I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.
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Music industry's 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
arstechnica.comThe music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
Goat Girl — Cracker Drool
youtube.comAnalog Audio Tape Cassette Nostalgia
tapedeck.org
Yard Act — Fixer Upper
youtube.comThe Tulip Creative Computer
tulip.computer
An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding.
Charli xcx ft. Billie Eilish — Guess
youtube.comThe bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
jordaneldredge.comIn January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them.
How Music Got Free

Probably the best music documentary I’ve seen since What Drives Us.
Diana Anaid — Perfect Family
youtube.comThe Breeders — Live in Big Sur
youtube.comChildish Gambino — Little Foot Big Foot
youtube.comCosmic Psychos — Fuckwit City
youtube.comRock stars that sound like…
youtube.comYou should be playing Music League
theverge.comMusic League makes music social in a way that social media algorithms, ironically, do not