I don't know why, without fail, every teen boy music nerd has to love the Doors for a minute. It's built into their DNA, like sleeping on blue plaid sheets and playing Call of Duty. | | | | Spoon's Britt Daniel at SXSW, March 14, 2017.
(Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I don't know why, without fail, every teen boy music nerd has to love the Doors for a minute. It's built into their DNA, like sleeping on blue plaid sheets and playing Call of Duty.”
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| | rantnrave:// A black writer from OAKLAND who grew up on PUBLIC ENEMY, NWA, FISHBONE, RAY CHARLES and RALPH STANLEY goes to a gathering of cowboy poets in ELKO, NEV., and discovers—a lot. About himself. About cowboys. About where AMERICAN music comes from. About community. About solitude. About ghosts. CARVELL WALLACE's "The Roots of Cowboy Music" is not specifically a music story, and it may be the best music story I've read in 2017... My favorite ongoing music column is KATHLEEN TARRANT's "Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys," which has been running more or less weekly in the STRANGER since November. It's about exactly what you think it's about: dating, rock and roll and compromise. The kind of compromise that gets you from RUSH and the DOORS to WILCO and the WAR ON DRUGS. We wanted to collect them all, and now we have, in our latest REDEF MusicSET... Trumpystyle... "The first verse spoke with raising of liability by Lord" is my IPHONE's biblical way of transcribing a voicemail from the boss about the similarity between LORDE's "LIABILITY" and MOTT THE HOOPLE's "ALL THE YOUNG DUDES," which probably has something do with descending bass lines, Lorde's infatuation with "Dudes" writer DAVID BOWIE and my iPhone's displeasure with Kiwi pop singers taking the Lord's name in vain... DAVID BYRNE's JOAN OF ARC musical opens to unkind reviews... Great rap songs that don't feature any rapping... RIP MAX KIDD and FIORA CORRADETTI CONTINO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The search for a black self in the American west. | | |
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| What impact do algorithms have for music curation and creation? | | |
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| Atlanta has been the center of innovation in hip-hop for at least two decades, but the city has failed to turn musical success into growth for the communities that create it. | | |
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| "Chanel" is just the latest example of his boundary-pushing lyrics. | | |
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| Genius quietly laid off a bunch of its engineers -- now can it survive as a media company? | | |
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| Why weighting paid-for streams in the world's singles charts makes sense | | |
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| The incredible true tale of an English woman who channelled the work of long dead composers during the psychedelic era. | | |
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| Pop experimentalist Anohni wants fans to write to her with "a gesture of anonymous vulnerability." | | |
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| Earlier this year, Warp duo Mount Kimbie partnered with beer brand Desperados to turn a train into a moving musical instrument. Tom Fenwick investigates. | | |
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| Alexis Rivera shares the strange, incredible path that led him to found his own artist management company and subvert the label system. | | |
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| The UK Top 40 has held a much-venerated position by a certain type of music fan for a long, long time. And while the methods of compiling the chart have increasingly become more sophisticated and more inclusive, the chart’s position in the music world has always been a source of conversation and fascination for many individuals. | | |
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| "Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys" is a column, written by Kathleen Tarrant for the Stranger (www.thestranger.com), about exactly what you think it's about. Dating, rock and roll and compromise. It's some of our favorite music writing anywhere, and we want to collect them all. | | |
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| Kanye deleting his Trump tweets. Snoop Dogg’s video of him mock-shooting a clown Trump. T.I.’s anti-Trump tirade. Rappers idolized Trump, but now they’re singing a different tune. | | |
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| The glaring issue on Toronto rapper-producer Nav’s new album is part of a bigger identity problem South Asian artists face. | | |
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| With ‘Baby Driver,’ ‘Song to Song,’ and ‘Atomic Blonde,’ SXSW’s film festival made moviegoing feel like a concert and a Spotify playlist. | | |
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| Baron of techno Dave Clarke lays out his opinion on why he does not back down on expressing political opinion. | | |
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| Ms. Borda ran the Philharmonic in the 1990s and went on to help the Los Angeles Philharmonic become the envy of the orchestra world. | | |
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| McCartney has long sought control of The Beatles hits he co-authored and has filed a court case against the company that controls them. | | |
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| Any reliable definition of Baton Rouge’s local independent music scene first begins with a discussion of what it is not . Thanks to surrounding cities like New Orleans and Lafayette, whose musical identities have not only been established but fully branded, Baton Rouge musicians often find themselves comparing their scene to the more famous ones that surround it. | | |
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| Mike Ginsberg turned me on to Traffic. I met him at a NEFTY week in New Hampshire. I took the train up to West Hartford and we sat in his attic and he spun the second LP, the one that started with “Feelin’ Alright,” long before Joe Cocker made this song so famous. And then the band blew apart. | | |
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| | | | | | | From "Jimmy Kimmel Live," March 8, 2017. "Hot Thoughts" album comes out Friday on Matador. |
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