Slippery optimism, the year country music broke and TikToking down to Friday

Franz Nicolay is pretty good at that other keyboard too.

 

 

Names In Today's Pod:

Brooke Gladstone

Micah Lowinger

Mark Henry Philips

Seth schachner

Julianna escobedo shepherd

Dan Solomon

Franz Nicolay

 

LINKS:

The Spotify Pie-on Continues

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/01/02/mood-machine-spotify-liz-pelly-review/

On the Media Covers Algorithms

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/how-ai-and-algorithms-are-transforming-music

Country Music Broke in 2024 pt. 1

https://www.hearingthings.co/the-year-country-started-t/

Country Music Broke in 2024 pt. 2

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/2024-year-country-music-broke/

A Unicorn lives another day

https://www.billboard.com/pro/waterloo-records-announces-new-ownership-and-relocation/

Never Mind Says Neil

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/03/scratch-that-neil-young-says-hes-playing-glastonbury-after-all/

Seth On TikTok

https://www.newsweek.com/let-supreme-court-decide-tiktok-please-opinion-2008848

RoyFi

https://www.RoyFI.com

Hangout.fm

Https://hangout.fm