Esperanza Spalding.
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Go Flop Yourself, Major Lazer in Cuba, Nina Simone's Blackness, 'Hamilton,' Paul Westerberg...
Matty Karas, curator March 8, 2016
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It's very nice to work with somebody who has a big dictionary or thesaurus. It's a very rigorous 'training program' to become a jazz musician, you know? You come in contact with a lot of sounds, a lot of different textures and chords... I just feel like working with people who have a really broad vocabulary and a really broad palette of sound is the best way to go.
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Formats come and formats go, but is it possible that the very notion of format itself is nearing its expiration date? Sooner or later, I assume, musicians won't have to "release" anything at all. They'll create music, and fans will then have the music. No need for delivery, packaging or anything else between creation and consumption. It will just be. On MONDAY, as KANYE WEST TWITTER-nounced that he's "thinking about not making CDs again... Only streaming," the AV CLUB gathered 13 contributors to ask what they miss most about CDS, and the best anyone could come up with is that you can still play them when they get wet and they're slightly easier to play than MP3s on slightly older car stereos. I can't even imagine what they'll come up with when it's time for the MP3 obituaries... Shaving yet another step off the process, KENDRICK LAMAR didn't bother mastering his half-correctly titled "UNTITLED UNMASTERED." Question: Would anyone have noticed if hadn't said anything?... LADY GAGA says KESHA is "being very publicly shamed for something that happens in the music industry all the time, to women and men"... PERFECT PUSSY's MEREDITH GRAVES eats pizza and discusses the RAMONES and encountering punks for the first time... NEW ORDER's "BLUE MONDAY" played with 1930s-era period instruments -- for reasons that are obscure to me -- is strangely compelling... Tragic RANDY MEISNER news.

Matty Karas, curator

March 8, 2016