Tag: music

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• Urbano Reached Critical Mass in 2018. Now Can It Be Normalized?

  September 14, 2019

  Cardi B’s Instagram typically serves as a roving press conference on personal matters, quelling rumors of infidelity or amplifying existing beefs. But on a recent live video, she addressed dembow… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• ‘Dummy wasn’t a chillout album. Portishead had more in common with Nirvana’

  August 24, 2019

  Twenty-five years ago, during the summer of Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, a darker, stranger record was released that would soon become huge. Its title and mood was inspired… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• Should Spotify Change the Way It Pays Artists?

  June 16, 2019

  British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable… more ›

• What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars?

  June 16, 2019

  Think of the biggest-earning artists on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the usual megastars might come to mind. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/what-is-happening-to-streamings-superstars-845395/ more ›

• How does the music industry work? Give me the high-level overview!

  June 4, 2019

  So, you want to know how the music industry works? You want a high-level overview of the music business? Maybe even some pretty diagrams that explain how it all works?… more ›

• Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

  June 4, 2019

  Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems more ›