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8 votes
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ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
8 votes -
A$AP Rocky told he cannot perform for inmates at his old Swedish jail – national prison board cites logistical and security issues
4 votes -
Music Makers: Guitarists, Bassists and other Stringslingers
Let's talk. What do you have and what do want to have? It's holiday season....don't pretend you're not G.A.S.ing over something right now. We all do it.
7 votes -
A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
8 votes -
Music Makers: Synth Players and Programmers
I love a good synth sound. How about you? Got a favorite hardware or software synthesizer? Tell us about it.
7 votes -
Alanis Morissette isn’t angry anymore. But ‘Jagged Little Pill’ rages on.
7 votes -
Amanda Palmer is getting dragged on Twitter - is this cancel culture?
I've seen some debate on here about 'cancel culture', and there is a pretty good example of it happening on Twitter more-or-less now (or I guess it's probably old news in internet-time). Here is...
I've seen some debate on here about 'cancel culture', and there is a pretty good example of it happening on Twitter more-or-less now (or I guess it's probably old news in internet-time).
Here is Amanda Palmer's Original thread:
https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/1197525096937771010Here is the perspective of the "the guardian's music editor" (not actually the music editor, but she is the woman Amanda Palmer's tweets allude too as the music editor):
https://twitter.com/laurasnapes/status/1197572693081698310(the actual music editor also weighed in https://twitter.com/ben_bt/status/1197568113535070208)
It's pretty clear that there is an internet pile-on going down. Here is just a few of many examples:
https://twitter.com/JEHANCOURF/status/1197645652605448193
https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1197660203937914880Palmer's husband Neil Gaiman isn't escaping scrutiny either:
https://twitter.com/harrrithon/status/1197594514564820992
https://twitter.com/ThosMcStakin/status/1197662487593635840Some unrelated anti-Palmer stories cropping up:
https://twitter.com/bombastic_luv/status/1197765401691742208
https://twitter.com/TamikaVST/status/1197672824040828928
https://twitter.com/TamikaVST/status/1197674952591327237So my question is: is this the cancel culture everyone is worried about? Is twitter going 'too far'? Or is Amanda Palmer getting what she deserved?
I'm honestly on the fence. Give me your thoughts.
12 votes -
The untold story of Alien Ant Farm’s ‘Smooth Criminal’
7 votes -
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland
12 votes -
Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath Björk
3 votes -
How long will I be alone?
4 votes -
Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead collaborator and lyricist, dead at 78
8 votes -
How the tastemaker music festival Iceland Airwaves is transforming Reykjavík
4 votes -
Dolly Parton's ‘Books From Birth’ has now delivered one million free children's books to DC kids
8 votes -
Stockholm to stage Avicii tribute concert to benefit mental health awareness
4 votes -
The Book of Prince: Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live
6 votes -
YACHT's new album Chain Tripping was created by inventing their own machine-learning-based composition process and applying it to their back catalogue
6 votes -
Blink-182’s Peter Pan complex
9 votes -
The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
6 votes -
Pianist Jack Gibbons pulls out of Carnegie Hall concert because it had links to an anti-LGBT newspaper
7 votes -
Interview took a quick trip to Oslo for the annual Øya Festival to meet four emerging Norwegian acts
4 votes -
Why Tool could be more relevant today than ever before
7 votes -
Taylor Swift plans to re-record her back catalog to regain control of her masters
12 votes -
How artist imposters and fake songs sneak onto streaming services
4 votes -
Neil Young’s lonely quest to save music: He says low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains. Is he right?
8 votes -
Katy Perry's hit Dark Horse copied a Christian rap song, jury finds
11 votes -
A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault over Stockholm brawl – rapper is spared prison
8 votes -
Lady Gaga to fund 162 classrooms in Dayton, El Paso and Gilroy
15 votes -
Play with Ray – Ray Chen gives Hollywood Bowl debut to eighteen-year-old Laura Kukkonen
3 votes -
Kaddish for David Berman
6 votes -
David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) dead at 52
5 votes -
Plane reportedly carrying singer Pink's crew crashes after landing at Denmark airport
5 votes -
Rammstein members kiss onstage in Russia to protest anti-LGBTQ laws
19 votes -
Donald Trump sent the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs to Stockholm to monitor the A$AP Rocky court proceedings
16 votes -
Iranian heavy metal band Confess escape to Norway after receiving prison sentences
4 votes -
Woman arrested for threatening to blow up Swedish embassy in Washington DC over A$AP Rocky case
8 votes -
Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
6 votes -
Greta Thunberg writes climate essay for the The 1975's new album
4 votes -
Donald Trump says he called Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven to personally vouch for A$AP Rocky
6 votes -
Emails show Iowa official's Tupac fixation before his ouster
17 votes -
Nearly one per cent of Finland's population shows up to watch Metallica in record-breaking concert
6 votes -
The sad and lonely life of an Eminem fan in 2018
9 votes -
R. Kelly arrested on Federal sex trafficking charges
12 votes -
Elvis Costello created a mammoth list of the 500 most essential albums in music history
14 votes -
João Gilberto, master of Bossa Nova, dies at 88
12 votes -
A$AP Rocky has been detained in Stockholm for two weeks while investigations continue into an assault charge
5 votes -
Death Row graphic artist Ronald “Riskie” Brent talks Tupac
4 votes -
Master recordings matter: Taylor Swift's feud shows why ownership can be crucial to musicians
7 votes -
Madonna at sixty: The original queen of pop on aging, inspiration and why she refuses to cede control
5 votes