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Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s | Pitchfork

“Saturday Night on Saturn,” “Atlantis,” “Voodoo Dreams,” and “Pyramid of the Sun.” Sonny first heard Baxter on Perfume Set to Music (1946) and Music Out of the Moon (1947), two albums built around melodies for theremin performed by Dr. Samuel Hoffman, a Los Angeles podiatrist who had played on the soundtracks of Spellbound and The Lost Weekend. Bax

John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

the early concerts were more like happenings than straight rock shows. We’d bike around town posting up flyers that read: THE DRESDEN DOLLS live THIS SATURDAY at THE MIDDLE EAST NIGHTCLUB. Doors 9 p.m. $12. ALL ARE…

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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

Rogers was one of the first pop stars to achieve fame by unintentionally captivating the Internet, and, strangely, she was also one of the last. These days, virality is not so much a lightning strike as a marketing scheme, reverse engineered by executives and masquerading as serendipity. A. & R. representatives often scout new talent by dissect... See more

Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies

Over the past 13 years, Swift has perfected the pop culture feedback loop: Sheshares updates about her life and drops hints about new music, which fans thengobble up and re-promote with their own theories, which Swift then re-shares on herTumblr or incorporates into future clues. [...] "I've trained them to be that way," shesays of her fans' astute... See more

Libby Marrs • I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore

Record labels are digging their own grave. They finally have achieved their dream—which is to make money while doing as little work as possible. But the end result is a world in which they add so little value that no successful musician will want them any longer.

Ted Gioia • Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.

How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm

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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

I’d learned that it was pointless trying to tell these people what their music had meant to me. It meant everything. Their songs were the landscape of my inner life. I was modeling my own style of songwriting after theirs. It would just sound trite if I tried to explain it out loud. But I could make them eggs.