After the Spanish flu of 1918-20, we had the roaring '20s, and that's really what I foresee when we come out of this. It's just gonna be a celebration—hopefully a decade long, maybe just a few years. We just want to make sure the right people are still in business and able to make that celebration happen. | | | | No, that's not the name of a new go-go band. The marquee at the Anthem in Washington, D.C., repurposed, Sept. 21, 2020.
(Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "After the Spanish flu of 1918-20, we had the roaring '20s, and that's really what I foresee when we come out of this. It's just gonna be a celebration—hopefully a decade long, maybe just a few years. We just want to make sure the right people are still in business and able to make that celebration happen."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Hi today is NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY in the US, there are exactly six weeks till Election Day, and the music industry has a message. Are you registered? Are all your artists registered? All your fans? Your colleagues? Masked artists have "Vote" messages on their social media, venues around the country have registration messages on their marquees, and BILLIE EILISH and DJ KHALED and TAYLOR SWIFT are among the artists dangling one-off experiences and other prizes to anyone who simply checks their registration through GLOBAL CITIZEN and HEADCOUNT's JUST VOTE portal. Here's a quick rundown of other companies and initiatives happening today, though efforts will continue past today, hi RAVE THE VOTE streaming festival, hello RUN THE JEWELS, etc., and yes this is a public service announcement, and no if you are not registered or not sure you're registered you may not yet look at the rest of this newsletter, if you do you'll receive a small electric shock, unnoticeable at first, which will increasingly gnaw at your nervous system in the days and weeks ahead... Also, a wish: I fully understand, and support, the paywalls that an increasing number of arts media sites are using to support their businesses and help pay the writers, photographers and videographers whose work they publish. But wouldn't it be a nice public service if for the next six weeks they took all their voting-related content out from behind those paywalls? I won't name names. They know who they are, and I don't know the intricacies of their day-to-day business. But the work that organizations like HeadCount and artists like Run the Jewels and DAVE MATTHEWS are doing to reach prospective voters should be shared as widely and as easily as possible. My two cents of ballot wisdom... A nonpartisan implication—or at least one that crosses traditional partisan lines—of the death of JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG: She was one of the Supreme Court's most ardent defenders of copyright laws and copyright holders. Among the cases that could be affected by her death, writes the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER's ERIQ GARDNER, is the long-running copyright dispute over LED ZEPPELIN's "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN." It "looked to be a quintessential Ginsburg case," Gardner writes. "Her departure likely dampens the prospects of high court review"—which would be the last chance of the estate of the late singer/songwriter RANDY CALIFORNIA to challenge a 2016 decision in Zeppelin's favor. Justice Ginsburg also repeatedly favored efforts to extend copyright terms... The music copyright community believes it has another strong defender in SHIRA PERLMUTTER, who was named the new US register of copyrights on Monday. The SONGWRITERS GUILD OF NORTH AMERICA and RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA are among those who high-fived the pick... BTS K-pops into FORTNITE and (see story mix below) onto NPR MUSIC's TINY DESK... The KILLERS welcome the NFL's RAIDERS to LAS VEGAS... RIP GEORGIA DOBBINS DAVIS, an original member of the MARVELETTES who never appeared on a record but wrote the lyrics to their song "PLEASE MR. POSTMAN" (in one night, on a MOTOWN-imposed deadline) before she left the group and the music business. It became Motown's first-ever #1 hit in 1961, hit #1 in the US again in 1975 thanks to the CARPENTERS, and was recorded by the BEATLES in between. Then, in 2017, PORTUGAL. THE MAN borrowed the melody of "Postman" for "FEEL IT STILL," a major pop hit of its own. That's a good copyright—and, apparently, a complicated one. FRED BRONSON's official BILLBOARD BOOK OF NUMBER 1 HITS credits Georgia Dobbins as one of four co-writers and tells the story of how she wrote the lyrics based on a title by her friend WILLIAM GARRETT. My 2009 remaster of WITH THE BEATLES credits her as one of five writers. But Dobbins is nowhere to be found in the databases of ASCAP and BMI, which co-administer the performance rights to "Postman" and credit only three writers; she isn't credited by "Feel It Still" publisher WARNER CHAPPELL either. Dearest readers who work in or around publishing, please solve this copyright mystery for me by leavin' me a card or a letter, or even an email. I'll be waiting patiently... Happy birthday MOM. