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fromSlate Magazine
6 days ago

Every Breath Sting Takes, Every Hit Sting Makes-We've Been Watching Him.

Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you'll probably hear the Police's "Every Breath You Take" sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit's songwriter-Sting-is a very wealthy man. Now, his former bandmates, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are suing Sting over who deserves to profit from "Breath" and other Police songs.. No matter how that dispute turns out, it's a reminder of Sting's uncanny songwriting skill and his charmed life of hitmaking.
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fromAdExchanger
4 weeks ago

Swish, A Company That's Bringing Programmatic to Product Sampling, Announces Seed Funding | AdExchanger

Swish inserts full-size CPG samples into online grocery carts using AI-driven targeting to treat products as media and drive incremental purchases.
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fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
1 month ago

Russ and Big Sean Link for "Shut Me Up," A Detroit-Inspired Triumph | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Russ fuses Detroit production and Big Sean's feature on "Shut Me Up" to deliver a high-energy, storytelling hip-hop single.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Stars of the Lid: Music for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Remastered)

Something Stars of the Lid were already very good at in this nascent stage was making drones that had an uncanny animation, as if their tracks were creatures and you could sense the life moving through them. The opening "Before Top Dead Center" is a darkly brooding piece of gently throbbing guitar feedback, and the swaying modulations suggest respiration, as if we're watching the coiled potential of a giant reptile as it sleeps.
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