David Byrne: 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world' Awhile ago Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead got some attention when they pulled their recent record from Spotify.
Spotify opens up analytics in effort to prove its worth to doubting musicians. Streaming music service Spotify is hoping to win over its musician critics by launching a new Spotify Artists website explaining how its business model works.
The company is also launching free analytics for artists to get data on streams of their music; announcing plans to help them sell merchandise from their Spotify profiles; and publishing figures on how much musicians can expect to earn as it grows. The various announcements are a response to trenchant criticism from some musicians in 2013.
Thom Yorke described Spotify as "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse", while David Byrne criticised streaming as "unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind". The Spotify Artists website aims to answer musicians' questions about how Spotify calculates its payouts for streams of their music, and convince them that as the company grows, their streaming earnings will make up for any fall in sales of CDs and downloads. Dawn of Midi. How One Band Turned A Ghost Town Into A Giant Recording Studio : The Record. Hide caption The members of Efterklang in Piramida: Mads Brauer (left), Rasmus Stolberg (center) and Casper Clausen.
Courtesy of Efterklang Hide caption Piramida, shot from above. The ghost town, once an active Russian mining settlement, is on the island of Spitsbergen, in the archipelago of Svalbard, which is controlled by Norway. Ice-T Gives A Hip-Hop History Lesson In 'The Art Of Rap' Hide captionIce-T (left) with Chuck D in a still from his documentary From Something to Nothing: The Art of Rap.
Courtesy of Indomina Ice-T (left) with Chuck D in a still from his documentary From Something to Nothing: The Art of Rap. Ice-T, the rapper and actor, wants people to think about the craft of making rap music. He has directed and starred in a documentary called Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap that takes viewers from Harlem into the South Bronx, to Detroit and South Central Los Angeles. 33 Musicians On What John Cage Communicates. John Cage in The Hague, Netherlands, 1988 Paul Bergen/Courtesy of Redferns hide caption toggle caption Paul Bergen/Courtesy of Redferns John Cage in The Hague, Netherlands, 1988 100 years ago today, John Cage was born.
In celebration of his birthday, we asked contemporary musicians across a wide range of genres and backgrounds — not only in classical music, but also pop, rock, metal, electronic and experimental — what they've taken from the late composer's musical and philosophical ideas. Cage was known throughout his career for experimental, indeterminant avant-garde compositions. Interview: Victoria Legrand of Beach House - New York Music - Sound of the City. Beach House plays the Siren Festival this Saturday, July 19 at 5pm on the Stillwell Stage. With the name Beach House, "People immediately think, 'lying in the cabana.' Smoking opium. Listening to Galaxie 500. Spiritualized. " Do those qualify as jazz hands? Miles Davis – blind listening test - Noise made me do it - sound,music and things that tickle your ears.
Down Beat Magazine interviewed Miles Davis in 1964 and asked him for his opinion on some music via a blind listening test, and checked his ability to pick out other musicians based on the way they played. Now, Miles Davis wasn’t known for listening to just about anything – he was very selective in what he spent his time listening to, so he’s definitely got some opinions. On Les McCann-Jazz Crusaders, “All Blues” (Wayne Henderson, trombone; Wilton Felder, tenor saxophone; Joe Sample, piano; McCann, electric piano; Miles Davis, composer): What’s that supposed to be?
Mobile. On Jazz Day, Jason Moran Makes The Case For Relevance. Hide captionJazz pianist Jason Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010.
Clay Patrick McBride Some of the world's most renowned musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO, the U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music's significance and potential as a unifying voice across cultures. In spite of the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has struggled to connect with younger generations. Jazz In The Cafeteria: Kids Learn To Listen While They Chomp. Hide captionSaxophonist Harold Rapp plays during lunchtime at Alice Terry Elementary School in Sheridan, Colo.
Jenny Brundin for NPR School lunch is often synonymous with loud noise. Studies have shown the decibel level in some cafeterias is as high as a lawn mower. Every so often, though, students at Alice Terry Elementary School, southwest of Denver, are asked not to make any noise. St. Vincent & tUnE-yArDs In Conversation - Back & Forth #01. Radiolab: Crossroads. James Murphy: The Brains Behind LCD Soundsystem. Hide captionWhen James Murphy was 22, he was offered a writing job on the sitcom Seinfeld but turned it down to focus on his musical career.
