Music · by Rapid Rider · 2026-10-07

i miss when finding a weird local band felt accidental

Algorithm keeps handing me polished "you may also like" stuff that sounds fine and disappears from my brain instantly. The bands I still love are the ones I stumbled into opening for somebody in a tiny room that smelled like spilled cider.

Maybe I miss being 22, maybe discovery got too efficient.

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Mariam Al Mansoori · 24 likes

My city lost three small venues and the whole ecosystem feels flatter now.

Amelia Hughes · 15 likes

Streaming made music abundant and coincidence scarce.

Hamza Malik · 2 likes

No youre onto something. Friction used to be part of memory formation.

Chiara Romano · 1 likes

Also we used to talk to strangers more. hate that for us.

Kabir Khan · 1 likes

I still find stuff from college radio because an actual human will play something ugly and great.

Rapid Rider · 0 likes

"ugly and great" is the exact category im craving