The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, February 2

This week, the #MeToo movement impacted the music industry in the wake of new revelations about criminal misbehavior by executives and missteps at The Grammys. The Daily Chord linked to a number of stories with relevant information and opinions on the matter. Get a quick and thoughtful overview of the day's music news with The Daily Chord. Subscribe to the email blast for a reminder to surf our way each weekday.

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Monday, January 29

• 2018 Grammy Awards: Complete Winners List
  Post from Grammys
• Copyright Royalty Board boosts songwriter's streaming pay nearly 50%
  Post from Variety
• Congress, it's time to pay musicians
  Op-ed from NY Times
• Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they'd be
  Post from Wired
• Here's why the music industry is celebrating again - and here's why the music industry is still in mourning
  Post from Recode
• Higher Brothers are Chinese hip-hop's greatest hope
  Post from Noisey

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Tuesday, January 30

• What do the Grammys have against women?
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Ratings for Grammy Awards drop 24%
  Item from NY Times
• Quincy Jones has a story about that
  Interview from GQ
• Ron Ron is the 21-year-old producer defining the rowdy sound of L.A.'s rap underground
  Interview from The Fader
• Republic Records president Charlie Walk accused of sexual misconduct
  Post from Pitchfork
• What the latest wave of promoter consolidation means for the biz
  Post from Pollstar

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Wednesday, January 31

• How to be a responsible music fan in the age of streaming
  Feature from Pitchfork
• Spotify is testing a new playlist-based music app that's a lot like Pandora
  Post from TechCrunch
• Tencent, Sony launch Liquid State electronic dance music label
  Post from Variety
• DJ who groped Taylor Swift hired by Mississippi radio station
  Item from The Guardian
• The coolest music gadgets at NAMM 2018
  Post from The Verge
• They told the women in Bahia they couldn't drum. Try telling that to Banda Didá.
  Story from NY Times

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Thursday, February 1

• David Byrne on Trump, cultural appropriation and why he won't reunite Talking Heads
  Interview from Rolling Stone
• Three incidents of sexual harassment from the music industry's boom years
  Story from Variety
• The Wired guide to the blockchain
  Post from Wired
• 2018 is the year that classic rock begins to say farewell
  Column from Uproxx
• Beauty in chaos: The Velvet Underground's 'White Light White Heat' turns 50
  Post from Consequence Of Sound
• Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art-pop: 'We were game for anything'
  Interview from The Guardian

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Friday, February 2

• Female executives call for Grammy chief Neil Portnow's resignation
  Post from Variety
• In days after Grammys, a #MeToo spark comes to music
  Story from NY Times
• Bands recall their terrible first gigs
  Post from BBC News
• Will Music Modernization Act precipitate the decline of BMI, ASCAP, SESAC?
  Post from Hypebot
• The man who would save country music
  Profile from Washington Post
• How the music industry poured water on a drowning man
  Story from Kankakee Daily Journal