We all know the story of Evangelicals abandoning their values to support Donald Trump, but Jeremy finds an inventive way to illustrate it.
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Brave is apparently selling subscriptions to a stripped-down version of its browser called Brave Origins. I’m really not sure how I feel about that. As Adam Davidson opines in the How-To-Geek piece about the deal, it’s like they’re admitting their product has a bloat problem. Which, when you look at all of the features they are removing, seems like a pretty legit perspective.
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I’m really disappointed in the Hopscotch Festival 2006 lineup, which dropped yesterday. There is only one band I would be interested in seeing (Pearl and the Oysters). The festival seems to have cut back, eliminating one main stage, reducing water stations, less social media, etc.
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Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away.
The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock radio. 120 Minutes debuted on March 10th, 1986, and Kendall later served as its host from 1989 through 1992. “By far the most important thing about 120 Minutes was that it acted as a distribution channel for organic musical produce, if you will,” Kendall told CONSEQUENCE in a 2016 interview. “The only other outlet for non-mainstream music at the time was a few local college radio stations.”
Apparently, Kendall was the force behind getting the show greenlit. You know he must have had to push just to get a terrible time slot like 12am on a Sunday night. I think I learned how to program my VCR just so I could record 120 Minutes. It was a school night, after all.
Matt Pinfield, the last to host the show, offered a tribute on Instagram.
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Jay Peters reports for The Verge about the year-over-year rise in the number of CDs being purchased.
The data suggests that “the CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible,” Luminate says. “This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic ownership and direct financial support for the artist as it is listening to the music on the product itself.”
The surprise here is that approximately half of the Gen Z and millennials buying CDs don’t even own a device on which to play them. It’s still about that connection, though. I admitted the other day that I sometimes listen to a CD even when I could just as easily (more easily even) stream the album.
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