Improvisation is a very special and therapeutic place. To just sit with a guitar and play for 45 minutes of uninterrupted sound [is] a really nice refuge from constant consciousness and thought that's bombarding you always. | | | | Victoria Ruiz fronts Downtown Boys at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, England, Oct. 12, 2017.
(Andrew Benge/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Improvisation is a very special and therapeutic place. To just sit with a guitar and play for 45 minutes of uninterrupted sound [is] a really nice refuge from constant consciousness and thought that's bombarding you always.”
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| | rantnrave:// In two and a half weeks, the white man who infamously ripped open the black woman's blouse at halftime of SUPER BOWL XXXVIII, and whose career kept motoring on as if nothing had happened (she was not so fortunate), will be back on the same stage at SUPER BOWL LII. He was terribly slow to acknowledge his own obvious role in the incident, and it took even longer for him to acknowledge his failure to support JANET JACKSON, the SB XXXVIII headliner who had invited him onto her stage. Is this weighing on him as he prepares for one of the biggest album-promo events any artist has ever been granted? Not really, based on this clip of an interview with BEATS 1's ZANE LOWE. "It wasn't too much of a conversation," he says of accepting the Super Bowl's return invitation. "Just one of those things where you go like, 'What do you want me to say? We're not gonna do that again.'" There is so much the man could say, to JANET, to music fans, to women and to the NFL, which has made it clear it wants nothing more to do with Janet Jackson even while swearing it has no policy to that effect. The man told Lowe he made peace with Jackson at some point over the years—we'll have to take his word—and that it's not his job to let anyone else know about that. He's wrong. He was complicit in her public shaming. He can and should do everything in his power to advocate for her public un-shaming. He'll have the world's biggest stage to himself in two and a half weeks. It's his choice whether he wants to sing and dance and promote an album for 12 minutes in front of the biggest TV audience of 2018 or if he wants to risk a gesture of solidarity or comradeship, or take a metaphorical knee, or share an actual microphone, or something, anything. #RhythmNation2018... Smart (and useful) streaming programming: A video of NIGHTMARES ON WAX talking about WARP RECORDS, connected to SPOTIFY's weekly WARP SELECTIONS playlist, er, I mean mixtape. Exploring music by label has never been easy in any of the major streaming services, and this is a great way to start fixing that hole... All the songs on INGRID MICHAELSON's next album, STRANGER SONGS, are based on NETFLIX's STRANGER THINGS... DONALD TRUMP went to STUDIO 54, didn't dance. (To be fair, neither did ANDY WARHOL)... That time COURTNEY LOVE wrote a song in a friend's bathroom. That time BEYONCÉ cut off her hair extensions so her headphones would fit. That time DEF LEPPARD heard that BON JOVI song and decided to suddenly change course. MusicSET: "Live Through This Recording Session: Album Oral Histories Vol. 2"... RIP JOHN SIPPEL. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| A U.S. music label that has reaped millions of dollars chronicling the drug war confronts a new era-and dozens of deaths. | | |
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| I once told the musician T Bone Burnett that one of the things I like most about golf is how it fosters friendships. In response, T Bone wrote, "You could say the same thing about Renaissance Faires or Civil War reenactments. Or anything, really. What I love most about golf is the solitude of it. You initiate every action — alone." | | |
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| Downtown Boys’ Springsteen-esque “A Wall” is nuanced, angry, and full of heart. | | |
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| That time Courtney Love wrote a song in a friend's bathroom. That time Beyoncé cut off her hair extensions so her headphones would fit. That time Def Leppard heard that Bon Jovi song and decided to suddenly change course. And more first-hand accounts from just before the engineer hits "record." | | |
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| How it works and what it means for producers. | | |
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| In 1999, Lance Ledbetter launched a record label with a very simple mission: to find and release high-quality cultural artifacts. In the intervening years, that label—Dust-to-Digital—has exhumed music from 1950s Morocco and early 1900s Greece, among many other places. | | |
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| “What I loved about the history of house music was that it was a story about people coming together through adversity and creating an extremely special atmosphere of love and acceptance.” | | |
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| Scenes from “My So-Called Life,” Empire Records, and more wouldn’t be the same without Dolores O’Riordan’s dreamy songs of infatuation. | | |
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| Sweden may be a small country -- roughly the same size as California, with just one-quarter of that state’s population -- but its artistic community has been a dominating force on the Billboard charts for decades. | | |
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| Kentucky is known as the birthplace of bluegrass music, but it seems to be overlooked that the particular region that gave birth to such ingenuity is actually in the western portion of the Commonwealth. | | |
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| Wow wild how Jonny Greenwood put out the album of the year in January and it's a no-vocals orchestral soundtrack. | | |
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| Live Nation's purchase of Frank Productions in Wisconsin and takeover of Summit Music Hall and the Marquis Theater in Denver -- venues that had been run by Mike Barsch at Soda Jerk Presents -- follow a year that began with AEG’s acquisition of Bowery Presents and included Live Nation buying United Concerts in Utah and Canada’s Union Events in 2016. | | |
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| Camila Cabello's debut solo album, "Camila," is out now. She sat down live with Zane Lowe to talk about the project, plans for the year and wanting to work wuth the 1975. | | |
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| In this report, written on behalf of LyricFind, we present the findings of a consumer survey fielded in November 2017 to consumers in the US, UK and Germany, deep diving into streaming behaviours and the growing role that lyrics is taking | | |
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| Ain't no party like a decentralised party. | | |
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| Julien tells the story of her song “Appointments,” and how writing it helped her work through her thoughts around addiction, depression, and relationships. Julien also takes apart the track “Over,” which was written as part of "Appointments," but then split off as a separate track. | | |
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| The surreal touch that colors Flügel's music extends to his masterful DJ sets. Speaking to Matt Unicomb, he reflects on his decades behind the decks. | | |
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| Hip hop is one of China’s fastest growing (and most controversial) scenes -- after exploding in 2017, this year it looks set to cross over in the west. | | |
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| The Australian trio talk about the importance of exposing sexism in the music industry. | | |
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| Jeff Rosenstock kicked off the year by releasing a great new album, POST-, and today he stopped by the Stereogum offices in NYC to perform for us. | | |
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