Wait, this is really poorly routed. I’m going to have to go upstairs, downstairs, outside. Can you route this better so that I only have to move my amp once? | | | | I can feel that tambourine in the air tonite: Phil Collins in Cologne, Germany, with Genesis, Oct. 17, 1981.
(David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | “Wait, this is really poorly routed. I’m going to have to go upstairs, downstairs, outside. Can you route this better so that I only have to move my amp once?”
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Three random routes to a 2020 pop hit: YOUTUBE reaction videos (recommended if you are a 39-year-old pop song looking for a third or fourth chance). TIKTOK (recommended if you are a savvy and talented teenager whose song was released 20 or 30 minutes ago). Sending MP3s to fans who ordered CDs or LPs (recommended if you are a savvy pop superstar's new album that came out before the physical stock was ready, though maybe not anymore, since BILLBOARD just changed the rules, so scratch that one all you upcoming new superstar albums)... FACTORY RECORDS legend TONY WILSON had a complicated route to launching an MP3 store in 2000—while NAPSTER was still a cultural force and APPLE was three years away from opening the ITUNES STORE—and it's not all that shocking that he never made it to launch day with a store that wanted to deliver MP3s inside password-protected PDF files. "I'm still trying to understand it even now," one of his early employees tells the GUARDIAN. But h/t MICHAEL DONALDSON, aka Q-BURNS ABSTRACT MESSAGE, for flagging Wilson's proposed royalty model: one-third of every 33-pence sale to the artist, one-third to the store and one-third to "these s***s," by which Wilson meant the label. It's unclear how he expected labels to go for that (they didn't) or how he expected to compensate songwriters and publishers. But it's intriguing for the way it proposed a completely new economic framework for the digital future instead of trying to square-peg the old framework into that round-hole future. The one-third-to-the-store idea wasn't that far off from what became the standard for MP3 sellers and subscription services. As for the other two-thirds, that part has remained, shall we say, complicated... Speaking of new financial models, VULFPECK is selling track 10 of its upcoming album on EBAY. As in, you can buy the space on the album and supply up to two and a half minutes' worth of music to fill it. You don't get the right to earn any of your money back, though: The winner has to assign all royalties to the band and "will receive no financial remuneration, like ever," warns the listing. The top bid as of Monday night was $50,100... Musicians confront JEFF BEZOS re: AMAZON-owned TWITCH. File those musicians under people who will never have a podcast on AMAZON MUSIC... BEN SHAPIRO reads the lyrics to "WAP"... DJ IMARKKEYZ remixes Ben Shapiro reading the lyrics to "WAP"... A short, random list of things that can't be done between now and Sept. 15... RIP SALOME BEY and JAN STEWARD. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | |  | Billboard | | Timbaland and Swizz Beatz's Verzuz battle series has grown since its March debut from a needed quarantine-era distraction to a vital cultural phenomenon. | | | |  | Vulture | | “My daughter sent me a link. She’s so proud that her daddy has such a strong connection with the whores of the world.” | | | |  | The New York Times | | Mamie Smith’s song wasn’t just an artistic breakthrough. It proved Black women and girls bought records, paving the way for today’s fan armies. | | | |  | The Guardian | | The Factory impresario’s company Music33 sold individual songs as MP3s three years before Apple. But with a baffling interface and dial-up connections he was doomed. | | | |  | Rolling Stone | | The social-media app’s executives Mike Lu and Ryan Kavanaugh talk their legal tussle with TikTok, the Trump-and-Microsoft saga, and what they believe sets their platform apart. | | | |  | Variety | | Music streaming on Twitch is booming - and now a group of artists is challenging owner Amazon to pay its fair share. In a letter Monday addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the nonprofit Artist Rights Alliance cited Bezos' testimony during a House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on July 29. | | | |  | The New Yorker | | Twin brothers in Gary, Indiana, have a YouTube channel where they react to pop songs. | | | | | Vulture | | Here’s how not one, not two, but three ppcocaine songs went viral on TikTok at the same time. | | | |  | Complex | | Some of the biggest and best rap albums of the year are posthumous releases. But for the artists and their fans, there’s no such thing as closure. | | | |  | Bitch Media | | People don’t really know what to think about fangirls or teenage girls in general. | | | |  | The Illusion of More | | If a political campaign uses music in a commercial, or even uploads video to the web that was captured at a live event (e.g. the candidate waving at the crowd while a specific song plays), that requires a whole other license, and one that is not compulsory. | | | |  | NPR Music | | The singer-songwriter performed music from his new album, "græ," from his home in North Carolina. | | | |  | Pollstar | | Phoebe Bridgers was having some trouble with tour routing. With physical concerts on hold and her spring arena trek supporting The 1975 called off, the indie-rock sensation and her manager, Blue Raincoat Management’s Darin Harmon, had assembled a virtual world tour, cleverly punctuated as “Phoebe Bridgers’ World, Tour,” taking her to three markets – all within her home. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Richard Russell has laid his life bare in a new memoir. He tells MBW about independence, insecurity and identity. | | | |  | AdHoc | | AdHoc spoke with four venues about how they are using live-streaming to keep the party going during the pandemic. It's unlikely that music workers in New York City and across the country will ever forget the second week of March when shows began to be canceled and venues started to close their doors. | | | | | NPR Music | | Schools, faith and community groups as well as professional musicians are all struggling with the risks of singing. Experts present the most recent research and offer strategies to mitigate the risks. | | | |  | The Quietus | | Wyndham Wallace speaks to Brian and Roger Eno about their new mini-LP Luminous and the state of the world in 2020. | | | |  | American Songwriter | | Three astounding discarded verses shared by the man himself from his epic song “Democracy,” and his reasons why they were discarded. | | | |  | Invisible Oranges | | The black metal world was gifted with a surprise new Krallice album last week -- after about one billion listens over the weekend, here's where we arrived with our thoughts. | | | |  | JazzTimes | | As we enter the pianist's centennial year, a new reissue series-and the history behind it-sheds new light on the legacy of Erroll Garner. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | An NSFW (audio-only, and you're probably not at work anyway) TikTok bubblegum smash. 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