If you don’t embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful, and have gratitude for the tiniest things. | | | | Rock and roll all nite and turkey every day: Gene Simmons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York, Nov. 27, 2014.
(Michael Stewart/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If you don’t embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful, and have gratitude for the tiniest things.”
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| | rantnrave:// The original version of "OLD TOWN ROAD" was recorded a year ago next Monday and released a year ago next Tuesday, which, besides being a random reminder of the gloriously WTF moment in pop that we're living in, is a reminder that this all-time wonderful thing, this strange little song of freedom and wanderlust and identity and beauty (and WRANGLER jeans and GUCCI cowboy hats), didn't exist a year ago today. I'm thankful this week for the regenerative soul of pop, for its neverending ability to renew itself and surprise all of us, over and over again. I'm thankful for the new versions of freedom and wanderlust and identity and beauty by artists like MEGAN THEE STALLION and the HIGHWOMEN and YOLA and BRANDEE YOUNGER and BLACKS' MYTHS and BILLIE EILISH that were added to my consciousness and my playlists in the past year. And I'm thankful for the even newer ones to come in the year ahead. The world's a mess but music's holding up just fine. MusicREDEF will be off for the rest of this holiday week; we'll be back Monday. Wishing you a peaceful and delicious and musical Thanksgiving... In the meantime: It will take a while to understand how this blockbuster deal in the secondary ticketing market is going to affect the live music business. But one thing I take for granted about a deal that reunites VIAGOGO CEO ERIC BAKER with his old company: The primary ticketing market will be directly affected, too (as STUBHUB president SUKHINDER SINGH CASSIDY telegraphs here)... SPEEDY ORTIZ frontwoman SADIE DUPIUS and the DOWNTOWN BOYS are among a group of artists pulling their catalog from AMAZON MUSIC to protest Amazon's connections to the US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (ICE). They're asking other artists to join them, as part of the NO MUSIC FOR ICE campaign, which began as a pledge to not play at Amazon-sponsored events... CARLY RAE JEPSEN at the TINY DESK... Friday is BLACK FRIDAY, which means a special mini-version of RECORD STORE DAY, with all sorts of limited-edition vinyl by all sorts of people. Friday also brings the purplest edition of PRINCE's 1999 ever, and new music by CATTLE DECAPITATION, JME, SMOKE DZA & CURREN$Y, the GAME, FABOLOUS, JUDY COLLINS, the FLAMING LIPS, BLAC YOUNGSTA, BOBBY WATSON/VINCENT HERRING/GARY BARTZ, JOE PESCI and IF YOU'RE GOING TO THE CITY: A TRIBUTE TO MOSE ALLISON (featuring IGGY POP, FIONA APPLE, TAJ MAJAL and others)... RIP DOUG LUBAHN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Harper's Magazine |
| That year, the year of the Ghost Ship fire, I lived in a shack. I’d found the place just as September’s Indian summer was giving way to a wet October. There was no plumbing or running water to wash my hands or brush my teeth before sleep. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Finance |
| EBay shares went up after the e-commerce company announced plans to sell StubHub to Viagogo for $4.05 billion in cash. StubHub’s President Sukhinder Singh Cassidy joins Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round to discuss the deal. | | |
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 | VICE |
| Drake's rejection at Camp Flog Gnaw earlier this month shows that fans increasingly believe they have control of the aux cord, even when it harms artists. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Somewhere between Britney and Billie Eilish, liberated by social media and their direct relationship with fans, millennial and Gen Z women claimed the right to be complicated pop auteurs. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Two beloved female stars ended their own lives in two months, exposing the dark side of being a K-pop idol. | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| Coldplay announced this week that they are not going to tour until they can figure out a climate neutral or climate positive way to do so. Touring has a massive CO2 output. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| Just 15, Rylan Wilder has performed at Riot Fest and has played at the House of Blues as lead guitarist and singer for the rock band Monarchy Over Monday. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| They bicker. They stay in separate hotels and record without ever being in the same room. But Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend can still conjure old magic. | | |
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 | British GQ |
| You don’t spend four decades at the forefront of British punk music without picking up a lesson or two. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Peppa walked so the Frock Destroyers could run. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| Defining a decade isn’t about selling the most records, making the most money, or building the biggest personal brand; it’s about shaping the culture, leading by example, building a scene or inspiring a movement. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Did your favourite make the cut? | | |
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 | BBC News |
| Music industry veteran Jeremy Lascelles looks back on how illegal downloads threatened the business. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On its fiftieth anniversary, the revered jazz and classical label launches a major Beethoven cycle with the Danish String Quartet. | | |
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| BBC News |
| How a posthumous album from one of hip-hop's most influential duos was held to "ransom". | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Synthwave began as something of a retro gumbo, pulling from modern house and nu disco music and piling in influences from vintage genres like Euro disco and the original sounds of electro. Enjoy Preston Cram's, aka "Iron Skullet" list of some of the most standout examples of synthwaves' reach into virtually every entertainment medium today. | | |
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 | The New Statesman |
| In the spring of 1988, Neil Young released his nineteenth studio album, "This Note's For You". A reference to Budweiser's 1980s advertising slogan "This Bud's for you", the album lamented the commercialisation of music. On its title track, Young sings: "Ain't singing for Pepsi / Ain't singing for Coke / I don't sing for nobody / Makes me look like a joke". | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| The new generation of smart speakers don't always play nice with each other's ecosystems, but at least they all sound much better. | | |
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 | Kerrang! |
| Jack Black and Kyle Gass look back and share memories of Tenacious D's self-titled debut album, 18 years on. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| From 2010 to 2019, both the business and culture of music went through an unprecedented revolution. Here are the biggest, craziest moments to remember. | | |
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