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Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

how music died

if you are like me, and find yourself substantially less into music than you were a decade ago, and wonder if you are just getting old, this is a compelling argument that actually streaming killed the vibe

Lyndal Roper: Summer of Fire and Blood (2025, Basic Books)

you should read a history of the germans peasants rebellion

you ever find out that there's a major event of american history that ... a well educated non-US nation has no idea about, like the Civil War or something like that?

this is like that for german history, had no idea of the ideological importance of 1500s era German peasants revolting againist serfdom. really good overview, great narrative and a interesting dive into german historiography