Everything is Improvisation
With each change or shift or risk the musicians would take and work through, I could feel the sheer volume of opportunity and chance in the music as something profoundly inspiring.
Is Genre Obsolete?
While artists rejecting categorization is nothing new, the change this decade is that listeners are now rejecting it along with them.
The Streaming Industry’s Existential Threat to Independent Music
Capitalism has always found ways to devalue art, but now, Silicon Valley has given capitalists way more tools at their disposal to do so.
Coping with Crisis
I’ve come home to a particularly strange environment, one not radically different from the one I come home to every break, but with enough tweaks that it exists in a liminal space that is even more alien than something entirely new.
Why don’t we give Oscars to movies from past years, such as Forrest Gump?
Movies, movies, movies. Everybody loves them, and for good reason. And since the beginning of time, from Stone Age to phone age, Austin Powers to Austin Powers Goldmember, nothing has been more important in movie history than the Oscar. It is the Big One, the golden guy, the mighty Oscar, the single biggest sign that …
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Why We Must Divest
Israel certainly has cooled under pressure, and their attacks on the Palestinian people have continued to escalate as the government descends deeper into white supremacist extremism. These are the reasons why this is the time to divest.