumulating streams (audio and video), radio plays and ultimately for their copyright owners, revenues. Knoxville News Sentinel If there's a Bonnaroo 2021, who could perform? Festival organizers 'have to be optimistic' by Ryan Wilusz For the festivals that do survive, Ashley Capps said, it's not going to be like "flipping a switch." A lot of factors will come into play. Bandcamp Daily How the Chinese-Jamaican Community Influenced the Development of Classic Reggae by Jared Proudfoot Vincent and Patricia Chin, Byron Lee, Paulie Hoo Kim, and many others were crucial to the development of reggae in Jamaica. The New Statesman The thing I miss most is dancing: that rush of euphoria, all caught up in the thrill of the moment by Tracey Thorn Heaven knows when it will feel safe to be breathing and singing in a crowded space – the thought makes me sad. Please Kill Me Viktor Tsoi: The Legend Of Russia's Greatest Rock Star Lives On by Yuliya Abasheva Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia's most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor Tsoi died in a 1990 car crash, it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James Dean and Muhammad Ali all died simultaneously. MUSIC OF THE DAY YouTube "Alarm Clock" Burna Boy "You awake yet?" From "Twice as Tall." "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 2020, The REDEF Group