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The Holy Hell of Cursed Jumpstyle
a.k.a. The gabber offshoot has always been a little crazy, but its newest iteration mirrors the fried mental state of its creators, who came of age in a…
Apr 23
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Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Arguing Is All That Dance Music Has Left
a.k.a. With discourse (or what passes for it) spiraling out of control, conflict increasingly feels like the only thing that reliably animates…
Apr 16
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Shawn Reynaldo
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I'm Ready to Read Some Negative Album Reviews
a.k.a. The overwhelming—and insincere—positivity of the music press.
Apr 9
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Shawn Reynaldo
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I Only Went to Coachella Once
a.k.a. A look back at an oddly unmemorable weekend, and the outsized role that Air and their 2004 album 'Talkie Walkie' played in it.
Apr 2
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Shawn Reynaldo
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I Only Went to Coachella Once
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I Can't Believe I'm Writing About James Blake (Again)
a.k.a. Yes, I have some thoughts on the new Vault platform.
Mar 26
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Shawn Reynaldo
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A Music Industry That Doesn't Sell Music
a.k.a. It's a lot easier to capitalize on people's dreams of being an artist than it is to actually market whatever music they make.
Mar 19
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Shawn Reynaldo
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The Medium Is (Still) the Message
a.k.a. Even in electronic music, the internet and social media have us all at each other's throats. That's not a coincidence.
Mar 12
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Shawn Reynaldo
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A Win for Who Exactly?
a.k.a. The EU slapped Apple with a giant, streaming-related fine, but the biggest winners aren't artists, or even consumers. It's Spotify.
Mar 5
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Shawn Reynaldo
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The Cello Is So Hot Right Now
a.k.a. No longer limited to the symphony hall, the instrument is thriving in the experimental music realm.
Feb 20
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Shawn Reynaldo
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The Fraught Life Cycle of Regional Music Trends
a.k.a. Raptor house, baile funk and the thoughtless way that Europeans and Americans often engage with scenes and sounds from other parts of the world.
Feb 14
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Shawn Reynaldo
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Music News Has Lost Its Appeal
a.k.a. Shifting reader appetites, and the media's struggle to adapt.
Jan 30
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Shawn Reynaldo
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Music News Has Lost Its Appeal
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I Was There When Trance Went Bad
a.k.a. The genre went supernova in the late '90s and early 2000s, but how do the defining songs from that era sound now?
Jan 23
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Shawn Reynaldo
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