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If I had to pick one story in all the history of music to illustrate everything I love and hate about pop, I would choose the one about Veronica Bennett and her one-time partner, Phil Spector. What's great about Bennett…
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by Andrew Stout
April 30, 2013 @ 4:05 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Grimes, Phil Spector, Solange Knowles, Video
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There is the fact of money. And there is the fantasy. In America, we're so steeped in our wish for wealth at all costs that we've made it a virtue to live want-by-want. We've coined a shorthand for it, too.…
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by Andrew Stout
April 16, 2013 @ 9:23 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Video
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Long before it was even possible, people dreamed of listening to records. My favorite figure in this side history of the imagination is Cyrano de Bergerac, who, in 1657, wrote a story where he described a spring-loaded device that faithfully…
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by Andrew Stout
April 2, 2013 @ 3:00 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Video
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We are conditioned to think the music business sells music. But this is not true. Or, at least, it's less true than it once was, as recently as 15 years ago, when the industry enjoyed its last year of worldwide…
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by Andrew Stout
March 19, 2013 @ 9:02 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Video
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Late last month, Minami Minegishi, a 20-year-old singer with the Tokyo-based supergroup AKB48, uploaded a video to YouTube. On its surface, Minegishi's video was strikingly different from the hundreds of other videos already published to AKB48's official channel. Rather…
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by Andrew Stout
February 19, 2013 @ 9:12 am
Tags: The Upsetter, J-Pop, Video
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In high school, I had a friend, another "Andy," who came out to me and, soon afterwards, came out to our classmates. It was a big deal. And Andy quickly resigned himself to the predictable abuse familiar to gays and…
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by Andrew Stout
February 5, 2013 @ 9:34 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Video
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Last week, a 17-year-old Chicagoan named Keith Cozart was sentenced to 60 days in juvenile detention after violating parole. Both his offenses were gun crimes: the first came in 2011, when Cozart pointed a firearm at a police officer; the…
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by Andrew Stout
January 22, 2013 @ 9:38 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Chicago, Chief Keef, drill, violence, Video
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Who's your tip for the top in 2013? You know what? Nevermind. Let's you and me help each other out. This is an uncertain time of year for many of us -- the new year. A new start, a new…
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by Andrew Stout
January 8, 2013 @ 3:00 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Video
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How will you remember 2013? What was the year's top music story? Was it the stunning revelation that Morrissey and Johnny Marr had, in fact, secretly reunited in 2007 to quietly issue records under the name "Taylor Swift"? Or did…
by Jason Henn and Andrew Stout
January 2, 2013
Tags: Music, Feature, Interscope Records Inc., Ke$ha, Morrissey (Singer), YouTube LLC
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'Tis the season for year-end lists -- best and worst albums, movies, and political gaffes. You name it, there's a curated list for it. Somewhere online you'll even find a list of the year's most annoying memes, which is a…
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by Andrew Stout
December 26, 2012 @ 3:00 am
Tags: The Upsetter, lists, Video
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Like a euphemism for cunnilingus, the authenticity debate has returned to pop music. Which is to say, it never really left, but was badly in need of a new spin. And Jack White has obliged us. Sort of. Last week…
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by Andrew Stout
December 11, 2012 @ 3:30 am
Tags: The Upsetter, Beefs, Jack White, Lady Gaga, Video
