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• McFarland sought to move quickly and break things—the festival economy, influencer harnessed marketing—and figure it out later. He never got to figure it out later, because he so thoroughly broke things.

  

  Rian van der Merwe

  

  The Crushing Inevitability Of Fyre Festival

  vinylmeplease.com - Andrew Winistorfer

  It was the cheese sandwich heard around the world. Do you remember where you were when you first saw it? I was in bed on a Friday morning, scrolling …

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  Digs Home

  discogs.com

  The history of music includes a lot of weird experiments like wire recordings, Pocket Rockers, and other formats that didn’t stick around. A phono …

• “The problem is not the chill-pop musicians, but a self-replicating system that continuously rewards the same styles—the ones that users will stream endlessly, whether they’re paying attention or not.”

  

  Rian van der Merwe

  

  Streambait Pop | Liz Pelly

  thebaffler.com

  Every week, Spotify releases two-track EPs through its Spotify Singles program, recorded at various Spotify Studios locations around the world. It’s …

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  How musicians really make their money — and it has nothing to do with how many times people listen to their songs

  Business Insider - Devon Delfino

  There's a common misconception about how major musicians earn their money: In short, it's all about having a hit song that breaks the top 40 music chart. In reality, it's more complicated than that, and an artist's financial success often comes from revenue streams outside of streaming or …

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  Just Behind the Beat

  slate.com - Carl Wilson

  A perfectly timed, well-tuned chronicle of the past, present, and future of jazz. This past weekend, when the great jazz pianist Randy Weston died at …

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  Rian van der Merwe

  

  Can you stop being an audiophile?

  CNET - Steve Guttenberg

  High-end music can be hard to give up.