| When you have a space like Inner Ear, which grows in this weird little building and nobody knows about it ... that’s the f***in’ arts. The county can’t make that. They can try all they want. But it’s not a real arts district. |
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Charley Crockett at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, Texas, Oct. 1, 2021.
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“When you have a space like Inner Ear, which grows in this weird little building and nobody knows about it ... that’s the f***in’ arts. The county can’t make that. They can try all they want. But it’s not a real arts district.”
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Southern Vax Opera
How to interview JASON ISBELL at one of his shows in fall 2021: Meet his masked road manager, who'll bring you to a folding table where you'll find the tour's traveling nurse. Swab yourself and wait. A thousand or so employees at local venues on Isbell's current tour have been to this table before you. "Ten minutes later—test: negative—I was shown in," writes PAUL ELIE, author of this short New Yorker Isbell feature. It doesn't sound hard or inconvenient. Why do some people insist it is? Elie is a senior fellow at GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs whose writing focuses on the intersection of religion and pop culture. There's no mention of religion in his Isbell piece, unless you want to count being from the Southeast as a kind of religion. There's plenty of talk of schisms, though: personal, cultural, political. Jason Isbell isn't straddling the border of any such schism, he wants you to know: "I've made pretty clear which side of the border I'm on." Thus, the folding table, the nurse and the 10-minute wait. There's been a cost to Isbell for his personal vaccination mandate, which was ahead a lot of the government-backed mandates that are becoming increasingly commonplace. There have been lost fans. Isbell doesn't care. "It's been long enough," he tells Elie. "They have enough evidence."
Not all Southern singers named Jason who've played in New York lately have the same philosophy. (That was in August; this was Sunday.) The good news, if you ask me, is lots of people—country people, pop people, hip-hop people, rock people, jazz people—have played New York lately. And Los Angeles. And Nashville. And pretty much everywhere in between. Live music may not be back at full, 100 percent power, but it's back. And there's a way to make sure it stays back and gets closer and closer to 100 percent, and I'm pretty sure it involves folding tables and nurses and swabs and vaccinations and cards in your wallet or pictures of those cards on your phone. Which don't have to be an inconvenience at all, and wouldn't be if artists and fans simply welcomed them with open (and vaccinated) arms.
Dot Dot Dot
Innovative ticketing platform DICE acquires iconic electronic music brand BOILER ROOM... SUPER BOWL requests: More KENDRICK LAMAR. No holograms... BILLY STRINGS named Entertainer of the Year at IBMA BLUEGRASS MUSIC AWARDS... In her upcoming memoir, model EMILY RATAJKOWSKI accuses ROBIN THICKE of groping her on the set of his "BLURRED LINES" video. The video's director, DIANE MARTEL, told London's Sunday Times (paywall) that she witnessed the incident and told Thicke, "What the f*** are you doing, that’s it!! The shoot is over!!'" Thicke hasn't commented... Using music to help neurology patients walk again... I'd love to see the statistic on how many rock and pop stars who announce their retirement actually retire.
Rest in Peace
Jazz drummer DOTTIE DODGION... GREG GILBERT, lead singer of British rock band the Delays... Dutch techno pioneer LADY AÏDA... American opera composer CARLISLE FLOYD.
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| Once the ‘Abbey Road’ of D.C.’s punk scene, it’s being bulldozed for a government-sanctioned arts district |
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| First things first: Don Zientara wants to make it clear that the building had always been lousy. The squat, one-story structure leased by Inner Ear Recording Studios - walls plastered in tour posters and surrealist paintings, floor carpeted in a ratty beige - had shaped generations of homegrown D.C. punk talent: Minor Threat. Fugazi. Scream. |
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The Undefeated |
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| The coming battle over rap album lengths |
| by Adam Aziz |
| Streaming made track lists longer. Will TikTok reverse that trend? |
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Los Angeles Times |
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| #MuteRKelly co-founder: I'm through crying. It's R. Kelly's turn |
| by Oronike Odeleye |
| The co-founder of #MuteRKelly reflects on the long journey to bring R. Kelly to justice, and the devastating price paid by numerous young women. |
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The Guardian |
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| Can the R Kelly verdict lead to a shift in the music industry? |
| by Tshepo Mokoena |
| After years of sexual abuse allegations, the R&B singer has finally had to face punishment for his crimes but will a wider reckoning follow? |
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The New Yorker |
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| Jason Isbell, Friend to the Vaccinated |
| by Paul Elie |
| Why the singer-songwriter has been very public about his pro-vaccine stance. |
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The New York Times |
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| At Britney Spears’s Hearing, This Twitter Feed Scooped the World |
| by Lauren Herstik |
| With a deft plan, @BritneyLawArmy kept everyone outside the courtroom abreast of developments in a crucial moment in the singer’s conservatorship. |
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Byta |
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| Digital Blues: The Day-to Day Challenges of Music Sharing -- Part III -- Storage |
| by Shawn Reynaldo |
