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Courtney Barnett's third album, "Things Take Time, Take Time," is out today on Mom + Pop/Marathon.
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“So many young female artists are oversharing right now, which I think is really cool.”
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It's Friday
And the phrase of the day is "f*** the patriarchy," which TAYLOR SWIFT sings in the expanded 10(!!!)-minute version of "All Too Well" on RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION), her second re-recorded album of 2021. There will be thinkpieces. The album is now 30 tracks long. Swift's "f*** you SCOOTER BRAUN" project appears to have outgrown its original purpose and turned into an entirely new career path, one that quite possibly no one else will ever be able to copy, or ever would want to. Art... IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS is a five-piece jazz supergroup of sorts, capable of exploding into free space with Aquiles Navarro's trumpet and Keir Neuringer's saxophone and burrowing deep into earth with Luke Stewart and Tcheser Holmes' grooves, often at the same time. Floating between it all are the words of poet Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, who on OPEN THE GATES offers "a clarion call to restorative action. It’s music that doesn’t dwell on the problems of racial inequity; it urges a rush toward solutions"... Australia's great lefthanded rock and roll hope, COURTNEY BARNETT, "largely swaps her grungy guitars for soft, sweet drum machines" on her third album, THINGS TAKE TIME, TAKE TIME... Eight months after leaving the retro-soul door open with their first single, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, doing business as SILK SONIC, drop their debut album, AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC... British punks IDLES expand their horizons on CRAWLER, with help from hip-hop Kenny Beats... Fellow Brit JON HOPKINS would like to soundtrack your next trip with his ambient MUSIC FOR PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY... The crypto world's next favorite rapper, MONEY MAN, has a new album called BLOCKCHAIN, for which he took his advance from Empire in Bitcoin, via Cash App. Around 15 bitcoin, reportedly. They're worth holy s*** I had no idea this is what advances looked like in 2021, I wonder what Adele gets.
Plus new albums and album-like things from DABABY, LIL REESE, HOLLY HUMBERSTONE, GRACIE ABRAMS, TWICE, JASON ALDEAN, CODY JINKS, DAMON ALBARN, ADAM O'FARRILL, MELANIE CHARLES, MALCOLM JIYANE, BILL CHARLAP TRIO, SWR BIG BAND/MAGNUS LINDGREN/JOHN BEASLEY (Charlie Parker tribute), FRENCH MONTANA, LIL ZAY OSAMA, AESOP ROCK & BLOCKHEAD, LITTLE MIX (greatest hits with five new tracks), BEACH HOUSE, SUSANNA HOFFS, DAVE GAHAN & SOULSAVERS, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (with accompanying coffee table book), JAKE SHIMABUKURO, SMILEY, JOELL ORTIZ, DABOII, KA$HDAMI, DAVID SABASTIAN, MEDHANE, NAVIG8, NORTHTALE, SIJJIN, BONDED, MAKTHAVERSKAN, ENDLESS BOOGIE, GOV'T MULE, LEE RANALDO, SILENT PLANET, AMANDA SHIRES (Christmas album), DUVAL TIMOTHY & ROSIE LOWE, POPPY ACKROYD, FLIGHT FACILITIES, ROBIN GUTHRIE, ROD STEWART, NRBQ, CLAPTONE, ARIES, WALK THE MOON, ALLEN STONE, CLAIRE CRONIN, CONSTANT SMILES, ERIC CLAPTON, PIP BLOM, LIONLIMB... And the 119-track second volume of the JONI MITCHELL archives, THE REPRISE YEARS (1968-1971)... And a BEYONCÉ single.
Breakup Songs
The BRITNEY SPEARS conservatorship is back in court in Los Angeles (and on Zoom) today, with the pop star's request to finally end this thing on the agenda. Legal experts say the end is in sight and may come as soon as today. "I think the conservatorship of the person will end at this hearing," probate lawyer TAMAR ARMINAK tells Vulture, while the conservatorship over Spears' estate may continue for some time. "There’s so much money that I don’t think anyone is interested in giving her a $60 million check to go deposit," Arminak says. Alternatively, conservatorship and estate lawyer SARAH WENTZ tells Variety, "The judge could say, ‘We’re headed in that direction, but we’re not there yet'"... ADELE ONE NIGHT ONLY, a two-hour special featuring an OPRAH interview and a live set not-so-secretly taped at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, airs at 8:30 pm ET Sunday on CBS (and streams on Paramount+). Adele tells Rolling Stone's BRITTANY SPANOS that her album, 30, out next week, is the divorce album we've all been expecting, but it's aimed not so much at her ex as at their son, Angelo. She intended it as an open letter "showing Angelo who his mother really is: a layered and complicated woman with an identity outside of their relationship, who’s struggled and cried and hurt"... GEOFF EDGERS' well reported Washington Post longread "What Happened to Eric Clapton" opens with an anecdote about blues guitarist ROBERT CRAY, a longtime friend who was supposed to open for Clapton on tour next year. But when he heard one of Clapton's new protest songs comparing pandemic lockdowns to slavery, Cray confronted Clapton about the analogy, and by the time they were done emailing Cray had dropped off the tour and out of the friendship. "I’d just rather not associate with somebody who’s on the extreme and being so selfish," he says.
Rest in Peace
Moody Blues drummer GRAEME EDGE—the only member of the band to play on every album and the voice of "Late Lament," the spoken-word part of "Nights in White Satin"... Singer/songwriter MARGO GURYAN, whose songs were recorded by Spanky & Our Gang, Glen Campbell and Astrud Gilberto, and whose own 1960s recordings were famously rediscovered in the 2000s... And BHARTI SHAHANI, a Texas A&M computer science student, who died Wednesday, becoming the ninth fatality from the crowd crush at Astroworld.
