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Every Noise at Once

@EveryNoise

8 months

Unfortunately, the future of , in its current form, is probably short.

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is now responding again, from a new server. It is now a static snapshot of the world as it was, with many interactive pieces disabled for the moment. Where we go from here remains to be seen. But at least we start here, not nowhere.

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Press support!

Every Noise at Once Shuts Down?

Spotify lost its data alchemist & for fans, everything is falling apart.

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The original server at Spotify is not currently responding, so my assumption is that Spotify has turned it off. I have redirected the domain to an archived copy, but the DNS update will take a while to propagate.

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8 months

Sad but happy to be the subject of "The Day Music Neutrality Died (a bit)":

The Day Music Neutrality Died (a bit) - Thank You Everynoise.com

The website Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) seized full operation on 8th December 2023. I praise its merits for good music.

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7 months

The official-Spotify-forum plea/lamentation for 's future has passed 500 endorsements and is onto the 7th page of comments, but has so far elicited no official response there, nor to me.

Continue Everynoise - The Spotify Community

everynoise.com is an invaluable exploration of Spotify genres, and the only place to see complete Friday releases with genre cross-references. Without it,…

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7 months

An especially well-articulated case for music-discovery tools:

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6 months

Hey @SpotifyPlatform , if albums in the API had genres (each album's artist's extended genres), so the "genre:" and "tag:new" filters could be used at once in /search for albums, I could try to rebuild New Releases by Genre using the API.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

This may be more of a guest book at the funeral than a feedback channel to anybody with decision power, but is a place one step closer to @Spotify than Twitter if you have thoughts about the fate of , new releases, fear, joy, love.

Continue Everynoise - The Spotify Community

everynoise.com is an invaluable exploration of Spotify genres, and the only place to see complete Friday releases with genre cross-references. Without it,…

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@EveryNoise

5 months

non-news update: There's no news. Future fates of dormant features remain unresolved. The Spotify Community thread about this has over 1000 votes and 11 pages of comments, but still no official response.

Continue Everynoise - Page 11 - The Spotify Community

everynoise.com is an invaluable exploration of Spotify genres, and the only place to see complete Friday releases with genre cross-references. Without it,…

community.spotify.com

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8 months

Well, at least some of the things I left behind at Spotify are running again. No new data is getting out to , but playlist updates happen through internal connections, and some automated daily playlists have updated. We'll see about weekly ones tomorrow.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

OK, the main research page is ported and back up now, if for no other reason than the one for which I first wrote it: exact-match searching.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

In a fit of love I have ported the artist profile page from server-side python to client-side javascript so we can have it again without my server instantly imploding.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

I've now ported the playlist profile page, too, so the public-API-based research tools are all functional again, at least.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

There probably won't be any more site updates for a bit. I'm clearing my calendar to really focus on reading the updated privacy policies of every restaurant I ever had to install an app to order from once.

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6 months

Stick around for the downbeat second clause in this headline.

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

6 months

Spotify’s astrology-like Daylists go viral, but its micro-genre mastermind was let go last month

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Well, some weekly playlists did update, but so far none of the genre ones have. It's not that unusual for the genre sets to update later in the day, so it's too early to draw firm conclusions. But I can't do anything about it, regardless.

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@EveryNoise

1 year

10!

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@EveryNoise

7 months

"egregious" is a really excellent word.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Stop all the clocks, cut off the rsync jobs. But silence nothing else.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

If you're curious what Spotify's HUMAN playlist curators are making in countries other than yours, I made a little thing so you can see:

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Nobody panic. At least not yet. DNS updates can take 24-48 hours, but if you can't wait that long, the temporary bypass url is .

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@EveryNoise

5 months

Hey @SpotifyPlatform , can you take a look at ?

Re: Categories by market?! - The Spotify Community

Any response here?

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@EveryNoise

1 year

There will be some increased chaos on this week, particularly in the balance between specificity and expansiveness. Calibration is enthusiastically ongoing.

