Why I Can’t Find This On Any Playlist

A look at underground artists whose music is structurally incompatible with Spotify’s recommendation algorithm and why that might actually be building a more loyal audience than a playlist add ever could. … Continue Reading >Why I Can’t Find This On Any Playlist

The Top 20 Chris Crack Song Titles, Ranked

Chris Crack sits at 44K monthly listeners on Spotify and writes some of the sharpest one-line aphorisms in independent rap. I ranked twenty of his song titles, from the surface-level shock laughs to the ones that are quietly arguing for an entire worldview. Spoiler: the album title also wins. … Continue Reading >The Top 20 Chris Crack Song Titles, Ranked

Goyard and the Kayfabe Reveal: Ghais Guevara Built a Revolution on Paper First

Ghais Guevara made a twelve-track concept album that functions simultaneously as a political philosophy, a therapeutic autobiography, a revolutionary war narrative, and a genuinely odd and beautiful love letter to a city that has been bombed by its own government … Continue Reading >Goyard and the Kayfabe Reveal: Ghais Guevara Built a Revolution on Paper First