| My life feels like a responsibility. I'm not even trying to be no role model, honestly. [But] now that I know that I am, I try to carry myself differently, because I got people watching. I don't even be doing what I really want to do. I do what I gotta do now. | | | | |  | Philly x New York: Tierra Whack and Alicia Keys at Afropunk Brooklyn, Aug. 24, 2019.
(Matthew Sperzel/Getty Images) | | | | | "My life feels like a responsibility. I'm not even trying to be no role model, honestly. [But] now that I know that I am, I try to carry myself differently, because I got people watching. I don't even be doing what I really want to do. I do what I gotta do now." | | | | Going Through Changes
I'm sitting in with a band tomorrow night in Brooklyn, first time I've done this since before the pandemic, and if it was a month ago I'd be inviting everyone I know and counting down the hours, but this week I'm a ball of anxiety speckled with small terrors. Even though the room is vaccinated-only. Even though I'll be masked. I admit to being more anxious than most of (I assume) you in general, and I'm aware this is just one night and if I need to change my mind I can just change my mind. I don't do this for a living. I don't have another gig the following night and the night after that. There aren't families and crews and bartenders depending on me. I have mad respect for everyone who does, and for the decisions they've been facing all summer and will continue to face in the months ahead. Respect for GARTH BROOKS, who announced Tuesday, after a rough opening weekend of rain and light chaos in a state with rising case counts, that "we, as a group, will assess the remainder of the stadium tour this year." For the OFFSPRING, which has told unvaccinated drummer PETE PARADA he's no longer welcome either on the road or in the studio. For JAPANESE BREAKFAST, who's drawn a line in the sand with masks and vaccinations for a largely sold-out tour that reaches Detroit tonight. And for the city of New York, which will take the pressure off artists like Japanese Breakfast by imposing a vaccination mandate of its own. But not for the state of Texas, which has done the exact opposite. Covid-19 is a complicated song and we are all, in our own way, playing solos over it. You may or may not like where Garth Brooks and the Offspring and Japansese Breakfast are going with theirs, but they're all doing their best to follow the changes (though, if I may put on my HealthREDEF hat for a minute, mandating only one dose in New York City is mind-bogglingly short-sighted). Texas is fighting the changes, which is no way to play a solo.
Etc Etc Etc
Will SPOTIFY PLUS be a way to get users to pay 99 cents a month instead of nothing, or, conversely, a chance for some to potentially drop their monthly payment from $9.99 to 99 cents? What say you, artists and other rights holders?... Spotify minus: Sorry DANIEL EK, but a podcast host who you paid $100 million for the exclusive rights to his talk show is not the same as a rapper whose songs happen to be widely available in your and everybody else's subscription service. The rapper could probably come up some good rhymes for "whataboutism" though... What a difference a year makes at LIVE NATION... TOM OBERHEIM, founder of the electronic gear company that bears his name, has officially won back the rights to that name worldwide, more than three decades after losing it in bankruptcy. GIBSON had returned the name to Oberheim two years ago for the US and a few other markets, but MUSIC TRIBE, parent company of BEHRINGER, still controlled the name elsewhere around the world. Music Tribe has now returned it, too... If DABABY thought a few clumsy words of apology would stop festivals from dropping him like a homophobe potato, he was wrong. The signal the music world is sending the "ROCKSTAR" rapper is clear: There is work to do.
Rest in Peace
Pioneering techno DJ/producer K-HAND, known as "The First Lady of Detroit"... Doo-wop singer WILLIE WINFIELD, who led the Harptones for more than 60 years.
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