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@EveryNoise

4 years

Everybody could use this reminder.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

None of that helps with new releases. I have some ideas about that. They aren't good ideas, but sadly the bar set by all other available approaches is low, so bad ideas might be better than nothing.

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@EveryNoise

6 months

Please welcome today’s guest-explainer of why is interesting:

Aki Nikolaidis

@AkiNikolaidis

6 months

I love Music about as much as I love Data. Since I keep meeting folks who haven't seen this incredible project, I wanted to write a thread gushing about 🧵

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6 years

2000 genres looked suspicious, so I found another one. But somehow 2001 genres looked even more suspicious to me, so I added 7 more. But then "2008 genres" looked like a year, so I added a comma. Please sign up for Spotify Premium to continue funding this important work.

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@EveryNoise

4 years

Genre 5000: AI. I think we have now covered the basics, at least.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

The Sound of Genre playlists have updated, so I assume Pulse and Edge and the rest will also update eventually. The ghosts can do that much. For how long? I don't know.

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@EveryNoise

11 months

If you think you would enjoy reading a book that isn't exactly about , but is words about the same things that is code about, then maybe you'll look forward to this.

glenn mcdonald

@glenn_mcdonald

11 months

Oh, I wrote a book! It's called "You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music". It doesn't come out until June 2024, but it was announced to the UK trade press today, so it's finally no longer secret. There's more info here:

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@EveryNoise

5 years

I keep saying that music exploration is a form of travel, but I think this Condé Nast Traveller España piece is the first time we've been covered by a travel magazine:

El mapa con toda la música del mundo que te volará la cabeza

Prepárate para pasar horas y horas descubriendo lo que se escucha en cada uno de los lugares del planeta, desde tu ciudad hasta tu antigua universidad

www.traveler.es

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@EveryNoise

5 years

If you like exploring music, check out , a Spotify-API-powered fast-scanning thing made by my colleagues @alizauf and @edwrdlee !

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@EveryNoise

2 years

"For Advanced Random Music" would almost certainly be our new tagline if we had a tagline.

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@EveryNoise

3 years

Issuing the annual warning.

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@EveryNoise

2 years

2022. Now it's over.

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@EveryNoise

6 months

(But for the record, the genre work, which always involved more people than just me, is only part of the input into Daylist. And Discover Weekly works a completely different non-genre way.)

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Some notes about why getting new-release data is hard:

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@EveryNoise

4 years

It begins.

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@EveryNoise

3 years

2021: complete.

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@EveryNoise

4 months

Stubbornness, and enough computers: a love story. Recounted by @ariteplitsky for Billboard Canada.

Spotify's Former Data Alchemist Gives Every Song a Genre

Glenn McDonald, the mastermind behind thousands of music microgenres at Every Noise At Once, was let go in the streaming company's recent layoffs, but he's still digging into the data to share his...

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@EveryNoise

8 months

For those of you already ready to be done with the year, has been updated with provisional data through 2023-11-30. This will be updated once more when the year is done with itself, too.

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@EveryNoise

2 years

For the curious: we have opted to stop modeling genre communities based on individual anime/game franchises and other trademarks and brands and brand-like things. Most of the ones we had have now been consolidated into broader cultural groupings. (🎸 to @dj_tolstoy for noticing)

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@EveryNoise

7 years

Most genres now have a 2017 link to a playlist of the year's most distinctively popular new songs according to fans of that genre.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

@HaruomiHosono Not unless you own a lot more Spotify stock than you do.

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@EveryNoise

8 years

I've only spot-checked SOME of it this morning, but it seems like music is probably still awesome.

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@EveryNoise

5 years

Oh. I just realized we're at the stage of human history when it's trivial to produce this list.

Self-Titled by Self-Titled from Self-Titled

Self-Titled by Self-Titled from Self-Titled · Playlist · 8981 songs · 71 likes

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@EveryNoise

6 years

Here's a new thing: Hyperspace House Concerts! Little-known music that only people in some place know. , and some explanation at .

