We need to try to imagine what the future can hold idealistically. We need to start articulating our utopias, articulating what needs to be burned and what needs to be saved. | | | | Shabaka Hutchings at Bonnaroo, Manchester, Tenn. June 13, 2019.
(FilmMagic/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | “We need to try to imagine what the future can hold idealistically. We need to start articulating our utopias, articulating what needs to be burned and what needs to be saved.”
| | | | | | rantnrave:// We seem to have gone from "everything should be canceled" to "everything is canceled" in the blink of an eye, or, to put it in 2020 terms, the wash of a hand. You can't cancel music though. That's it. That's the rantnrave. Listen to music. Make music. Be music. Be safe. Have hope. It's FRIDAY and that means new music from SHABAKA & THE ANCESTORS, FOUR TET, JAY ELECTRONICA, CODE ORANGE, BIG FREEDIA, EARLY JAMES, NIALL HORAN, CHIKA, SUIGENERIS, DAX, JELLY ROLL, PORCHES, PORRIDGE RADIO, WILLOW SMITH & TYLER COLE, TAINY... We'll interrupt to note that exactly seven days after releasing ETERNAL ATAKE, LIL UZI VERT was promising to release either a deluxe version with lots of new tracks or a sequel to his mixtape LIL UZI VERT VS. THE WORLD, no one was exactly sure which as of late Thursday night... And CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN (RIP NEAL CASAL), JFDR, the BOOMTOWN RATS, NAZAR, HUMAN IMPACT, the DISTRICTS, DEAP LIPS, ELECTRIC INDIGO, VENUS VOLCANISM, YUMI ZOUMA, JAH9, HILARY WOODS, SAM DOORES, CAITLYN SMITH, ROOKIE, the BOMBPOPS, STITCHED UP HEART, INVENT ANIMATE, BLUEFACE, KRIZZ KALIKO, DON TOLIVER, DJ ESCO & DOE BOY, RICH THE KID, JACK HARLOW, CIRCA WAVES, GROUPLOVE, PETER BJORN AND JOHN, DEITRICK HADDON, AL DI MEOLA, the SHIRES, MARIA MCKEE, KING SOLOMON HICKS and SASS JORDAN... And a new HAMILTON song from LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA... RIP DON BURROWS and JIM WILLIAMSON... The MusicREDEF staff is self-quarantining for a long weekend. We'll be back in your inbox Tuesday. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | | | | | because you're empty and i'm empty | |  | The New York Times | | This music defines the moment. Listen for yourself. | | | |  | Vulture | | Everything you need to know before making that call. | | | |  | Highsnobiety | | The rise of "Lottery" and no-melody rap is causing a seismic sonic shift in the hip-hop of the next generation - we dig into how TikTok is the root cause. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | On Thursday, key figures in several corners of the live entertainment business announced the formation of a global task force to help steer the industry through these uncharted waters. | | | |  | Longreads | | For years, singer-songwriter Paul Curreri was a shouter of singular beauty. Then he went quiet — slowly, at first, then all of a sudden. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | The live music industry and the insurance industry are battling over who’s responsible for canceled shows’ multimillion-dollar losses. A contract obtained by Rolling Stone shows coronavirus specifically excluded in coverage. | | | |  | Input | | But I found out the hard way you don't want to learn too much about who's making them. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Artist First founder Claudio Ferrante on life and business under Coronavirus lockdown in Italy. | | | |  | Afropunk | | If from this day forward Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson did nothing more in her career as a rave producer, promoter and evangelist, the Londoner-turned-New-Yorker would still be regarded as a leading club activist, and an extraordinarily influential figure, in city nightlife of the past half-decade. | | | |  | MusicAlly | | Over a series of articles for US journal The Baffler, Liz Pelly has examined the culture and dynamics of music streaming, and Spotify in particular. | | | | | | | you can never quarantine the past | |  | Music Tectonics | | How can the music industry take a proactive role in confronting the climate crisis? Tristra Newyear Yeager chats with Bas Grasmayer about the answers tech is providing for music biz sectors from live events to streaming. Why are music festivals the perfect context to explore innovation, inspire attendees to shift their behaviors, and incubate ideas that have positive impacts on climate? | | | |  | The New Yorker | | Eunice Norton played with ferocious spiritual devotion and rugged physical intensity, and said that the best way to approach music was to “think in shapes.” | | | |  | Complex | | Rappers and singers share their experiences with 1501 Certified Entertainment and its label head, Carl Crawford. | | | | | The New York Times | | To celebrate the anniversary of her native Benin and other West African nations, the singer leads a program of mostly African songs from the 1960s at Carnegie Hall. | | | |  | InsideHook | | “Slow ticketing” and locals-only policies aren’t sexy, but they work. | | | |  | Billboard | | With a tireless team at his side, the insatiably curious multihyphenate seems to have the key to success in the post-EDM era: diversify or die. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | CMT’s lead music strategist talks her move from rock to country, her favorite artist encounters, and the network’s decision to pledge 50/50 gender parity. | | | |  | HUCK Magazine | | One of the most influential musicians alive, the Nigerian drummer is back with his decade-in-the-making new album, "Rejoice." | | | |  | MusicRow | | As President and CEO of SoundExchange, Michael Huppe wants to make sure that the organization's identity and mission is clear. Beyond paying out royalties, SoundExchange works to ensure fair market rates for creators' works by being a leader in the music industry's participation in the Copyright Royalty Board's rate procedures, and works to hold digital music services accountable by conducting audits and pursing legal action when necessary. | | | |  | Chicago Reader | | This Chicago string quartet takes chamber music outside the institutions that have long excluded Black musicians and audiences. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | Shabaka and the Ancestors | | | | From "We Are Sent Here by History," out today on Impulse! | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group | | |
