Phil Anschutz... owns thousands of companies. He's so not thinking about Coachella. He has no opinion if I should pivot from dubstep to trap-house. | | | | Mother Maybelle Carter, one of the 20th century's most influential guitarists, in Poor Valley, Va., December 1941.
(Eric Schaal/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Phil Anschutz... owns thousands of companies. He's so not thinking about Coachella. He has no opinion if I should pivot from dubstep to trap-house.”
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| | rantnrave:// Apologies for the late send today. Technical issues... Four months after the news leaked, MAROON 5 and the NFL formally announced on Sunday that the "GIRLS LIKE YOU" band is headlining the most toxic 12- or 13-minute mega-gig on the 2019 calendar. A gig that more than 100 million people will watch and seemingly 100 million artists have said they wouldn't play, among them "Girls Like You" guest rapper CARDI B, who has said she'll be happy to perform onstage as soon as quarterback-non-grata COLIN KAEPERNICK is allowed to perform on the field. Welcome to the SUPER BOWL, ADAM LEVINE, and friends. There will be blitzes, rough tackles, and harsh tweets. Colin K will be nowhere in sight, but Maroon 5 will be joined by TRAVIS SCOTT—who accepted only after the NFL agreed to partner with him on a $500,000 donation to VAN JONES' social justice accelerator DREAM CORPS—and BIG BOI, who will serve as a partial answer to complaints that an Atlanta-hosted Super Bowl could have and should have used its halftime show to honor the cultural behemoth that is Atlanta music. Kudos to Maroon 5, I suppose, for doing whatever it could to diversify the stage given the circumstances. I'll give every member of the band free lifetime subscriptions to both MUSICREDEF and MEDIAREDEF if they substitute "Kaepernick" for "Jagger" at least once in their halftime medley version of "MOVES LIKE JAGGER"... After 37 years and over 400 issues, the influential punk fanzine MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL will print its final issues this year, but promises that its website and weekly radio show will live on: "We are still the place to turn if you care about Swedish girl bands or Brazilian thrash or Italian anarchist publications or Filipino teenagers making anti-state pogo punk, if you are interested in media made by punks for punks, if you still believe in the power and potential of autonomously produced and underground culture." The all-volunteer, DIY, relentlessly anti-corporate zine has been enormously influential not only on the punk-rock underground, but on decades of media that has risen up around the culture. May MRR never have to rest in peace... ROBBIE WILLIAMS vs. JIMMY PAGE is the greatest rock real-estate feud of all-time, and if you're not on team Robbie after reading this, I shan't be able to help you... One tiny silver lining in the horrible, sad and irresponsible political spectacle that is the government shutdown: better music in the terminals at JFK AIRPORT... The state of Illinois last week rejected an application for a concert featuring R. KELLY at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, not because of Kelly's behavior but because of security concerns as the #MuteRKelly protest movement continues to grow. The concert was booked before LIFETIME aired the devastating documentary series SURVIVING R. KELLY, but the question remains: Who was still booking R,. Kelly shows in 2018, and why? So many questions still waiting for answers, and so many voices rising up to ask them. MusicSET: "Surviving, Discussing and Muting R. Kelly"... RIP BONNIE GUITAR, LARRY CUNNINGHAM, WHITEY SHAFER, and PHIL DURR. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After dealing with deaths and major life changes, the singer-songwriter has returned with his third studio album, A Real Good Kid. | | |
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| Tropical House Cruises to Jamaica is one of three recent comps that clinches the island’s significance in pop’s past and present. | | |
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| R. Kelly is seeing his radio spins plummet in the wake of the Lifetime docuseries about him. Will we see r&b radio without the R? | | |
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 | Pollstar |
| The music is evolving, and a new, younger audience raised on hip-hop, beats and indie rock is embracing the broadness of the new music around the world. After extensive interviews with musicians and people from multiple sides of the business, here’s a look at what’s on the mind of the jazz world in 2019. | | |
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 | The Walrus |
| As interest in traditional performance declines, upstart indie companies are fighting to keep the art form alive. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| What this year’s lineups tell us about the future of the music festival. | | |
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| Los Angeles Times |
| There’s live music every night at the Continental in Austin. In fact, this 2,500-square-foot club has become one of the most beloved institutions in musical Texas, offering a broad menu of rootsy American music. | | |
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 | Maximum Rocknroll |
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| 24-year-old Latin trap artist Kevin Fret was shot and killed this week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The LGBTQ community responds. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Following the release of 'Surviving R Kelly', she has finally addressed their 2014 collaboration. But is it too little, too late? | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The eminence of improvisation and contemporary composition is finishing a five-day opera, and preparing for the release of a new 12-album set. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| As different as the two Christian rappers are artistically, they proved equally thoughtful about their aims and aspirations in conversation. | | |
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