I do sort of feel that the personal depth and erudition suggested by the books that I *order* should be mine to access whether I ever actually read them or not

not for nothing but the majority of people on this site saying "this is just how things are now/this is a nothingburger" work specifically within the music industry. i personally think that it is a bad thing that things are just like this now.

Article: here’s a look at how companies shape public sentiment and build narratives. Exercise skepticism on the internet, and maybe extend this to non-music topics Every 22yo copywriter: lol that’s normal, I work in the industry so I knew about it. you didn’t know about it? 😏

I'M UP

frankly everyone in chicago needs to get more hot and insane #now

LIVE NATION ILLEGALLY MONOPOLIZED TICKETING MARKET, JURY FINDS

It doesn’t matter if you call the Geese thing a marketing campaign or a psyop. They manufactured internet engagement for a rock band to create an artificial reality, and they do it with everything from crime waves to domestic terrorism. Fake rock band, fake everything.

have you guys considered listening to, idk, jazz

I honestly think people would hate Brutalism less if it was called something else; regardless of what the French intended by shortening "béton brut"//"raw concrete" to, essentially, "Rawism", the English speaker cannot get past the name

There’s an astonishing section right in the middle of Vollmann’s “The Rifles” about how the invention of the gun was basically a Faustian bargain that both created and doomed the world as we know it—and it’s told mostly through quotations from books & diaries as things get worse

Its so funny that the two men I’ve seen best diagnose the principal societal malady of the 21st century are the pope and hideo kojima

imagining a kink where someone wants to be called neither good nor bad during sex but normal. ooo you’ve been normal. you’ve been perfectly regular… and now you will get what you deserve… regular sex!

more people need to realize this is the correct approach to music

I think the problem is that rap and jazz are such diverse genres with so many sub-genres spawned from them that trying to definitively say "I HATE ALL RAP/JAZZ" makes you sound like an ignorant loser

there's a small passage in Gravity's Rainbow that most likely was intended as a joke/satire but it's also basically true

chloe iris kennedy said it best regarding lockheed martin streetwear

Oakland Tribune, California, April 23, 1922

Real heads know that it will actually