Sharon Van Etten's "Remind Me Tomorrow" is out today on Jagjaguwar.
(Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images)
Sharon Van Etten's "Remind Me Tomorrow" is out today on Jagjaguwar.
(Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images)
MUSICREDEF PICKS
Fighting Fyre With Cinematic Fire, Fabric 19, Short-Song Economy, Spice v. VP, Early Female Rockers...
Matty Karas, curator January 18, 2019
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It's January, the West Coast is under water, seemingly the rest of the country is bracing for a mini Ice Age, and here we are talking about outdoor festivals. Like this one for MINECRAFT-playing kids, which took place inside the video game last weekend and which spelled "Fire" just like that, with an "i." And this one for classic-rock flag-waving Gen-Xers, which will take place inside a stadium in Arlington, Texas, and won't feature ARIANA GRANDE or even TAME IMPALA. But especially this one, which didn't take place at all two years ago on an island paradise that wasn't an island paradise, which spelled "Fyre" with a "y" and which is now the subject of two documentaries released four days apart. You can relive the horror in actual festival style, traipsing between multiple streaming subscriptions over 96 hours instead of traipsing between multiple stages through a few hundred yards of grass or mud. The two FYRE FESTIVAL docs cover the same material, and a lot of the same footage, in decidedly different ways, and both have their supporters. Here's why you should watch HULU's FYRE FRAUD. Here's why you should make time for NETFLIX's FYRE. They both have their detractors, too, including each other. What's a festival without a good feud? We look back on how it all went down 21 months ago in our MusicSET "You're Fyred: Remembering the Most Unfestive Festival Ever"... Also dropping today: A full-length YOUTUBE documentary on K-pop kings BTS's 2017 world tour. A 2018 BTS concert film will screen in theaters worldwide for one day next weekend... BANDCAMP has already clinched the award for most unlikely and awesome move by a digital service in 2019. It's opening a brick-and-mortar record store... KACEY MUSGRAVES, PISTOL ANNIES and ASHLEY MCBRYDE top NASHVILLE SCENE's annual Country Music Critics' Poll. The top 30 albums include 19 women or female-fronted bands, which is how you know no one from country radio was given a ballot... But what do critics know anyway?... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from FUTURE, SHARON VAN ETTEN, JAMES BLAKE, TORO Y MOI, MAGGIE ROGERS, MIKE POSNER, DEERHUNTER, LIZ BRASHER, ALICE MERTON, FEVER 333, PEDRO THE LION, COI LERAY, MALIBU KEN (AESOP ROCK & TOBACCO), YNW MELLY, STEVE GUNN, JOE JACKSON, NKISI, BUKE & GASE, HIKARU UTADA, the TWILIGHT SAD, RONNIE MILSAP, GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, the FLESH EATERS, CHRISTINA PERRI, STEVE MASON, JULIANA HATFIELD, GUSTER, WHITEHORSE, FRANCES CONE and ARCH ENEMY... RIP DEBI MARTINI... There will be no MusicREDEF on Monday, in honor of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY. We'll see you Tuesday morning.

Matty Karas, curator

January 18, 2019