Over the past week the Reader has collected these music stories that are still worth your time today.
Blog aggregator the Hype Machine reached peak buzz in the late 2000s and early 2010s as an engine for breaking new artists—but as new music sites and publications appeared and blogs ceased to be the primary vector for music discovery, its star faded. Years later, though, it’s still going strong: Technical.ly talked to founder Anthony Volodkin about how Hype Machine’s attention to community has helped it maintain a strong user base. [Technical.ly]
Industrial-music pioneer Richard H. Kirk thinks back to Margaret Thatcher and his Cabaret Voltaire years
