When lawyers quoted him six figures to clear all the samples on INNANETAPE for streaming, @VicMensa scoffed.
Turns out, that number was accurate.
13 years after its free release, the mixtape is finally commercially available.
I called Vic to walk through what it took. 🧵
The FADER selected 7 songs you need in your life this week including:
💎 "Expensive & Difficult" by @jaephens
🪩 "TTW (KAYTRANADA Remix)" by @Rochelle_Jordan
❤️🔥 "IMMACULATE" by @jeandeauxmusic
“Edge of the Earth” by @cantgobacc
and more.
Listen/read to the rest here:
https://t.co/zmK1Oz5sVj
Before Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” became one of the defining music videos of the MTV era, there was a very different version. https://t.co/fkF1J7mWRM
NEW MUSIC DROPPING TONIGHT 🎧
PROJECTS 💿
Che & Tezzus — RICHPHØNKS (2-PACK)
Tee Grizzley — They Forgot
Tinashe — Popstar
Leon Bridges — Happiness Anytime
Your Old Droog — Bread & Butter
Taylor Swift — The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore
Trae Tha Truth & Mozzy — Still Tapped In
DDG — Hit-A-Thon
Jae Stephens — Audacity
Tank — Experience
Nippa — Homegrown (EP)
SINGLES 🎶
2hollis — Warhorse
slayr — remember them days
G-Eazy & Ty Dolla $ign — JFK
Lil Peep — heaven sent
Bruiser Wolf & Twistw — barbiturates
KAYTRANADA & Shay Lia — SO GOOD
Flatbush Zombies — Felony Ring
Sleepy Hallow — Loaded
Bktherula & underscores — ADDICTED2U
Rochelle Jordan & KAYTRANADA — TTW (Kaytranada Remix)
Sematary — GLOOMROOM (feat. Ghost Mountain)
Dean Blunt — RIPyellowranger
2slimey — D*e for this
Jean Deaux— Immaculate
bdifferent & MARCO PLUS — Disrespectfully
Bruce Springsteen's original, rejected music video for "Dancing in the Dark" is heading to auction more than 40 years after it was shelved.
Before Brian De Palma directed the music video most people associate with "Dancing in the Dark," filmmaker Jeff Stein (best known for directing The Who documentary The Kids Are Alright) took the first crack at it. His version positioned Springsteen by himself on a dark set for most of the performance, with E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons eventually joining him. Columbia Records president Al Teller recalled watching the video with Springsteen's manager, Jon Landau, and quickly deciding that its sparse presentation didn't match the song.
The lost 1984 master was ultimately replaced by Brian De Palma's iconic video, which introduced the world to a then-unknown Courteney Cox.
The auction proceeds will benefit music programs in public schools.
https://t.co/ycxUjBoDkS
Moby and Eminem rarities are heading to auction through Wax Poetics, led by a handmade DJ cassette Moby personally handed out in late-1980s New York and an original 1996 pressing of Eminem’s debut album 'Infinite.' https://t.co/3fMcPXeX6A
Dominated by exquisite vocal melodies and an abiding sense of mystery, Agnes Obel's new album is simultaneously otherworldly and profoundly earthy https://t.co/TrZk8paWGK
Inspired by the birth of her first child, Agnes Obel’s fifth album also pulls heavily from poetry and literature to build on her gorgeous, piano-forward classical-pop sound | https://t.co/fOUFBSRS1G