The Listening Sesh: Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories

http://www.thecryptonline.com Vega from The HipHopHeads Podcast brings you a new episode of The Listening Sesh. This episode we review Bruiser Wolf’s new album My Story Got Stories. How does The Bruiser Brigade MC do on his 2nd album? Tune in to find out and also Subscribe to The HipHopHeads Podcast. Below is the video version, feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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This whole Pitchfork thing

Disclaimer: I know people are gonna disagree with this, but I'm speaking from the heart, as someone who grew up with Pitchfork. My tastes were shaped by their reviews with my early brushes with indie music back in 2004-2005, and this continued all throughout high school into early college. I also owe Pitchfork for influencing my own editorial voice, and elevating the way that I review music recreationally.

With that being said, can we all just calm down and stop speaking like the sky is falling?

Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, who has been in the media recently for his comments about Drake, has a very poignant intro to his 1999 classic Black on Both Sides. It's still relevant to this day:

Listen—people be askin' me all the time "Yo Mos, what's gettin' ready to happen with hip-hop?" (Where do you think hip-hop is goin'?) I tell em, "You know what's gonna happen with hip-hop? Whatever's happening with us" If we smoked out, hip-hop is gonna be smoked out If we doin' alright, hip-hop is gonna be doin' alright People talk about hip-hop like it's some giant livin' in the hillside Comin' down to visit the townspeople We are hip-hop Me, you, everybody, we are hip-hop So hip-hop is going where we going So the next time you ask yourself where hip-hop is going Ask yourself: where am I going? How am I doing? Till you get a clear idea

And even though he's speaking about hip-hop, this totally applies to indie music, too.

So relax. Indie music is not some giant living in the hillside. WE ARE indie music. Indie music is never going away. People aren't going to stop making music tomorrow. Indie music existed LONG before Pitchfork existed, and will continue to happen LONG after Pitchfork is gone.

The fact that punk music became the cultural phenomenon that it did WITHOUT the help of the internet should tell you something. The fact that independent music continued in the 80s through post-punk, through college radio and record stores and zines and all the early DIY mechanisms of sharing music, should tell you something.

Indie music and indie music media isn't just going to die without Pitchfork. It's going where we are going.

And where are WE (millennials - gen Z and beyond) going? Well, a lot of that stuff is happening through stuff like Tiktok and and Twitter and Youtube (Fantano) and Spotify radio. Like, do you think Gen Z is selling out Steve Lacy and Mitski shows just because they read a review in Pitchfork? Fuck no. They're getting that shit off Tiktok. And they're getting older shit too, like shoegaze and Duster and Kate Bush and shit like that off Tiktok too. They completely skipped the idea of reading Pitchfork and thinking that shit is cool or useful to them. Now, as a curmudged ass millennial that doesn't fuck with Tiktok, do I like the fact that that's where things are going? Fuck no, but the objective fact is, this is one huge example of how music discovery is still happening outside of Pitchfork.

Reddit is my primary mode of discovering music, with Rate Your Music being a close second. Through specialized hubs like indieheads, popheads, and hiphopheads, I'm kept up to speed on a lot of news and releases. Now, I am leaning on my own expertise as the music guru to sort this shit out, so I can see how it might be overwhelming for others. Rate Your Music may be even more overwhelming, because it's mainly self-guided discovery. There is no single editorial voice on Rate Your Music. It's all user-based content. I can spend hours just hopping through reviews, forums, genre pages, lists and guides etc. But still, my point is that there are more places where indie music is allowed to be shared and discovered.

I then turn around and feed all my hard-earned music discovery to Instagram. Now, I don't think I've told many people this, but my whole reason for posting music on Instagram is not because I aspire to be some kind of big media personality or anything like that. It's true that I do fashion myself as the local authority and tastemaker around here. But in reality, I simply do it because I am concerned of how much we are losing the human touch to algorithms like Spotify (more on that in just a second) and I want to be able to tell people what to listen to rather than letting Spotify tell them what they should be listening to. If nobody's reading it, I don't really care - it is as therapeutic to me as it is useful to others. But at the same time, I'm always surprised at just how many people ARE checking for my music posts. It's a LOT more than I realize. When people come up to me in real life and tell me they're following my music posts, it makes a difference and it does encourage me to keep going. It's cliche, but even if I'm able to reach one person through these posts, I'm going to continue doing it.

