Right now there's a lot of fear in the record business. And the [parent] corporations should make it so the labels can relax a bit and be more adventurous. When the businesses are leveling out or going down, and you're still asking for growth, you don't have to be a mathematician to know what happens. | | | | | Jimmy Iovine at Electric Lady Studios, New York, mid-1980s. (Oliver Morris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Right now there's a lot of fear in the record business. And the [parent] corporations should make it so the labels can relax a bit and be more adventurous. When the businesses are leveling out or going down, and you're still asking for growth, you don't have to be a mathematician to know what happens.”
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 | Variety |
| Wherever Apple Music’s video strategy leads him, Iovine remains obsessed with harmonizing the respective dialects of the entertainment industry, which he claims is insecure, and the tech sector, which he calls “slightly overconfident. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Read our inside account of a wild night in the studio with Migos, the hitmaking Atlanta rap trio behind "Bad and Boujee." | | |
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 | The Ringer |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Chance The Rapper’s “Same Drugs” video premiere on Facebook Live may be the start of a new music video renaissance. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| How left-of-the-dial stalwarts are fighting to stay alive. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| When the members of New Order arrived in New York for their first North American gigs in 1980, they were greeted by a booking agent, a drug supplier, a tour guide and their own personal chef -- all of whom were the same woman. | | |
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 | Culture Trip |
| The Australian artist's new music video is stirring up controversy across the internet and forcing people to discuss what counts as 'art.' | | |
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 | Wear Your Voice |
| Lady Gaga Version 20.17 is peak whiteness. No wonder "Joanne" didn’t resonate; she didn’t write it with monsters like me in mind. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| In a profile of the Vines frontman Craig Nicholls from a 2004 issue of "Spin," Marc Spitz’s opening line was a quip about how he wanted to hit the guy. Though he eventually warmed up to the singer, Spitz was frustrated by how purposefully evasive his subject had been, even after putting in a substantive amount of time and effort to get to him. | | |
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 | Technical.ly |
| The music discovery site still places humans and human experience over the efficiency of algorithms and software. Power to the people. | | |
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 | Complex |
| An extensive interview with El-P and Killer Mike to talk their writing process, gentrification, and why dick jokes still matter. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| With his first No. 1 single in a decade - that inescapable 'Trolls' tune, up for a Grammy and an Oscar -- the former boy band phenom is a dad starring in a Woody Allen movie and grappling with "faint" memories from a childhood of stardom he's not sure he would choose for his son: "I could teach him a lot about what not to do." | | |
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| The New York Observer |
| “I did think it was important for me to be cutting-edge. Now it’s just important for me to be myself-whatever that is.” | | |
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 | Nest HQ |
| As much as I love to hate Tidal, that’s only because it actually makes me sad. It’s a platform where some of my most favorite artists live, namely Beyoncé and Prince (for now), but I don’t listen to those artists very often anymore. | | |
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 | The Howard Stern Show |
| Nick Cannon on why he's never getting married again, accepting his mortality, Mariah Carey, Bill Cosby, and more. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| A little-known techno jam makes a weird show sublime. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| How a lifelong outcast became the internet’s most divisive rising star. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Drone metal, black metal, speed metal, sludge metal, death metal, groove metal, deathcore, stoner metal, deathgrind. In 2017, hard, aggressive rock has splintered into so many factions that it takes a grim-reaping interpreter to explain the terrain. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Revisit a time when gabba ruled, beats were four-to-the-floor, and tartan was painted techno. | | |
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 | VSB |
| You've made me so very happy. | | |
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