This week, the #MeToo movement impacted the music industry in the wake of new revelations about criminal misbehavior by executives and missteps at The Grammys. The Daily Chord linked to a number of stories with relevant information and opinions on the matter. Get a quick and thoughtful overview of the day’s music news with The Daily Chord. Subscribe to the email blast for a reminder to surf our way each weekday.
Monday, January 29
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2018 Grammy Awards: Complete Winners List
Post from Grammys -
Copyright Royalty Board boosts songwriter’s streaming pay nearly 50%
Post from Variety -
Congress, it’s time to pay musicians
Op-ed from NY Times -
Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they’d be
Post from Wired -
Here’s why the music industry is celebrating again – and here’s why the music industry is still in mourning
Post from Recode -
Higher Brothers are Chinese hip-hop’s greatest hope
Post from Noisey
Tuesday, January 30
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What do the Grammys have against women?
Post from Rolling Stone -
Ratings for Grammy Awards drop 24%
Item from NY Times -
Quincy Jones has a story about that
Interview from GQ -
Ron Ron is the 21-year-old producer defining the rowdy sound of L.A.’s rap underground
Interview from The Fader -
Republic Records president Charlie Walk accused of sexual misconduct
Post from Pitchfork -
What the latest wave of promoter consolidation means for the biz
Post from Pollstar
Wednesday, January 31
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How to be a responsible music fan in the age of streaming
Feature from Pitchfork -
Spotify is testing a new playlist-based music app that’s a lot like Pandora
Post from TechCrunch -
Tencent, Sony launch Liquid State electronic dance music label
Post from Variety -
DJ who groped Taylor Swift hired by Mississippi radio station
Item from The Guardian -
The coolest music gadgets at NAMM 2018
Post from The Verge -
They told the women in Bahia they couldn’t drum. Try telling that to Banda Didá.
Story from NY Times
Thursday, February 1
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David Byrne on Trump, cultural appropriation and why he won’t reunite Talking Heads
Interview from Rolling Stone -
Three incidents of sexual harassment from the music industry’s boom years
Story from Variety -
The Wired guide to the blockchain
Post from Wired -
2018 is the year that classic rock begins to say farewell
Column from Uproxx -
Beauty in chaos: The Velvet Underground’s ‘White Light White Heat’ turns 50
Post from Consequence Of Sound -
Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art-pop: ‘We were game for anything’
Interview from The Guardian
Friday, February 2
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Female executives call for Grammy chief Neil Portnow’s resignation
Post from Variety -
In days after Grammys, a #MeToo spark comes to music
Story from NY Times -
Bands recall their terrible first gigs
Post from BBC News -
Will Music Modernization Act precipitate the decline of BMI, ASCAP, SESAC?
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The man who would save country music
Profile from Washington Post -
How the music industry poured water on a drowning man
Story from Kankakee Daily Journal
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