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• The Spotify Trap and Why I Had to Delete the App to Actually Hear Music

  by Dez Fontaine May 11
  So I deleted Spotify last month and honestly it felt like cutting off my own arm at first. But here's the thing nobody talks about - streaming services got us thinking we're discovering music when we're really just scrolling through what the algorithm thinks we should want. It's wild how much freedo...

• When You Realize Your Favorite Band Was Born in Someone's Bedroom

  by Dez Fontaine May 11
  So I got this text from my boy Marcus last week. Just a SoundCloud link with no context, no hype, nothing. I almost didn't click it because you know how that goes - everybody's sharing music like they discovered fire. But something made me listen and yo, it hit different. Like, I found myself replay...

• The Playlist That Changed Because I Stopped Searching

  by Dez Fontaine May 11
  You know that feeling when you're scrolling through everything looking for the next thing, and nothing's landing? That's where I was three months ago. Not burnt out exactly, but tired in a way that sleeping doesn't fix. I had a thousand playlists, followed every indie blog that mattered, set up all ...

• The Ones Nobody's Heard Yet and Why That's Actually the Point

  by Dez Fontaine May 11
  I used to think discovering music meant being first. Like if I found somebody before they blew up, I won at some invisible game nobody was keeping score on. Real talk though, I had it backwards the whole time.Last month I fell into this rabbit hole with an artist who records everything in their bedr...

• When The Algorithm Fails You and You Actually Find Something Real

  by Dez Fontaine May 11
  So here's the thing nobody talks about - the best music discoveries happen when you're not looking for them. I'm talking about those random moments where you're scrolling through someone's obscure SoundCloud at 2 in the morning, or you catch three seconds of something playing in a coffee shop and yo...