The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, September 15

In this week's music news, the Mercury Prize and the Americana Honors & Awards were handed out, Spotify argued about mechanical licenses, and politics and music intersected in distinct stories about Antifa and Juggalos. The Daily Chord sorts through the stories of the day and selects a handful that are worthy of your attention. Get smart and subscribe to our email blast.

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Monday, September 11

• The music industry bands together to finally get paid online
  Post from Wired
• On the path of Chuck Berry's 'Promised Land,' five decades on
  Story from NY Times
• Are these clowns really gang members? Juggalos protest FBI's label
  Story from The Guardian
• Spotify's web player no longer works on Safari
  Post from The Verge
• Troy Gentry: A life of triumph and tragedy
  Obituary from The Tennessean
• Don Williams, country's 'Gentle Giant,' dead at 78
  Obituary from Rolling Stone

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Tuesday, September 12

• This admin helped music pirates pilfer 1 billion copyrighted tracks
  Post from Ars Technica
• Discogs launches marketplaces for movies, books, comics and posters
  Post from Resident Advisor
• LCD Soundsystem, leaning on traditional sales, has a no. 1 album
  Post from NY Times
• Agreement opens door to more music streaming
  Post from China Daily
• Can city hall make a music scene?
  Post from City Lab
• Mavis Staples confronts Trump's America on 'If All I Was Was Black'
  Story from Variety

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Wednesday, September 13

• Pop and jazz fall preview: 66 albums, shows and festivals
  List from NY Times
• 'No fascist USA!': How hardcore punk fuels the Antifa movement
  Story from The Guardian
• Apple starts cutting the bloat from iTunes by removing iOS app store
  Post from The Verge
• Watch Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding record her new album in 77 hours on Facebook Live
  Post from Hypebot
• John Prine, the godfather of Americana music
  Story from The Tennessean
• The night Dr. Daddy-O forever changed New Orleans radio
  Post from NOLA.com

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Thursday, September 14

• Grant Hart, Husker Du drummer and singer, dead at 56
  Obituary from Rolling Stone
• Jessi Zazu, singer for Those Darlins, has died at 28
  Obituary from NPR
• In 'Liner Notes,' Loudon Wainwright looks squarely at his flaws and his musical family tree
  Review from NY Times
• Streaming business is making music companies rethink sales job titles
  Post from Variety
• How Spotify's argument in copyright case could upend the music industry's newfound recovery
  Post from Billboard
• PRS Foundation to launch new female focused music industry development program at Reeperbahn
  Post from CMU

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Friday, September 15

• Sampha wins Mercury Prize for his debut album, 'Process'
  Post from BBC News
• The 50 best-selling music artists of all time
  List from The Independent
• Spotify's iMessage app shares clips of your favorite songs
  Post from Engadget
• John Prine, Sturgill Simpson triumph at 2017 Americana Honors & Awards
  Post from Rolling Stone
• And the first-ever Emmy for music supervision goes to...a woman
  Post from Variety
• The history of the music industry's first-ever digital single, 20 years later
  Post from Billboard