Most of the T-shirts were homemade or bootlegged versions shipped in and sold on street markets. Misspelling of band names, inaccurate album covers and lyrics scrawled on the back that had nothing to do with the associated album on the front... But the Malagasy metal fans who were fortunate to own a few did not care. They loved those shirts as much as they love the music and those bands. | | | | | Unspooled. (Christian Schnettelker/Flickr) | | | | |  | “Most of the T-shirts were homemade or bootlegged versions shipped in and sold on street markets. Misspelling of band names, inaccurate album covers and lyrics scrawled on the back that had nothing to do with the associated album on the front... But the Malagasy metal fans who were fortunate to own a few did not care. They loved those shirts as much as they love the music and those bands.”
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| | rantnrave:// Using bots to buy concert tickets for resale has long been illegal in NEW YORK, but it will become even more illegal under a law signed this week by GOV. ANDREW CUOMO. The new law adds stiffer fines and potential jail time for anyone who "knowingly" resells a ticket that was bought with a bot ("bot bought"?) for resale purposes. Two things ignored by most of the coverage so far: How do you enforce that? And what do you do about "legit" resellers like STUBHUB, which is where many of those bot-boughts are sold, but which can plausibly claim not to know, even though you know and I know and even LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA knows. SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER, the new minority leader, has proposed a similar bill at the federal level, but says he doesn't want to target STUBHUB and TICKETMASTER, which is kind of like outlawing unpasteurized milk but allowing stores to continue selling it... The more that playlist programmers act like old-school radio programmers, the less I want to listen... Happy December. As we do every year, we're compiling the best of the music web's year-end lists in our own master list, Best of 2016: The Year in Lists. We'll continue adding to it until early next year when the VILLAGE VOICE publishes its PAZZ & JOP poll, which is traditionally the last word (chronologically speaking anyway) in pop canvassing. Based on early returns, BEYONCÉ and BOWIE are your fully deserving if slightly obvious 2016 frontrunners. Dark horses: CAR SEAT HEADREST, MITSKI, THE 1975... ANGEL OLSEN on SONG EXPLODER... CALVIN HARRIS & RIHANNA's "THIS IS WHAT YOU CAME FOR" is the 34th song to get at least a billion views on YOUTUBE. Before you click, how many of the others can you name?... BELLE & SEBASTIAN is looking for album cover models. "No experience necessary. No pouting necessary"... Credit-card-sized synth. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | UPROXX |
| Talib Kweli, Johnetta Elzie and Tef Poe speak on hip-hop's interactions with social justice movements both in the past and today. | | |
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| Context awareness can transform the creative process, and generate new revenue streams and business models for the music industry. | | |
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 | Real Life |
| Now more than ever, new speculative forms feel necessary to help realize a world beyond oppression and inequality, in better service of the individual. | | |
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 | 3:AM Magazine |
| Before Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's adoption by a growing number of hip hop stars, Stevie Wonder called him "an incredible pioneer" to whom the music world is much indebted. Long before he passed on, Miles Davis regarded him as the future of music. Mos Def, on his part, likens him to Bob Marley, Rick James, ODB, Huey Newton and Duke Ellington. | | |
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| Our annual running list of top 10s, top 40s, top 50s and top whatevers from around the music universe. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Spotify is upping its game when it comes to original content with more than one new program. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Rae Sremmurd's Slim Jxmmi, Mike Will, manager DJ Mormile and Interscope Records vice chairman Steve Berman talk about "Black Beatles" rapid Internet takeover, how Sir Paul co-signed the track and the organic creative process that made the chart-topping victory extra special. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| I went to Africa to find heavy metal, not to spread Satanism | | |
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 | NPR |
| Americana's Emerging Artist of the Year plays live onstage at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Watch the performance and a conversation with NPR Music's Ann Powers. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Charting the pop diva’s relationship with the festive season. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| For nearly half a century, the novelist, ladies' man and Buddhist monk built a tower of song – even though darkness was never far off. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| Music criticism isn’t much of a job for those who seek the celebrity that comes with being instantly recognizable. Long gone are the days where a critic might gain the kind of fame that would beget Philip Seymour Hoffman playing them in a movie, or appearances to quip about ‘80s ephemera on VH1 talk shows. | | |
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 | Passion of the Weiss |
| Cory Lomberg speaks with Vince Staples about living in the ocean, video games, and America. | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| Ultimately, it was due to the country smash "Girl Crush" that I drove to the Boston area on October 26 to interview Lori McKenna in her natural habitat, the big unluxurious cul-de-sac house in her native Stoughton that the 47-year-old artist shares with her plumber husband Gene and four of... | | |
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 | Fact Magazine |
| FACT's Chris Kelly speaks to Dawn Richard, Ash Koosha and more to discover how VR might shape the music experience in 2017 and beyond. | | |
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| Forbes |
| Thousands of artists rely on crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter to raise money for their album projects, some are more successful than others. Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck employs a combination of out-of-the-box ideas and nostalgic strategies to engage his audience and keep the money flowing in. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda and the stars of his hit musical are moving out from under the umbrella of this new cultural brand, and trying to extend its lessons. | | |
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 | The Talkhouse |
| Christian McAlhaney talks Acceptance’s reunion. | | |
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| NPR |
| In the wake of Fidel Castro's death, Alt.Latino looks at the artists who remained in Cuba after the revolution and those who've left -- and how their music reflects both realities. | | |
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