The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, November 3

Topics to be pondered after reading The Daily Chord this week: Industry-wide sexual harassment revelations continue, ticket scalpers are bad, streaming services are making all the money, and decades later, Bob Dylan's 'gospel' period still confounds. Subscribe to our email blast for an inbox reminder of the top music stories each weekday.

Monday, October 30

• Universal Music and Within pact to develop AR, VR music experiences
  Post from Deadline Hollywood
• Earth to Andre 3000: The Outkast icon talks life after 'Hey Ya!'
  Interview from GQ
• Queercore veteran Scott Moore on how gay punk has changed
  Story from Pitchfork
• 40 best new bands of 2017
  List from Stereogum
• Lauren Onkey named senior director of NPR Music
  Post from Billboard
• Are Irving Azoff and James Dolan trying to buy Rolling Stone?
  Post from Hypebot

Tuesday, October 31

• After 91 years, New York will let its people boogie
  Post from NY Times
• Tokyo International Music Market brings industry together
  Post from Billboard
• Touts threaten UK's £4.5bn music industry
  Post from The Guardian
• V Festival is over, Richard Branson announces
  Post from The Independent
• Women of color have always had a place in punk. Big Joanie is here to remind you of that
  Profile from The Fader
• Pandora adds curated playlists to its on-demand music service
  Post from Engadget

Wednesday, November 1

• Here's how concert ticket prices vary across the US
  Post from Consequence Of Sound
• Unsound and Semibreve: The festivals that dream a better world in sound
  Story from The Guardian
• Highest-earning dead celebrities revealed
  Item from NME
• Sony Music streaming revenues top $1bn in first nine months of 2017
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields dissect his new 'Loveless' vinyl remaster, talks new album
  Interview from Pitchfork
• Jay Z to be honored as industry icon at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala
  Item from Variety

Thursday, November 2

• Can the music world learn from Hollywood?
  Story from LA Times
• Publicist Kirt Webster created culture of fear through sexual harassment, ex-employees say
  Story from The Tennessean
• Muhal Richard Abrams, jazz champion and innovator, dies at 87
  Obituary from Chicago Tribune
• Inside the downfall of Doppler Labs
  Post from Wired
• Spotify has brought in a new head of PR as it gets ready for a 2018 IPO
  Post from Recode
• Bob Dylan's songs for the soul, revisited and redeemed
  Review from NY Times

Friday, November 3

• What's behind YouTube's struggle to place ads on music videos?
  Post from Billboard
• EFF destroys the podcasting patent, one last time
  Post from Ars Technica
• Pandora made $80M in US app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top spot
  Post from TechCrunch
• Live Nation posts best-ever third quarter
  Post from Variety
• Neil Young announces new album 'The Visitor,' shares 'Already Great'
  Item from Pitchfork
• CMA Awards to media: No questions about guns, politics, Las Vegas
  Post from Rolling Stone