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.

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

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

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

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

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