How Is Playlist Culture Affecting Our Listening Choices? A New York City Experiment
I spent a day in Union Square, New York City, asking passersby what they’re listening to and how they discovered it, and learned a lot about myself.
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How I Made a Trap Song About the Food Chain for 2 Chainz
It had been two hours of staring at a screen, writer’s block was setting in. And then it hit us… A trap song about marine biology. The rest is history.
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Chartmania!! I Broke Down Every Song That Reached the Billboard Top 5 in 2017
Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent rectangles than the NYC skyline: that’s right, the top pop charters have now become 2017’s top pop graphed. The Top 40 song charters that is, but why 40? Well, besides this number’s significance in pop music as a result of […]
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Famous Musicians Fighting with Their Pretend Families over Thanksgiving Dinner
For the past two years, I’ve celebrated my favorite holiday by photoshopping turkey legs in place of microphones. The conceit being — naturally — that singing looks like eating. But no more! Because you know what else singing looks like? Yelling. And what do we inevitably spend this holiday doing (or wishing we were doing)? Yelling […]
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Trap Rap Has Been Around for a Minute Now – So Why Does It Keep Working?
+ Learn the nuances of producing beats, arranging tracks, and creative sampling, drawing on the rich history and influence of hip-hop in Soundfly’s acclaimed online course, The Art of Hip-Hop Production. If you walk down the street of any major city and open your ears to the cars driving by, there’s a good chance that the music roaring out […]
