Each weekday, The Daily Chord offers a concise list of links to stories, posts and features about music and the music business. This week’s essentials included a great mid-year best-of list from NPR, a look at Ed Sheeran’s efforts to stop ticket scalping, and a feature from Pitchfork about how countries fund music. Check out this week’s links below and shoot us your email for our email blast.
Monday, June 26
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Pandora CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down
Post from Recode -
Glastonbury 2017: ‘The best one yet’, declares organizer Emily Eavis
Post from The Guardian -
How countries around the world fund music – and why it matters
Analysis from Pitchfork -
Disputes over Prince’s estate throw the future of his vault into question
Story from NY Times -
On the charts: Lorde lands first number one album with ‘Melodrama’
Story from Rolling Stone -
Songs as skills
Post by Benji Rogers via Medium
Tuesday, June 27
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How TV’s best music supervisors picked their Emmy submissions
List from AV Club -
Foiled by Facebook: Austin kidnapping suspect caught at Iron Maiden concert
Post from Austin American-Statesman -
Music: The good, the bad and the ugly
Post from Discover -
Jimmy Iovine shares stories of John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre and why he hid Stevie Nicks in his basement
Post from Howard Stern -
Priests: The punk group caught up in Trump politics and Pizzagate
Profile from The Guardian -
Why the far right wants to be the new alternative culture
Post from NY Times
Wednesday, June 28
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New app Stationhead could be just what the streaming business needs
Post from Billboard -
#FreeFader hashtag emerges after publication’s Twitter suspension
Post from Mashable -
Apple Music’s first personalized playlist wants you to chill
Post from TechCrunch -
NPR Music’s essential songs, albums, performances and videos of 2017 (so far)
List from NPR -
With one raw, irresistible song, James Brown found the sound of the racial unrest of 1967
Post by Natalie Weiner via Medium -
Geri Allen, pianist who reconciled jazz’s far-flung styles, dies at 60
Obituary from NY Times
Thursday, June 29
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MTV News shifts toward video, targets younger audience
Post from Variety -
Small-town festival on a Bonnaroo budget: Why Karoondinha failed
Story from Billboard -
Radio 1: Why is the station struggling to find new DJs?
Post from BBC News -
Sony to start making records again 30 years after abandoning vinyl
Post from The Guardian -
Music industry welcomes landmark ruling in Google delisting case
Post from Complete Music Update -
In a first, bird uses tools to make sweet music
Post from National Geographic
Friday, June 30
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Ed Sheeran ups fight against ticket touts with strict rules for 2018 gigs
Story from BBC News -
Official Singles Chart changes rules to help new artists break through
Post from The Independent -
Sharon Osbourne and Notorious B.I.G.’s mother hit out at Kylie and Kendall Jenner over new t-shirts
Post from NME -
Jay Z has used his latest albums as corporate bargaining chips
Post from The Verge -
Compromise proposal to fix streaming royalties, licensing, notification
Guest post from Hypebot -
Kelan Phil Cohran, influential Chicago composer/bandleader, dies at 90
Obituary from Chicago Tribune
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