| I believe working class people should still be able to afford tickets to shows... I am so tired of people saying things can't be done about this massive issue while huge monopolies sit there stealing money from working class people. |
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 | | J-Hope springs eternal: The BTS rapper rings in the new year in New York's Times Square, Dec. 31, 2022. | | (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) | | |
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| "I believe working class people should still be able to afford tickets to shows... I am so tired of people saying things can't be done about this massive issue while huge monopolies sit there stealing money from working class people." | | - Zach Bryan | |
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Listomania
Best album or song of 2022? Thank you for asking and I have no idea. But here's our still-growing collection of 250-plus lists of other people's answers you can browse in search of sounds that might resonate with you, from the obvious poptimist results (BAD BUNNY and STEVE LACY were popular and critics tended to like them) to the critical favorites of a year with no particular consensus (from BEYONCÉ to ROSALÍA to GLORILLA to ETHEL CAIN to ALVVAYS to PUSHA T to scores of jazz, metal, country, amapiano, house, etc., etc., etc., options), and here's a compelling, if inadvertent, argument from Rolling Stone that nearly every one of those lists, especially its own, is probably wrong: "Five Albums From December That Totally Would Have Made Our Year-End Lists." The subhead on that story reads "if only they'd come out a few weeks earlier," which a more self-aware site might have flipped to "if only we'd waited a few weeks longer," but, hey, the LITTLE SIMZ album included within, and excluded from nearly every 2022 list I've come across, is fantastic, so there's that, thank you for asking.
I will take a shot at best album title of the year, which is yet another December release, ZACH BRYAN's live album ALL MY HOMIES HATE TICKETMASTER, which the 2022 breakout country star dropped on Christmas day, accompanied by a series of tweets explaining why he, too, has negative feelings for the ticketing giant, a subject in which there was a growing consensus over the course of an inflationary, dynamically priced 2022. We head into a new year under the promise of an investigation by the one legislative body in Washington that, as of this writing, appears to be functional, and a growing feeling in some corners of the live music business that the government may not be kidding around this time. No word yet on whether a followup album, ALL MY HOMIES HATE VENUES THAT TAKE A CUT OF MY MERCH INCOME, is in the works. In the meantime, Rolling Stone notes that Bryan, like Pearl Jam in the 1990s, has options for touring without Ticketmaster/LIVE NATION, but not in every market.
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Hey UMG, the band LOW would like its first album back... And BLACK SHEEP would like some of those SPOTIFY stock profits (SPOT's not so hot 2022 notwithstanding)... Compositions by LOUIS ARMSTRONG, DUKE ELLINGTON, FATS WALLER and the GERSHWIN brothers are among those that entered the public domain in the US on Jan. 1, along with the movie THE JAZZ SINGER. But no sound recordings this year, thanks to a quirk of recent copyright legislation. Pre-1923 sound recordings lost their copyright protections a year ago, and those from 2023 will enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024.
Rest in Peace
Hong Kong film and Cantopop composer JOSEPH KOO, who scored the Bruce Lee movies "Fists of Fury" and "The Way of the Dragon" and wrote countless TV theme songs, often in collaboration with lyricist (and talk show host) James Wong Jim... Philanthropist GRETCHEN VALADE, Detroit's "Angel of Jazz." In addition to rescuing the Detroit Jazz Festival and founding Mack Avenue Records, the lifelong jazz fan extended financial support to numerous Motor City musicians...Latin music publicist ALBA "ALBITA" EAGAN, who worked at BMG Latin, Sony Discos and EMI Latin.
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| | 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra | | By Marcus J. Moore | | Questlove, Dawn Richard and a range of other musicians, writers and critics share their favorites from the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader's wide-ranging catalog. | | |
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 | | Center for the Study of Public Domain |
| | Public Domain Day 2023 | | By Jennifer Jenkins | | On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse," the German science-fiction film Metropolis, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream. | | |
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 | | Music of the day | | "Without You" | | Quavo | | "Days ain't the same without you / I don't know if I'm the same without you." RIP Takeoff. | | |
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