Sublime

In almost every respect, the sounds of rhythm and blues contradicted those of popular music. The vocal styles were harsh, the songs explicit, the dominant instruments – saxophone, piano, guitar, drums – were played loudly and with an emphatic dance rhythm, the production of the records was crude. The prevailing emotion was excitement.

XTC, ENGLISH SETTLEMENT This band has been largely forgotten, but their gorgeous instrumentation tempered by edgy lyrics and a pastoral snarl made them my personal Beatles. The lead singer, Andy Partridge, had a nervous breakdown and swore he would never tour again, so the band holed up in some tiny bucolic English town, and their music became less

Depending on the quality of our earbuds, we might not notice what’s missing, but Young considers MP3s the Wonder Bread of music, stripped of the upper and lower frequencies that give songs their richness and depth. “People can’t get what they need from listening to music anymore,” he said, “so it is dying.” I wouldn’t go that far. Much of the healt

McBride discovered that the algorithm offered lists of songs only by male country artists fourteen times in a row, refresh after refresh, before it…

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McDonald did an internal investigation and concluded that “Strange” had hit the algorithmic jackpot not because of Galaxie 500’s unique musical style, but because the song was more similar to songs by other bands than Galaxie 500’s other tracks. In many cases, if “Strange” played, the listener was unlikely to hit the Skip or Stop button, and so the