Billy Raffoul – Dark Four Door If this were the nineties, he’d already be a star. That’s the power of video, that’s the power of a monoculture. You won’t get it if you listen to the new single “Driver” on Spotify. You won’t even get it if you listen to the version of “Dark Four […]

It’s about the money. Why would you expect artists who’ve spent the complete century complaining about recorded music revenue to suddenly put their livelihoods at risk? Those who lived through the sixties have been waiting for a reaction. Another Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, even Barry McGuire, to stand up and sing […]

Google Google. That’s right, just don’t enter your search term in the address bar, which you can do with Safari and Chrome, instead enter “Google,” to go to the main Google search page. Wait, have I confused you? What I want you to do is go to the Google homepage, however you want to get […]

TOP 40 Let’s start with #2, since #1, “Despacito,” is a phenomenon. #2 is Shawn Mendes’s “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back,” with 17,750 spins. The Vevo video launched June 20th has 111,761,095 views and the lyric video from June 21 has 9,217,720 more. On Spotify, the track has 301,709,142 streams. ACTIVE ROCK Foo Fighters’ “Run” […]