broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words. | | | | Ariana Grande performing in Phoenix, Feb. 3, 2017.
(Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words.”
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| | rantnrave:// This is the third time in three years I've had the awful opportunity to write about mass killings at a concert or music club. As of this writing, the exact nature of the crime at ARIANA GRANDE's show in MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, is unknown—as if the murder of at least 22 strangers, for any reason, could be considered anything but terrorism. Why music? Why LE BATACLAN in 2015? Why PULSE in 2016? Why the MANCHESTER ARENA in 2017? Are the killers threatened by people expressing joy and love and freedom? Are they threatened by those who dare open their hearts in song? Are they jealous of artistic transcendence and ecstasy? Can we ask logical questions of illogical actors? Actually, yes we can. That's one of the things art does. And we can, and we will, keep singing. And playing. And listening. And dancing. And everything else that humans can do in the face of hatred and madness. RIP to all the souls lost on Tuesday night and thoughts, prayers and hugs to Ariana Grande and everyone else who was there... Another good way to respond... You can count SAUDI ARABIA among the societies that are officially hostile to music, even if its citizens aren't. ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS' reporting (for NPR MUSIC) on how TOBY KEITH ended up performing in the kingdom Saturday night is a cool and timely look into why Saudi officials and clerics have forbidden much music—especially vocal music—and why they are beginning to ease up on that prohibition. Among the reasons: Young Saudis were leaving the country to see shows, and taking $20 billion worth of business with them... What a long strange documentary: producers ERIC EISNER and ALEX BLAVATNIK on how they won the trust of both the GRATEFUL DEAD and AMAZON for their documentary LONG STRANGE TRIP, which opens theatrically on Thursday... "I can summarize the benefit of YOUTUBE to artists in a word," IRVING AZOFF tells HITS DAILY DOUBLE. "None"... MATTHEW OGLE, the THIS IS MY JAM veteran who oversaw SPOTIFY's DISCOVER WEEKLY playlists, has jumped ship to INSTAGRAM... RIP also: GEORGE REIFF and JIMMY LAFAVE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| At least one explosion thundered through a Manchester concert arena on Monday night just as a performance by the pop star Ariana Grande ended in what the police described as a “terrorist incident.” They said at least 19 people were killed and 50 wounded as panicked spectators including children screamed and fled. | | |
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 | The First Ten Words by Rich Larson |
| Goddammit, Chris Cornell is the grunge death that bothers me the most. As I’ve been thinking about this, I’m realizing that it’s both a personal and a generational thing. Cornell had a long struggle with depression. As have I. As have many of you. It’s possible that, along with grunge, Generation X’s other great gift to society is depression. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| A mini-oral history of track-based journalism’s golden age. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| 20 years after the photo shoot, the photographer recalls a long day at the cemetery | | |
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 | NPR |
| The kingdom famously barred public music performances for more than 25 years. So what's changed? And why did the Saudis alight on an American country music star for one of the first approved shows? | | |
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 | HITS Daily Double |
| There isn’t one female in the music industry who hasn’t been sexually harassed at some point in her career. Let that sink in. Not one. | | |
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 | Thump |
| Participants of Techstars Music's accelerator program aim to innovate how we make, experience, and monetize music. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| After the rise of Paris Jackson comes a deluge of Michael Jackson-themed projects. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| The venue at the heart of an explosion outside an Ariana Grande concert that left 19 dead and at least 50 injured is one of the top-grossing venues in Europe and host to dozens of major pop concerts annually. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| The city of Manchester has responded to the death and chaos triggered after an Ariana Grande concert, with offers of beds for the stranded, cups of tea for those stunned and bewildered and free taxi rides home as public transport ground to a halt. | | |
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| NPR |
| The survival of the MP3 is more complicated than the lapse of a patent and its marketplace by its inventors. A wide-ranging discussion with professor Jonathan Sterne helps us unpack its implications. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Who can listen to Eminem’s discography today and not be struck by one of popular music’s most prolonged and extraordinary expressions of interminable sadness? | | |
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| Billboard |
| Merchandising pioneer Dell Furano, founder of Epic Rights, reflects on 40-plus years of retail hits. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| From Big Four thrash to Finnish death/doom, Laura Palmer's ghost has provided inspiration for a wide variety of metal tributes. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| This year, the festival in Durham, N.C., stayed nerdy, featured women and sought a more diverse future. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| Arguably the progenitor of EDM music and culture, DJ/producer Paul Oakenfold has no qualms about the hyper-colored, mainstream juggernaut he has spawned. In his 53rd year, Oakenfold is more interested in playing Mt. Everest then bemoaning a culture that has been co-opted by the likes of the Chainsmokers, flower crowns, and the disastrous Fyre Festival. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| In celebration of Girlpool’s great new album, we’ve compiled a 16-song history of the female alt-rock vocal harmony, from the Shaggs to Sleater-Kinney to Haim. | | |
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 | Pigeons & Planes |
| Music supervisor Zach Cowie discusses rap's influence on season two of Aziz Ansari's Netflix series. | | |
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 | Amplify |
| Concert promoter Peter Shapiro found his way into the music industry in 1993 with a little help from a horde of Deadheads in the parking lot of the Rosemont Horizon Arena. A firm believer that one thing leads to another, Shapiro explains that the passion he saw that night in Chicago changed everything for him. | | |
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 | The Needle Drop |
| It turns out that Siri's got some hot opinions when it comes to music, so in this video I ask her to pick the best album from several popular artists' discographies. This should settle the age-old question of whether Siri is pleb or patrician. | | |
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