The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, August 16

This week, Daily Chord readers learned that network-connected speakers are hackable, TikTok shapes music in new ways, and YouTube continues to fiddle with copyright claims. These and 27 other stories were shared Monday through Friday. Make the Chord a habit and consider yourself informed. The best reminder is our email newsletter, where you can link to our links.

Monday, August 12

• Armada: Inside the world's biggest dance label
  Story from BBC News
• Unleash the sesh gremlins! Sunset Campout, California's clubbing paradise
  Story from The Guardian
• Hackers can turn everyday speakers into acoustic cyberweapons
  Post from Wired
• Fascination, friendship and desire: Kathleen Hanna on the reign of 'Rebel Girl'
  Interview from NPR
• Building with country music legacy partially demolished
  Item from AP News
• Khruangbin: Crossing genres to the top of 'El Mundo'
  Profile from Pollstar

Tuesday, August 13

• Would you care if music disappeared from FM radio? You may only have a decade to save it.
  Story from CNBC
• UK consumers switch to online streaming en masse
  Post from The Guardian
• Feel their faith in 15 seconds: Meet the Christians conquering TikTok
  Post from The Daily Beast
• How Afrobeats is influencing American pop music, according to producer P2J
  Interview from Complex
• Tencent Music revenues up 31% in Q2
  Item from Music Week
• Music user groups warn DOJ abandoning consent decrees 'would be public policy error of the highest order'
  Post from Billboard

Wednesday, August 14

• How TikTok took over music
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Forged in bondage, black music is the sound of freedom
  Feature from NY Times Magazine
• Swedish court convicts US rapper A$AP Rocky of assault, suspends sentence
  Post from Reuters
• NFL teaming with Jay Z on entertainment and social activism
  Post from AP News
• Inside music's epicenter with Ty Dolla $ign
  Profile from Spin
• The 15 Irish acts you need to know in 2019
  List from Paste

Thursday, August 15

• From Queen to Springsteen, why are there so many music films?
  Post from BBC News
• Spotify to test more expensive subscriptions in Scandinavia
  Post from Bloomberg
• The first thing sold online was a Sting CD
  Post from Vice
• Alternative financing for independent artists: An overview of emerging models in recorded music
  Post from Water and Music
• Hi-res streaming service Quobuz makes inroads six months after US launch
  Story from Variety
• Opening our borders, embracing diversity, and championing cross-cultural artistic exchange
  Guest post from Pollstar

Friday, August 16

• YouTube is changing how some copyright claims work, and it could result in 'more blocked content'
  Post from The Verge
• Up to 25% of CDs sold on Amazon, eBay are counterfeit, says RIAA
  Post from Hypebot
• Dave Grohl: 'I never imagined myself to be Freddie Mercury'
  Interview from The Guardian
• The Number Ones: The Staples Singers 'Let's Do It Again'
  Column from Stereogum
• Jack Antonoff, Sounwave and Sam Dew (Red Hearse) on what the music industry gets wrong
  Interview from Vulture
• Inside the monthly beat battle where producers are the main attraction
  Feature from Vice