It’ll cost you more than $2,000. It nearly cost its maker everything.
Amazon’s new psychological thriller series from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers is a dark sendup of stan culture, but it’s too caught up in its own obsession with Beyoncé.
Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu might not have won at this year’s Oscars for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But she, and David Byrne, and David Byrne’s pair of hot dog fingers absolutely brought the house down with their performance of ‘This Is a Life.’
Every Noise at Once is an ongoing project to map the over 6,000 genres and sub-genres listed on Spotify’s music catalog. This fun little timesink can play you an example of each genre or open an entire Spotify playlist of it if you like what you hear.
There’s more lawyers and litigation in the music industry than ever before (because it’s so much harder to make money) but the release of De La Soul’s catalog to streaming services came with a bunch of compromises because the samples weren’t cleared. That’s a tragedy, argues Dan Charnas in Slate:
While De La’s absence has been a musical deprivation, their return is marked by a more insidious cultural crime: the adulteration of a landmark work of sonic pastiche. It’s part of a larger injustice we’ve been tolerating for decades [...] But the way hip-hop makes music remains completely unprotected by law.
I’ve spent the last couple of days listening to Spotify’s new DJ beta, which began rolling out to paid subscribers last week in the US and tries to humanize the custom playlists Spotify already feeds you.
Its synthesized voice and subtle quips aren’t teeeerrible, but, my dude, you can’t just segue from Seether to 1989-era T-Swift like that.