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@EveryNoise

6 years

Oh, nothing, we just got to 2,401 genres. My deepest ongoing apologies to fans of all the ones we're still missing.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Friday evening DNS update: it's kind of impressive that there is still anything electronic that takes 48+ hours. I've heard reports of resolving in some regions, so progress is happening, but still nothing from here. Tomorrow?

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Saturday morning update in the gripping DNS saga: another setting had to be changed to a different value, so start another 24hr timer and think positive connecty thoughts.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

Saying a fond goodbye to some code I wrote in 2015 that has been earnestly trying to find songs that are rising out of obscurity on the wings of listeners' love. The Needle () is now operating on new algorithms and better data! But with the same goal.

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@EveryNoise

4 years

There's a tiny new feature today. See if you can find it.

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@EveryNoise

5 years

2019-05-06. 3000.

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@EveryNoise

8 years

Just your periodic reminder that music has not yet collapsed into a single undifferentiated mass.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

@DataMosherLLC But "Spotify" is not a single beast, it's 83% of the people who worked there when I did, some of whom also believed in, and participated in, what I did. How will they use the power they have not yet lost?

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@EveryNoise

8 months

@DhruvJayKumar Get Taylor Swift to ask Spotify for a favor?

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@EveryNoise

3 years

2021. It's not over yet, but here's an attempt at an exploratory summary of how it's been in new music so far. (This will be updated once more when the year is actually complete.)

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@EveryNoise

2 years

For those of you whose music-listening year just ended, here's what it was:

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@EveryNoise

5 years

5: All of these projects build on the work of 100s of co-workers, as well as the collective listening of 200m+ other humans. But raise a chord to the understatedly-named @GenreADay , who is responsible for more like 4 genres/day, and has mostly taken us from 1500 to 3000. So far.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

You could accurately say that my job mostly involves typing in erratic bursts while wearing headphones. But it sounds better when @maura describes it:

Trap Queen and the Data Scientist: How a Subgenre Is Born – Spotify for Artists

Glenn McDonald, Spotify’s data alchemist, spends his days figuring out which artists aren’t getting the attention they deserve—and then he tries to fix it.

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@EveryNoise

3 years

Do you like to do your own research?

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@EveryNoise

4 years

Stay where you are, but hear what it sounds like where you aren't. Every Place at Once.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

Do you ever just want to wrap the world's music around you? And draw it over your head and stick your hands in its pockets? Work is underway to make this possible!

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@EveryNoise

9 months

Various things are temporarily broken due to API issues. Crews are working.

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@EveryNoise

3 years

There are only a few countries left where Spotify does not yet operate. Fewer, in fact, as of this week. Welcome to Spotify, Venezuela.

Welcome to Venezuela

Playlist · glenn mcdonald · 37 songs · 3 likes

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@EveryNoise

4 years

By the way, the 2020 explorer for new music by country and genre has been updated one last time with full-year data... .

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@EveryNoise

6 years

2018. The music was good, at least. Here are 1393 ways to remember it:

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@EveryNoise

1 year

6000. (PS: 6001. 6002. 6003. 6004. 6005. 6006. 6007. 6008. 6009. 6010. 6011.)

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@EveryNoise

9 months

It's that time again.

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@EveryNoise

5 years

In official memoriam 2019:

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@EveryNoise

4 years

Japanese Rockabilly. 4000.

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@EveryNoise

5 years

4: I've promoted The Sound of Immortality, my data-generated playlist of pre-2000 songs that are still in the Spotify top 2000 today, from monthly to weekly.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

To be clear, I 100% should have written it this way to begin with.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

You can watch the propagation via …, if you're curious. The old address starts with 34, the new one with 216. Currently there are still some stragglers.

DNS Propagation Checker - Global DNS Checker Tool

Instant DNS Propagation Check. Global DNS Propagation Checker - Check DNS records around the world.

www.whatsmydns.net

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@EveryNoise

9 months

New Releases by Genre had a file-transfer mishap this morning, but we’ve had a gentle, affirmational talk about it. Should be fixed now.

