In 2020, a “top 3 biggest pet peeves” TikTok created by a marketing company without a website can land a former high school football player a record deal. “Psycho!” is just the fifth track ever released by the 19-year-old Mason Rupper, a Salt Lake City, Utah native who began writing …
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“Got paid £8 for 90,000 plays. Fuck Spotify.” British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable attack, however, undoubtedly came from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Five years ago, Yorke …
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