The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, June 30

Each weekday, The Daily Chord offers a concise list of links to stories, posts and features about music and the music business. This week's essentials included a great mid-year best-of list from NPR, a look at Ed Sheeran’s efforts to stop ticket scalping, and a feature from Pitchfork about how countries fund music. Check out this week’s links below and shoot us your email for our email blast.

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Monday, June 26

• Pandora CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down
  Post from Recode
• Glastonbury 2017: ‘The best one yet’, declares organizer Emily Eavis
  Post from The Guardian
• How countries around the world fund music – and why it matters
  Analysis from Pitchfork
• Disputes over Prince’s estate throw the future of his vault into question
  Story from NY Times
• On the charts: Lorde lands first number one album with ‘Melodrama’
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Songs as skills
  Post by Benji Rogers via Medium

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Tuesday, June 27

• How TV's best music supervisors picked their Emmy submissions
  List from AV Club
• Foiled by Facebook: Austin kidnapping suspect caught at Iron Maiden concert
  Post from Austin American-Statesman
• Music: The good, the bad and the ugly
  Post from Discover
• Jimmy Iovine shares stories of John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre and why he hid Stevie Nicks in his basement
  Post from Howard Stern
• Priests: The punk group caught up in Trump politics and Pizzagate
  Profile from The Guardian
• Why the far right wants to be the new alternative culture
  Post from NY Times

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Wednesday, June 28

• New app Stationhead could be just what the streaming business needs
  Post from Billboard
• #FreeFader hashtag emerges after publication's Twitter suspension
  Post from Mashable
• Apple Music's first personalized playlist wants you to chill
  Post from TechCrunch
• NPR Music's essential songs, albums, performances and videos of 2017 (so far)
  List from NPR
• With one raw, irresistible song, James Brown found the sound of the racial unrest of 1967
  Post by Natalie Weiner via Medium
• Geri Allen, pianist who reconciled jazz's far-flung styles, dies at 60
  Obituary from NY Times

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Thursday, June 29

• MTV News shifts toward video, targets younger audience
  Post from Variety
• Small-town festival on a Bonnaroo budget: Why Karoondinha failed
  Story from Billboard
• Radio 1: Why is the station struggling to find new DJs?
  Post from BBC News
• Sony to start making records again 30 years after abandoning vinyl
  Post from The Guardian
• Music industry welcomes landmark ruling in Google delisting case
  Post from Complete Music Update
• In a first, bird uses tools to make sweet music
  Post from National Geographic

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Friday, June 30

• Ed Sheeran ups fight against ticket touts with strict rules for 2018 gigs
  Story from BBC News
• Official Singles Chart changes rules to help new artists break through
  Post from The Independent
• Sharon Osbourne and Notorious B.I.G.'s mother hit out at Kylie and Kendall Jenner over new t-shirts
  Post from NME
• Jay Z has used his latest albums as corporate bargaining chips
  Post from The Verge
• Compromise proposal to fix streaming royalties, licensing, notification
  Guest post from Hypebot
• Kelan Phil Cohran, influential Chicago composer/bandleader, dies at 90
  Obituary from Chicago Tribune