quote [ others have pointed to Condé Nast?s original motive behind acquiring the website in 2015: to tap into ?a very passionate audience of Millennial males.? [?] This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. ]

quote [ Why was alternative rock inundated with hit songs about Superman throughout the 1990s and early 2000s? Consider the monoculture. ]

quote [ Dabbling as well in dancehall and techno, the hyperproductive producer continues to trace his path without losing sight of raves and sound system spirits. ]

quote [ They ended up rejecting the marimba altogether (an un-cool instrument), leaning heavily into punk- but they eventually came full-circle, returning to the marimba, and bringing punk with them. [?] In 2016, after their father was killed in an act of local violence, the brothers nearly gave up on music until a chance meeting with the legendary Chilean cumbia group Chico Trujillo changed everything. ]

quote [ systems designed to reflect and magnify curiosity will tend towards decentralization, towards resistance against the gravity of power even if they aren't consciously counterposed, ideologically, against the power itself. The premise of the genre system was that genres are communities, and so most of its algorithms tried to use fairly simple math to capture the collective tastes of particular communities of music fans. ]

quote [ Inside a group that's spent 25 years turning beets into beats. ]

quote [ In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. ]

quote [ A fresco at the historic refuge leads a musicologist to a composition not heard for centuries?and the determined young women who once performed it. ]