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@EveryNoise

1 year

Just re-encountered this excellent @Chronotope description of music exploration from a few years ago:

How Spotify asks listeners to hack its algorithm

Spotify's user experience for music asks us to control recommendations, instead of letting it control us.

www.schizochronotopia.com

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@EveryNoise

9 years

Hello to everyone in France who has discovered the map in the last 3 hours.

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@EveryNoise

7 years

Most genre pages now also have "intro" links to a shorter, less long, less non-short version of a playlist...

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@EveryNoise

5 years

Meanwhile: 229 artists have released new covers of "Last Christmas" since last Christmas.

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@EveryNoise

8 months

Once the DNS update finishes, there will be SSL certificate issues, but I think I can't fix those until the DNS update finishes. This is solidly in the category of things I would have been completely fine not learning about.

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@EveryNoise

9 years

Introducing: The Needle. A Listening/Discovery/Fear-Confirming/Amazingness-Finding Music Machine. http://t.co/BWOK8rHPMk

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@EveryNoise

3 years

The winner, yet again, as always: Iceland, where more than half of yesterday's Spotify listening was to Christmas music. (Next update in 9 months.)

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@EveryNoise

3 years

It seems very college for students to have found out about our Sounds of Schools playlists through TikTok. In MY day in we were lucky not to run out of college-supplied steam for our turntables...

Emory Technology Transfer

@EmoryOTT

3 years

What's the soundtrack of your college? "The Sounds of Spotify Schools" has made over 3,000 playlists for colleges across the globe. Listen to the Sound of Emory University: What Boston University students think about BU's playlist:

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2 years

Final standings. It was really never close.

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@EveryNoise

2 years

"Miracle" sounds a lot more efficient than the actual process, but thanks!

Tribal Warehouse

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2 years

Every playlist needs a refresh now and then. No matter how much of a selector you are, this miracle website has your back. @glenn_mcdonald // @EveryNoise

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8 months

@DataMosherLLC In addition, everything that uses Spotify genres (including everynoise and the API) gets them from the system I invented and maintained for finding and modeling those, and if layoffs were rational, laying me off would suggest that Spotify doesn't intend to keep doing that.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

You might think, given that were 2,342 genres on everynoise as of this morning, that I would no longer be SURPRISED by new ones. But if you thought that, you would be wrong.

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@EveryNoise

5 years

Oh, it's ON now.

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@EveryNoise

1 year

There will probably also be more ongoing tweaks and changes for a while as we explore what else our improved data makes possible or superfluous. Feel free to report anything that looks weird, even if it turns out to be intentional. Intentions are another form of chaos.

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@EveryNoise

7 months

Bot waves were repeatedly taking down my tiny web-server by pointlessly spamming the sortable genre list, but one advantage of no longer getting data-updates is that it no longer really matters how slow it is to pregenerate all the parameter results.

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@EveryNoise

1 year

In the case of new releases by genre, this actually improves coverage significantly, but/and it also greatly reduces duplication, so if you're tracking individual genres, you may find that you want to adjust your picks, or add some.

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@EveryNoise

6 years

Recent additions: Vocal Harmony Group, Vietnamese Bolero, Manila Sound, Hong Kong Indie, Pirate, South African Pop; and Persian, Arabic, South African, Native American, Indonesian, Thai, Malaysian, Israeli, Pinoy and Chinese Hip Hop.

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@EveryNoise

8 years

That thing when a blog you read posts about you!

Graphing all the music

Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a two-dimensional scale. He calls it Every Noise at Once. This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readabili…

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@EveryNoise

2 years

Origins and other semi-related stories...

glenn mcdonald

@glenn_mcdonald

2 years

There's nothing about podcasts on , but there's something about on a podcast. A conversation with @ChristofZuern :

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6 years

Nobody should be listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving (unless you're in the Philippines), but my instruments detect worldwide disobedience: .

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3 years

The world is full of amazing hip hop, but where do you even start? Start here: (a daily sampler of worldwide hip hop) (also, some others)