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It’s approaching problems the way every late-stage internet platform does, at least before it discovers its limits: by presuming total victory and control over the industry it’s been working to enclose. Spotify’s success as a basic streaming service eventually entitled it to a central role in how music is made and distributed. Why shouldn’t its suc... See more
John Herrman • Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business
It’s among the few remnants of the pre-Internet monoculture;
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Sometimes the mistakes are what makes a work great.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
A book becomes popular because of its text, but it’s the subtext that makes it live forever.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon. With any luck, I will wake up sucking a lemon tomorrow too.
Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening
The cultural recession of rock is intertwined with its increased cultural absorption, which seems backward. But this is a product of its design.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
We recognize aspects unnoticed before.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
I knew what I was against, but I couldn’t imagine what stood on the other side.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? - The New Yorker