🔗 Confessions of a Spotify Vandal

So I typed in “Car Jams” on Apple Music, and that song came up before any algorithm-driven driving playlist or anything like that. At that point, I was like, Shit, I need to drop an album of songs with titles that someone might hypothetically try to look up.

Musicians resort to trolling as a way of surviving the algorithm.

🔗 Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

1. Listen to the birds.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar. Your guitar is a divining rod.
3. Practice in front of a bush.
4. Walk with the devil.
5. If you’re guilty of thinking, you’re out.
6. Never point your guitar at anyone.
7. Always carry a church key.
8. Don’t wipe the sweat off your instrument.
9. Keep your guitar in a dark place.
10. You gotta have a hood for your engine.

I mean, how can one not listen to The Captain?

🔗 Albini, Redux

Jamie Zawinski pays respects to the great Steve Albini.

🔗 No Direction, Period - YouTube

🔗 ListenBrainz Radio Playlist Generator

I used to log in to ListenBrainz once or twice a year exclusively to backup my Last.FM scrobbles, it’s always taken only a couple of clicks, but over the years they’ve added so many features and enabled integrations with several third-party services that nowadays it’d be easier to simply move there.

I’m really digging their Weekly Exploration playlists and getting solid background music out of the Radio Playlist Generator.

With the incoming end of the year lists craze and the looming Apple Music vs Spotify charts war, I’m glad there is a FOSS alternative to both Last.FM and $potify’s recommendations algorithm.

🔗 Kling Klang rundfunk

Kraftwerk on film and video, courtesy of recent uploads at the Internet Archive. These are mainly promotional clips, together with a few choice TV appearances.

– feuilleton