Person in grocery store: “Is your name Joe? You look like someone I know named Joe.”
Placed an order for lunch today. No one asked my name. When my order was ready they called for Steve.
On more days than one occasion I’ve also been mistaken for someone named Mike.
3/ They look at the top of the charts (no matter the genre) & decide, based on that alone that ALL current music is shit even though they’re only exposing themselves to a small fraction of it.
01.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02/ Older folks may be a different story. From my experience, they seem far less likely to venture beyond mainstream commercial radio.
01.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 01/ I know of younger folks who are into songs they have on their playlists that receive no commercial/mainstream airplay. They discover them via going viral through platforms like Tik Tok or algorithms generated by whatever streaming platform they’re using. That’s not to say there’s no crossover.
01.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe in the past. Not now. Pretty much everyone I know, young and old, is streaming. Even when I listened to the radio regularly, I didn’t always discover new music that way. Then again, I’m not your average listener.
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You don’t say.
01.03.2026 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Loved it then, love it now.
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I don’t have to look for it at all. Over time I’ve adapted to how things have changed. With the exception of most commercial radio, my methods of discovery haven’t changed that much. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have access to streaming radio & streaming in general but I don’t rely solely on that.
28.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Occasionally, artists I’m a fan of make it to a mainstream level of success. That said, next to no new music I listen to fits that description.
28.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My experience has been they don’t actually have any interest in discovering new music in general. They just want to bitch about how nothing holds a candle to “the good ol’ days.”
28.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No shit.
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Love Heather McEntire. I hope we haven’t heard the last of her. This was an in-store at Gravity Records in Wilmington for the release of Every Acre.
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4/ The more you seek out neuroplasticity, the likelier you are to remember things, learn new skills, adapt to environments and protect yourself from cognitive decline. (Some call this dementia prevention.)”
www.insidehook.com/wellness/men...
3/ Why would we want this sort of restructuring to begin with? Because an ever-rewiring brain is also a more resilient, or “youthful,” one. fits-new-music/amp
28.02.2026 05:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02/ ….there are serious health benefits to listening to unfamiliar music. Introducing new artists and new songs increases the plasticity of our brains. Neuroplasticity, as a reminder, refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life.
28.02.2026 05:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 01/ There is no shortage of articles out there explaining why people start disliking new music. Much harder to find are articles explaining why people continue to love it.
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That’s not been my experience. Then again, I don’t paint with such a broad brush.
27.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t. I don’t love everything my younger friends are into or vice versa but even the stuff I’m not into I wouldn’t refer to as “insipid.”
27.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I find all kinds of music made by younger folks that I love. One thing that never changes is older generations’ desire to shit on younger generations.
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They never used the name the Grateful Dead after Jerry died.
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Maybe a different song. Per the R.E.M. Timeline it wasn’t performed that night.
www.remtimeline.com/1995.html
