MUSICREDEF PICKS
Boiler Room, Pusha T, Injection-Molded Vinyl, Beyoncé, Jay Z, Teklife...
Matty Karas, curator November 7, 2016
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Musicians have a really big part to play in spreading messages because they're able to reach a large portion of people on an emotional level. Artists reach people at their heart.
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Nov. 8 is the latest date a US election can take place. If this campaign season has seemed a little longer than usual, maybe that's why. Or maybe not... The final weekend found JAY Z using a few vulgarities at a pro-CLINTON concert and TED NUGENT grabbing his crotch at a TRUMP rally. Guess which one Trump was offended by... The NEW YORK TIMES' WESLEY MORRIS weighs in on the more subtle, and more powerful, politics of BEYONCÉ's performance with the DIXIE CHICKS at last week's CMA AWARDS... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and BON JOVI will bring the power of NEW JERSEY to Clinton's final swing-state campaign stop tonight in neighboring PHILADELPHIA... OZZY OSBOURNE says TRUMP is "all right, a very quiet man" (maybe they've never been in a locker room together) and is not sure who he would vote for if he were AMERICAN... DAVE EGGERS' anti-Trump "30 DAYS, 30 SONGS" project has morphed into "30 DAYS, 50 SONGS" because apparently a lot of artists want in. Recent entries include COLD WAR KIDS' "LOCKER ROOM TALK," OPEN MIKE EAGLE's "HOW TO BE SUPER PETTY TO YOUR EX" and JPEGMAFIA's "I MIGHT VOTE 4 DONALD TRUMP" ("just 'cause it's legal," he raps)... LOCAL NATIVES, THE HEAD & THE HEART and WATSKY & ADAM VIDA are releasing new music on election day that you can stream only if you're near a polling station, via the ELECTION FM app... VOTING MATTERS. Please vote. If you are AMERICAN, you should want in on this election. You should *need* in. This has nothing to do with music. This has everything to do with everything. REDEF founder JASON HIRSCHHORN makes a powerful case for CLINTON... 24 hours to go... This 30-minute meditation playlist of music by the late tenor saxophonist DAVID S. WARE—whose birthday is today—seems especially right for this particular day... RIP JEAN-JACQUES PERREY, ZOLTÁN KOCSIS and KAY STARR.

Matty Karas, curator

November 7, 2016