📧 Reading the Liner Notes newsletter.
These days I usually avoid music streaming services. Partially because I’m old and/or stuck in my ways enough to want to permanently own things I like, and partially because most of these services feel like they’re generally bad for the future of the music industry itself.
But one downside of doing this is that it’s more of an effort to find new music from new artists I might be interested in. There’s not even a chance of a not-terrible algorithmic recommendation on tap.
Of course it’s no more effort as it was in the pre-Spotify era of course, but still, it requires more than pressing a “play me music” button and hoping for the best (whilst expecting the worst). The afore-mentioned newsletter is one such solution.
It’s written by Jason Tate, who runs chorus.fm, a site well worth a browse if interested in news, reviews and a community of music fans. He was the CEO of AbsolutePunk back in the day. Our tastes would appear to overlap some, so hearing what he’s been listening to, what he likes and a bit of the misc of his life in general is a good time.