The whole ecosystem's been disrupted in a seismic way, so it just ripples out. | | | | Dua Lipa at the New Yorker Festival, New York, Oct. 11, 2019. "Future Nostalgia" is out today on Warner.
(Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | “The whole ecosystem's been disrupted in a seismic way, so it just ripples out.”
| | | | | | rantnrave:// The boss sent me this MTV NEWS LEBANON video of a bouzouki player, TOROS NACCASHIAN, entertaining his neighborhood from a fourth-story corner balcony, and it was a welcome reminder that live music is doing a pretty good job surviving its own death. The devastation to the club and touring industries is very real, threatening the livelihoods of artists, crews and others whose careers depend on people being able to leave their homes. We've been robbed of a communal experience that's central to many of our lives. There may be a long, difficult recovery ahead. But we still need live music, right now, especially right now. Our isolation kills one kind of live music experience but demands another—a way to communicate across vacant courtyards, empty streets and locked-down nations. Music is ringing out as loudly as ever, from windows and balconies, from intimate rooms, from every nook and cranny of the internet, from wherever anyone still has access. From Lebanon, from Spain, from Italy. From MARGO PRICE's attic and NEIL YOUNG's ranch. You can slow down the business but you can't stop the music... And you will never, ever run out of streaming options. JOHN LEGEND, JOE JONAS, DIPLO, MONSTA X and BARRY GIBB are among the long list of scheduled performers at TWITCH's 12-hour-long STREAM AID benefit show, which starts at 9 am PT Saturday. Three years' worth of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS performances are available here. More than 50 sets from the archives of the MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL are streaming for free here. For example... You will not be surprised to learn, meanwhile, that people are still releasing albums and singles. And 17-minute songs that are sort of about the KENNEDY assassination and sort of about the last half-century of music and sort of about things that pop-culture scholars will be digging up for years to come, as some 78-year-old dude from Minnesota who once won a NOBEL PRIZE has just done. It feels weirdly right for this moment... It's Friday and that means there's also new music from DUA LIPA, PARTYNEXTDOOR, JOYNER LUCAS, WAXAHATCHEE, JESSIE REYEZ, KNXWLEDGE, SKEPTA/CHIP/YOUNG ADZ, NINE INCH NAILS (two albums released Thursday), PEARL JAM, BRIAN FALLON, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, LILLY HIATT, BASIA BULAT, VANESSA CARLTON, LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL, MARGARET GLASPY, JEEZY, DIRTY PROJECTORS, SORRY, JASMINE INFINITI, NICOLAS JAAR, DANIEL AVERY & ALESSANDRO CORTINI, MR. SCRUFF (DJ-KICKS mix), LITTLE DRAGON, the ORB, ORION SUN, SIMON FISHER TURNER & EDMUND DE WAAL, FERRY CORSTEN, KANDACE SPRINGS, BÉLA FLECK & TOUMANI DIABATÉ, AVISHAI COHEN, SLIM THUG, HALF WAIF, the CHATS, IN THIS MOMENT, the SUICIDE MACHINES, ME AND THAT MAN, DEEPER, FACS and CLEM SNIDE... RIP PHIL PHILLIPS and MIKE BEZZEG. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | |  | Billboard | | The concert business shutdown is creating a credit crisis that’s choking indie promoters. The industry that emerges after will be more competitive than ever. | | | |  | VICE | | "The whole ecosystem has been disrupted in a seismic way so it just ripples out." | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Tracy Maddux, the boss of CD Baby parent AVL, speaks from his unique experience on the subject. | | | |  | Complex | | From interview-focused hip-hop podcasts like Drink Champs to serialized programs that analyze full albums on a song-by-song basis like Dissect, there are plenty of great options on Spotify, Apple, and other streaming platforms. | | | |  | Guitar World | | Traditional tonewoods are under pressure. Can luthiers create a new generation of planet-friendly acoustic guitars? | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | “This was a whole new world, this world of studying musicians,” says of his show ‘The Big Interview,’ which has featured everyone from Neil Young to Ice Cube. | | | |  | The Ringer | | Netflix’s gripping new documentary, ‘Tiger King,’ brings us into a world filled with big jungle cats, pink camo guns, and alleged murder-for-hire plots. But nothing in it is as enthralling as its star’s would-be music career. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | The stimulus plan should also aid record store, venue, and label owners who’ve been affected by the outbreak of COVID-19. | | | | | Rolling Stone | | Spotify, Amazon, Warner Music Group, and other major music companies are donating to coronavirus relief - but the acts pale in comparison to more meaningful measures elsewhere in the industry. | | | |  | Austin Chronicle | | Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies | | | |  | Broken Record | | John Legend | | by Rick Rubin, Justin Richmond and John Legend | | During these tough times, Rick Rubin wanted to have a chat with an artist he finds inspiring. Top of mind was John Legend. So he called him up via Zoom, while both were sheltering in place, for a quick chat about his career and the creative process behind two of his biggest songs. | | | |  | WTF with Marc Maron | | Kathy Valentine is in one of the most famous and profitable female rock bands ever but she’s really taken to becoming a writer. That's because she’s got a lot of stories to tell. Kathy talks with Marc about her new memoir that chronicles her early life and the peak of The Go-Go’s. | | | |  | ESPN | | The ticketing giant StubHub has begun furloughing employees and similar websites are also facing financial challenges due to events being canceled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. | | | | | Music Business Worldwide | | Absolute Label Services shares some of the advice it has been giving artists and managers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. | | | |  | Aquarium Drunkard | | For the last decade, William Tyler's widescreen guitar epics have told wordless stories, about forgotten histories, American myths, backroads, and mystic visions. On this episode of Transmissions he discusses traveling to Nashville as the pandemic spread and the art he's been enjoying while hunkered down. | | | |  | Africa is a Country | | The evolution of techno, from within Detroit’s African-American community to Kampala, Uganda. | | | |  | IEEE Spectrum | | Georgia Tech’s marimba-playing robot can now compose and sing its own music. | | | |  | DJ Tech Tools | | Everyone in the dance music community has felt the impact of social isolation and a global shutdown. In today's article, guest contributor Matty Adams has talked to nine DJs around the world about how they're prioritizing their mental health and adjusting to our new reality. | | | | | Billboard | | A man, enraged, stares directly into the camera, his face contorted in a grimace. He reaches forward, both hands outstretched grasping for an off-screen throat - or he raises one fist, with the other hand just out of view holding his target in place. The would-be victim, at least for a split second, is the viewer. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | I mean, yeah, there's a new Bob Dylan epic but there's also a new Rihanna song. From PartyNextDoor's "PARTYMOBILE," out today on OVO Sound/Warner. | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group | | |
