Music

2025-03-21

Enjoy the Silence: ‘Your life is not a movie, so stop soundtracking it 24/7’

2025-03-20: 🎶 Listening to Critical Thinking by Manic Street Preachers.

2025-03-20: 🎶 Listening to Brat by Charli XCX.

2025-02-26: Deezer receives 10k AI-generated music tracks per day, artists aren't happy

2025-02-26

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

10,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to Deezer every day

2025-02-23: 🎶 Listening to Feeling Not Found by Origami Angel.

2025-02-09: Statista visualises some data from Duetti’s pretty interesting 2024 Music Economics Report. …

2025-01-28: 🎶 Listening to Happenings by Kasabian.

2025-01-26: Spotify joins the inauspicious ranks of companies that funded Trump's inauguration

2025-01-26

Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony: Sigh.

2025-01-25

Björk Says Spotify Is “The Worst Thing That Has Happened To Musicians”: ‘The streaming culture has changed an entire society and an entire generation of artists.’

2025-01-04: Year in music for 2024

2024-12-26: Doorstep carolling feels weird in the modern era

2024-12-26

Older music has been getting a second life on TikTok, data shows: An increasing amount of TikTok videos use music that’s at least 5 years old.

2024-12-25: 📚 Want to read: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly. I’ve a feeling this book might reinforce my fears …

2024-12-23: 🎶 Listening to some modern-day Christmas music: December’s Here by New Found Glory, Punk Rawk Christmas by MxPx and Let It Snow Baby…Let It Reindeer by Reliant K.

2024-12-20: 📧 Reading the Liner Notes newsletter.

2024-12-12: 🎶 Listening to From Zero by Linkin Park.

2024-12-10

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.

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.