As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don’t be a dumba**. | | | | Burna Boy's "Twice as Tall" is out today on Atlantic.
(Nicolas Gerardin/Atlantic Records) | | | | | |  | “As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don’t be a dumba**.”
| | | | | | rantnrave:// DOLLY!!! (is a shining example of how to live as an artist and as a human in 2020, or any time at all, and if you read nothing else today, read this profile)... RZA!!! (had a better, non-racist idea for an ice cream truck jingle and went ahead and recorded it, and it's available for free, courtesy GOOD HUMOR, in industry-standard ice cream truck music box format, which I didn't know was a thing)... JENZIA BURGOS!!! (is a music journalist from the South Bronx who has launched the BLACK MUSIC HISTORY LIBRARY, a carefully curated collection of more than a thousand books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, etc., about "the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day." Which means a wide and deep and growing collection of reading/watching/listening about pop—"Top 40, K-Pop, Latin Pop, West African, and more"—and punk and hip-hop and jazz and electronic/dance and classical and minstrelsy and música tropical and and and and, and it's as inviting as it is overwhelming, and it's clear how much work and thought went into the curation and, first impression, wow)... SPOTIFY can empathize with FORTNITE's battle with APPLE's APP STORE... Facing 15 years in prison for the crime of playing its music, Iranian metal band ARSAMES has escaped the country (current location: secret)... BAD BUNNY, KAROL G and J BALVIN were big winners at UNIVISION's PREMIOS JUVENTUD 2020, which took place at the HARD ROCK CAFE & CASINO in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday night with no live audience but with (I'm out of exclamation points, but they would normally go here) artists in the house... Indoor music venues in England can reopen starting Saturday... BILLBOARD's 2020 Country Power Players... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from BURNA BOY, FANTASTIC NEGRITO, HOLLY HUMBERSTONE, KATHLEEN EDWARDS, BILL FRISELL, OSCAR JEROME, BLACK NOI$E, KAASH PAIGE, DAVE EAST, BOLDY JAMES, YOUNG DOLPH, COI LERAY, GLORIA ESTEFAN (first album in seven years features reworkings of several hits), BRUCE HORNSBY, ORVILLE PECK, KATH BLOOM, EMMA SWIFT (BOB DYLAN covers album), LINDSAY ELL, ARLO MCKINLEY, A.G. COOK (released Wednesday), TORI KELLY, TANYA DONELLY & THE PARKINGTON SISTERS, KIESZA, WHITNEY, BIFFY CLYRO, MATT ROLLINGS, RUMER, CAYLEE HAMMACK, ERIC PASLAY, ASHLEY RAY, JACOB COLLIER, SON LUX, HIRO AMA, PRIMITIVE MAN, HALESTORM, KING BUZZO, YOUNG JESUS, TWISTED PINE and MALI MUSIC. | | | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | | | |  | Billboard | | With a company that employs thousands, the country icon is making hard choices, expanding her slate of music, screen and branding projects — and even planning for a world without her. | | | |  | Variety | | A number of music executives have supported her since her days as the district attorney of San Francisco, a role she held from 2003 until 2011, and many more since she successfully ran for California attorney general in 2010 and then U.S. senator in 2016. | | | |  | NME | | Colonialism, political correctness and the UK Afrobeats chart turn fiery on the African Giant’s tongue - just don’t ask him about Beyoncé. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | Sources tell Pitchfork the acclaimed songwriter exposed himself without consent, forced a woman to touch his penis, and pressured a 19-year-old into nonconsensual sex. | | | |  | NPR Music | | The damage done to independent live music by the pandemic has been catastrophic -- and a future where it thrives will, regardless and inevitably, arrive. | | | |  | DJ Mag | | With an IRL event impossible this year, the team behind Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland created a revolutionary interactive virtual world in under three months. Here’s how they did it. | | | |  | Complex | | Genre-hybrids, gender-oscillating vocals and meme-infested themes-this might be the zeitgeist of our near future. | | | |  | Los Angeles Times | | My teacher, the great American pianist Leon Fleisher, taught his pupils about playing music for music’s sake, which COVID now forces musicians to do. | | | |  | VICE | | Engineers who've worked with Drakeo the Ruler and Gucci Mane told VICE about the responsibility and challenge of working with incarcerated artists. | | | | | Los Angeles Times | | Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA partners with ice cream maker Good Humor to create a new ice cream truck jingle as an alternative to 'Turkey in the Straw.' | | | |  | The New York Times | | The Houston rapper and singer has been making music with a close-knit team for five years. A 44-second track released in July brought his message to a larger audience. | | | | | Billboard | | Artists like Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen and executives like Warner Music Nashville’s James Marsh and Big Loud Records’ Candice Watkins know the genre is becoming more inclusive — but is Music City taking enough action to help them thrive? | | | |  | ABC Australia | | The singer-songwriter takes us through her astounding second album "Punisher." | | | |  | Decibel | | Draugr, the multi-instrumentalist of the U.S. black metal bands Galdr, Ancalagon and Obscurum, pens an op-ed on his anti-racist political awakening in underground black metal. | | | | | Variety | | It's not uncommon for a music exec to hold down a top label or publishing job while also maintaining a distinct manager or producer gig. For power players, it signifies prestige as well as an abundance of creativity... but on lower rungs, double duty can also be a result of a single salary not cutting it. | | | |  | Midia Research | | In ' The Song Economy is just getting started' I looked at how major catalogue songs such as Journey's Don't Stop Believin', Toto's Africa and Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You had all spent many years accumulating streams (audio and video), radio plays and ultimately for their copyright owners, revenues. | | | |  | Knoxville News Sentinel | | For the festivals that do survive, Ashley Capps said, it's not going to be like "flipping a switch." A lot of factors will come into play. | | | |  | Bandcamp Daily | | Vincent and Patricia Chin, Byron Lee, Paulie Hoo Kim, and many others were crucial to the development of reggae in Jamaica. | | | |  | The New Statesman | | Heaven knows when it will feel safe to be breathing and singing in a crowded space – the thought makes me sad. | | | |  | Please Kill Me | | Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Russia's most beloved rock & roll star. When Viktor Tsoi died in a 1990 car crash, it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James Dean and Muhammad Ali all died simultaneously. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | "You awake yet?" From "Twice as Tall." | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2020, The REDEF Group | | |
