June 8, 2018

The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, June 8

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Monday, June 4

• Can AI make it to number one?
  Post from BBC News
• Neil Young’s online archives are a revolution in fandom
  Post from The Guardian
• Britain’s biggest festival organizer dismays campaigners by backtracking on support for drug testing
  Post from The Independent
• Music startup Roli adds Sony as investor, eyes up expanded range of hardware and software
  Post from TechCrunch
• Whose rap flow was the sickest?
  Post from The Ringer
• Ticketfly update: Venue, promoter sites coming along, purchases enabled
  Post from Pollstar

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Tuesday, June 5

• Pusha T was no match for Shawn Mendes on the Billboard chart
  Item from NY Times
• Discover weakly: Sexism on Spotify
  Post from The Baffler
• Clarence Fountain, founding member of Blind Boys of Alabama, dies at 88
  Obituary from Billboard
• BBC to close Maida Vale studios and move live music base to East London
  Post from The Guardian
• As the music industry gathers at MIDEM, a look at who’s leading in international
  Post from Variety
• Ticketfly hacker stole more than 26 million email and home addresses
  Post from Engadget

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Wednesday, June 6

• Facebook is finally putting music back in social networking
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Spotify gets serious about hardware, registers with FCC
  Post from Variety
• What exactly makes a country outlaw?
  Post from Pitchfork
• Guitar Hero Live goes offline in December, making 92% of its songs unplayable
  Post from Ars Technica
• Jalaal Mansur Nuriddin: Farewell to the ‘grandfather of rap’
  Obituary from The Guardian
• A California musician claimed sound could improve oil flow. Now feds are suing him for swindling Texas investors
  Story from Dallas Morning News

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Thursday, June 7

• Metropolitan Police apply for court order to stop gang members from making drill music, in an unprecedented move
  Story from The Independent
• Spotify offers managers, artists advances to license music directly to its streaming service
  Post from Billboard
• ‘As a manager, if you want something for your client, you have to be really bullish’
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I was very optimistic when I was young – now I’m the opposite’
  Interview from The Guardian
• VR music festivals could become a widespread reality in the near future
  Post from Uproxx
• Prince estate announces new album ‘Piano and a Microphone 1983’
  Post from Pitchfork

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Friday, June 8

• Roobound: How Bonnaroo rises above the festival glut
  Story from Pollstar
• How Taylor Swift flipped online fandom on its head for the better
  Post from CNET
• Ticketfly is finally back online after hack
  Item from Engadget
• PledgeMusic falls behind in payments to artists, promises fix
  Post from Hypebot
• Music biz challenges and lessons: Read RIAA chief Cary Sherman’s MIDEM speech
  Post from Variety
• Lost John Coltrane recording from 1963 will be released at last
  Post from NY Times

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