I know you can’t listen to [R. Kelly], I said, but can you find joy in any music now? 'No,' she said. 'Not really. Not very much. No.' | | | | Rosalía at Primavera Sound, Barcelona, June 1, 2019.
(Xavi Torrent/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I know you can’t listen to [R. Kelly], I said, but can you find joy in any music now? 'No,' she said. 'Not really. Not very much. No.'”
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| | rantnrave:// The reports of ITUNES' death, it turns out, were somewhat exaggerated. APPLE confirmed Monday that the music management software everyone loves to hate will be moved to trash with the next major update of the Mac operating system this fall. But the ITUNES STORE isn't going away. If you're still looking, come October, for the MP3 version of "OLD TOWN ROAD," which will be in its JAMES HOLZHAUER-like 27th week at #1 (yes, I know), it will still be available for $1.29 on iTunes. And if you're wondering what happened to all the iTunes playlists you've been carefully curating since the turn of the century, they'll be waiting for you, assuming all goes right, in APPLE MUSIC, one of three specialized apps that will replace the sprawling mess that used to be your iTunes. (So wait, instead of having the Apple Music streaming service inside your iTunes, as you do now, you'll have your iTunes inside your Apple Music? Why, yes, sort of. As an added bonus, the iTunes Store will be hidden behind the app's view tab. You'll adapt.) And if you're a WINDOWS user, iTunes isn't going anywhere; you still get to use it, same as always, for better and for worse. So iTunes isn't dying so much as transitioning. But it's a big transition nonetheless, less the death of an app than the death of an idea. In addition to decluttering an old, bloated app, moving TV shows over here and podcasts over there, Apple is confirming what it and you have long known: Owning music and other content has lost; subscribing to it has won. The early 21st century holy trinity of iTunes app, iTunes Store and iPod has outlived its reason for being, even while each of its components continues to exist in one way or another. And hopefully will continue to exist for a long time. I still, at the very least, need a safe place to stash my PRINCE bootlegs. And a way to listen to them when my phone and wireless networks all go down. Which is when I need to hear them the most... The most important piece of music hardware you own, by a long shot, may be your earbuds. And not just because of how they sound... I don't for a second doubt the enormity of JAY-Z's wealth, which FORBES says has crossed the $1 billion line. But I automatically doubt any exact figures any media outlet tries to assign to any celebrity's net worth. So many assumptions in all such stories. So much speculation. So much they couldn’t possibly know. (Also: TIDAL, are you really worth a hundred million bucks?)... The rules of concert etiquette, according to TWITTER... RIP LAWRENCE LEATHERS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Verge |
| The digital hub that collapsed under its own weight. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Two decades ago, an anonymous fax made devastating accusations against the R. & B. star. But it took years for the world to listen to his alleged victims. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Dead stars from Whitney Houston to Maria Callas are going on tour again. As Miley Cyrus explores the issue in a new Black Mirror, we uncover the greatest identity crisis in music today. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The 37-year-old drummer was found dead on Sunday in New York following an alleged altercation with his girlfriend and another individual. | | |
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 | Red Bull Music Academy |
| Christina Lee pays tribute to the instrumental influence of the Atlanta scene’s trusted trap ambassador, who passed away in December 2018. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Japanese-style listening bars, where D.J.’s spin carefully selected records for a hushed audience, are arriving in America. But truly appreciating them can take a little practice. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Twenty years ago, when she would ask publishers to license sheet music so her company, Musicnotes, could sell it online, Kathy Marsh would usually receive a two-word response: Forget it. "'People will never buy digital sheet music' - that’s from a big publisher," remembers Marsh, Musicnotes' co-founder and CEO. | | |
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 | Teen Vogue |
| "A black guy who raps comes along and he's on top of the country chart, it's like, ‘What the f***?’" | | |
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 | Wired |
| In the 1950s, experimental composer John Cage began to explore what would happen if some parts of a musical composition were left to chance. Music-writing, as he saw it, was doused in ego-like an artist's self-portrait-and he imagined a new form that could essentially compose itself. | | |
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 | Robert Plant |
| In the first episode of 'Digging Deep', Robert Plant discusses, 'Calling To You', the opening track on his 1993 album 'Fate of Nations'. | | |
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 | Roots Music Canada |
| Today’s column from veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tamblyn is adapted from a speech he gave at a symposium at Trent University. It’s a long read, but we decided to post it here all at once it its entirety because, well, it’s just that good. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The music industry can tell us a lot about our winner-take-all economy. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| New billionaire Jay-Z has accumulated a varied fortune stretching from champagne and cognac to tech startups and real estate. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Meet the artists who are using the social media platform to its fullest. | | |
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 | Jacobs Media Strategies |
| Your taste in music used to revolve around the albums, songs, and artists you grew up with -- not anymore. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Even if movies like ‘Rocketman’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ tell well-worn stories of hedonism and greedy music-industry types, they offer something truly valuable: a rich back catalog of songs. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How Carlos Santana scored his first hit in decades with help from Matchbox Twenty’s frontman - and how it almost didn’t happen. Inside the making of the unlikely 1999 megahit. | | |
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 | Paper |
| Before 2018's "Crazy Rich Asians" starred Hollywood's first all-Asian cast in 25 years, before Korean boyband BTS became the first K-pop group to present at the Grammy's, and before Sandra Oh and Aziz Ansari made history as the "first Asians" to win their respective categories at the Golden Globes -- there was 88Rising. | | |
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 | The FADER |
| Roky Erickson, the psychedelic pioneer and 13th Floor Elevators frontman who died last Friday, was the greatest alien left stranded in our midst. | | |
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 | Real Life |
| Wireless headphones are augmented reality devices. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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