G5 - Your (sometimes) daily EP of music links
- Sasha Frere-Jones recaps his interview of Björk at her Polar Music Prize reception (with a cool visual recollection of the event)
- Good news, hip-hop fans: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where Kool Herc spun his sister’s birthday party in 1973 (and thus is considered “the birthplace of hip-hop”), is not going to be destroyed
- The xx won this year’s Mercury Prize, for best British album of the past year. Given its history, that there wasn’t a surprise winner is actually a small surprise itself
- Big news in the area of payment of royalties: iTunes downloads have been ruled to not be considered “purchases” and are instead viewed as “sold licenses.” Why is this big news? Performers, song writers and producers have been paid in the past based on sales, not licenses sold.
- Now on NPR’s First Listen: Black Milk’s Album of the Year
