Lauded producer/songwriter Linda Perry is teaming up with philanthropist Alisha Ballard for EqualizeHer, an initiative working to bring gender equity to the music industry. It launches at South by Southwest with panels and showcases running March 15 and 16 at Lustre Pearl Rainey in Austin, Texas. The events are open to the public.
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Early in 2019, Sub Urban’s “Cradles” — a pinging, defiantly introverted single — helped establish a path that has now become commonplace in the music industry: A deluge of TikTok users picked “Cradles” to soundtrack their 15-second videos, leading to a surge in streams, and the wave of interest helped carry Sub Urban all the way to Number One at Alternative radio.
Sub Urban signed a deal with Warner Records. This summer, his label set about trying to make lightning strike the same spot twice with the song “Freak,” a haunted-house pop cut with an insistent,...
Sub Urban signed a deal with Warner Records. This summer, his label set about trying to make lightning strike the same spot twice with the song “Freak,” a haunted-house pop cut with an insistent,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
This summer, Shalfi Edu went viral without singing a note. The 25-year-old guitarist posted a video of his playing — full of flitting fingers, though the mood remains insistently tranquil — on the app TikTok, which now functions as music’s primary discovery engine. Edu added a caption out of a teen romcom, a stamp of emotion on all the casual showmanship: “You’ve hurt someone who’s hurt you. Seeing them suffer causes you pain, but you’re too angry to apologize or stop. You feel conflicted.” The clip has earned...
- 9/9/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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