For the Record
FOR THE RECORDFor the Record is a conversation series with all manner of music heads about their stories and the music that makes them. It’s a new Crate Coalition experiment in building connective listening graphs. For the “why” behind For the Record, this stretch from our manifesto is useful:Streaming platforms promise listeners personalization but the tradeoff is isolation. By obscuring other people’s behavior in their platforms, they remove opportunities for shared meaning. They remove the...
For the Record
FOR THE RECORDFor the Record is a conversation series with all manner of music heads about their stories and the music that makes them. It’s a new Crate Coalition experiment in building connective listening graphs. For the “why” behind For the Record, this stretch from our manifesto is useful:Streaming platforms promise listeners personalization but the tradeoff is isolation. By obscuring other people’s behavior in their platforms, they remove opportunities for shared meaning. They remove the...
The Crate Coalition Manifesto
THE BIG PICTUREAs we increasingly move to digital spaces and trans-act in online economies, it’s essential that we don’t fall into habits of isolated consumption – lest we forget there are human beings on both ends of every song: the people who make it and the people who listen to it, support it, and amplify it. The Crate Coalition is made up of people who echo this belief.The Crate Coalition is a community of music heads who believe in a more interdependent music ecosystem.We organize in dig...
The Crate Coalition Manifesto
THE BIG PICTUREAs we increasingly move to digital spaces and trans-act in online economies, it’s essential that we don’t fall into habits of isolated consumption – lest we forget there are human beings on both ends of every song: the people who make it and the people who listen to it, support it, and amplify it. The Crate Coalition is made up of people who echo this belief.The Crate Coalition is a community of music heads who believe in a more interdependent music ecosystem.We organize in dig...
