music

The inventor of the audio cassette, Lou Ottens, died this past week. My favorite quote from him captures the revolution that cassettes were, “Everybody could put music in their pocket.” Growing up, my dad was big into mix tapes. It seemed like for every road trip we took—and there

There’s a running joke that Netflix creates its shows by mashing up its viewer’s search history, like some sort of game of algorithmic Mad Libs. Let’s see, this week we have a [spins wheel] teen [spins wheel] mystery [spins wheel] with aliens. I think this concept comes