Donald Trump is telling you, right now, Slim Shady is a winner. He's got brains, he's got guts and he's got Donald Trump's vote. | | | | Uke of America: Grace VanderWaal at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Oct. 7, 2017.
(Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Donald Trump is telling you, right now, Slim Shady is a winner. He's got brains, he's got guts and he's got Donald Trump's vote.”
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| | rantnrave:// Hey EDDIE, can you lend me a few thousand bucks and tonight can you get us a ride to the WALTER KERR THEATER? That's where SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY officially opens today in front of the least influential cast of theater critics in Broadway history. The show's entire run is sold out, and if the BOSS extends it beyond February, which he has floated as a possibility, those shows will sell out instantly, too, even if the NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY NEWS and ASBURY PARK PRESS all deem it the biggest dud since SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK. Kind of takes the pressure off everybody, I would think. He'll read from his memoir, tell some additional stories, play some familiar songs, duet a bit with PATTI SCIALFA, and repeat five days a week until February. Or maybe he'll decide to tack on a GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, N.J. full-album show at the end of the night, or call in his band halfway into the run and do MTV PLUGGED all over again, he's the Boss, he can do whatever he wants. (Except win a TONY, which may prove to be trickier than you'd think.) Many rock and pop stars have come to the Great White Way before him, some with jukebox musicals, some with adaptations of their albums, some with proper Broadway musicals with original books and lyrics and all that. With varying success. MusicSET: "Rocking and Rolling on Broadway, From Green Day to U2 to Springsteen"... My all-time favorite rock experiences on Broadway, with the stipulations that I have never seen HEDWIG on a stage and I didn't think RENT was a) rock or b) good: STEW and HEIDI RODEWALD's PASSING STRANGE, which seamlessly split the difference between rock, gospel and theatrical songwriting (and which had the bad luck of being up against LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA's IN THE HEIGHTS for Best Musical, guess who won). DUNCAN SHEIK's SPRING AWAKENING, which imagined 19th century German schoolchildren singing punk-pop and made it sound as natural as ALEXANDER HAMILTON rapping. And JOHN DOYLE's high-concept 2005 revival of STEPHEN SONDHEIM's SWEENEY TODD, with a rock-star turn by MICHAEL CERVERIS (and PATTI LUPONE on tuba)... As of early this morning, PRESIDENT TRUMP hadn't tweeted a word about EMINEM. Someone should check to make sure he's OK. A few smart takes on Eminem's Tuesday night freestyle: SPIN's JEREMY GORDON didn't like the rapping, did like the intention but thinks it "sucks" that it took Eminem to draw attention to an argument that artists like KENDRICK LAMAR and MACKLEMORE have been regularly making. PITCHFORK's MATTHEW ISMAEL RUIZ liked the rapping more and took the performance as a good example of "Eminem wielding his privilege as a weapon." Is your privilege the best way to attack someone else's privilege? Discuss. TOURÉ takes that argument further, seeing a showdown between two different brands of whiteness, both expert in dividing audiences. He also sees a clear winner. Me, too. A major cultural moment... BILLBOARD's Arena Power Players... Of all the people posting incendiary viral controversial content on FACEBOOK, LIL B THE BASED GOD is the one Facebook thinks it needs to block? Hmmm. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The very things that make outdoor concerts so special-freedom, escape, intimacy with strangers-are the first things that the terrorist tries to take away. | | |
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| The rapper and the president use the same classic pop-culture strategy, if to very different ends: saying outrageous things to make fans feel like it’s them against the world. | | |
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| As the Motor City gradually climbs out from bankruptcy, a new creative class is thriving in the margins. | | |
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| For years, Atlanta has been a cultural and musical hub of creativity for the music industry, but its top talent has been forced to leave the city for New York or Los Angeles in order to find success in the business. Is that about to change? | | |
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| The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and the Smiths all benefited from business-minded members, so why don’t responsible rock stars ever get their dues? | | |
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| Broadway may be in the middle of New York City, but for most pop and rock musicians it might as well be on the moon. We remember, and salute, those who have tried to make that very long drive from CBGB or Madison Square Garden to the theater district . | | |
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| Reissuing music from across the Arab Peninsula, Habibi Funk's Jannis Stürtz shares stories from years searching for the region's funkiest records. | | |
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| Artists like Russell Dickerson, Brent Cobb and Brooke Eden are using data from Spotify and Pandora to drive their careers forward. | | |
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| In 2017, pitching tracks to the in-house playlisters at Spotify, Apple Music and other music-streaming services is an important cog in marketing campaigns. | | |
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| The jazz legend has a formidable back catalogue. This is your guide to where (and how) to dive in. | | |
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| The textbook definition of insanity, according to a now familiar cliche, is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. | | |
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| While Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had just wrapped a 40th anniversary tour before Petty's death, no one in the band was talking retirement. Here, the Heartbreakers talk about why the band endured, and what may have laid ahead. | | |
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| The science behind personalized music recommendations. | | |
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| Gucci Mane: A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell (Part 1, Intro) | | |
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| Four years later, Archy Marshall returns to the name that made him a star. | | |
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| Pioneering electronic music bands like Depeche Mode, New Order, Alphaville and Erasure have released new material. It's like the 80s all over again. | | |
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| Grammy-winner Maren Morris performed in Las Vegas the night before shooting spree left 58 dead and hundreds wounded and injured. This is about ‘How do we prevent this from ever happening again,’ she says. | | |
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| The viral music giant has gone through some tough times. | | |
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| Genre labels like “ambient” and “New Age” begin to describe the lucid, transportive nature of the warm tones Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith produces, but fail to emphasize her focus on song structure and composition. | | |
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| 'It surprises me how snarky it's gotten,' Pink says of the pop world in a wide-ranging talk at her home. Her new album, 'Beautiful Trauma,' puts her powerful voice first. | | |
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