Sublime

But critics and music historians hate sentimental love songs, so these artists and songs struggle to get a place in the history books. Transgressive rockers, in contrast, enjoy lasting fame . . . right now, electronic dance music probably outsells hip-hop. In my opinion, this is identical to the punk-versus-disco trade-off of the 1970s. My

Ringo,

Nobody looks to Radiohead now to make the masterpiece that will define our present moment. Thom Yorke is no longer the sort of artist who can seek out what’s ahead of us. There are newer, younger artists for that, as there should be. Yorke’s role now is to explore his own past, to dialogue with it, to reconnect with what was lost and how we were

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.

Paul Oakenfold’s “Live at the Rojan in Shanghai,” Pete Tong’s Essential Mix