REWIND: The new music industry’s Week in ReviewA busy week by any definition, the music industry was no exception, with Spotify adding more video content features, Anime music taking over the world, and more… Tidal joins Apple. Continue reading
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R&R Hall of Fame Honors Ringo Starr and His Annual Peace & Love eventThe Rock & Roll Hall of Fame today presented a special Beatles Fridays event on Ringo Starr’s July 7th birthday. Fans enjoyed The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be exhibit, which has been extended through the remainder of the year, along with the first-ever recording of Rolling Stone “Music Now” podcast with a live studio audience, which will be available on Monday, July 10th , and took part in the Rock Hall’s video op for Ringo’s #PeaceAndLove Birthday celebration wishing Ringo a Happy Birthday! 

More information about Beatles Fridays can be found at Beatles Fridays | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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The Beach Boys July 4th Spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl“America’s Band” The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl for three consecutive nights (7/2-4) to celebrate the 4th of July. Originally scheduled for 2020, the show was canceled during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Beach Boys played with the L.A. Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Wilkins. The philharmonic opened the show paying tribute to the armed forces of the United States. As each theme was played, a different division stood up to be recognized for their dedication and sacrifice for our country.  Members of the Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, and Navy were in attendance. 

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the first time The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl and also John Stamos’s birth year. It has also been 11 years since The Beach Boys played the Hollywood Bowl on their 50th anniversary tour which brought back all surviving members including Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks playing under the Beach Boys name in a number of years. The Beach Boys Formed in Hawthorne, CA in 1961 and became America’s biggest group with 36 Top 40 hits and over 100 million album sales worldwide. In the band’s nearly 62 year history, there have been many lineup changes but lead vocalist Mike Love has been the only consistent member to this day from the original group and keyboardist/vocalist Bruce Johnston has been a member since 1965. Johnston was originally brought in to become Brian Wilson’s replacement on the road. The touring group consists of Love’s son Christian on guitar and vocals, keyboardist Tim Bonhomme, Randy Leago (Sax/Flute/Harmonica), bassist Keith Hubacher, and newest member drummer Jon Bolton. 

Joining the Beach Boys were Full House star John Stamos who has toured with the group on and off for nearly 40 years and Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath. McGrath recorded “Do It Again” with Stamos for Mike Love’s solo album Unleash the Love released in 2017 which was a combination of re-recorded Beach Boys hits and originals. After an intermission following the orchestra, out came the Beach Boys, McGrath, and Stamos opening with “Do It Again.” In total there were 22 songs performed which were all big Beach Boys hits. McGarth left the stage after “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and would return later. “Surfer Girl” was dedicated to Love’s granddaughter Stella. Love introduced Johnston as “the only member of their camp to win a Grammy” which was for Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs,” however Johnston performed a Beach Boys song he wrote and sang lead on which was “Disney Girls (1957). This was followed by back to back tributes to the band’s co-founders Dennis and Carl Wilson. First came “Forever” which Dennis Wilson had sung lead on until his passing in 1983. This song was featured in “Full House” and has been performed by Stamos over the years and this time it was not only a tribute to Dennis but also his Full House co-star Bob Saget, and Stamos played it on a guitar Saget owned. The next song was “God Only Knows” which was sung by Carl Wilson originally and up until his passing in 1998. Christian Love provided lead vocals. 

McGrath returned for “California Girls.” The final songs before the finale were “Help, Me Rhonda”, “Kokomo,” and “Good Vibrations.” The Beach Boys left the stage for the fireworks as the orchestra performed several John Philip Sousa compositions like “The Washington Post March,” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The Beach Boys returned to play “Fun, Fun, Fun” and close out this historic night. 

Setlist:

Do It Again with Mark McGrath

Surfin' Safari with Mark McGrath

Catch a Wave

Surfin' U.S.A. with Mark McGrath

Surfer Girl (dedicated to Stella Love on her birthday)

Don't Worry Baby

Little Deuce Coupe

I Get Around

Be True to Your School

Getcha Back

Darlin'

Disney Girls (1957)

Forever with John Stamos

God Only Knows

Sloop John B ([traditional] cover)

Wouldn't It Be Nice

California Girls with Mark McGrath

Barbara Ann (The Regents cover)

Help Me, Rhonda

Kokomo

Good Vibrations

Encore

 Fun, Fun, Fun

Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public squareIn the latest sign that Meta’s new Twitter lookalike Threads is unlikely to capture the essence of its predecessor, the company is apparently actively disinterested in cultivating its new app into useful hub of breaking news and world events.
In a reply to a question from The Verge’s Alex Heath, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, currently the default hype guy for Threads too, said that Meta’s goal isn’t to replace Twitter, but rather “to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter.”

He continued:
“Politics and hard news are important, I don’t want to imply otherwise. But my take is, from a platform’s perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue they might drive is not at all worth the scrutiny, negativity (let’s be honest), or integrity risks that come along with them.
There are more than enough amazing communities – sports, music, fashion, beauty, entertainment, etc – to make a vibrant platform without needing to get into politics or hard news.”
Mosseri’s take here is strange and fairly alarming for a few reasons. For one, it echoes some of the anodyne ways that Facebook has described itself over the years: just a big, friendly, neutral place where people could “connect” — Mark Zuckerberg’s favored pitch and one that conjures images of a male and female USB cable making love. Contrary to its stated neutrality, his company ritualistically incentivized particular forms of content and behavior, driving Facebook users deeper into ideological echo chambers while fanning the flames of the polarization and extremism that plagues global politics today.
As the former head of Facebook’s News Feed, Mosseri knows all of this yet seems to be taking away the wrong lessons.
After being cowed by its embarrassing failures during the 2016 presidential election and its subsequent role in hosting the Stop the Steal movement, which culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Facebook opted to rebrand and retreat. It’s strange that Mosseri pretends that Meta’s desire for a social network floating in a vacuum, never influencing the world for the better or the worse, is in any way achievable.
Of course, “politics and hard news” will find their way onto Threads; they already have — see anti-LGBTQ hate group Libs of TikTok testing the waters there. Without Meta’s investment in or preparation for counterbalancing forces, extremism and viral misinformation will outcompete whatever legitimate news sources opt to invest resources in the new app.
Meta obviously has no interest in boosting journalism these days. The company has long been happy to extract what it wants from news orgs while offering bait and switch tactics in return, if that. Meta is currently blocking access to news in Canada to protest a new law that requires the tech giant to compensate publishers. (The company is currently worth $745 billion.)
Meta’s anti-journalism crusading aside, Mosseri’s take on the public square is squarely ahistorical.
Instagram and now Threads are obsessively designed to shuffle normal users together with brands, encouraging commercial activity at every turn. And while the lofty notion of a virtual public square or town hall is evoked often by social media execs to further the agenda of the day, public squares aren’t just the domain of trade and commerce. Historically, they’re also the heart of culture and a place for political discourse — itself an pesky and unavoidable side effect of existing within a society.
Surely Mark Zuckerberg — a self-styled Classics guy who named his children after Roman emperors — would know that the Roman Forum was not just a rustic shopping center but a place where people could gather, engage in political life and hear the news of the day.
Meta’s insistence on a diminished, commodified version of public life stuffed to the gills with advertising fits the company’s narrow vision, but it’s a disappointing if predictable turn for a promising Twitter successor to take so little interest in the world itself.

Threads won’t be fun — but it will give brands a refuge from Twitter

Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

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Boomers won’t be saving Music Subscription growth anytime soonAs growth in the number of paid music streaming subscribers slows in the US, some have theorized that Baby Boomers are the key to unlocking more paying customers. Russ Crupnick. Continue reading
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