Given all the hullabaloo about Neil Young withdrawing his tired, boring-ass music over Joe Rogan spreading his dipshittery via Spotify, I’m glad to announce my better, more intelligent stream hit a new milestone. KMAG now exceeds 16,000 songs to listen to. Sure the big streamers have over 20 times that, but let’s be honest, we know the majority of you only listen to less than 2000 possible things and it’s 90% of the crap owned by old farts (take your pick) and trust-fund babies (Taylor Shit and Mush-mouth Ellish) who don’t need any more money. Me? I love that the Mini shuffles away and the only guaranteed songs I will hear on a regular or frequent basis are the 35 new selections I’ve added no later than 75 days ago. At 16,000 entries, if I chose to have the stream just play from start to finish with its playlist which goes by alphabetical order, it wouldn’t return to the beginning for over 44 days.
Last month, the mixes returned through my podcast so you can get a tiny sample of the variety and joy! I know I’m not alone in the struggle to find new things. I caught the middle of an interview on Here and Now with the guest talking about how the wounded Music Industry is putting too much effort into the oldies. Eventually their inability to groom new material will bite them (and our civilization) in the ass. No kidding. I don’t understand how Amerikans are receptive to new TV shows through Netflix, Hulu, etc. while they’re completely the opposite when it comes to their tunes. Well, I do understand. New stuff needs trusted tastemakers or critics to introduce it with a accessible medium to communicate it. Radio is dead and will never be resuscitated, the government should start re-allocating the bandwidth to something more useful, screw Clear Channel. MTV gave up the role as soon as the Boomer Bands started making videos. Anything hosted through the Internet is too decentralized and overthrown as it spoiled the audiences, namely the younger generations who think music a right, therefore it’s supposed to be free. I’m up for suggestions to solve a multi-billion dollar dilemma.
Meanwhile, I’ll stick to my little tiny universe and share it with an equally interested audience. As the old saying goes in FM radio, the masses are asses and it explained why Guns n’ Roses sold millions of records.