I . They come in droves, teeth and Bvlgari gleaming. Their smiles are tolerant for the red carpet step-and-repeat and much more earnest, earned, once they’re safely past the guarded double doors. In the room all together, they make up a living museum — a sentient Coachella poster, a Forbes …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Entertainment lawyer Henderson Cole had spent years studying music’s tangled payment system, frustrated by how ill-adapted it was for the streaming …
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Following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, music executives Brianna Agyemang and Jamila Thomas were exhausted. They wanted time to rest and process — so the friends planned a day away from their normal jobs and created a hashtag, #TheShowMustBePaused, to explain the significance of doing …
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Earlier this year, the app TikTok — which allows users to create short video clips set to music — helped shotgun Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” into the pop stratosphere. That accomplishment alone is cause for the app’s creators to celebrate. But that is just one way that TikTok …
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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? That classic line, delivered by Johnny Rotten in January 1978 during The Sex Pistols’ farewell show at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, remains the stuff of legend. The frontman appeared to hint that the Pistols – for many, the purest distillation of the punk …
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