Ruvan Wijesooriya When James Murphy was 22, he was offered a writing job on the sitcom Seinfeld but turned it down to focus on his musical career. This interview was originally broadcast on June 21, 2012. LCD Soundsystem's Final Bash, Relived. Hide captionJames Murphy on stage at Madison Square Garden last year, during LCD Soundsystem's final concert. Oscilloscope Laboratories James Murphy on stage at Madison Square Garden last year, during LCD Soundsystem's final concert. For an indie band, it seems almost impossible to achieve massive commercial success without losing credibility. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love LCD Soundsystem : The Record. Movie Review - 'Shut Up and Play the Hits' - At His Zenith, An Unlikely Rock Star Bows Out. Hide captionJames Murphy, frontman for the now-disbanded LCD Soundsystem, kneels on the Madison Square Garden stage.
Shut Up and Play the Hits documents the band's final show at the landmark New York venue. Oscilloscope Pictures. Calvin Harris On Dance-Pop As A 'Futuristic Experiment' Hide captionScottish producer Calvin Harris presents the fruits of a prolific year and a half on the new album 18 Months.
Rukes/Courtesy of the artist Scottish producer Calvin Harris presents the fruits of a prolific year and a half on the new album 18 Months. The Rihanna song "We Found Love" has been a monster radio hit over the past year. Dirty Projectors: A Polarizing Sound At The Fringes Of Pop. Hide captionDirty Projectors' new album is entitled Swing Lo Magellan. Jason Frank Rothenberg/Courtesy of the artist Purchase Featured Music "Gun Has No Trigger" Album: Swing Lo Magellan [Deluxe Edition] Artist: Dirty Projectors Label: Domino Released: 2012 Amazon » "Offspring Are Blank" Album: Swing Lo Magellan [Deluxe Edition] Artist: Dirty Projectors Label: Domino Released: 2012 Amazon » Opinions about Dirty Projectors couldn't be more divided.
Intrigued, weekends on All Things Considered spoke with Dirty Projectors bandleader Dave Longstreth to figure out why. Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder. Hide captionIn Bernie, Jack Black plays a local mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him.
The movie is based on a true story. The Smashing Pumpkins: Making Peace With The Immediate Past. Hide captionThe Smashing Pumpkins in 2012 (from left): Nicole Fiorentino, Billy Corgan, Mike Byrne and Jeff Schroeder. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros Are 'Here' John Mayer: Restoring An Image, And An Instrument. Neil Young's Fascination With 'Americana' Danny Clinch. The Practical Side Of The Great American Jam Band. Hide captionThe Grateful Dead circa 1970. Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012 - Esperanza Spalding - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - Full Episode Video. Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program.
Nor is spirituality a word you associate nowadays with the Salzburg Festival, a once-modest summer presentation of classical music and theater founded in 1920 by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss and others, now grown huge and proud. Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes on Spotify. The almighty power of Mumford & Sons. The pub is filling up: City boys in pinstriped suits, women clutching dry white wines; candles are lit on upstairs tables, voices rise to fill the room. In a back booth, far away from the clamour of the bar, four fastidiously attired young men nurse pints of ale.
Woody Guthrie's Indelible Mark On American Culture. Copyright © 2012 NPR. Deep In The Desert, Monks Make Transcendent Music. Hannibal Lecter's Guide To The 'Goldberg Variations' : Deceptive Cadence. At SXSW, Bruce Springsteen On The Meaning Of Music : The Record. Why Beck’s New Album Is An Experiment in Social Media. Third Man Record Booth. Everything is a Remix. Snoop Dogg "Reincarnated" as Snoop Lion - Press Conference. The Universal History of Music In One Awesome Timelapse Drawing. Frank Zappa on Crossfire. FOK JULLE NAAIERS. When Pop Stars Flirt With Bad Taste : The Record. Music Instinct. Music: It's in your head, changing your brain. Haven't I Heard This Song Before? : The Record.
Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos On The Importance Of Structure. How Sound Affects. Music Education In Public Schools Gets A Passing Grade : The Record. Science Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S. Bring Hip-Hop Into The Classroom : Code Switch. Metric: A Rock Band Declares Independence. How Wes Anderson Soundtracks His Movies.