simultaneously adore & worry about how the best folk/informal archives are hosted on youtube channels, instagram pages, facebook groups. ease of sharing and communal collecting & curation is wonderful, many times to the form's expense of its longevity, context, provenance
News: I'm writing a book. It’s about how streaming platforms are changing music for both listeners and artists. It's about the consequences of playlistification and personalization. Also: labor, politics, surveillance, and the musician-led fight for something better.
Jimmy Douglass:
"We knew how to let it be. People don't know how to let shit be now. Because we can go back, we'll just do it again and take away the magic of it."
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