Wren Graves

Managing Editor @consequence. He/His. Send pitches to Wren at consequence dot net.

[Wren Graves @Wren_Field]

"The taste level is above everything else."

Sat down with our Artists of the Year @clipse to talk about grief, parenting, and why they are too good to be competing with anyone.

Clipse have evolved. Read the full interview for @consequence

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Artists of the Year Clipse changed themselves to change hip-hop → https://t.co/7DyXwBkSro

@PUSHA_T

[Wren Graves @Wren_Field]

Life is short and the pay is nothing to brag about. If you're not having fun with it why become a writer?

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Exclusive behind-the-scenes look: Brainstorming, I was really tempted by "like a drunk's piss avoids the toilet bowl" but I wasn't sure if that even made sense.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

googling "like fish try to avoid the skies" only brings up this exact post. did this person invent a new idiom just for this? fish don't "try" to avoid the sky, they simply do, by virtue of their nature and domain. deep. is that what this is saying? is this what shakespeare did

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@WisteriaElec Actually I call the bots "grim" and "depressing."

If you read the article, perhaps your criticisms would at least be accurate. It's smart to read the article before commenting!

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Wrote about the tendency to confuse a marketing budget with a psy-op.

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"Blaming Geese for hiring a TikTok marketing firm is like blaming a cereal brand for paying for shelf space at eye level. Every supermarket charges for placement, and it means the brand with less money ends up on the bottom shelf. That's a legitimate problem, but the answer is to fix how shelves work, not to accuse Cheerios of fraud."

https://t.co/n4r97a1wU2

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@yungzaniel Yeah, well said. Like, our website has been hyping Geese since 2021. This was not their first good album, but it was by far the biggest, and more people could reflect on why this strategy not only worked, but was necessary in the first place.

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@cocamidemea The argument only works if you've already decided that posting performance clips on TikTok is the moral equivalent of tax fraud. But that is the thing people are arguing about, not something anyone has proven.

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@cocamidemea Like Geese I am American. Chaotic Good might be afoul of the DMCC, though based on my dumb yank understanding Geese is in the clear. Geese might also be brushing up against FTC rules, but I don't think they have clearly broken them and a simple disclosure would solve those issues

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Let's go Juliana Stratton!

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@casseroleboy Also if you're going to ask yourself this q, It's worth going one step further to wonder why bands like this pop. There's more music than anyone can listen to, local stages are overstuffed, legit talent goes undiscovered etc. This seems like a hack to stand out and be remembered.

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@hecubian_devil "Yes, AI will be bad for society, but it is very powerful, and without unprecedented international cooperation it will never go away, so we had better start planning," has got to be the least-popular position in recent history that is also obvious to everyone paying attention.

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@hecubian_devil "Yes, AI will be bad for society, but it is very powerful, and without unprecedented international cooperation it will never go away, so we had better start planning," has got to be the least-popular position in recent history that is also obvious to everyone paying attention.

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After two years of "up high... to the side... other side... down low... YEAH BRO!" I finally hit the 4-year-old with the "TOO SLOW." Peals of laughter, totally worth it.

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@KyleCraig @Grimezsz Thanks for reading!

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Wrote about how @Grimezsz is underrated again. She's the only big-name artist grappling with the nuances of AI, and "Artificial Angels" is really good.

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.@Grimezsz is the only major artist engaging with the implications of AI in a thoughtful way.

https://t.co/IAnoRngVA0

[Wren Graves @Wren_Field]

Another reason for music journos to switch from Spotify: The Sienna Rose prompt team scrubbed Spotify, but I found a trail of evidence on Tidal. The avatar emerged in 2025 as a pale redhead with an acoustic guitar and ended the year pretending to be a Black woman who sang R&B.

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Sienna Rose, an AI-generated artist that released 10 albums between September and December last year, now has 2.7 million monthly listeners and has placed three songs on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart. https://t.co/HEjKlQEzyr

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@KCEsq I didn't even think of the jazz greats, but you're absolutely right.

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Not trying to diminish Weir's incredible legacy but neither of these claims are true.

Artists who certainly played more shows than Weir:
BB King
Willie Nelson
James Brown
Probably Tony Bennett and Mike Love, too.

Rolling Stones and McCartney def played for more total people.

[Adam Zagoria @AdamZagoria]

Bobby Weir likely played more live shows - in front of more people - than anyone in the history of mankind.

And he brought joy to millions over six decades of music.

His loss leaves a huge hole.