Community playlist

It’s been a while since we plugged our Spotify account!

Did you know Dirt releases playlists every month and on special occasions? (MAY 2024 playlist here.)

We recently asked everyone in our Discord Music channel to tell us what they have on repeat. Check out our community playlist below and keep reading for some 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓼.

PLAYBACK

Snippets of streaming news — and what we’re streaming.

• Reddit is going hard on ad strategy post-IPO (Marketing Dive)

• Scamfluencers investigates people who lie about where they were on 9/11. (Spotify)

•  “Damon McMahon’s self-produced sixth album is a characteristically oblique apocalypse tale about living for today.” New Amen Dunes…amen. (Pitchfork) 

• Writer Peyton Dix and Hung Up’s Hunter Harris are starting a podcast (Spotify)

• Two-time former editor-in-chief, Alyssa Vingan (Fashionista, NYLON) is also starting a pod (Spotify)

• Donut, “the first global social network connecting donors, volunteers and nonprofits,” just won a Webby (Donut) 

• Waxahatchee - Right Back To It (SoFTT Edit) (Soundcloud)

MIXTAPE

Good links from the Dirtyverse.

• “Plano, a town of some three hundred thousand people just north of Dallas, seemed an unlikely place for a monarchist conference.” The Baffler heads to a Habsburg convention

• Hanif Abdurraqib interviews André 3000 (Bitter Southerner)

• Isabel Slone on Big Black (Freak Palace) 

• Would you wear these 3D printed shoes?

• The internet is abuzz with Dirt contributor Emily Sundberg’s report on members-only clubs (GQ) 

• “I learned about trauma responses, and so everything he did elicited a trauma response in me. He was my father! I was his mother!” Scaachi Koul in The Cut on the downsides of couples therapy

• Who is your favorite social media “chaos follow”? (GQ)

• “People love beefs, and the Voice knew it.” Will there ever be another Village Voice? (Jacobin)

• RIP Alice Munro, reread her short story Dimension (The New Yorker)

• “Hence that shameful tenderness with which each cupped, within, some promise like a flame. Each of us was helmeted with hope.” New flash fiction. (Hobart)

• “I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.” Paul Dalla Rosa in Granta

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