A playlist and a pregunta
For your listening pleasure
Spotify is the devil. No one believes this more than I do.
Their CEO is a bazllionaire. Meanwhile, it takes artists 334 streams to make $1.
Nothing like profiting off the backs of creators.
If it weren’t for streaming, I’d still be releasing records. Ever since streaming destroyed my label’s business model, I’ve been musing on ways forward because I do not give up. How do you create a feasible model of releasing records (or simply giving artists a leg up) in the streaming era?
And in the meantime, how do you work with what is?
Spotify isn’t ideal by any means. And it isn’t all bad either. It’s still is a place to discover music.
That’s what my friend, Derek, is creating with Test Site Tracks.
Derek puts together weekly playlists of music he’s discovering. Lately, he’s been asking friends to play along. He asked me to do one and I had so much fun with it, I asked him if I could do another.
Sharing music is one of my love languages.
Back in the day we made mixtapes. We recorded tapes, burned CDs, made art, gave them to our friends for graduation or birthdays or for no reason at all.
I miss all the analog beauty of it.
And I’m working with what is.
So here’s my offering: my most recent playlist chock-freaking-full of new music and hopefully music you’ve never heard before. If you find one song on this lists that scratches your brain, my work here is done <3
