I started this blog because things have changed. My own taste has shifted. The way we find music has been turned inside out. It used to be easy to tell who was 'mainstream' and who was 'underground’, but those lines have blurred - and it’s made
In last week’s issue, I shared some tracks that my younger self would have hated - thanks to that guy’s pig-headed stubbornness and blinkered world view. This week I’m switching gears and choosing a list of songs I’d have loved… if they had existed at the
When I was 20, quite a big part of my self-image hinged on the music I listened to and the fact I could rattle off long lists of bands I liked that few other people I met had heard of. Isn’t that fucking ridiculous? But as a music production
Once, in my early thirties, I was invited to a party full of kids in their very early twenties. 10-ish years isn’t much of an age difference when you’re talking 80-90, 60-70 or even 30-40, but the decade between 20 and 30 may as well be a century.
I’m not a big fan of the algorithm (shocker). As I’ve increasingly let it do its thing, the playlists it produces have drawn on fewer songs narrowing the rotation further still. It’s like reading the TL;DR of a Cliff Note of an abridgement. Subscribe here Bands
This is F*ck the Algorithm, a weekly music discovery newsletter for people who grew up on punk, metal and noise - and are bored of hearing the same records forever. Algorithms are very good at feeding you your past, or serving you tunes that sound almost the same as