Illuminating the cracks in the machine
The Daisy Chain Fields music festival has drawn comparison to Lilith Fair, but are the messages coming through the lyrics of Daisy Chain Fields’ lineup doing the same for the listener’s psyche as the…
The "OMG I'm on a billboard in Times Square" viral video trend is an ego trip and nothing…
Everyone’s pushing human-made, I’m pushing made-for-human.
The catch-all phrase “it's catchy” is part of what has allowed a rise in less than savory messages…
We don't need more jokes, we need sincerity.
Kids have been taught that as long as a song doesn’t have any bad words, play away. They’re…
I’ve been keeping an eye and an ear on the AI music scene, Suno et al, and while…
Like many Caucasian, English-native US citizens, I was less than thrilled to hear that Bad Bunny was the…
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