Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The ideal collision of vulgarity and high-mindedness.”
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
The original version of Discover Weekly was supposed to include only songs that users had never listened to before. But in its first internal test at Spotify, a bug in the algorithm let through songs that users had already heard. “Everyone reported it as a bug, and we fixed it so that every single song was totally new,” Ogle told me.But after Ogle’... See more
Derek Thompson • The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything
The karaoke principle: if you can’t fix it, flaunt it.
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
The Stones were Stonesier. The Beatles were merely better.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
Aging hipsters and corduroy-clad high school sophomores are both primarily concerned with dodging lameness.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Everybody used to assume the Beatle myth was driving the music—it turned out to be the other way around.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
Source: The A.V. Club