How music promo learned to blend into your feed

How music promo learned to blend into your feed

Labels and PR teams are turning to niche social media tastemakers to promote new music, hiding ads in plain sight. Most people outside the music industry had never heard the name Chaotic Good before April. That month, the digital agency’s co-founders, Andrew Spelman and Jesse Coren, pulled back the curtain on their “narrative marketing” tactics…

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18 songs for a chaotic Pisces season

18 songs for a chaotic Pisces season

For a go-with-the-flow solar transit, listen to songs by Anna Wise, Ninajirachi, and Eem Triplin Saturn and Moh Baretta.   NASA / Ben Brill and Elias Cruz I’ve never planned my life around a horoscope, but I enjoy astrology as a meditative practice. I find astrological charts mesmerizing, and reading someone’s birth chart is a…

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Plaqueboymax is having a blast at the 2026 GRAMMYs

Plaqueboymax is having a blast at the 2026 GRAMMYs

The streamer turned rapper turned GRAMMY nominee was live on the red carpet. damn we lost https://t.co/S2DQFVEHjT — plaqueboymax (@plaqueboymax) February 1, 2026 Plaqueboymax was livestreaming from the GRAMMYs 2026 red carpet this year after receiving his first ever nomination. As you might expect, things got a little silly. He was nominated for “Victory Lap”…

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What the 2016 trend is forgetting

What the 2016 trend is forgetting

It was a cultural moment that the rest of the late-2010s failed to live up to. But the recent recaps feel oddly selective. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images We’re two weeks into 2026 and a new trend has already emerged: 2016. My entire Instagram feed has been overrun with VSCO-filtered photo carousels, Snapchat memories, and…

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34 lists that sum up culture in 2025

34 lists that sum up culture in 2025

34 lists that sum up culture in 2025 Thank you, next. By The FADER Illustration Sabrina Kaune Sabrina Kaune/ The FADER Visit the Listmania archive: Summer 2025Valentines 2025202420172016201520142013201220112010200820072006 ☃ Moments when we were so over 1. Instagram introducing “Reels for TV”2. Netflix buying Warner Brothers3. Trump announcing the “Patriot Games”4. DOGE, the Department of Government…

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