jason hirschhorn's @MusicREDEF: 06/17/2022 - Bartees Strange Is Going In, Juneteenth Playlist, Miles Davis' Muses, FAIR Act, BTS, Kate Bush...

Someone the other day on Instagram called me a token for only playing with white bands. And I was like, 'I'm doing this so that you can be here.' I might be the only one today, but who are you going to tour with in two years? Hopefully me!... I'm trying to create space for more people who look like me. Open in browser Friday June 17, 2022 Vibing out: Bartees Strange's second album, "Farm to Table," is out today on 4AD. (Luke Piotrowski/Beggars Group) quote of the day "Someone the other day on Instagram called me a token for only playing with white bands. And I was like, 'I'm doing this so that you can be here.' I might be the only one today, but who are you going to tour with in two years? Hopefully me!... I'm trying to create space for more people who look like me." - Bartees Strange rantnrave:// It's Friday In certain critical circles, BARTEES STRANGE's second album, FARM TO TABLE, is 2022's most anticipated rock album, if in fact you choose to think of it as a rock album, which you may or may not choose to do. The Ringer's IAN COHEN introduces him here as "a Black artist, a former football player and post-hardcore guitarist with a septum piercing... who, in a single song, can rap like DABABY, boogie like GEORGE STRAIT, reinvent the NATIONAL as fourth-wave emo sociopolitical text, and howl 'I'm going in!' like BONO." An Oklahoman by birth who currently calls Washington, D.C., home (there were stops in Brooklyn and LA), Strange has indie-rock co-signs from the likes of PHOEBE BRIDGERS, COURTNEY BARNETT and LUCY DACUS, all of whom he's opened for in the past year, and he may be, as Cohen notes, the first indie rock musician to release a song that catalogs all his co-signs while bragging about how he's "already friends" with BON IVER's JUSTIN IVER and is "grindin'" with BEGGARS GROUP boss MARTIN MILLS (Strange is signed to Beggars-owned 4AD). "I think Imma need the Benz," he adds, with what sounds like AUTO-TUNE exaggeration. "I'm the only person who can write that song," he told Rolling Stone, more matter-of-factly than braggingly. It's called—wait for it—"Cosigns." It's deliriously good. Two songs later, in a slow, smoldering, throwback soul ballad, Strange is channeling GEORGE FLOYD's daughter: "You've taken something of mine." The album has less of the DaBaby rap and George Strait boogie of the debut—he's allowing himself "to just vibe out," Stereogum's JAMES RETTIG suggests—and maybe a bit of an LA soft-rock breeze. It has surface and depth, both "farm" and "table" if you will, and it may well live up the anticipation it engendered... DRAKE's surprise-released seventh album, HONESTLY, NEVERMIND, is surprisingly short on rap and long on deep house. "Drake's been out raving, and this comedown sounds rough," opines the LA Times' AUGUST BROWN, labeling it "likely... the most divisive album of his career"... PINK DOLPHINS is the third album from ANTELOPER, the loop-y, improvisatory duo of trumpeter (plus voice and electronics) JAIMIE BRANCH and drummer (plus synths) JASON NAZARY, who feed jazz and electronics repeatedly through each other until they reach a kind of spacy singularity. I'm really feeling this right now. Branch and Nazary are joined on this album by guitarist/producer JEFF PARKER. Also today: New albums from Yaya Bey, Zora, Logic, Foals, Perfume Genius, Hercules & Love Affair, Alanis Morissette (a meditation album), Brett Eldredge, Hank Williams Jr. (produced by Dan Auerbach), Aaron Watson, J. Rocc, Erica Banks, SoFaygo, Conway the Machine, Kevin Gates, Westside Boogie, Duke Deuce, Vadim Neselovskyi, Binker Golding, Bennie Maupin & Adam Rudolph, Pasquale Grasso, Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio, Wild Up, Robocobra Quartet, Nick Cave (psalms written by Cave set to music recorded with Warren Ellis), Ron Trent, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Sound of Ceres (with narration by Marina Abramović), Mt. Joy, Fresh Pepper, Nova Twins, Flasher, Grey Daze (new recordings from Chester Bennington's pre-Linkin Park band, including vocals recorded by Bennington shortly before he died), Revelators Sound System, Σtella, Calum Scott, Maverick City Music x Kirk Franklin, Lit, Black Uhuru, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Pete Yorn, Ben Lee, Alice Merton, Pet Fox, Horse Jumper of Love, Pharis & Jason Romero, TV Priest, Vatican, Greg Puciato, Oni and Girlfriends. Etc Etc Etc Sunday's all-star JUNETEENTH concert at the HOLLYWOOD BOWL, with a lineup that includes the ROOTS, MICKEY GUYTON, ROBERT GLASPER, BILLY PORTER, KILLER MIKE, JHENÉ AIKO and EARTH, WIND & FIRE, will be broadcast live across CNN's platforms starting at 8pm ET... HULU will stream select sets from BONNAROO throughout the weekend, including J. COLE, MACHINE GUN KELLY, 21 SAVAGE, BILLY STRINGS, RODDY RICCH, FLUME and HERBIE HANCOCK... Happy 80th birthday, PAUL MCCARTNEY. Retweet Not Endorsement In the mix below, I'm sharing a novella-length longread about the post Jan. 6 downfall of ARIEL PINK, whose story is fascinating to read even if you fundamentally disagree with both Pink's and writer ARMIN ROSEN's points of view (and/or delusions). I do want to note, however, that in 10,000-ish words about the mechanics and the dispiriting effects of Pink's "cancellation," neither the writer nor the subject seems to have wrestled with the irony that the subject proudly attended a rally in support of canceling the votes of 81 million Americans, which leaves a gaping hole in the middle of all those words. Rest in Peace Hawaiian jazz saxophonist GABE BALTAZAR. - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator