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Good music longreads

Articles featured in our weekly Stack newsletter.

Why these bars are sticking with old-school offline jukeboxes

Plus, a map of the analog jukeboxes you can still find across NYC
The New York Groove

Big Beat Was Worse Than You Remember

A partial accounting of how a genre that conquered the globe in the '90s has aged so badly.
First Floor

The musical universe of David Lynch

To truly understand the signature weirdness of a David Lynch movie, you need to pay attention to the music.
NPR

2024 was the year of the pop femininomenon

From Charli to Chappell, Taylor to Tyla, this year belonged to women reshaping pop
Dazed

The Ghosts in the Machine

Spotify’s plot against musicians
Harper's Magazine

How the Indie Rock Boom Went Bust

For a new generation of artists, financial stability is all but impossible.
Hearing Things

In C Forever

The eternal evolution of Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece
NPR

The Number Ones: Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park”

Reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100
Stereogum

What makes a perfect Halloween song?

The three categories of Halloween music: soundtrack, Otherwise Goth, and “oh shit! Monsters!”
The Fader

The History of Red Hot, the Pioneering Social Change Organization

Founder John Carlin talks about wrangling Nirvana through Kurt Cobain’s babysitter and accidentally releasing the first-ever Wilco song.
Hearing Things

How the ‘Slamming Door’ Sound Became Embedded in Hip-Hop History

If you’ve listened to any rap or pop music made in the 21st century, you’ve heard it
Wired

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