I just kind of, in the nicest way possible, asked him to trust me and let me be an artist, let me be a woman. And [told him] that the music I’m writing is not for him. | | | | Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes, whose "The New Abnormal" is out today on Cult/RCA.
(Joe Scarnici/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | “I just kind of, in the nicest way possible, asked him to trust me and let me be an artist, let me be a woman. And [told him] that the music I’m writing is not for him.”
| | | | | | rantnrave:// A sampling of your potential iso-tainment in one day this weekend, Saturday to be specific: WILLIE NELSON, NEIL YOUNG, DAVE MATTHEWS and JOHN MELLENCAMP are staging a virtual FARM AID. DJ PREMIER and RZA are stepping into the VERZUZ ring for the next INSTAGRAM LIVE battle of the beats. MARGO PRICE, BRIAN FALLON, DIET CIG and many more are raising money for SWEET RELIEF at VICE's Noisey Night In. APHEX TWIN, who surprise-dropped six new tracks this week on SOUNDCLOUD, is streaming his September WAREHOUSE PROJECT set. A festival to benefit coronavirus relief, headlined by AMERICAN FOOTBALL, will be held at Elsewither, a virtual club within the virtual world of MINECRAFT. ALICE COOPER and members of MEGADETH and ANTHRAX will raise money for the GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATION COALITION's School's Out program, which is providing music lessons and instruments to kids shut out of school. Artists including BUTCH WALKER, TORI KELLY, HUNTER HAYES and RICK SPRINGFIELD are playing FACEBOOK LIVE's all-day Human to Human fest. Look around. There will be more, lots more. So who's licensing all of this, and how? It may sound easy—artists in their living rooms or basements, playing live because there's nothing else to do on a Saturday night these days, and people need entertainment and, most important, people need help. So just hit the play button on the iPhone and go. But here's what else you or your support team has to do. The complexity of the music rights universe isn't exactly breaking news, but one suspects there are a lot of managers, agents and lawyers getting a crash course in the peculiarities of the livestreaming piece of that universe right now. CHERIE HU does her best to untangle the crossing wires of master, mechanical, performance and sync licenses in play here in various combinations, depending on whether you're spinning records or playing live, whether you're archiving the performance, and any number of other factors. Worth knowing: Major sites like FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE have blanket deals for on-demand content but not generally for livestreams. TWITCH doesn't have deals with all the PROs, Hu reports, but does have "flat-fee agreements... to avoid litigation for 12 to 18 months as its business matures." Some bizzers consider livestream-only performances to be "ephemeral" uses that don’t require sync licenses. Several publishing companies disagree. Etc. Hu's long, well-researched piece, for her WATER & MUSIC newsletter, is your weekend must-read... If you can't wait till Saturday, here's what's streaming today: CHRIS PERKEL's feature-length documentary COACHELLA: 20 YEARS IN THE DESERT, which arrives on the day this year's Coachella was supposed to start. The first installment of the GRATEFUL DEAD's Shakedown Stream classic concert series. A SHABAKA HUTCHINGS listening session for JAZZTIMES. Plus all this... The great HAL WILLNER remembered by ELVIS COSTELLO and NICK CAVE. And here's a collection 32 videos from Willner's amazing series NIGHT MUSIC, which is the only place I'm aware of where you can find this sentence: “CONWAY TWITTY and the RESIDENTS?!"... Good citizens: RIHANNA and TWITTER's JACK DORSEY pledge $2.1 million each to aid domestic violence victims in Los Angeles during the pandemic... Metalhead teens in a record store (1989)... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from the STROKES, LAURA MARLING, MADDIE & TAE, TORY LANEZ, PINK SIIFU, 2KBABY, LOCAL H, the DREAM SYNDICATE, MIDWIFE, JOHN ANDERSON, ELIZA GILKYSON, POKEY LAFARGE, ROTTING OUT, DRAIN, NIGHTWISH, RED, JOE SATRIANI, JACKIE LYNN, KOOL KEITH X THETAN, BOOSIE BADAZZ, JOHN LINDAHL, HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, WHY BONNIE, WATKINS FAMILY HOUR, TRACE MOUNTAINS, LONG NECK, LAUREL HALO, BILL LASWELL, WAYNE ESCOFFERY, CURTIS STIGERS, SPARTA, 24HRS & DJ DRAMA, KILLARMY and ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE... RIP CHYNNA, RICHARD TEITELBAUM, AHMED ISMAIL HUSSEIN, ONAJE ALLAN GUMBS, LARRY SHERMAN, ORNETTA BARBER, JUDY DRUCKER, JAMES FISHER and ELIOT TIEGEL. