Tag: culture

• Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry

  June 21, 2020

  On the morning of May 27, Kenneth Charles Blume III wanted to talk about white privilege. Blume, a 29-year-old DJ from Greenwich, Connecticut, has produced beats for some of the biggest… more ›

• The End of Minimalism

  June 17, 2020

  When I go home to visit my parents a few times a year, my mom and I have a little dance we do. She asks me to go through some… more ›

• Drink like a boss : 10 classy whiskey brands to try right now

  June 14, 2020

  Many people still associate whisky (or whiskey for Americans) with men in old films, who usually drink the liquor straight up. Today’s top whisky experts, however, are a far cry… more ›

• The Red Hand Files

  May 2, 2020

  The great beauty of contemporary music, and what gives it its edge and vitality, is its devil-may-care attitude toward appropriation — everybody is grabbing stuff from everybody else, all the… more ›

• William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield

  January 14, 2020

  Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”

  December 1, 2019

  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele,… more ›

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• Beyond Techno-Orientalism: An Interview with Logic Magazine’s Xiaowei R Wang

  August 19, 2019

  Though they’ve spent the last few years focusing on the intersection between agriculture and technology, Xiaowei R Wang‘s resume of working with tech in China is long and varied. https://radiichina.com/beyond-techno-orientalism-an-interview-with-logic-magazines-xiaowei-r-wang/ more ›

• Controversial deepfake app DeepNude shuts down hours after being exposed

  July 8, 2019

  Less than a day after receiving widespread attention, the deepfake app that used AI to create fake nude photos of women is shutting down. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18761496/deepnude-shuts-down-deepfake-nude-ai-app-women more ›