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | |  | CrimeReads | | When the FBI went after musicians with alleged ties to Communism, Burl Ives saved his career by testifying, but at great personal cost. | | | |  | Variety | | The good news that people in the live music industry foresee is that there will not only be a resurgence of concertgoing at the end of the pandemic but maybe even a "Roaring Twenties" level of enthusiasm for hitting the town. The bad news is that few independent venues are equipped to weather a shutdown that could last till the end of 2021. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | Family and collaborators discuss the making of Tom Petty's 1994 solo album 'Wildflowers,' which is being reissued as a box set with dozens of unreleased tracks. | | | |  | NPR Music | | The most popular band in the world performs three songs with a live band for Tiny Desk's quarantine series. | | | |  | Electronic Beats | | Michelle Lhooq gives the unofficial account of New York's club scene in the 2010s, a pivotal moment when the city went from DIY underground to club superpower. | | | |  | Complex | | 24KGoldn and Iann Diorr's "Mood" is the most-streamed song in the world on Spotify, and it's No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Here's the story behind the success. | | | |  | The Daily Beast | | Hot on the heels of the superspreading Sturgis rally, South Dakota's governor has announced an indoor country show. But this time, Sanford Health is joining her as sponsor. | | | |  | The Guardian | | Musicians' Union, whose survey also finds one-third of professional musicians can't access emergency support, criticises DCMS and Treasury over 'lack of understanding.' | | | |  | Andrew Huang | | We've reached peak supertonic. | | | |  | Grady Smith | | Is it REALLY all about beer and trucks and girls and blue jeans? Are all the lyrics REALLY the same? To find out, I maintained a spreadsheet of every country song that has reached the Top 30 of Billboard's Country Airplay chart for the past six years (2014-2019) and then crunched a whole lot of data. | | | |  | Beats & Bytes | | While the proliferation of data is reshaping the role of A&R in the music industry today, what A&Rs look for in an artist hasn't changed much. What an A&R looks for in an artist's data -- and how they look for it -- has. | | | |  | The FADER | | PC Music founder and Charli XCX creative director A. G. Cook discusses streaming, the internet's utopian potential, and the long road to his debut album "Apple." | | | |  | Vulture | | Chino Moreno opens up about the band's process, its diverse influences, and the legacy of nu metal. | | | |  | Chicago Tribune | | Chicago police are investigating whether a rapper was killed in a brazen Gold Coast shooting after recently making a video featuring "derogatory statements" about rival gang members who have died. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | In a new video series, the members of the orchestra play together for the first time since lockdown began. | | | | | Complex | | This weekend, Kanye laid out a set of "new recording and publishing deal guidelines." How realistic are they? What do they mean? We explain. | | | |  | British GQ | | Such is the hype around him - including interdisciplinary collaborations with Grace Wales Bonner, performances at London's Fabric and a debut album, Dark Matter - that Mercury-nominated jazz drummer Moses Boyd doesn't even remember applying for the Prize | | | |  | JazzTimes | | The saxophonist is strong, focused, and not afraid to make music that appeals to both listeners' brains and feet. | | | |  | The New York Times | | Noelle Scaggs from Fitz and the Tantrums has an initiative, Diversify the Stage, that aims to direct more touring business opportunities to people of color, women, and L.G.B.T.Q. people. | | | | | The Guardian | | As UK coronavirus restrictions deepen we can find new ways to share the ecstatic, communal joy of music, says party organiser and author Tim Lawrence. | | | | | Los Angeles Times | | The great, pugnacious critic Stanley Crouch died last week. Rock critic Robert Christgau, who edited his reviews at the Village Voice, remembers him. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | "Liberation / True democracy." | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group | | |
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