And I'm not Pitchfork. But I'm still sharing indie music. I hope you get the theme here.

Now, I'm not saying that losing Pitchfork is miniscule or it's not going to have a big impact. I just talked about the human touch with music and Pitchfork was a big part of that curated human touch. So I absolutely get how huge of a loss this is. BUT TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME THOUGH, and that's what YALL are not getting. YALL are very one-sided with this doom and gloom about what Pitchfork has done for the indie scene and how things are never going to be the same again. And while it's perfectly fucking understandable to mourn - I'm kind of in mourning too - It's not time to sit back and fucking throw your hands up and keep parroting that it's over and indie music is over and how Conde Nast killed indie music. WE ARE INDIE MUSIC. We are not going any-fucking-where. Start thinking about the space you occupy in the culture and how YOU envision it moving forward, because it's going to take a fucking village.

And it's going to take a lot of fucking work. I'm not saying that it's going to be easy. I'm not saying we can snap our fingers and get another Pitchfork overnight. To be fair and to be completely honest, l believe we might never get that sort of central hub - that "giant living in the hillside" ever again. But again, it's okay, because indie music is not a giant living in the hillside! Indie music started with DIY methods of communication before Pitchfork was ever even thought of, and it will continue that way. I cannot stress enough that there was a world without Pitchfork and people still listened to indie music.

However, Spotify and algorithms have fundamentally shifted how many, if not most people listen to music these days. It's become so individualistic, so playlist driven, and such a feedback loop that it's going to take some creativity to figure out how to break out of that mold. Like, it sure does feel like everyone is listening to some sort of starter pack of like, Tame Impala, Men I Trust, Turnstile, Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, and... I don't know, let's just throw in Radiohead for shits and grins. So you fire up Spotify and your algorithm playlist is nothing but that. Or, you know, whatever you listen to. If you listen to hardcore, all you're going to get is hardcore. You might never get like, Kali Uchis on your playlist. You see it with this "For You" radio shit and the "Daylist" shit (I like Daylist - Daylist is fun - but it's still an oversimplification and neat packaging of everyone's tastes). I've been railing against algorithm radio since the Pandora days - I NEVER liked the idea of a computer deciding what EYE get to listen to. Spotify should be a SUPPLEMENT to your music discovery and not the main tool.

So whatever comes next has to be for the people for it to be impactful in some meaningful and culturally enriching way. People CANNOT keep listening to these damn starter pack bands like that's the end-all, be-all of good music. A few years ago, I was musing on Twitter about how there needs to be a microblogging platform like Twitter but completely for music. You could log in, a few minutes each day, and scroll through what your friends are listening to. Maybe even have a quick little write-up OR EVEN a longform if you like longform. I'm on MusicBoard and it's sort of what I think could get popular if people committed to it and it had better features. But it has to go where we're going, right? People are going to Tiktok - so it's gotta look and feel like Tiktok. You've gotta be able to satisfy these very short attention spans in order for people to give a shit about music now. You've gotta gamify it - Maybe the more content you put out there gets you a badge or more visibility or something. I don't know - I don't have all the answers. But we have got to put our thinking caps on to fucking figure out a way to ditch the algorithms and get back to a collective community of music listeners again.

Right now, many people are still in shock and disbelief. Right now, it doesn't seem like we can get there, but I'm sure that we really didn't envision any of the ingenuity of the internet before it happened. It's just one day you wake up and boom you're on the next big thing. And I know we can get there, but damn, people just need to have a little faith about it.

That's all I got.

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The HipHopHeads Podcast: Episode 68 (Boston HipHop 2023)

http://www.thecryptonline.com The HipHopHeads Podcast Episode 68: Boston HipHop 2023 In this amazing episode Vega and Bonafide shine light on our home, our city, the place we love, Boston, or better yet Massachusetts. Vega reviews Thanksgiving the new film by Eli Roth (also takes place in Mass), The HipHopHeads Podcast make it to vinyl via YourOldDroogs album The Yodfather and then we dive right…

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