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Put brutally, the audience should never dictate the direction an artist takes. I say that
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
It is perfectly conceivable that AI could produce a song as good as Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit , for example, and that it ticked all the boxes required to make us feel what a song like that should make us feel – in this case, excited and rebellious, let’s say. It is also feasible that AI could produce a song that makes us feel these sa
... See moreNick Cave • Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? - The Red Hand Files
So much hope and so much hopelessness.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
David Remnick • A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
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THE SKY TURNS dark. Dean sucks a toffee as the Beast passes through Pease Pottage, a village less quaint than its name. “If I had to choose one gig, it’d be Little Richard at the Folkestone Odeon. ’Bout ten years ago. Bill Shanks took us. Bill owns the record shop in Gravesend and sold me my first proper guitar. He drove my brother Ray ’n’ me and a
... See moreDavid Mitchell • Utopia Avenue
The National Anthem was named after both the national anthem that we sing, like patriots, and there’s also a Radiohead song called The National Anthem. Often I’ll name things after songs, but that one just came up on Spotify and I thought it was a good title.