The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, January 19

SXSW's Daily Chord keeps track of a wide range of issues pertinent to music and the music business. From lists of new artists and albums, interviews with newsmakers, updates on business machinations, and more articles about the blockchain craze, there's a lot on our plate. Subscribe to our email blast to see what we're reading today.

Monday, January 15

• 'Black music is running the world right now' - TRENCH's Joseph JP Patterson on representation, the Brits and the future of grime
  Post from The Independent
• Buying a piece of Bob Marley's song catalog, and his enduring legend
  Story from NY Times
• Live Nation settles Songkick lawsuit for $110m
  Post from Music Ally
• Recycled guns give these headphones heft and a cause
  Post from CNET
• What is bitcoin, blockchain's future in the music industry?
  Post from Billboard
• For Wynton Marsalis, forgetting the history of jazz is forgetting the history of race in America
  Post from The Undefeated

Tuesday, January 16

• Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, dies at 46
  Obituary from NY Times
• Gospel star Edwin Hawkins, known for 'Oh Happy Day,' dies at 74
  Obituary from NPR
• Ian Schrager: How we made Studio 54
  Book excerpt from The Guardian
• Music in VR needs its iTunes moment...and this could be it
  Post from Wired UK
• Protect Sonny Digital at all costs
  Interview from The Fader
• Songs for screens: Apple, Gap music supervisor explains why 2018 will be a boom year for synch
  Interview from Variety

Wednesday, January 17

• Former Ataris bassist charged with running $27 million real estate scam
  Post from NME
• Concert crowd-funding platform Weeshing launches in US
  Post from Hypebot
• 'Artists today have more power than they realize'
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Sounds.com is a new subscription service for music samples
  Post from The Verge
• The 30 most anticipated tours of 2018
  List from Consequence Of Sound
• It's raining tours! Why U2, Dave Matthews Band, Jack White, Rod Stewart and others released new dates today
  Post from Pollstar

Thursday, January 18

• Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus wants you to think about whiteness (and to dance)
  Profile from NY Times
• Inside country radio's dark, secret history of sexual harassment and misconduct
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Kitty Perry and the copyright lessons for seven-year-olds
  Story from BBC News
• Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess
  Post from The Verge
• Remake, remodel: What makes musicians rerecord old albums?
  Post from The Guardian
• Mike Carroll, singer for 1980s Austin band Poison 13, dies
  Obituary from Austin American Statesman

Friday, January 19

• Rolling down Rosecrans in Compton, L.A. hip-hop's main street
  Story from LA Times
• Government backs plans to protect grassroots venues from developers
  Post from Music Week
• BTS superfan moves to South Korea to be near K-Pop band
  Story from BBC News
• From Blurred Lines to New Rules, how sex in pop has changed forever
  Post from The Guardian
• Rap will continue to dominate music in 2018, thanks to its distaste for genre
  Post from Wired
• Stop, children, what's that sound?: Trump-wave protest music
  Post from Irish Times