honestly The Ringer Let Bartees Strange Cook By Ian Cohen The hard-to-define, easy-to-love musician is back with 'Farm to Table,' a new album that can only be described as "Bartees Strange." NPR Songs to believe in: A Juneteenth playlist By Lara Downes This Juneteenth, pianist Lara Downes remembers the freedom that has been hard fought and hard won. Black Music and Black Muses Three Women: How Miles Davis's Wives and Muses Guard His Music With Their Bodies By Harmony Holiday Jutting, sphinxed, like a limbless panther about to venture toward her kill and dress its phantom wounds, Cicely Tyson's sullen and intent profile on the cover of Miles Davis's "Sorcerer" (1967), possesses all of the duality of sorcery itself. Sorcery is magic so powerful it might fall victim to its own backlash, returning the spell to the one who casts it. The New York Times How TikTok Is Changing Marketing in the Music Industry and Beyond By John Herrman Artists and civilians alike chafe at the pressures of presenting themselves online. Billboard Reintroduced FAIR Act Bill to Repeal Amendment to 'Seven-Year Statute' Up for Vote in California Senate By Melinda Newman After being pulled from the docket one day before a slated California Assembly committee hearing in April, the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions (FAIR) Act has been reintroduced into the California Senate and will receive its first hearing before that body next Wednesday (June 22). Variety FAIR Act Proponents Are Sabotaging California's Music Community Behind Closed Doors (Guest Column) By Mike Montgomery Mike Montgomery, executive director of CALinnovates, a nonpartisan technology advocacy coalition, weighs in on what he sees as the looming danger of the revived legislation. The Washington Post Something in the Water hints at something in the air By Chris Richards Pharrell's big music festival lands in D.C. this weekend, asking a tacit question: Is music shaped by where we are on the planet? The Guardian Abba avatars: will technology change the way we see gigs? By Hannah Moore, Alexis Petridis and Laura Snapes More than 40 years since they were last on tour, Abba have returned as digital avatars. Is Abba Voyage, which debuted in London last month, the future of concerts? Medium On Derrick May, Detroit techno and toxic male solidarity By Annabel Ross It is possible to celebrate Detroit techno and at the same time to demand accountability from the figures in the scene who have abused their power. Tablet Magazine Code Pink By Armin Rosen How Pitchfork darling Ariel Pink became a music industry untouchable. nevermind The New York Times BTS Ponders Its Future, and South Korea's Economy Warily Takes Note By Jin Yu Young The band's label saw its stock price plunge, and the possibility that the K-pop group won't tour as pandemic restrictions ease threatens to reverberate through South Korea's economy. Music Business Worldwide Kate Bush is the world's biggest independent artist right now. She's owning it By Tim Ingham Kate Bush owns her recorded music rights. So do many other superstar artists -- young and old. Okayplayer Robert Glasper on Juneteenth & Healing Through Music By Dimas Sanfiorenzo Robert Glasper chats about his upcoming Juneteenth show in L.A. and how his music has been affected by the last few years.  The Guardian Vicente Lusitano: Why was the first Black published composer just a footnote in histories? By Joseph McHardy A BLM placard in New York encouraged a conductor in London to discover more about this 16th-century pioneer of European classical music. HipHopMadness The Mixtape: How 50 Cent Changed It & Lil Wayne Solidified It The defining moment of mixtapes happened in the early 2000s, and you can draw a distinct line in the sand to separate the two main chapters of mixtape history- pre and post 50 Cent. The Daily Beast We've Taken J. Lo's Talent for Granted for Far Too Long By Kevin Fallon Frankly, I see nothing wrong with creating an entire Netflix documentary about how great you are-when it's this deserved. Los Angeles Times Tori Amos on overcoming sexism in the music biz: 'I had to become the gladiator' By Suzy Exposito After a five-year absence from touring, Tori Amos returns with a new generation of artists in her debt and some thoughts on the power of "the Muses." Music Tomorrow GDPR & Music Data Ownership: Should We Treat Artist Data as Personal Data? By Dmitry Pastukhov Should the data collected in connection to the artist's career be considered personal data under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation law? And if so, what would be the implications data ownership in the music business? The New York Times The Fall of Kidd Creole: Inside a Rap Pioneer's Tragic Descent By Jonah E. Bromwich and John Leland As a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, he helped invent hip-hop. He spent the rest of his life trying recapture that glory. Then, in seven minutes on a Manhattan street, it all came to an end. Music In Africa Spirit of Ntu: South African piano maestro Nduduzo Makhathini on his 10th album By Phuti Sepuru Nduduzo Makhathini is a prolific South African pianist, improviser, healer, educator, scholar and storyteller. "In the Spirit of Ntu" is his tenth offering, and his second release under premier US jazz label Blue Note Records and the newly founded Blue Note Africa. what we're into Music of the day "Cosigns" Bartees Strange From "Farm to Table." Video of the day "The Apollo" Roger Ross Williams Amazing footage of Ella, Billie, James Brown, Lauryn Hill and more, and a deeper story about the venerable theater's importance to Harlem, Black musicians and Black culture in general. 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