Daily Newsletter, October 25, 2023

Is Bandcamp era over, best selling albums, more

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
October 25, 2023

Is Bandcamp as We Know It Over?

Following its acquisition by the music licensing company Songtradr, layoffs spell trouble at the beloved online music platform.

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"sad girl" Music and its consequences

did we lowkey just recreate the gender binary?

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: MIKE - "Burning Desire" — POST-TRASH

Deeply introspective and empathetic, eccentric and soulful, sonically and tonally rich: MIKE’s music lets you comfortably swim at its surface while rewarding close listeners with moments of heart-wrenching poetry and texture. 

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“To Actually Tell A Story, It Feels Very Risky"

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The Greatest 500 Albums of the 1970s...Ranked

Mark “Break!” Bentley digs for hidden 1970s gems If you’re a collector of used records, you will have noticed spiralling prices in the past few years. This can’t be blamed entirely on inflation – there’s a supply/demand scenario where you have more punters after the same standard items. Vinyl records that were bargain-bin staples not […]

www.uncut.co.uk/features/blogs/the-greatest-500-albums-of-the-1970s-ranked-144041/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

The Rolling Stones’ Six-Decade Career: Looking Through Their Past, Darkly

Here’s what we’ve written about “England’s Newest Hit Makers” over the years.

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The 50 best-selling albums of all time

50 classic albums in the history of music.

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The Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)

The 'Mats Tommy Ramone-produced fourth gets overhauled and expanded

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A New Aretha Franklin Box Set is on the Way, 'A Portrait of the Queen'

A new Aretha Franklin box set collecting her '70s albums will be out this year, titled 'A Portrait of the Queen.'

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Hear Tom Petty's Previously Unreleased "What's The Matter With Louise" From The 'Wildflowers' Sessions

This past Friday, on what would have been Tom Petty’s 73rd birthday, Amazon Music put out “What’s The Matter With Louise,” a previously unreleased track from the Wildflowers sessions. It coincided with the Prime Video launch of the 2021 documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making Of Wildflowers, which included some new footage from the Wildflowers era. It’s only available to Amazon Prime members for now, but if you’re one of those listen below.

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