On Instagram, Massive Attack wrote:

"If senior politicians can find neither the time, nor the words to condemn, say, the murder of fifteen voluntary aid workers in Gaza, or the illegal starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare, or the killing of thousands & thousands of children in the same territory, by a state in possession of the highest precision weapons on earth; how much notice should a music festival take of their moral advice on booking performing acts? As a band that has spoken publicly for more than 30 years about the illegal occupation, apartheid system and killing with impunity of thousands of Palestinians, we are hyper aware of the both the human cost of abject political silence, and the commercial implications of publicly expressing solidarity with an oppressed people.
Language matters of course. The hideous murders of elected politicians Jo Cox and David Amess means there’s no scope for flippancy or recklessness.
But do politicians and right-wing journalists strategically concocting moral outrage over the stage utterings of a young punk band, while simultaneously obfuscating or even ignoring a genocide happening in real time (including the killing of journalists in unprecedented numbers) have any right to intimidate festival events into acts of political censorship?
Kneecap are not the story.
Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story.
And the silence, acquiescence and support of those crimes against humanity by the elected British government is the real story.
Solidarity with all artists with the moral courage to speak out against Israeli war crimes, and the ongoing persecution and slaughter of the Palestinian people.

Massive Attack."

>starts in 2003 (1st single on sept 30, one day before 4chan) as a nerdy alternative to gangsta rap
>peaks in 2010, /mu/ adores him
>goes full retard after Trump
>now an increasingly irrelevant porn-obsessed nazi loser

>be me
>oldfag circa ~2009 to abt 2016
>decide it’s time to find some new music after a few years of completely checking out of the music scene
>”lets see whats popular on the billboard top 100”
>its all disgusting neo-country pop/rap
>”okay, lets see whats popular the critics are shilling these days”
>mfw music journalism is completely dead
>music blogs are all 404’d
>pitchfork writes exclusively about 16 year old playboi carti clones & past-their-prime indie bands from 15 years ago
>noisey no longer exists
>the fader hasn’t released an issue in 6 years
>rolling stone’s music section consists solely of boomer-clickbait articles about the rock n roll hall of fame
>”what the fuck”
>distraught, but breathe a sigh of relief when I remember /mu/ exists
>mfw its buttrock & kpop threads all the way down
>dread & existential despair begin to set in

Holy shit, what happened to this place? Wheres all the new music discussion? Where are the rec threads? When did everyone here develop /r/music-core pleb as fuck tastes?

Just five years ago there were seemingly endless outlets for thoughtful music discussion. Now music as a cultural sphere looks like a fucking wasteland.

Am I just doomed to sift through endless amounts of random trash on Tiktok, Spotify playlists, & YouTube’s recommended section, hoping to stumble upon something half decent? Or am I just out of the loop? Has music discussion migrated somewhere that I’m unaware of, or are things really as bad as they seem?

And when did /mu/ become a complete shell of its former self?

/mu/spiracy iceberg

Forgotten mucore

Is this the greatest pop album OAT?
Can't imagine being filtered by this btw; been boppin' to it since '13.

HOLY SHIT

BOSS™ edition