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| Tank & the Bangas at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, April 30, 2022. |
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“I’m not attached to any particular genre... I like being able to operate in the in-between areas.”
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Goodbye to Innocence
Programming note: MusicREDEF will be sporadic for the rest of the week while we do some spring cleaning. As always, we'll continue to update our Twitter feed. And we'll be looking for our copies of the mid-'90s comps JUST SAY ROE, from Sire, and BORN TO CHOOSE, from Rykodisc, while marveling at this 1994 Billboard story on the former project quoting Sire managing director HOWIE KLEIN: "The artists are taking a bolder stance than the label. Sire is merely presenting the topic for discussion. Our goal as a label is to expose Sire artists and sell records—I readily admit that. But why can't we also evoke positive thought and debate about important issues?" I'm honestly not sure, 28 years later, if that was an intentional anti-marketing campaign or if labels were truly scared to say out loud that one of their albums had a pro-choice intent. And I'm wondering which labels would put their name on an album like that today, and which ones wouldn't. (But if a label does, get it on CD or vinyl or MP3 or any concrete format of your choosing. Neither of those '90s albums is available for streaming. Here's a live version of KRISTIN HERSH's "HYSTERICAL BENDING," because her version from "Just Say Roe" isn't even on YouTube. Songs, they can still disappear. Things you treasure today may not be here tomorrow.)
Rest in Peace
RIC PARNELL, known to most of the world as Spinal Tap drummer MICK SHRIMPTON, who almost made it out of the movie alive but spontaneously combusted onstage in the final reel (as do dozens of people every year; it's just not widely reported). In real life, Parnell was the drummer for British prog-rock band Atomic Rooster in the early 1970s and played on Toni Basil's '80s pop smash "Mickey." He toured with the IRL version of Spinal Tap as Mick Shrimpton's surviving twin brother Ric and hosted a radio show on KDTR in Missoula, Mont., called, of course, "Spontaneous Combustion"... Folk-rock singer/songwriter JUDY HENSKE, a fixture of the music scenes in Laurel Canyon and Greenwich Village in the 1960s. She frequently performed with comedians like Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, and her relationship with Allen is believed to have inspired one of his greatest characters, Annie Hall (who, like Henske, was a singer from Chippewa Falls, Wis.). In later years she co-wrote songs with her composer husband Craig Doerge which were covered by the likes of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bette Midler and Three Dog Night... Australian countertenor MAX RIEBL.
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| Live music is back, but touring is risky |
| By Derek Vanderwyk |
| Touring is often an essential aspect of a musician's career -- perhaps now more than ever -- and while many COVID-19 restrictions have ended and music fans are flocking to stages, the virus is still making this very exposed way of life even more challenging. |
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Stereogum |
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| Leah Kate Is The Algorithm’s Answer To Olivia Rodrigo |
| By Rachel Brodsky |
| Pop music loves a facsimile, preferably one that appears organic — especially in 2022, when young music listeners value authenticity above all else. If something is working, then give fans more of it. |
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| Hayley Williams: ‘I always had punk-rock guilt’ |
| By Michelle Kambasha |
| The pop-punk superstar is busy making a new Paramore album, but not before a new BBC podcast dedicated to the divisive rock genre of emo. She talks to Michelle Kambasha about Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and inspiring a new generation. |
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| Funk Music Taught Me How to Be an Environmentalist |
| By Ko Bragg |
| Driving through the aftermath of yet another unprecedented hurricane, Ko Bragg realized the funk music of her childhood best describes the climate crisis facing her and her loved ones today. |
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| Poisonous Beauty: A Conversation with Mary Halvorson (Part One) |
| By Rob Shepherd |
| The guitarist, also one of the most compelling composers of her generation, long wanted to write for a string quartet. But it was not until shutdowns canceled tours and performances that she found the right environment to do so. |
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| Yungblud, Up Against the World |
| By Maria Sherman |
| In this month's cover story, we interview the rising Yungblud, who's been lauded by many, but has plenty of critics. He sets things straight. |
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| “Rosie Jane” |
| Malvina Reynolds |
| "This song is addressed to my sisters / Any man who is present may listen / Any priest, any public official, any physician / But it gives him no license to touch us / We make the decision." |
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| “Casablanca Beats” |
| Nabil Ayouch |
| Nabil Ayouch's coming-of-age feature about a hip-hop teacher in Morocco and his teen students is now playing in UK cinemas and online at curzon.com. |
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