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The Washington Post |
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| What happened to Eric Clapton? |
| by Geoff Edgers |
| The guitar legend has long been inscrutable, but his covid turn has friends and fans puzzled like never before. |
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Billboard |
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| Six Years Later, French Music Exec Recalls Night of Terror at the Bataclan |
| by Steve Knopper |
| The night of Nov. 13, 2015, started out like any other Friday for Arnaud Meersseman. |
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Bloomberg |
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| The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group |
| by Lucas Shaw |
| Kingship, consisting of four virtual apes, reimagines the idea of a band - and a brand. |
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Los Angeles Times |
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| In a golden era for 'oversharing' singer-songwriters, a new star emerges from England |
| by Mikael Wood |
| “So many young female artists are oversharing right now, which I think is really cool,” 21-year-old Holly Humberstone says. “I’m not writing about anything particularly unique; it’s just everyday things that everybody’s going through. But I think the vulnerability is why people are connecting to it.” |
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i-D Magazine |
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| How Taylor Swift’s 'Red' became Gen Z’s first big breakup album |
| by Tom George |
| The 2012 record soundtracked first loves and heartbreaks for a generation coming-of-age. |
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The Hill |
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| American middle-class musicians are worth fighting for |
| by Blake Morgan |
| In recent years, I’ve met with members of Congress about the rocky economic landscape musicians navigate. Each meeting has been memorable and meaningful, but one in particular has stayed with me. |
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Los Angeles Times |
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| Could Travis Scott face criminal charges after the Astroworld tragedy? Legal experts explain |
| by August Brown |
| As the civil lawsuits against Travis Scott and Live Nation pile up, legal experts say that Scott could also face arrest for his part in the Astroworld tragedy. |
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The Root |
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| The Collab Conundrum: After the Devastation of Astroworld, Should There Be Travis Scott Collabs? |
| by Maiysha Kai |
| As Scott's team pushes back against 'inconsistent messages' following the Astroworld tragedy, his brand partners consider the message they're sending. |
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Variety |
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| Is It Finally Time to #FreeBritney? What to Expect From Pop Star’s Pivotal Court Date |
| by Elizabeth Wagmeister |
| The removal of Spears’ father as her conservator was the first phase in the singer’s legal affairs. On Nov. 12, she enters phase two: possible termination of the conservatorship. |
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NPR |
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| Wayne Shorter's operatic dream comes true, brought to life with Esperanza Spalding |
| by Andrea Shea |
| Iconic jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter has completed a long-held dream, an opera based on the mythic Greek character Iphigenia, with help from singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding. |
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The New York Times |
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| Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind |
| by Ben Sisario |
| The director’s three-part documentary “Get Back” explores the most contested period in the band’s history and reveals there’s still plenty to debate. |
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VICE |
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| Going Deep On Beyoncé, One Of the Last Stars of the Pre-Internet Era |
| by Grace Medford |
| Grace Medford speaks with Tshepo Mokoena about her new book on Queen Bey, delving into personas, pop and how young Black women navigate the industry. |
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Billboard |
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| Christian Nodal and Other Latin Acts Take to Social Media to Tackle Contract Disputes |
| by Griselda Flores |
| Following Paulo Londra's "Free Paulo" campaign, more and more Latin acts, including Christian Nodal, are taking to social media to resolve contractual disputes. |
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The Washington Post |
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| Inclusion at the CMAs? Sounds nice. So why that nasty cheer for Morgan Wallen? |
| by Chris Richards |
| Each year, the CMA Awards flash across television screens, trying to convince the unconvinced that country music is the people's music. Lately, that task has felt more like damage control. |
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Holler |
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| Man, I Feel Like A Loser: The Decade-Long Wait for a Female Entertainer of the Year |
| by Alison Bonaguro |
| Alison Bonaguro investigates the 10-year long wait for a woman to win CMA Entertainer of the Year. |
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BuzzFeed News |
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| The Legacy Of Little Mix: How One Of The Greatest Girl Bands To Ever Do It Is, Well, Still Doing It |
| by Ben Henry |
| As Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Perrie Edwards prepare to release their greatest hits album, "Between "Us, the trio opened up to BuzzFeed News about their decadelong sisterhood and the lessons they've learned along the way. |
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Music Business Worldwide |
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| ‘The next 10 years in music hold a wealth of opportunity, but only if copyright, revenue collection and distribution catch up’ |
| by Roberto Neri |
| Utopia COO Roberto Neri puts forward his case for an overhaul of how music creators earn and receive money. |
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The Face |
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| What’s the music industry doing about climate change? |
| by April Clare Welsh |
| From touring to festivals, vinyl and even streaming, when it comes to the environment, there aren’t many clean hands in the biz. The good news is that there are fresh ideas for how to fix it. |
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Texas Monthly |
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| Bushwick Bill Was One of Houston’s Most Provocative Rappers. A New Documentary Reveals the Man Behind the Outrage |
| by Rose Cahalan |
| As one third of the Geto Boys, he pushed the boundaries of hip-hop. But the group’s lyrics often clashed with his own values. |
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The Daily Beast |
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| Father and Daughter Tortured and Killed Over Valuable Stradivarius Violins, Prosecutor Says |
| by Barbie Latza Nadeau |
| When 62-year-0ld luthier and museum owner Bernard Raymond von Bredow asked his neighbor in Paraguay to keep an eye on his valuable Stradivarius violins while he went on a trip, he likely never thought the decision would be fatal. |
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