Brian Fauteux inaugurates our "The Podcast Review" series with an analysis of The Only Music Podcast, a music podcast from Gothenburg, Sweden that offers a refreshing take on the music industries by critically engaging with bi-weekly topics.
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Tags: Bjork, Has It Leaked, iTunes, Jamie xx, KEXP, media industries, Mojib, music industries, music licensing, NPR, podcast, podcasting, popular music, radio, Robyn, Telegram Studios, The Only Music Podcast, Tidal, Tula
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Tim Anderson muses on Apple Music providing a walled garden of goods that, though they could not have imagined it to be successful, sounds great and has nothing revolutionary about it.
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Tags: AC/DC, Apple, Apple Music, Beats Music, big data, iTunes, iTunes Match, Lala, Led Zeppelin, MOG, music piracy, OS X, popular music, Spotify, streaming music, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Tidal, walled gardens, WWDC
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The country radio controversy known as "#SaladGate" is a classic case of disruption caused by digital and social media and greater media literacy.
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Tags: #SaladGate, Country Aircheck Weekly, Country Music, gender, Keith Hill, Martina McBride, media industries, media literacy, Miranda Lambert, popular music, radio, radio programming, Radio Stuff Podcast, sexism, social media, Twitter
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Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Tags: #RPTF, American Pie, archival preservation, College radio, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Don McLean, FCC, media history, NPR, popular music, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, sound recording history, university archives, University of Maryland, WMUC, Woodstock
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Kyle Barnett reports on last week's IASPM-US 2015 annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Tags: academia, conference report, IASPM-US, interdisciplinarity, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Louisville, popular music, Slint, sound studies, Stuart Hall
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Country radio programmers find themselves fighting back against the domination of “bro-country.” This battle, along with the forcing of Paramore's Grammy-winning Rock Song of the Year into the Pop format, further shows why music radio needs more female singers.
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Tags: Beck, bro-country, Country Music, gender, Grammys, LIz Phair, masculinity, music industry, NPR, Paramore, popular music, radio
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New experts are needed to find and listen to music online, and gender is key to what is considered expertise in the field of music and media technology.
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Tags: expertise, feminism, gender, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, masculinity, popular music, streaming music, technology
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Each year, the musician advocacy nonprofit group Future of Music Coalition holds a conference in Washington, DC, bringing together artists, executives, and policymakers. Reporting from this year's Future of Music Summit, Tim Anderson finds that despite the music industry's many troubles, much optimism still exists.
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Tags: Bandswap, Bryce Merrill, Dani Grant, DJ Cavem, Eddie Schwartz, Fair Trade Music, FMC. FMC13, Future of Music Coalition, Future of Music Summit, Google Play, internet radio, New Music Indusrty, Peter Jenner, popular music, Spokesbuzz, Spotify, Storm Gloor, Tim Quirk, WESTAF, Western States Arts Federation
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The promotional campaign for Arcade Fire's Reflektor reflects an increasingly mobile and interconnected experience of popular culture, as well as the persistent significance of local sites of production in popular music-making and promotion.
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Tags: Arcade Fire, Auguste Rodin, Bakhtin, carnival, cosmopolitanism, cultural capital, David Bowie, diaspora, Haiti, Here Comes The Night, Instagram, James Murphy, localism, marketing, Merge Records, mobility, Montreal, NBC, New York, Orpheus, popular music, Reflektor, Sirius XM, social media, The Reflektors, Tim and Eric
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What happens when the forces of unchecked capitalism associated with the mainstreaming of dance music cultures prevent those cultures from protecting or regulating their own?
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Tags: DanceSafe, Diplo, DJ Afrojack, drugs, ecstasy, EDM, Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Zoo, Kaskade, MDMA, molly, popular music, rave, subculture, TomorrowWorld
Posted in Current Events, Music | Comments Off on Everybody’s Doing Molly? Dance Music Cultures and Drugs
The coordinating editors of The Velvet Light Trap are seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue that explores new directions in sound studies.
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Tags: film sound, popular music, radio, sound studies, television sound, Velvet Light Trap
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June Millington may not be as well known as some other rock figures, but her music and activism have made - and continue to make - a significant impact on the lives of girls and women who aspire to play music and participate in the music industry.
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Tags: gender, popular music, rock culture
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