The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, April 6

This week in music, Spotify went public, Live Nation's ticketing practices drew scrutiny, and Lil Xan made people feel old. The Daily Chord is your reliable music news aggregator, sharing a handful of links each weekday to keep you up to date. Join our mailing list and enhance your inbox.

Monday, April 2

• Live Nation rules music ticketing, some say with threats
  Story from NY Times
• Janet Jackson will headline FYF Fest as the taste-making brand tries to repair its reputation
  Post from LA Times
• How Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte fought racism arm in arm
  Post from The Guardian
• Meet Barry McCarthy, the man behind Spotify's daring public offering
  Profile from Recode
• CMJ: Judge rules owner to pay former employees over half-million dollars
  Post from Rolling Stone
• What we lost in Austin bombing victim Draylen Mason
  Story from Texas Monthly

Tuesday, April 3

• Spotify's un-IPO has arrived
  Post from Axios
• Sales, not streams, propel Jack White's 'Boarding House Reach' to no. 1
  Post from NY Times
• 50 great tracks for April from MØ, Trouble, Hot
  List from The Guardian
• Oppo is ending its line of high-end headphones and Blu-Ray players
  Post from The Verge
• In Turkey, music takes you where a travel visa can't
  Interview from Noisey
• Anticon co-founder Brendon Whitney (Alias) dead at 41
  Obituary from Pitchfork

Wednesday, April 4

• 'Make Music Day' plots 4500 free events, concerts nationwide
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Spotify's stock market debut strikes a chord with investors
  Post from Billboard
• Alexa's routines can now play music, podcasts and radio shows
  Post from TechCrunch
• Deborah Mannis-Gardner discusses the difference between influence and theft
  Interview from HipHop DX
• Sir Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen amongst 89 new artists backing US Classics Act
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• How musicians are using field recordings to capture the politics of place
  Feature from Pitchfork

Thursday, April 5

• Here's what major labels are paying women compared to men in the UK
  Story from Music Business Worldwide
• Country music's new leaders struggle to get on right side of history
  Story from Variety
• Bob Dylan sings about gay love
  Post from NY Times
• Beatport acquires DJ streaming and subscription service Pulselocker to boost its own streaming offering
  Post from Billboard
• Toby Keith on Dan Rather, hip-hop country and being loved for the wrong reasons
  Interview from LA Times
• Lil Xan: Total Xanarchy review - moronic rap to make you feel old
  Review from The Guardian

Friday, April 6

• Beyond 'Blurred Lines': How forensic musicology is altering pop's future
  Analysis from Rolling Stone
• Drake's progress: The making of a modern superstar
  Post from The Guardian
• MelodyVR to launch its VR music app 'in the coming weeks'
  Post from Music Ally
• SheSaid.so wants to make sure music isn't just a boy's club anymore
  Story from LA Times
• Outlaws And Armadillos exhibit spotlights country music's roaring 70s
  Post from CMT
• Free jazz innovator Cecil Taylor has died
  Obituary from Clash Magazine