If you feel like you need to say something and you wanna make music, go make rock music. It’s easy and you don’t have to be that good at it. | | | | The Notorious B.I.G. with members of Junior M.A.F.I.A. in Brooklyn, Jan. 18, 1995.
(Clarence Davis/New York Daily News/Getty Images) | | | | | | “If you feel like you need to say something and you wanna make music, go make rock music. It’s easy and you don’t have to be that good at it.”
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| | rantnrave:// It was 20 years ago today. Here's how the LA TIMES reported the NOTORIOUS B.I.G.'s murder. And how it reported on the LAPD's inability to solve the case by the end of 1997. And how ROLLING STONE reported on the inability of anyone to solve it by 2011, implicating the LA Times along the way. And, still, 20 years later. And this is why we care. This, too, obviously. Members of the 1996-97 LOS ANGELES LAKERS, some of whom were supposed to be with Biggie on that fateful night, look back on a city and a culture at a particular moment in time... SHESAID.SO celebrated Day Without a Woman by issuing an Alternative Power 100 Music List as a pointed corrective to BILLBOARD's annual music biz power lists. One hundred women and, ha ha, four men. This solves for two recurring problems with Billboard's Power 100: the near-invisibility of XX chromosomes and the chronic inability to count to 100 (math is hard, even for men). Attached to the list is an apology from shesaid.so founder ANDREEA MAGDALINA for the lack of women of color. True integration and equality is hard for everyone. Keep being aware, and keep working on it, everyone... A month after its farewell concert, a month after OZZY OSBOURNE said "this is the end" and TONY IOMMI said "we're not saying goodbye as such," BLACK SABBATH has INSTAGRAMMED this. Which means either the most important band in metal history is no more, or its lead singer has gained temporary control of its Instagram account. For now, choose whichever option suits you best... MARGO PRICE wins second annual AMERICAN MUSIC PRIZE... RIP DAVE VALENTIN, FRED WEINTRAUB and MISHA MENGELBERG. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After 20 years, the Mafia-style murder of Biggie Smalls remains one of the most baffling mysteries in rap history. The Brooklyn-born hip-hop legend was shot dead by a bow-tied assassin March 9, 1997, while sitting in a green Chevy Suburban parked on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. | | |
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| While organizations in other artistic fields — theater, literature, the visual arts — attempt, however haltingly and imperfectly, to broaden the scope of their activities to include a range of creative voices and life experiences, the leadership in classical music keeps on ignoring the whole subject. | | |
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| It worked for Sia and Bruno Mars, but what about the women trying to break out on their own today? | | |
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| As owner of MAC Presents, an experiential sponsorship agency that specializes in creating deep and authentic connections between artists and fans, as well as consumers and brands, Allen has become accustomed to working with millennials because they aren’t only the most prominent people in her field-- they’re also the most important | | |
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| Coinciding with the launch of the "Equalizing Music" project, we present a conversation between The Black Madonna and shesaid.so founder Andreea Magdalina. | | |
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| Rhythm-based video games dominate Japan’s arcades, and their popularity has influenced everyone from major pop stars to underground electronic producers. | | |
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| It's 10 a.m. on a Thursday, and I'm standing in front of the (recently rebranded) MoPOP Museum waiting for my ride. I'm here to go on Stalking Seattle, a driving tour billed as "A Rock & Roll Sightseeing Tour." And it's certainly not hard to feel stalker-esque when climbing into an unmarked black Dodge minivan with tinted windows. | | |
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| “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” which in the United States evokes the darkness of slavery, has morphed into something else entirely across the Atlantic. | | |
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| How the As It Is frontman went from making videos in his bedroom to touring with Sum 41. | | |
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| Shortly before his death, the rap artist said he was changing his ways. (Originally published March 10, 1997.) | | |
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| The spirit of Southern outsider music has taken partial possession of many artists through the years--Charlie Feathers comes to mind, as do Link Wray, Hasil Adkins, and the train-obsessed 1920s banjo player Willard Hodgins. But as a fully realized manifestation, that spirit was at least thrice incarnate in the twentieth century. | | |
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| The cabaret law-and its prejudicial history-is one of the city's darkest secrets. | | |
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| The city’s music business supports almost 60,000 jobs and $5 billion in wages, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group. | | |
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| Ed Sheeran talks about his original "Love Yourself" lyrics, why he believes Taylor Swift is the best wingman, Stevie Wonder predicted his Grammy win, "Theory of Math" album title, living with Jamie Foxx, his diverse cover songs, friendship with Eric Clapton, and performs "Castle on the Hill." | | |
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| Despite the massive success of music festivals, all is not alive and well in the live music industry. While festival behemoths are seeing more fans and dollars than ever, traditional small and medium-sized live music venues are struggling to keep the doors open. | | |
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| It should have begun, and ended, with Beyoncé’s “Crazy In Love.” | | |
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| While I am not authorized to speak on behalf of the radio industry in this regard, I personally believe that there is an economic value that can be ascribed to a major league overhaul and simplification of the existing music licensing morass. | | |
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| "I think that not being born in Canada is why I always feel the need to express a taste of where I'm actually from. I have to showcase who I am culturally as much as I am also a Canadian." | | |
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| Vince Staples might not think so, but the popular hip-hop interviewer’s case files beg to differ. | | |
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| The musician, who played sidekick to David Letterman for decades, is releasing a new album full of 1960s-era rock and soul music. | | |
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