I've had conversations with a few folks about music and recommendations for new music. Growing up I was never quite good at finding music and relied heavily on my peers or the charts or what-have-you. But over the years I've amassed a pretty substantial collection of music from a variety …

Yesterday it was announced that Epic Games had purchased Bandcamp. I won't go into too many words describing the particulars of the merger, but I will say that this felt like yet-another-gut-punch for me. Bandcamp is one of my primary sources for discovering and purchasing new music. https://openmetalcast.com …

Played around a little last night with the Bespoke Synth and came up with this little beat that refused to die.

echochasm: Hardline

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Hope you enjoy.

Each year many different music services put together a "Year in Music" for their listeners. This year the folks at ListenBrainz decided to get in on this trend and create one for their listeners. What's cool about how ListenBrainz works is that it is both open source and open data …

Apparently the RIAA can't help but step in it. They took down the Github repo (via a DMCA claim) for the program youtube-dl. I'm sure they believe that the only reason that such a program would exist is so that people can listen to music without properly paying them for …