music
We are witnessing the death of the “Mass Audience” and the birth of the “Micro-Community.”
Joel Gouveia • The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
This is brilliant - loved the delivery too
Online music is both incredibly localized and universal, simultaneously confined to small Discord clubs and capable of being transmitted through electric signals to vibrate speakers around the globe.
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
Hell yes it is
“Smart” suggestions don’t hit like a friend’s rec or the music blogs of years past.
Mark • Bandcamp Bets on Curation, Anthropic Pays Up, and New Music You Need
The goal of this series is not to present music as disposable background noise to be mostly ignored or tuned out , but the complete opposite — the goal is to present music that can engulf the listener, carefully selected works that can be fully appreciated (perhaps even enhanced) despite sometimes only having peripheral attention paid to them.