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If you didn't know, I have a podcast where I speak to musicians about their favorite 'core albums of all time and you know what? It's pretty damn good if I do say so myself. Give the page a follow, and a link to all the pods is below!
Following this page? Following the podcast? Following the fantastic guests we've had and their bands? If the answer is no to any of those questions, sort it out, there's some absolutely cracking episodes coming soon to go alongside the belters we've already had.
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And clearly people with severe brain damage can be Tories.
'Double amputees run marathons': Kemi says having ADHD does not justify disability benefits as she unveils plan to cut £36billion from welfare bill trib.al/g2zldWS
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Honestly astonished at anyone sticking up for Brand. He’s been a creepy prick for years. Defending him makes you look like a creepy prick too.
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If you're an MP and you put statements and address controversial policies behind a paywall you should be sacked.
“I’m also very keen to stress that I am not here to be the modern-day Mary Whitehouse and police people’s sex lives either.” Me in the @thetimes discussing the new extreme pornography offences that came into force this week 👇
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Saving my video game related time off for the third FF7 remake.
REPORT: 83,000 days have been booked off work in the UK to play GTA 6 on launch.
This could cost businesses over £12,000,000.
source: @BrightHR_Community noteUK workers get 5.6 weeks paid leave yearly (28 days full-time). The £12m is BrightHR's estimate of wages for the 83k GTA leave days (£150/day), part of normal salary costs not extra spend. Clustering can still disrupt.
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Back to Glasgow this weekend to see Core and make @tofeelhealed answer for his many crimes.
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Just finished the first #Earthsea book. I enjoyed it, felt a bit cliffnotes at times but charming and you can see the reason it's so influential. I'll be spacing the rest out, but excited to see how it goes.
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If you do this you're a lower form of life who doesn't deserve art.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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It was the Fred West of times, it was the Fred Durst of times.
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trying to explain why im Against the uk porn laws without sounding like The Pervert
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