Enjoy the Silence: ‘Your life is not a movie, so stop soundtracking it 24/7’
Music
2025-03-21
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
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
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.