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | | | | | streaming with a broken heart | |  | Water & Music | | Because livestreams sit at the intersection of recording and live performance — especially if the streams are archived after the fact — they can involve literally every kind of license in music: Masters, mechanical, sync, performance, trademark, name/likeness, the list goes on. It’s actually a powerful lens for understanding how most of the music business works. | | | |  | Billboard | | Four weekends in with no end in sight, livestreaming has become the centerpiece of the music industry. But in the process, the tone has shifted as fears grow and long standing systemic issues become more pronounced. | | | |  | The New York Times | | If the artist’s job is to hold a mirror up to society, John had the cleanest, clearest mirror of anyone. | | | |  | GEN | | With the deaths of Ellis Marsalis, Adam Schlesinger, and John Prine, I’m left wondering whether music really can help us heal. | | | |  | Chicago Reader | | How a doughnut-shop parking lot became a confluence of Chicago youth subcultures-and what killed it off. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Milana Rabkin Lewis joins MBW's podcast to talk distribution, A&R and stream fraud. | | | |  | Mixmag | | Economic disparity between DJs and producers has been rising, and that needs to be addressed. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | Mickey Guyton is an outlier in Nashville: black, female and, at age 36, about to release her long-awaited debut album. "I started speaking my truth," she says. | | | |  | Variety | | On the afternoon of March 5, the artist known as The Weeknd is at a rehearsal for his appearance on what will be the last live episode of "Saturday Night Live" for the foreseeable future - although no one realizes it at the time. | | | |  | LinkedIn | | With over 350,000 + cases of the Coronavirus in the U.S., states and municipalities have taken the unprecedented action of closing large portions of their economies through social distancing and mandatory closure of non-essential businesses. | | | |  | The Atlantic | | Listening that revolves around headphones, singular geniuses, aesthetic subcultures, and record-industry behemoths is not what’s generating heat right now. | | | |  | Midia Research | | Radio is suddenly more vital - and by that I mean music radio. The human factor in radio programming and presentation has been clearly demonstrated in the weeks and months of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the national 'lockdown' periods imposed by country authorities. | | | |  | Brooklyn Vegan | | The idea of this musical offshoot of "Saturday Night Live" that lasted two seasons: bring together a bunch of great artists — some very famous, some obscure — from all over the musical spectrum and see what happens. | | | |  | Slate | | America’s new No. 1 song took over social media just as we began social distancing. | | | | | The New York Times | | Ticket vendors are being criticized for treating the thousands of live events that were called off as postponements, on which some do not offer refunds. | | | | | Los Angeles Times | | Passover and Easter inspired some of the most spiritually profound music. Why it's time to hear these works by Bach, Wagner, Schoenberg and Adams. | | | |  | The Guardian | | The 60s folk troubadour is on an environmental mission, in tribute to Greta Thunberg. He discusses love, success, Brian Jones - and how drugs became big business. | | | |  | Office of Copyright | | On March 16, 2020, the trial judge in the Katy Perry Dark Horse case surprised a lot of people by outright reversing the jury’s finding of infringement and resulting award of damages. 1 Many commentators felt the verdict was eroding the lines between what is slightly similar and what is substantially similar, creating (ahem) “blurred lines.” | | | | | Chicago Reader | | The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response has cost the life of a beloved singer-songwriter who stood against all those things. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | The Philadelphia rapper leaves behind a too-brief discography marked by tongue-twisting verses and ominous moods. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group | | |
