Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang made no mention of silence, let alone a black box, when they called on their peers in the music industry to devote Tuesday, June 2nd, to a new initiative, #TheShowMustBePaused. The idea was to force the industry — which is built on black talent, but …
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Your next luxury guitar may not be made of treasured mahogany from the forests in Guatemala, nor from the long-revered rosewood of India — but from the lumber of a tree off the side of a Los Angeles highway. Taylor Guitars, one of the most well-known acoustic guitar manufacturers in …
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While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has begun to rock the global live music scene, causing tour and festival postpones around the world, all is still steady — mostly — for South by Southwest, which will commence in Austin in March. That’s not without a few minor hiccups; SXSW has seen …
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“It’s 2015, we’re making music to the highest level; it sounds more amazing than ever before, in my opinion. And [yet] we’re listening to it on this platform where it’s compressed. I try to make music to the highest quality, and that’s why this stood out. You tell people what …
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YouTube Music announced the addition of 14 new artists on Tuesday — including young stars Kenny Beats, Rema, Baby Rose, and Guapdad 4000 — to Foundry, its three-year-old global development program for independent artists. Foundry began in 2016 as a way for YouTube to teach emerging artists how to best …
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Songwriters usually operate out of the public eye: Even when creating inescapable hits that charge up the charts, they rarely leave the studio. But earlier this month, writers angrily stepped into the spotlight. In an open letter to Spotify, a group of hitmakers spanning generations and genres, from pop-R&B legend …
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Spotify really, really wants to launch in India. The streaming company has been staffing up an office in Mumbai for a year, and finally suggested in website updates recently, after deflecting rumors for months, that January 31st would be the date it rolled out to 1.3 billion potential new customers. …
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