Andrew McCluskey

Are we going to keep compromising ourselves to cater for an ever-decreasing attention span?

Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.

The function of art is also clear: Artists propose new ways of doing things and perceiving the world, which if successful, become conventional.

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more

“Smart” suggestions don’t hit like a friend’s rec or the music blogs of years past.