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As the internet continues to decentralize culture, letting us choose which streaming services and video games and social media we want to base our lives around, some of the most intoxicating new music is coming from these tiny SoundCloud pockets, which you can only access if you already know to look there. This is music you won’t find in mainstream... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
Mackey borrows his title from Amiri Baraka, who aptly defines the history of white musicians profiting off of black music as turning “a verb into a noun.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“With a genre like the country-blues, that shit got curated,” Petrusich says. “Specific people made specific choices about what would endure.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“Only Girl (In the World)”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Glenn McDonald,