Tag: Music

How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’

[ad_1] On Oct. 20, 1979, high school friends Angela Brown, Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm found themselves in a make-or-break audition. Like many adventurous teens, the Columbia, S.C., natives were enamored with a new musical art form that had defiantly risen out of New York’s impoverished South Bronx: hip-hop. Yet the record that inspired them… Continue reading How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’

Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music

[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially received little attention. But the video cast… Continue reading Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music

Doja Cat Drops ‘Paint the Town Red’ Music Video

[ad_1] Doja Cat is once again getting her Kittens to see red. After recently experiencing a mass unstanning due to her controversial boyfriend, disapproval of her fandom name, and general attitude toward fans, Doja dropped a music video for a colorful new addition to her discography on Friday. “Paint the Town Red” features lyrics that… Continue reading Doja Cat Drops ‘Paint the Town Red’ Music Video

Doja Cat Drops ‘Paint the Town Red’ Music Video

[ad_1] Doja Cat is once again getting her Kittens to see red. After recently experiencing a mass unstanning due to her controversial boyfriend, disapproval of her fandom name, and general attitude toward fans, Doja dropped a music video for a colorful new addition to her discography on Friday. “Paint the Town Red” features lyrics that… Continue reading Doja Cat Drops ‘Paint the Town Red’ Music Video

Chappell Roan on New Music, Drag, and Hannah Montana

[ad_1] Photo: Courtesy Amusement/Island Records At this year’s Las Culturistas Culture Awards, a glitzy cross-pop-cultural ceremony hosted by and voted on exclusively by comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, the Album of the Year competition was stiff: Beyoncé, Taylor, Katy Perry, the Into the Woods 2022 original Broadway recording (we stan) were all up for the… Continue reading Chappell Roan on New Music, Drag, and Hannah Montana

The music was great in ‘Daisy Jones,’ but those clothes!

[ad_1] Nothing was going to stop costume designer Denise Wingate from finishing one of the biggest projects of her career, not a yearlong pandemic shutdown at the beginning, and not a broken ankle toward the end of filming the 10-episode fictional rock documentary “Daisy Jones & the Six.” When production moved to Athens, she directed… Continue reading The music was great in ‘Daisy Jones,’ but those clothes!

Apple Again Fails to Save Classical Music

[ad_1] The case against the music-streaming industry is as damning as ever. The leading services pay pittances to artists—usually, less than one cent per play. In a textbook demonstration of monopoly economics, megastars magnify their wealth while everyone else struggles to break even. Streaming technology is environmentally destructive, resulting in the release of up to… Continue reading Apple Again Fails to Save Classical Music