Sidney Bechet recording "Summertime" for Blue Note, June 8, 1939.
(Charles Peterson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Sidney Bechet recording "Summertime" for Blue Note, June 8, 1939.
(Charles Peterson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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P***y Rioting at the World Cup, A Music Fan's Responsibility, Boots Riley, Prince, the Bee Gees...
Matty Karas, curator July 16, 2018
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How do you show that you like your fans? You don't ding 'em for money every possible chance you get... When kids download your stuff for free off the internet and they tell you about it, you don't get mad at 'em... If you wanna steal my stuff, you go ahead and do to me what record labels have been doing to me. Now you get to play the man. Good for you!
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It's unclear, from the photographic evidence, if one of the P***Y RIOT protesters at Sunday's WORLD CUP final was high-fiving French star KYLIAN MBAPPÉ for his awesome play throughout the tournament, or if he was high-fiving her for a righteous political action, or if it was an awkward moment between two mismatched celebrities meeting at an unlikely place and time. All three are equally plausible. As the NEW YORKER's MASHA GESSEN points out, P***y Riot isn't strictly a musical entity, but punk and dance are central to the group's identity, and if you're one of those people who've been wondering whatever happened to protest music, count Sunday's internationally televised action as one more bit of proof that artists are still out there confronting reality, in ways both subtle and not-so-subtle, polite and not-so-polite. Same as always, and bless them for it... One more musical note on the World Cup: This is a good TV sports instrumental that you only heard 10 seconds of during most of FOX's coverage. Take this opportunity, if you're so inclined, to hear the remaining three minutes of Russian composer/pianist KIRILL RICHTER's "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD"... BEYONCÉ and JAY-Z screened the World Cup final before their "ON THE RUN II" show at Paris' STADE DE FRANCE. Take that, whatever sports bar you watched it at... PUSHA T has a judgy hip-hop app... There are four versions of Pusha T's DAYTONA at TIDAL, two copies at APPLE MUSIC and one copy each at SPOTIFY and YOUTUBE MUSIC. They all have the same seven songs. Each service has its reasons, and I admit to understanding those reasons. But that doesn't mean I need to see them all. As an individual user, I would challenge each service to come up with a way to show me only one... Sometimes TICKETMASTER is kind... Sometimes J MASCIS completely nails TOM PETTY at karaoke... RIP NANCY BARBATO SINATRA and GEORGE THEISS.

Matty Karas, curator

July 16, 2018