Autovon | Editor Correspondence

This Bandcamp thing of mine has become quite a monstrosity over the past three months, but it's felt good to take the time to present it in a satisfactory way. It's ginormous, but I hope you'll find it worthwhile. Once you get a taste of its subject matter, I think you'll at least agree that it quite appropriate for the bottom of the new Music vertical (and in turn, our upcoming relaunch) in its comprehensive examination of the business of the past 10 years of music streaming and the constant struggle on behalf of the Legacy industry's beneficiaries to appropriate technologies like streaming services to maintain the ultra-profitable chokehold they've had on successful American music since the first time it was recorded.Subscribers (that's you!) will receive exclusive access to the full document of the attached preview as soon as I'm done, including endnotes! (They're actually pretty entertaining in this case.) Please do espouse your obsession with my awesome documents as publicly as possible.More importantly, it will be accompanied by our sublime first monthly freelance album review by Adam Bexten, who offers some sincerely profound insight into the magic of Robyn's Body Talk.Of course, you can expect another update as soon as we warm up the presses.Thank you!David BlueEditor-in-Chief

It's been just about three months exactly since I last spoke to you, and we accomplished a lot over the Summer. We were featured on Anchor, though our station has been dormant for a good while. I began The Junction - an editor's companion to our weekly newsletter, and have intermittently added to it. Isiah's three pieces have been excellent - I hope to speak with him in detail for an episode of Futureland, soon. In June, I built a bespoke Masthead, finally. Eryn and I also recorded an introductory episode for Runnin' Down a Dream, a podcast about revisiting our rural origins in a particular way. Last month, Tim published our first fashion content and The Movie Closet celebrated its one-year birthday. I also published The Email Chic, arguing for the coolness (and handiness) of weekly newsletters. 

An excerpt from Episode 48 of Drycast. Unquestionably one of our finest legacy conversations.

Eryn and I finally recorded our introductory episode for Runnin' Down a Dream, a podcast we've wanted to do with Maddie since Spring about the magic we've found in our jaunts/returns into the rural communities surrounding Columbia.Here's a (slightly rough) version. The edited episode should be available on the site later today.

Yesterday's Anchor was all Tim, and it was great. And ridiculously current? There wasn't a track over a month old.

Yup! It's another Anchor archive, already.Hawthorn's awfully indie, but that's nothing but welcome variety, personally. Plenty of Tone-involved folks would make for much better curators/DJs, but they all seem to be a bit mystified by the app, itself.Something to work on, then.

We're closing in on one week, featured on Anchor.I pledged to polish things up a bit, so I began the week with 40 minutes worth of Southern rap (since I know very little about anything else,) which was better received (by all but Hawthorn) than I expected.The first track ended up with 35+ registered listens (the app's stat & analytics tools appear to be fairly low-priority at the moment, which is more than fine with me.)Also, the app was apparently mentioned by Apple at WWDC, which is no small deal, and all the more reason for us to remain as polished as possible, considering that we are easily accessible/visible from the Anchor homepage , this very moment.

Tim 's new Mind of Marx launched.Mark Fuck and one year of Words of David Blue in Red Harvey T. Halloway U1404 Categories redoneNav Removed search and some other non-essential components, which seems to have fixed the hamburger menu on mobile. Cleared legacy categories.Buddypress finally gone.Caching is probably gone for good.User avatars changed.