“A Bar Song” and the NY Bar: Shaboozey, Drake, and scalable value in a financialized music industry
In their “Year in Music 2024” post to their station website, Jacksonville, Florida Hip hop station Power 106.1 declared that “Women Run The World of Hip Hop.” NPR declared around the same time that “Southern women are shaping the sound…
The Breeders’ “Cannonball”
Cannonball, the Last Splash’s breakout hit, is also the weirdest song on the album. The Quietus’s Emily Mackay calls it a “perfect freak.” Other critics suggest the song was too “strange and unique” to be successfully covered by other acts….

LAST SPLASH as the ür-text of 90s modern rock
Though the standard narrative of 90s alternative hinges on the explosive success of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Gen Z pop star Olivia Rodrigo is known for having a different take: as she told the LA Times at the end…
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