The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, August 19

In the news and in the Daily Chord this week, Frank Ocean released 'Endless,' the Dixie Chicks' summer tour is doing big business, and we met the Austin-based composers of the music from 'Stranger Things.' Live Nation introduced fast-lane security options for events, Reddit resisted identifying a pre-release leaker and Pandora readied an on-demand version of their service. Finally, we all are able to appreciate the musical glory of Sting's brain.

Click around the weekly Chord update and get ahead of the game.

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Monday, August 15

• Bon Iver announce new album '22, A Million'
  Post from Pitchfork
• No control: Thoughts on the end of the headphone jack and the future of digital music
  Commentary from Stereogum
• Appeals court upholds US government's seizure of Megaupload's mega-millions
  Post from Billboard
• Music's top business managers: The 20 best money mavens in the industry
  List from Billboard
• Forty years on, what does punk rock mean?
  Feature from NY Times
• Eric Clapton and Enoch Powell to Morrissey: Race in British music since 1976
  Essay from The Quietus

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Tuesday, August 16

• Reddit tells label it won't cough up IP address of prerelease music pirate
  Post from Ars Technica
• Lin-Manuel Miranda is now fighting ticket bots across the US
  Post from The Verge
• Pennsylvania is the latest state to tax streaming services
  Post from Billboard
• Inside YouTube's war with the music industry
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Chuck D: Black Lives Matter is a defensive movement
  Interview from The Guardian
• Big Star 'Complete Third' box set announced
  Item from Pitchfork

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Wednesday, August 17

• Live Nation debuts airport-style fast lane at music festivals
  Post from Pitchfork
• The strange business of scoring 'Stranger Things'
  Story from NY Times
• World's highest paid DJs: Electronic cash kings 2016
  List from Forbes
• First click: The bliss of 'good enough' audio
  Post from The Verge
• Pizza Hut delivers the world's first playable DJ pizza box
  Post from Engadget
• Sting's brain scan shows neuroscientists how singer thinks about music
  Post from Medical Daily

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Thursday, August 18

• Dixie Chicks' return to the road in US is doing big business
  Story from Billboard
• Brexit and the music industry
  Article from Music Business Journal
• Phish shreds America: How the jam band anticipated modern festival culture
  Feature from Pitchfork
• David Gray releases unique dynamic 'The Best Of' album on Spotify
  Post from Hypebot
• Paul McCartney signs new contract returning his solo career to Capitol
  Post from LA Times
• A Velvet Underground extravaganza where images drown out the music
  Post from Hyperallergic

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Friday, August 19

• White rappers, clear of a black planet
  Story from NY Times
• How the world plugged in to the electric guitar
  Post from The Guardian
• Frank Ocean releases visual album 'Endless'
  Post from Pitchfork
• Steve Aoki apologizes for breaking fan's neck
  Item from NME
• Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6 million, citing 'unusually positive results'
  Post from Ars Technica
• Pandora may finally launch on-demand streaming
  Post from TechCrunch

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