When a white and a black guy work together, and really are partners and go through all those things, what comes out is a hundred times better and more unique than what could have come out had we worked together and it was a different arrangement. I want people to see that. | | | | Jordan Hyde and Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff in London, Oct. 17, 2017.
(Edu Hawkins/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “When a white and a black guy work together, and really are partners and go through all those things, what comes out is a hundred times better and more unique than what could have come out had we worked together and it was a different arrangement. I want people to see that.”
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| | rantnrave:// Are YOUTUBE's days as the record industry's public enemy #1 coming to an end? UMG has signed a new long-term deal with the site, and both BLOOMBERG and VARIETY are reporting that SONY has, too, meaning all three majors are onboard as YouTube prepares for the launch of its third attempt at a music subscription service (or, if Variety's sources are right, an upgraded version of the two-year-old YOUTUBE RED service). Does LYOR COHEN get the credit for the music-biz détente? Can his company deliver what the labels want (converting more users from free to paid, paying out more royalties and cracking down on illegal content)? More to the point, can it deliver what consumers want and offer them something they're not already getting at SPOTIFY, APPLE or plain old YouTube? Get that part wrong and nothing else matters, right?... A "massive victory" for songwriters and publishers. Radio companies and other music licensees are not so happy... Four specific asks from the STOP2018 campaign, launched in the UK this week in the wake of a devastating BBC report on sexual assault and harassment in the music biz: Create an industry-wide safe space for victims to report abuse. Stop working with artists, managers, lawyers or anyone else who is a predator or bully. Equal pay and equal opportunities for women. Stop "telling artists they need to wear provocative clothing or flirt with executives to be successful." The only one of those things that's even remotely easy to do, in practice, is #1. Which is why companies should work as hard as they can at #2, 3 and 4. Can there be equal opportunities for women in a business where some men are scared to even have a meeting with a woman? Can the idea that artists have an absolute right to be as provocative as they want co-exist with the idea that they have an equally absolute right not to? Can *that* safe space ever be built? This is the right time to try... Two of RUSSELL SIMMONS' accusers tell their stories to MEGYN KELLY... As an old-school newspaper guy, magazine publishing dates confuse me. If the Dec. 14 NY TIMES comes out on Dec. 14, why can't the Dec. 14 ROLLING STONE come out on Dec. 14? At the very least, why can't it come out in December? Why am I currently reading the January WIRED? Props to BILLBOARD, which is re-dating its charts—and the magazine itself—"to align closer to release week," according to its own headline (and "closer to the rotation of the EARTH," according to my thought bubble). Specifically, "the adjustment will result in charts being dated to the Saturday following their posting, or four days after the Tuesday refresh of all rankings on the website." My head is spinning like a dreidel, but I think we're getting closer... Bad news for JUGGALOS... RIP KEVIN MAHOGANY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Complex |
| Bill Adler's "Xmas Jollies"... and the story behind rap's greatest holiday song, "Christmas in Hollis." | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Breaking down the year’s most important stories in the world of streaming and looking forward to what’s next. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Artists and industry experts on how pop's paradigm shifted -- and what it means for 2018 and beyond. | | |
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 | Vinyl Me, Please |
| We talk to Moby about the smash album he thought would be his last. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As the music industry heads into the holiday season, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals just gave songwriters and music publishers a gift with its decision that the consent decree allows fractionalized licensing. Fractionalized licensing means that in cases of songs written by multiple songwriters music users need to get a license from all of the songwriters, or their representatives. | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| We highlight the artists and musical movements that defined the year. | | |
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| Complex |
| He also shares the movie that became '8 Mile' was originally intended for 2Pac. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| On his new album 'Revival,' Eminem grapples with privilege and political correctness--which gets a little messy. | | |
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 | Mixmag |
| How many stories of sexual assault go like this: "I was at a club and XYZ happened, and then I woke up, and I don't remember what happened"? It's a massive statistical slice of how sexual assaults happen. We're in the lion's den and we need to start acting like it. | | |
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 | Slate |
| If living well is the best revenge, perhaps charting well is the best Grammy clap-back? For Ed Sheeran, our premier polymath pop troubadour, this holiday season really has been the ultimate in bad news–good news whiplash. | | |
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| Noisey |
| Jamal Edwards, Devlin, Ghetts, and more discuss ten years of a platform that shifted the culture (and shone a light on Ed Sheeran in the process). | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| This year, some of white America’s biggest pop stars went through an identity crisis - and the biggest chart successes were from the underdogs. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| YouTube signed a new long-term agreement with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, promising stronger policing of user uploads of copyrighted songs and paving the way for a new paid service after two years of tumultuous negotiations. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| Apparently, pop culture can now assign an entire generation their own color. "Millennial Pink" has supposedly been on the rise for the past few years, but 2017 is when it became inescapable. Everywhere I looked this year, the subdued-yet-quirky shade was lurking. BAM, there it is in a weirdly sexual Postmates ad on the subway. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Fagen gives his first in-depth interview since Becker's September death to talk legacy, lawsuit in latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. | | |
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 | Glamour |
| 'It was time to face my fears.' | | |
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 | Adam Neely |
| It's hard to even begin to quantify what the "most difficult piece of music" is, but if we look at it through the lens of Physical Virtuosity and Conceptual Virtuosity, we can at least get a good idea of what difficult in music even means, and what are some contenders for the most difficult piece of music. | | |
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| Resident Advisor |
| Max Pearl profiles one of dance music's most distinctive new voices. | | |
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 | NPR Music |
| Kevin Whitehead remembers alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, pianist Geri Allen, guitarist John Abercrombie and singer Jon Hendricks. Each "helped shape jazz after the upheavals of the 1960s," he says. | | |
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 | The Muse |
| Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Louis Tomlinson... | | |
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 | SoundCloud |
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