The Engine of Cultural Alienation – The Music Algorithm and it’s Discontents
I’m going to link a Variety article and not make fun of it. I’m as shocked as you are.
Tag: music
The Ages of Rock
When you’re nearly 50 and you turn on the classic rock station and you hear something that was the antithesis of “classic rock” when you were a kid, it gets a body to wondering. I mean it only makes sense in one way: back in the early 80’s, Classic Rock was mostly stuff from the… Read More The Ages of Rock
The Death of Rock Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
So says Spotify, according to YouTube. Apparently every song on this list is doing well on Spotify, which is the closest thing to doing well on the radio that still exists in any meaningful way. Radio still exists, sure, but it’s a backward-looking medium; and since the 90’s it’s where you go to find stuff… Read More The Death of Rock Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
What’s in the CD Visor This Week — Overload the System Edition
I am no longer bound to six, and as a consequence, I can just keep shoving music, old and new, into the visor and playing it whenever it pleases me. This tends to reflect mood rather than intent, because why would it not? The Datsuns – s/t Got this for $5 used at my local… Read More What’s in the CD Visor This Week — Overload the System Edition
This Week in the CD Visor — Guitar experiments Edition
So back in April my car got totalled. It was an old car, so it didn’t take much for the Insurance company to say “sorry, we’re just gonna cut you a check for the market value.” But that meant a new car, and a new stereo, and the market has moved passed what I am… Read More This Week in the CD Visor — Guitar experiments Edition
The Return of The Collegiate Plays
One of the first things I ever wrote, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears college freshman, was a one-act describing the wild nights I had observed more than taken part in. This was called Send in the Clowns, and because sophomore year we were trying to do a one-act festival, it got put on. I had… Read More The Return of The Collegiate Plays
This Week in the CD Changer: Forgotten Treasures
Calling anything in my CD collection a “forgotten treasure” is a bit of a stretch. I have things in my collection I haven’t listened to in years (why are they still there? I haven’t decided that they’re in the way yet), and things I find myself constantly loading in. This week, however, I made a… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Forgotten Treasures
The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
Recently, Saturday Night Live said the quiet part out loud, trying to make fun of white Souncloud rappers as being Inauthentic: Now, I don’t have a dog in the hunt of what is and is not Hip-Hop. I don’t care that much about it. But the skit proves the opposite of the intended joke. Queen… Read More The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
This Week in the CD Changer: Interesting Failures Edition
It’s the first edition, but whatever. Because I am old, because I came up in a time when CD’s were the newest, hippest form of musical consumption, I have hundreds of them. True, the format has become the cultural equivalent of the 8-track, having neither the aesthetic cachet of vinyl nor the supreme convenience of… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Interesting Failures Edition
Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant
The beast is hungry. Luke Combs took to social media Wednesday morning to say that he was “sick to my stomach” after waking up to learn that he had won a $250,000 judgment against a Florida woman who’d earned $380 selling 18 handmade drink tumblers with his likeness on them. The country superstar said he was… Read More Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant
