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.’
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2025-01-25
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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 …
2024-12-20: 📧 Reading the Liner Notes newsletter. These days I usually avoid music streaming services. Partially …
2024-12-12: 🎶 Listening to From Zero by Linkin Park. This is nu-metal gids Linkin Park’s first album in 7 …
2024-12-11
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. The world’s most famous whisperer is …
2024-09-14: 🎶 Listening to Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa. Described in part as being influenced by the …
2024-09-13: 🎶 Listening to ~mAntras~ by Alien Ant Farm. These are the guys who made the almost indisputably best …
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: The Tortured Poets Department enters the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe
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. Here’s another …
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. I’m constantly amazed that bands that were big when I was …
2024-03-24: 🎶 Listening to GUTS (spilled) by Olivia Rodrigo. I’m not often a fan of “deluxe” …