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As UMG’s leader, he has solidified the dominance of Universal, the largest of the Big Three label groups, helping it to overtake Warner Music and Sony. More than half of Spotify’s twenty most streamed artists of all time are signed to UMG. But Grainge is also the consummate music man, with forty-five years of experience on both the publishing and the label sides of the business. He oversees a long list of formerly independent labels, including Interscope, Republic, Capitol, Motown, and Island. “…
4 months ago
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Over French toast at Ladybird, an East Village vegan place, Marr recalled selecting guitars for his collaborator, Pat Graham, to photograph. He soon realized that “Marr’s Guitars” was going to be more than a coffee-table book for fetishists. It became a musical memoir of his encounters with great guitars that, he said, “turned my daydreams into sound.” Each time he pulled out an instrument, he said, “I remembered what movies I was watching, why I bought it—who I fookin’ was. It all came back.”
I…
6 months ago
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The four-piece British rock band was in town recently for two sold-out shows at Forest Hills Stadium. On the morning between gigs, Helders went to Fotografiska New York, the U.S. branch of the Swedish photography museum. He wanted to check out an exhibition of the work of Terry O’Neill, the British lensman who assisted in the birth of rock photography, in the early sixties. Helders carried his digital Leica.
Over an Americano in the museum’s lobby, he explained that he’d shot the cover photo wit…
8 months ago
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Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New
York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit
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about 3 years ago
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It was mid-January. Early that morning, in my search for a suitable outfit to thwart the all-seeing eyes of surveillance machines, I had taken the train from New York City to College Park. As I rode the subway from Brooklyn to Penn Station, and then boarded Amtrak for my trip south, I counted the CCTV cameras; at least twenty-six caught me going and returning. When you come from a small town, as I do, where everyone knows your face, public anonymity—the ability to disappear into a crowd—is one o…
about 4 years ago
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The skin prickled on the back of my neck, an involuntary reaction to what roboticists call the “uncanny valley”—the space between flesh and blood and a too-human machine.
For several days, I had been trying to ignore the suggestions made by Smart Compose, a feature that Google introduced, in May, 2018, to the one and a half billion people who use Gmail—roughly a fifth of the human population. Smart Compose suggests endings to your sentences as you type them. Based on the words you’ve written, an…
over 4 years ago
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Among the items on Rogers’s to-do list in New York was a valedictory stroll through her old Greenpoint neighborhood, and a cheeseburger and beer at Enid’s, her favorite local bar, which was closing. Her route began at the Lorimer Street stop on the L. Rogers had on a long Nike puffer jacket in bright orange, harlequin-checked jeans, and chunky-toed boots. She was coming from a four-hour fitting with a new stylist. “Which feels like something I don’t really care about,” she said, wrinkling her fr…
about 5 years ago
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Wishnatzki is a genial sixty-three-year-old third-generation berry man, who wears a white goatee and speaks softly, with a Southern drawl. His grandfather Harris Wishnatzki was a penniless Russian immigrant who started out peddling fruits and vegetables from a pushcart in New York’s Washington Street Market in 1904. He and a partner established a wholesale business in 1922, and Harris moved to Plant City in 1929, to run it. Gary Wishnatzki is the first in his family to own a farm.
He explained t…
about 5 years ago
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The Ketchum place could easily accommodate Miller’s four hundred and fifty guitars. “I had two humidified rooms,” he said the other day, during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Musical Instruments. “I had a hidden room next to the studio. I’d say, ‘Open, sesame,’ ” and a door would open, revealing a guitar forest of rare mahoganies and rosewoods. Should a particular song call for a Stratocaster, Miller could choose from no fewer than twenty-six models custom-built for him by Fe…
about 6 years ago
