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Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42 Doug Smiley, New York Music Marketing Exec, Dies at 42 Doug stands out as a pillar of the authenticity that I strove toward, said Santigold, one of the artists Smiley worked with. Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Doug Smiley, the marketing director for Verve Music Group, died Saturday, February 27. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer less than a month before dying at home in Maplewood, NJ, surrounded by family. He was 42. Smiley joined Universal Music Group’s Verve division last year as its marketing director. He was the founder and CEO of Intergalactic Outreach, which he started in 2019 as a strategy and marketing firm. He previously held marketing posts at Brilliant Corners Artist Management, Cornerstone/The Fader, Songs Music Publishing, MeanRed Productions, and Downtown Music. ....
California s next Joan Didion can sing Feb. 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail For one thing, she can sing. Phoebe Bridgers, a brilliant and versatile 26-year-old musician and songwriter, isn’t just contending for four Grammy awards this March. She is challenging the status of Joan Didion, now 86, as the most nationally respected and quotable of California interpreters. Such a challenge is long overdue. It’s been 40 years since New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani declared that “California belongs to Joan Didion,” and the British novelist Martin Amis (backhandedly) praised her “almost embarrassingly sharp ear and unblinking eye for the California inanity.” Didion’s accounts of the Golden State, in both novels and essays, still influence American perceptions of our state, even though she moved to New York in 1988, and her work is mostly about a mid-century California that died with Jerry Brown’s first governorship. While Didion may have a new essay ....
Parts of the wealthier parts of the city, from chicago. and you increasingly have neighborhoods where there is no sort of hope where there will be a future left. think about the $2500 a family. what could you do with that in a school. the school is the one foundation for these kids. they don t have money. there s no there s, property taxes and getting into schools. there s they re firing teachers. they don t have counselors. if you took the money and put it in the school. put it in a classroom and let these kids talk, you might not have to take the money and spend it on the back end. bobby rush talking straight talk to mark kirk. we ll see. these are the big problems that we re facing. investment in communities, long-term versus short-term measures like incarceration. but the fader s matthew snipper. the piece is in the april issue of the magazine, worth picking up immediately. thank you very much. coming up, president obama has plucked some key members of his administrat ....
West sides. the city s recent violence and urban plight is chronicled in a photo essay entitled chicago fire: navigating the city s epidemic of youth violence in the april issue of fader magazine. joining us is editor in chief of the fader matthew. why did you guys take on the issue ever chicago and gun violence. what i will tell everybody is a beautiful, really moving photo essay. what brought you to this issue? the fader is a music magazine. a young people s culture magazine. and about a year ago we did a story with a rapper from chicago. a 17-year-old kid signed to a major label, gotten to be very popular and has had a lot of trouble with guns. not long after we put him on the cover with the magazine he was back in jail for guns. and as we were thinking about ....
Our yearly photo issue, we thought about what s important to young people. who are the kids that read the fader kwrgs who are the kids in the fader what s important to being, it s hard to be a kid right now. that s what i m saying. we realize that issues of safety are what s important to young people and chicago is the place where all of these kids just felt just felt at sea. like and they were all shooting each other because of that. we talk about rick, we ve talked a lot about gun safety on this show and other shows and the wake of newtown. but the epidemic that frequently goes underdiscussed is that plaguing the nation s biggest cities. the sort of problems in and around gun violence. and one piece i think is certainly the proliferation of weapons of war on the city streets. but another part of this is systemic failure and institutional failure and communities and neighborhoods and you look at, i think the statistics relating to the foreclosure crisis in chicago ....