To me, a negative and a positive review are fundamentally born out of the same place of truly giving a s***. It’s just different branches, depending on whether you’re writing about Post Malone or Van Morrison or whatever. | | | | Sharon Van Etten's "Remind Me Tomorrow" is out today on Jagjaguwar.
(Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “To me, a negative and a positive review are fundamentally born out of the same place of truly giving a s***. It’s just different branches, depending on whether you’re writing about Post Malone or Van Morrison or whatever.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's January, the West Coast is under water, seemingly the rest of the country is bracing for a mini Ice Age, and here we are talking about outdoor festivals. Like this one for MINECRAFT-playing kids, which took place inside the video game last weekend and which spelled "Fire" just like that, with an "i." And this one for classic-rock flag-waving Gen-Xers, which will take place inside a stadium in Arlington, Texas, and won't feature ARIANA GRANDE or even TAME IMPALA. But especially this one, which didn't take place at all two years ago on an island paradise that wasn't an island paradise, which spelled "Fyre" with a "y" and which is now the subject of two documentaries released four days apart. You can relive the horror in actual festival style, traipsing between multiple streaming subscriptions over 96 hours instead of traipsing between multiple stages through a few hundred yards of grass or mud. The two FYRE FESTIVAL docs cover the same material, and a lot of the same footage, in decidedly different ways, and both have their supporters. Here's why you should watch HULU's FYRE FRAUD. Here's why you should make time for NETFLIX's FYRE. They both have their detractors, too, including each other. What's a festival without a good feud? We look back on how it all went down 21 months ago in our MusicSET "You're Fyred: Remembering the Most Unfestive Festival Ever"... Also dropping today: A full-length YOUTUBE documentary on K-pop kings BTS's 2017 world tour. A 2018 BTS concert film will screen in theaters worldwide for one day next weekend... BANDCAMP has already clinched the award for most unlikely and awesome move by a digital service in 2019. It's opening a brick-and-mortar record store... KACEY MUSGRAVES, PISTOL ANNIES and ASHLEY MCBRYDE top NASHVILLE SCENE's annual Country Music Critics' Poll. The top 30 albums include 19 women or female-fronted bands, which is how you know no one from country radio was given a ballot... But what do critics know anyway?... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from FUTURE, SHARON VAN ETTEN, JAMES BLAKE, TORO Y MOI, MAGGIE ROGERS, MIKE POSNER, DEERHUNTER, LIZ BRASHER, ALICE MERTON, FEVER 333, PEDRO THE LION, COI LERAY, MALIBU KEN (AESOP ROCK & TOBACCO), YNW MELLY, STEVE GUNN, JOE JACKSON, NKISI, BUKE & GASE, HIKARU UTADA, the TWILIGHT SAD, RONNIE MILSAP, GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, the FLESH EATERS, CHRISTINA PERRI, STEVE MASON, JULIANA HATFIELD, GUSTER, WHITEHORSE, FRANCES CONE and ARCH ENEMY... RIP DEBI MARTINI... There will be no MusicREDEF on Monday, in honor of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY. We'll see you Tuesday morning. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| They came for Instagram models, celebrity chefs and Blink-182. They got soggy tents, soggy sandwiches and not a single note of punk-pop. As twin documentaries from Netflix and Hulu chronicle 2017's disastrous Fyre Festival, we look back on how it all went down... or didn't. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Two years on from its near closure, we investigate Fabric's recovery. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Streaming means it pays to keep your songs short. Our analysis shows that the biggest rappers and country stars are changing their song lengths to fit the format. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| After a protracted delay led to the singer releasing a charting mixtape without her label's blessing, the dispute between Spice and VP Records has spilled out into the open. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Finally, the Instagram generation gets its "Gimme Shelter." Two of them! | | |
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 | Nashville Scene |
| Considering the future of the industry and the disconnect between radio programmers and fans. | | |
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 | Please Kill Me |
| 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, The Untouchable, The Pleasure Seekers, The Liverbirds and many more, were part of the first wave of bold young women, mostly teens at the time, who knew that rock & roll belonged to them just as much as anyone else. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| With sets by Hudson Mohawke and PC Music's A.G. Cook, Fire Festival--no not that one--was an incredibly hype DIY fest put together by some passionate weirdos. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| Gen-X'ers rejoice: Here's a chance to see all of your favorite 1990s bands in one weekend. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The Atlanta superstar’s ‘The Wizrd’ marks the end of a prolific run -- and a long, complicated chapter. | | |
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 | Collectors Weekly |
| Many places deserve to be called the birthplace of rock 'n' roll. Memphis often gets the nod because that's where Sam Phillips of Sun Records recorded Elvis Presley belting out an impromptu, uptempo cover of "That's All Right" in 1954. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A team in Cremona, Italy, wants to preserve every note from the world’s finest instruments before they become too fragile to play. But perfect recordings need silence. Lots of it. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Last March, a journalist asked Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant to name a group that he currently enjoyed. “There’s a band in Detroit called Greta Van Fleet,” responded the rock icon, (they’re actually native to Frankenmuth, Michigan). “They are Led Zeppelin I.” | | |
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 | KQED |
| Oakland’s latest high-profile music industry arrival opens to the public. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| When Jordan Peele used the 1995 Luniz song for his trailer for ‘Us,’ one of the most iconic weed choruses of all time was given new life. For Michael Marshall, the forgotten Bay Area musician who inspired and performed it, it’s yet another chance at recognition after a long and tumultuous career. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| Dominic Fike made some songs and went to jail. When he got out the world was watching. To outsiders, it seemed to happen overnight, but that isn't the case. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Over the past two weeks, the law firm of Paul Hastings LLP has been probing allegations reported by "Variety" last month that Heather Parry, the head of Live Nation Productions, had verbally abused employees and used offensive language in the workplace. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| She wowed Pharrell in an N.Y.U. class and held her own in a label bidding war. Now the 24-year-old singer and songwriter is making her first major artistic statement. | | |
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 | The Iowa Review |
| John Coltrane left his wife in the summer of 1963. He wrote two songs for her; both were melancholy. He said the first song was his favorite. He wrote it like a love letter, and like all love letters, it was a time capsule. Within: a house in Philadelphia, a house party in New York, a conversation about harp music and another about laughter. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Privately made records enjoy a cult following among collectors, but few are as legendary as Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 LP Dreamin’ Wild. | | |
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