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Would You Congratulate Me if I Got a Job at Spotify?

Would You Congratulate Me if I Got a Job at Spotify?

Together, we can resist precarity. In the same way that sharing pay rates with one another increases our collective ability to bargain for fairer compensation, finding commonality through the exploitative nature of our work helps build empathy and collective power.

How Music Streaming's Option Anxiety Birthed Another Single-Serving Economy

How Music Streaming's Option Anxiety Birthed Another Single-Serving Economy

The advent of music streaming freed musicians from the limitations of physical media, allowing them to express themselves through seamless, virtually endless means, but play-determined royalty systems created an economic environment that rendered that mode of production increasingly precarious.

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore

What opportunities are we missing out on by approaching the informal creative environment we call the underground in centralist, individualist terms. Can we really keep talking about DIY and independent music if we truly wish to further the goals that initially attracted us to it?