Culture war and revolution: 30 Years of Manic Street Preachers’ Generation Terrorists: Great as they are, kind of a shame how many of their songs still make perfect sense decades later.
Music
2024-12-20: 📧 Reading the Liner Notes newsletter.
2024-12-12: 🎶 Listening to From Zero by Linkin Park.
2024-12-10
2024-11-15
How “YMCA” became Donald Trump’s unlikely theme song: I had wondered.
2024-11-10
taylor derangement syndrome: It reads differently now we know the result of the election, but I had originally enjoyed ‘Taylor is a normal person and that’s why she’s a Democrat’.
2024-09-26: Just re-encountered Good Clean Fun’s classic “The MySpace Song”. Emotional …
2024-09-14: 🎶 Listening to HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish.
2024-09-14: 🎶 Listening to Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa.
2024-09-13: 🎶 Listening to ~mAntras~ by Alien Ant Farm.
2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million
2024-07-19: If you ever have a desire to edit MP3 tags without putting your phone down, then Evertag seems worth …
2024-06-04: Free music streaming and more from your local library
2024-05-26: Apple Music attempts to adjudicate the top 100 'greatest albums ever made'
2024-05-18: 🎶 Listening to The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift.
2024-05-12: Some services that help transfer your music library and playlists between different music streaming services
2024-04-26: 🎶 Listening to Kaiser Chief’s Easy Eighth Album by The Kaiser Chiefs.
2024-04-17: Spotify's new minimum stream threshold means most tracks no longer pay the artist
2024-03-27: 🎶 Listening to Saviors by Green Day.
2024-03-24: 🎶 Listening to GUTS (spilled) by Olivia Rodrigo.
2024-01-26: 🎶 Listening to Sweet Justice by Tkay Maidza.
2024-01-02: My year in music, 2023
2023-12-14: 🎶 Listening to Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning.
2023-11-27: 🎶 Listening to GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo.
2023-11-12: The deleterious effects of bad business models, incentives and AI on music streaming services
2023-10-28: 🎶 Listening to The More Red Chapter by Taylor Swift.