CBC launched something called CBC Music today. (And the article.)
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Footage from the 1989 Paul’s Boutique release party. Amusing interview segment starts at about 15:30.
I used to put a great deal of effort into new music. Now I just listen to the new releases in Rdio each week, which is how I found Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die. I enjoyed it. But I knew nothing of the Lana Del Rey media storm. I assume that just shows how much attention I now pay to these things. Anyway, here’s the Sasha Frere-Jones primer that told me about everything I missed. I am now complete, I guess. I still like the album.
Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production tasks. This makes popular music similar to film, television, visual art, books, dance, and related areas like food and fashion. And yet no movie review begins, “Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in ‘The Iron Lady.’ ”
The growing creepiness of Pandora’s music recommendations.
Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this next track because we know your secret, and we’re thinking about telling your wife. Maybe it’s worth upgrading your subscription so she’ll never find out.
If you choose not to pay, you won’t be able to stop us from telling her. You also won’t be able to stop us from continuing to play this track, since you’ve already skipped too many songs in the past hour. Skipping an unlimited number of songs is a benefit available exclusively to our paid subscribers.
When did the remix become a requirement? The Awl puts together a fairly concise history of remixing music.
How did we get to the point where a one-hit-wonder band from the ’90s like Marcy Playground can release an entire album of remixes made by fans?
An interview with Skee-Lo. No real revelations here, but any opportunity to take a moment and remember how awesome “I Wish” was is an opportunity worth taking. [via]
The hook floated into his mind that Thursday night at the Good Life, following a successful preshow freestyle in the parking lot. When Sunshine Records (the parent company of Scotti) heard it, he received a $150,000 advance. The song’s success created a familiar paradox: His music was omnipresent but he never made a penny. Nor did he get with Leoshi (though she did appear in the video).
Lou Reed and the estate of Andy Warhol are fighting over who owns the famous banana image created by Warhol for the Velvet Underground’s debut album. Namely, the band doesn’t think the estate should be able to license the image for $60 iPad covers. Also:
The band “expressly” noted the banana logo as its trademark in the booklet for a 5-CD box set released in 1995, and later licensed its use in a 2001 Absolut Vodka ad bearing the tag line “Absolut Underground,” in which the stem was stylized to look like a bottle top.
This whole story is an excellent metaphor for the world we currently live in and should probably make us all a little bit sad.
UPDATE: There’s more to the story, including that the image is technically in the public domain. Read here.
Tumblr of note: Clipart Covers. Famous album covers recreated using only clipart and Comic Sans. I’m not going to lie, it’s weird. But oddly compelling.
Trailer for Re:Generation Music Project. [Thanks, James.] Braggy fact: I once opened for Crystal Method. Back when I used to be (sort of) cool.
Want: Griffin Twenty audio amplifier for Airport Express. The Airport Express is one of my very favourite things. Maybe once we get the house renos over with, I can look at some audio upgrades.
Tumblr of note: Live! (I See Dead People), where dead musicians are removed from their own album covers. [via]
This New York Times piece that condemns the current state of major-label rock and its lack of creative inspiration is, in itself, sort of uninspired. [via]
At this point rock is becoming a graveyard of aesthetic innovation and creativity, a lie perpetrated by major labels, radio conglomerates and touring concerns, all of whom need — or feel they need — the continued sustenance of this style of music. The fringes remain interesting, and regenerate constantly, but the center has been left to rot.
The death of retro and the rise of eclecticism. [via]
I’m of the opinion that 2011 will be remembered as a pivotal year in which our love affair with retro began to fade and a resurging interest in the new and now was rekindled.
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This new eclecticism isn’t the same bland melting pot of past influences, plucked, stewed and regurgitated as per Retromania. It’s a vivid technicolour tapestry of ideas. You can’t even call it genre-hopping any more, it just is. And so long as it keeps moving in the right direction, this will continue to be a positive force for future music.
Wanna come to my DJ night?