| “Five years ago, I was obsessed with changing metadata,” says Miles Anzaldo, the Music Director of Los Angeles radio station KROQ. Like most music professionals (and fans) with vivid memories of the pre-streaming era, he remembers the days when he actively tended to his digital music collection, but over the past few years, that interest has faded away. |
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Trapital |
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| Steve Stoute on Artist Independence, UnitedMasters, Translation, and Facilitating Fan Access |
| by Dan Runcie and Steve Stoute |
| Steve Stoute is the founder and CEO of the music distributor UnitedMasters and the creative agency Translation. He returns to the podcast to talk about what his companies have been building towards in the past few years. |
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CBS News |
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| Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga prepare for Bennett's last big concert |
| by Anderson Cooper and 60 Minutes |
| The 95-year-old singer is gearing up for two more shows at Radio City Music Hall, though he's grappling with Alzheimer's. Anderson Cooper was there as he prepared. |
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Las Vegas Review-Journal |
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| David Lee Roth: ‘I’m throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring’ |
| by John Katsilometes |
| “I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” Roth said in a phone conversation that was more a spoken-word performance than interview. “This is the first, and only, official announcement. … You’ve got the news. Share it with the world.” |
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VICE |
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| The Seattle DJ Who Introduced Nirvana to the World |
| by Sneha Antony and Marco Collins |
| Marco Collins is credited with putting Seattle on the map in the 1990s by breaking bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam during his time as music director at Seattle’s 107.7 ‘The End.’ In this episode of I Was There, Marco talks about his passion for supporting Seattle's underground music scene. |
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Water & Music |
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| Just how difficult is it to make a sustainable living from streaming? |
| by Cherie Hu |
| I’ll pose the argument that “making it” as an artist is more about sustainability than about scale — not about reaching any arbitrary popularity benchmark, but rather just about being able to sustain yourself financially off of doing the creative work that you love. |
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NPR |
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| Britney Spears is on the road to independence. The media should let her take the wheel |
| by Anastasia Tsioulcas |
| On Wednesday (Sep. 29), Jamie Spears was suspended as his daughter's conservator. Is all the media attention, including three new Spears documentaries, still welcome? |
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Vulture |
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| Low’s Never-ending Climb |
| by Craig Jenkins |
| The veteran husband-and-wife slowcore band on new album "Hey What," working with BJ Burton, and 30 years of rethinking sound. |
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The New York Times |
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| Musicians Flee Afghanistan, Fearing Taliban Rule |
| by Javier C. Hernández |
| Dozens of artists and teachers from a prominent music school that promoted girls’ education left the country, but more remain behind. “The mission is not complete,” its founder said. |
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Billboard |
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| Christian Music’s Rich Heritage Explored in ‘The Jesus Music’ Documentary: ‘There Is So Much Heart and Soul’ |
| by Deborah Evans Price |
| The contemporary Christian music industry's roots and rise to prominence get a thoughtful examination in The Jesus Music, a new film by the Erwin Brothers ("I Can Only Imagine," "I Still Believe," "American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story"), which is being released to theaters today (Oct.1) via Lionsgate. |
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IGN |
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| The Wii's Biggest, Weirdest Legacy Is Its Music |
| by Joe Skrebels |
| Despite ushering in motion controls, Miis, balance boards and more, the Wii's greatest living legacy might be its music, which has become a force of its own in the years since the console itself disappeared. |
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The Ringer |
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| Pure Nostalgia: The Oral History of ‘That Thing You Do!’ |
| by Jake Kring-Schreifels |
| Twenty-five years ago, Tom Hanks made his directorial debut with a charmer about a one-hit wonder that tugged at heartstrings and left everyone in the audience humming and tapping their toes. |
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The Quietus |
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| Hired Tunes: Anatomy Of A James Bond Song |
| by Frederick O'Brien |
| With "No Time To Die" finally in cinemas, Frederick O'Brien dissects the rights and wrongs of the complex formula making up a perfect James Bond song. |
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Texas Monthly |
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| At the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Real Magic Isn’t On Stage |
| by Vanessa Ague and David Johnson |
| Photographer David Johnson pays joyful homage to the 49-year-old festival, where revelers gather for late-night jam sessions around the campfire. |
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| Music of the day |
| "Can't Do This Alone" |
| Wiki feat. Navy Blue |
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From "Half God," out now on Wikset Enterprise.
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everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask ‘why?’” |
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