We invented a whole new way of enjoying and discovering music, and in doing so, forever changed the listening experience for millions. | | | | Heart's Ann Wilson in Kalamazoo, Mich., July 7, 1977
(Paul Natkin/Archive Photos/Getty Images) | | | | | | “We invented a whole new way of enjoying and discovering music, and in doing so, forever changed the listening experience for millions.”
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| | rantnrave:// Yes I called my boss after this news broke. To congratulate him and ask some questions. Which he politely said he couldn't answer. Public company and all that. Plus, he's new. And he probably has questions, too. We REDEFers are question-askers. These are some of mine: How does PANDORA maintain co-founder TIM WESTERGREN's core values and musical passion in a post-Westergren world? How does one of the kings of music discovery hold onto its crown in an increasingly crowded music-discovery market? How does the music biz respond and what does that mean for Pandora's artist relationships? Does the new management stay invested in on-demand streaming? Does that enhance the core radio product or is it a distraction? Which one's hiding the potential profits? (Also, and this is a question for everybody, not just Pandora, can anyone make money doing this?) (Seriously, can anyone?) What's the future of radio in an on-demand world? Do people want to lean in and lean back on the same service, or do they want different services for different leans? Do 80 million users—and radio users are loyal users—want change or the comfort of not changing? Where do the next 10 or 20 million users come from? Will Pandora and new investor SIRIUS XM, both key players in the car radio market, find the synergy to turn themselves into a highway dream team? (And if so, which one's CURRY and which one's DURANT?) Does anyone else on the board live for music as much as JASON does? Can I get just a little less CARRIE UNDERWOOD on the WOMEN IN COUNTRY RADIO station?... Speaking of the crowded music-discovery market, STATIONHEAD is an intriguing idea—an app that lets you turn your SPOTIFY account into a personal radio station. Whatever you're listening to, anyone can else can listen to in real time. It's a little more complicated than that. But not really. The music plays on each of your followers' Spotify accounts, so if you have a million followers, one play of one song could register as a million streams. Which sounds like an economic game-changer but I'm not so sure it's one we should celebrate. It doesn't change the amount of money in Spotify's coffers, so every extra dollar of royalties for an artist with those million followers is one less dollar for an artist with a smaller footprint... TWITTER has suspended the accounts of THE FADER, PIGEONS & PLANES and two other music sites, possibly for tweeting footage from the BET AWARDS on Sunday and the NBA AWARDS on Monday. The sites were still down as of late Tuesday night... Two more summer festivals canceled, because of economics and the environment... Two beautifully rendered appreciations of the great jazz pianist GERI ALLEN, one written by ETHAN IVERSON two weeks ago and one by DAVID R. ADLER as her obituary. She died Tuesday at age 60. RIP... Get well soon, MELODY PROCHET. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta - Ray Murray, Sleepy Brown, and Rico Wade - known to the world as Organized Noize. | | |
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| Not too long ago, the NBA feared the influence of hip-hop was bad for business. As Drake hosts the first NBA Awards, it seems the league changed its mind. | | |
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| For those new to Ed Sheeran, his headline slot at Glastonbury caused a bit of confusion. How come he could stop playing his guitar, yet the music carried on? | | |
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| Lana Del Rey muses with collaborator and self-proclaimed “witchy sister” Stevie Nicks about the forces that shaped her anthemic new album-and her very own lust for life. | | |
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| Pandora announced today that CEO Tim Westergren has stepped down from his role as chief executive and is giving up his seat on the board. This is the second departure for Westergren. | | |
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| U2 bassist Adam Clayton delivered a moving account of his battle with alcoholism at the annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert. Read the speech here. | | |
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| Disliked by the French and misunderstood by the English, what the anthem says about our nation. | | |
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| By turning playlists into personal radio stations powered by collective listening, the new app Stationhead could just be the shot in the arm the streaming business has been looking for. | | |
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| In an excerpt from his book "The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock." David Weigel examines the short-lived success and decline of England’s prog rock heroes King Crimson. | | |
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| We get it--you’re a business, man. | | |
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| A comprehensive retelling of the album that cemented Whitney Houston's legacy | | |
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| A guide through computational creativity, part one. | | |
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| Tracing the journey of the d&b kid from the Midlands. | | |
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| Why you should always trust your taste and other sage advice from Nick Catchdubs, co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records. | | |
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| Other artists would love to be the poster band for anti-Trump alienation, but the DC quartet want debut album "Nothing Feels Natural" to represent more. | | |
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| Rainbow Riots, an album of artists from Uganda, Jamaica and more, highlights the grass roots movements in areas rife with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence. | | |
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| Geri Allen, a widely influential jazz pianist, composer and educator who defied classification while steadfastly affirming her roots in the hard-bop tradition of her native Detroit, died on Tuesday in Philadelphia. | | |
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| Stories about both the abuse of the DMCA process and the peril YouTubers regularly find themselves subject to by way of intellectual property laws are both legion, but to see the truely egregious nature of the abuse of this sort of thing, it takes a story about them intersecting. | | |
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| Have Shazam and Grammy winner Wyclef Jean found the secret to what's next in music, tech and advertising? Go behind-the-scenes of their next moves after their appearances during the Cannes Lions Festival. | | |
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| The could-be-true story behind the rumored what-have-we-done-to-deserve-this Vin Diesel/Steve Aoki EDM collaboration. | | |
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