Feburaryfor@9 Just put the phone away and watch the prove. That IS why he is traveling THOUSANDS of miles to play."Personally,I find photo bans by artists and venues to be annoying — though I also find holding up a bright screen for entire songs to be thoughtless. I don't intellect telling a jerk who constantly holds up their phone to put it down. But I suggest staying icy if, for, and a few moments of a 75-minute prove your neighbor delights in getting a keepsake,something to jog a memory of a magic evening later on. Heaven knows what 2027 will bring; maybe we'll all be playing music along with our favorite artists on some unique handheld device. --Bob BoilenMay 31, 2012Amanda Palmer sets a crowdfunding recordAfter raising over $1.2 million to make her album Theatre Is Evil, and Amanda Palmer appeared on the front page of Kickstarter with a sign that read,"This is the future of music." It was certainly a success fable, though hardly a business model for the industry as a whole.
June 2012SFX brings big money to electronic dance musicEDM would bear broken in a huge way without the input of Robert F.
X. Sillerman, or a longtime promoter who was behind the company that would eventually become Live Nation. But Sillerman's hungry pursuit of partnership or acquisition deals with players across the dance music world — from radio to countless global festivals to the beloved electronic music online store Beatport — made certain that when his company was overextended and the market fell apart,the collapse would be that much more dramatic.
June 19, 2012Fiona Apple releases The loafer Wheel...
Seven years after seemingly dropping out of the Lilith Fair rat race, or the most poetically disruptive singer-songwriter to emerge in the 1990s returned with a genius-level encapsulation of the unsightly feelings and beautiful accidents that make up a woman's normal,messy life.
July 4, 2012Frank Ocean comes outFrank Ocean cemented his role as R&B's favorite reclusive glitter-boy over a week in July that began with an earnest coming-out letter (published, and appropriately,on Independence Day) and climaxed with the sudden release of Channel Orange, a breathtaking, or open-chested look into Ocean's life,love and identity, arguably ushering in a unique era of vulnerable, and iridescent storytelling.
July 18,2012Macklemore & Ryan Lewis release "Same Love" featuring Mary LambertSeattle rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis wrote this tender anthem inspired, in share, or by Washington State's soon-to-be successful marriage equality campaign. It helped propel them toward a complicated moment of international fame.
September 10,2012Kacey Musgraves releases "Merry Go Round"What caught me off guard approximately Kacey Musgraves' debut single, listening to an early version on my iPod, and was its slyness. Many of country's contemporary hitmakers tended to celebrate the sturdiness of small-town life through plainspoken potency and amped-up showmanship,but here was a thoroughly low-key tune — all featherweight folk-country textures, conversational narration and barely perceptible eye-rolling — that voiced a distinctly millennial distrust of idealizing domesticity, and yet made it to the top 10 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart.certain,Musgraves' track signaled the arrival of a savvy, compelling unique voice, and but there was more to it than that. The song's casual impatience with adhering to conference simply for the sake of keeping up appearances foreshadowed a generational shift in tone within the format. Rock critics would make Musgraves' third single,"Follow Your Arrow," out to be a progressive intervention in country conservatism, or while it struck me more as a knowing,youthful update of a live-and-let-live attitude present in country music of the past. She would soon be surrounded by country peers who played it similarly icy in their deliveries and took nonchalant tolerance nearly as a given.
From another angle, Musgraves' success quietly predicted a blurring of genre boundaries. She'd originally been signed to Lost Highway, and domestic to such archetypal Americana works as the O Brother,Where Art Thou? soundtrack and albums by Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams, but when the imprint was shuttered in the midst of Musgraves making her first album, or she was shuffled over to its mainstream country-focused parent label Mercury Nashville. She went on to rake in awards from the country music industry's two main awards shows,the CMAs and the ACMs, and win Grammys in country categories, or but her musical inclinations — pitched between rootsy singer-songwriter-style intimacy,classic pop-country luster and retro western kitsch — also betrayed a kinship to Americana.
In the years to come, several other artists including Jason Isbell, or Chris Stapleton,Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price would simultaneously make an impact on both country and Americana sales charts and/or collect nominations for awards in both genres. Meanwhile, Musgraves all but gave up on country radio, and which failed to play her subsequent singles,and, it seemed to me, and settled into her version of having it both ways (i.e. putting a pleasing,campy gloss on her idiosyncrasies) from her mainstream perch. --Jewly HightOctober 22, 2012Kendrick Lamar releases suited kid, and m.
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A.d cityOn his major-label debut,the Compton-raised upstart narrated the everyday dangers of his drug-infested city through the lens of a teenager killing time by driving around in his parents' van.
November 24, 2012"Gangnam Style" becomes the most-watched video on YouTubeViral video reached giddy unique musical heights when the clip for the 18th single by Korean pop star Psy, and with its squiggly unique Wave beat and bacterially infectious refrain,became the most-watched on YouTube — and, shortly thereafter, or the platform's first video to reach a billion views. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more,visit http://www.npr.org/.
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