Music production

Music production

You cannot separate politics from art. Part of this is from just the definition of what politics is: It's the interrelation of things to each other and to themselves and what we do about it, everything from how you split household tasks to how you prioritize your free time to how you govern a nation. Politics is not life itself, but it emerges so fluidly and perpetually from it that its better thought of as an organ to the organism rather than something entirely separate. Art is exactly the same. If life is a body, then politics is the liver and art is the flora and fauna of the intestines. They are interlinked and inextricable, eradicatible only at the cost of the life of the organism.

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The first word that comes to mind is passion for the music, for what I do. If you get to be the voice of a song like We Are Family, which is here for generations to come to me, it's more than a song, it's a statement it just blows my mind. We were the group that brought the world together as a family through a song.

Will Toledo loves to tinker. Even in the early days of his project Car Seat Headrest-back before he became widely recognized as an indie-rock wunderkind-he occasionally re-worked old songs until they felt right. (Take, for example, "Oh! Starving," originally recorded in 2010, then rerecorded it in 2012 and again in 2015.) But after signing to Matador Records, Toledo took things up a notch, releasing Teens of Style, a compilation of remakes picked from his greatest non-hits scattered across his Bandcamp recordings.

Fully self-produced, Valeria masterfully merges the rich musical heritage of her hometown with the underground beats of London. After years of collaborating with different producers, she leapt to shape her own sonic narratives, igniting a passion to craft music that speaks to the heart. “I wanted to produce my own music after seeing the powerful impact production can have on storytelling,” she reflects.

UMG stated the agreement "extends TikTok and UMG's groundbreaking commitment to AI protections that promote human artistry and ensure platform economics effectively flow through to artists and songwriters. TikTok and UMG will work together to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform, while further improving artist and songwriter attribution."

Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you'd gladly send to a friend.

Blod may seem unbearably esoteric. But a little context helps; Dicksson is a spiritual descendant of Swedish Progg movement of the 1960s and '70s-not to be confused with prog rock, it was a left-wing, anti-commercial music movement that encompassed a wide range of styles, from psych-rock bands to nationally beloved singer-songwriters. Blod is indebted to the mossier, more experimental ends of the movement, including bands like Träd, Gräs & Stenar. This is the anti-capitalist, DIY heritage which Discreet Music-the record store and label run by Dicksson-is keeping alive.

Make Them Pay to me is actually kind of the most vitriolic, even if it is kind of the most sensual song on the record. Clipse are catching heat here. DJ Khaled, on the receiving end of some really savage lines. And also Rick Ross, who is the victim of a very, very charged bit of wordplay. The sample is Free by Deniece Williams. Now I'm old enough to remember when Free by Deniece Williams was a real go-to sample in '90s rap.

You can follow your favorite artists as well as entire record labels. That makes it easy to stay on top of new artists on labels like 4AD, AD 93, Fire Talk, and Warp. Record Club pulls all of its data from the open-source music encyclopedia MusicBrainz.

Hamilton has been one of the hottest Broadway musicals for over a decade, and while the movie has yet to be adapted into a feature film, you can catch it on Blu-ray. The musical historical drama is getting a new Collector's Edition on 4K Blu-ray, and you can preorder it now through Amazon and Walmart for $80 ahead of its June 16 release.

Roger Linn is a legend in the world of musical instruments. He's been at the cutting edge of music technology for decades. He created the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and its successor, the LinnDrum, is one of the most iconic drum machines of all time. They were used on countless records in the 1980s, including hits by Tom Petty, Queen, and Tears for Fears.