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| Notorious: Lil' Kim performing with the Roots at Essence Fest, New Orleans, July 3, 2022. |
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“I’ve been doing this long enough that I have resigned myself to not completely understanding where the alchemy is, how it works and how it really connects on a bigger level.”
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Music for Films (& TV)
Today’s quote of the day is about the serendipitous magic of the perfect TV or movie song placement, but let’s stipulate that BMG sync czar JONATHAN PALMER could be talking about almost any facet of the music business. Thirty percent planning and 70 percent crossing your fingers. Or, as the Guardian’s EAMONN FORDE puts it in his piece about “the STRANGER THINGS effect,” it “cannot be orchestrated... only capitalised upon.” Your music biz MasterClass for a Wednesday morning.
(For your movie biz MasterClass, here’s THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER director TAIKA WAITITI explaining how “Stranger Things” “ruined” KATE BUSH, possibly because “I’ve become one of those old arseholes who’s like: ‘These kids never listened to Kate Bush, they’ve heard one song on a TV show!,’” but also possibly because the TV sync pre-empted his own plans to use other Kate Bush songs, including “THIS WOMAN’S WORK,” in “Love and Thunder.” Instead, he decided to ruin GUNS N’ ROSES, ABBA and ENYA.)
(And speaking of: “Stranger Things” music supervisor NORA FELDER, who picked that one song to be MAX MAYFIELD’s song for this year’s fourth season, was nominated Tuesday for an Emmy for the episode where it’s most prominently featured. ZENDAYA and LABRINTH have multiple nominations for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for songs from EUPHORIA (but not this one). Here are the nominees in all the music-specific categories. Other notable nominees include GET BACK and CONTROLLING BRITNEY SPEARS in documentary categories; the miniseries PAM & TOMMY, which got 10 nods; and LIZZO’S WATCH OUT FOR THE BIG GRRRLS, up for Outstanding Competition Program.)
Meow Mix
LOFI GIRL’s hugely popular “beats to relax/study to” YOUTUBE stream has been restarted, two days after YouTube disabled it over a copyright claim the service later determined to be false and “abusive.” Lofi Girl’s other continuous stream, “beats to sleep/chill to,” was still down as of Tuesday night but should be back shortly. YouTube apologized to Lofi Girl, which controls the rights to all the music it uses through its label, LOFI RECORDS. But YouTube hasn’t explained why it acted so quickly to block a popular, long-running channel based on a single spurious claim.
It's no doubt an enormous, and enormously delicate, task to balance the competing needs and deeds of legit and not-so-legit content channels and legit and not-so-legit copyright owners on a platform as massive as YouTube. But it's the price of operating a platform as massive and ubiquitous as YouTube. (And SPOTIFY and other platforms where false claims apparently are rampant.) “We’re shocked and disappointed to see that there’s still not any kind of protection or manual review of these false claims,” Lofi Girl tweeted. “There was no way to appeal beforehand/prevent it from happening.” It goes without saying there should be. Lofi Girl’s cat, which had been staring out a window for two years uninterrupted before the shutdown, has resumed its perch with no comment.
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SPOTIFY buys HEARDLE, the WORDLE-inspired name-that-tune game, for an undisclosed price... LOL this fantastic Spotify playlist that explains exactly, via 51 song titles, how to make kimchi fried rice. It’s the work of San Francisco designer NOAH CONK, and I’m guessing it took more work to create than Heardle, in case Spotify is looking for its next acquisition... Ten years after Florida's Supreme Court declared a law barring drivers from playing "rhythmic bass" music at excessive volume to be unconstitutional, Florida is trying again. A new law makes it illegal to play music on car radios that can be heard more than 25 feet away, without specifying what kind of music the state has in mind and without exempting commercial and political vehicles, as the old statute did. Miami Beach is considering enforcing it with noise cameras... The DESCENDENTS weigh in.
Rest in Peace
Longtime label promo exec DON GRAHAM... Irish flutist SÉAMUS TANSEY.
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| The $7.8 Billion Music Case of the Century |
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| In just a few weeks, an obscure three-judge panel will oversee a trial in the shadowy recesses of the Library of Congress that could decide the fate of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube and more. |
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| Meeting in the musical metaverse: Expectations vs. reality |
| Cutting through the hype to present tangible, focused opportunities for growth and improvement around one of the most in-demand and fundamental use cases for musical metaverse experiences today: Having fun with friends. |
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The Ringer |
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| The Newly Refined Methods of Interpol |
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| Frontman Paul Banks talks about the band’s new record, ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe,’ plus working with legendary producer Flood and why Kendrick Lamar is one of the most important artists ever. |
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| Paying Your Dues (Literally) |
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| Larry Fitzmaurice reports on the regressive practice of music venues charging bands -- even the smaller struggling ones -- a tax on any merch they sell. This is widespread despite the fact that merch sales are one of the only ways left for most bands to (maybe) break even on tour. |
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| Here’s How the Music Industry Can Help Fight Climate Change |
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| The music industry has never been better positioned to lead consumer culture into a climate-challenged future — and in the process not only create a windfall of new business opportunities but ensure the longevity of our industry. |
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| Hindutva pop: The rise of India’s hate music scene |
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| As attacks against India's Muslim community escalate, a popular genre of Hindu supremacist songs have provided a new soundtrack to the nation's religious violence. |
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| 'I Had to Face the Blues Every Day' |
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| Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation. |
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| Seun Kuti is continuing a political and musical legacy |
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| "I do politics to relax from music and I do music to relax from politics," says Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti. "I'm always relaxing." Anyone who caught Kuti's highly-energetic performance with Egypt 80 at Glastonbury recently may detect a note of irony in this statement. |
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| DJ Mixes in the world of streaming music (and video) —Part 3 |
| With the recent proliferation of DJ mixes on Spotify and Apple Music, plus the availability of such mixes on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, and to a lesser extent YouTube, a music producer or musical artist may wonder — how many DJ mixes are my songs included in? |
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| From "Hellfire," out Friday on Rough Trade. |
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