Music has been a throughline in my life… from buying 45s at K-Mart as a kid to working at early digital music companies to building early AI DJ prototypes like Radiobrain back in 2019 with my startup Pylon AI. I write about the industry, the culture, and the artists that shaped me.
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Leenalchi: Here Comes the Crow Experimental K-Pop I rarely review K-Pop—so much of it strikes my ears as formulaic and sound-alike. But every once in a while I encounter a pop recording from Korea that defies all my expectations. Here Comes the Crow is a case in point. The pop sensibility here co-exists with funk, jazz, hip-hop, and other unexpected ingredients. It’s shockingly fresh and totally unpredictable.
Best $6 I spend is my subscription to Ted Gioia's Honest Broker. One of the main inspirations for really putting effort back into writing (the other is making good on a promise to friend who told me to "STFU and just write!". Great pics per usual.
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Aug. 7 releases include Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy, daddy's boy, Tenniscoats with Tape, Joyce & Tutty Moreno, Hana Stretton, maya ongaku
It's Bandcamp Friday and there's no better way to find an artist to support and something to buy than Lars Gotrich's "Vikings Choice" playlist. Highly recommend subscribing: https://newsletter.vikingschoice.org/
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Companion listening guides for the books that made you go and listen.
Easily one of the best ideas I've seen in a while. Look forward to seeing more books
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Join us me on Tuesdays from 10am to 12pm GMT for Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live. Requests can be made on colleencosmomurphy on Instagram.
Starting to build my own programming clock of streams. Cosmo's Balearic Breakfast each Tuesday is one of my favs.
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"— says the song 'in the style of Nick Cave', and that's kind of true. I have got the fire of hell in my eyes – and it's ChatGPT." Nick Cave from The Red Hand Files
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While I'm waiting for my old camera to be fixed, I'm using a FujiFilm X-T30 to take some photos and get back in the swing of using a camera. One of the tips I picked up this week was to take pictures using a digital camera's automated settings and see what ISO, Aperture, and shutter…
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Turns out mine is bad. I'm also uncool and old. More on that in a bit. Let me tell you how I found out…
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So many people have written great posts or tweets about Tom Petty and their favorite Tom Petty moments. I've loved reading how Tom Petty moved them or was a part of their life. Thought it might feel good to share a few of my own.
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Record Store Day reminded me that buying music is more fun with people involved.
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