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My Bloody Valentine leader raises possibility the mid-90s pop movement was part of an establishment conspiracy

6.9% Growth Outpaces US Inflation as Streaming, Physical and Sync Revenues Rise Paid Subscriptions Generate $3.4 Billion in First Half of 2026 The Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) tod...

Are you as exhausted by AI discourse as I am? Good, bad, boom, gloom, blah blah blah. I’m so tired of it—but I also feel like I have to pay attention, because it’s infesting so many parts of my professional life whether I like it or not. One of the places I’ve paid closest attention […]

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For the last few years I’ve been quietly dreading Google Zero, the term coined by Nilay Patel 1 for the day Google stops sending traffic to websites at all. As someone who makes his living building websites, and who has his own to worry about, it felt like watching a slow-motion collapse I couldn’t do […]

I recently found myself listening to a wonderful piece of music that I’ve always had a somewhat ambivalent relationship with: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel (1971).

Some of the best music being made in Portland today is built from the sounds of the outside world. A handful of deep listeners armed with fancy parabolic microphones, handheld Zoom recorders, or their...

A roundup of reviews published at A Closer Listen over the last week. William Selman – Sanctioned Departures (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 13, 2026 Émile Zener – Sumatra Method (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 12, 2026 Garling Wu and Jessie Leov – Earthworks (2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 11, 2026…