As a producer, Frank Leone has been growing his profile through work with big names like Hanni El Khatib and Open Mike Eagle. Now he’s dropping an album under his own name, in collaboration with the producer Teardrop Estates. SUNDROP will be with us in March, and in the meantime you can dip into its first single, which, counter to its title (“Bad Things”), is very good. It’s a gentle dive into the conscience, where the artist reviews all his twisted desires, assessing where to draw the line. Dark as that sojourn may be, it’s nice to hear that someone’s got that little voice inside. Listen here.
Just a quick note to say that the timeshare company Wyndham Destinations is buying the travel magazine Travel & Leisure— nothing to see here, just an industry player taking control of the media on their particular business. What.
That’s not to say that buying out the press is the only option to break the PR machine in your favor. A better bet, even, is to do like the VCs do and make your own. That’s what’s going down over at Andreessen Horowitz, where they’re hiring an editorial team to publish unabashedly pro-tech opinion writing to sway us all in the right direction. It’s almost as if they hadn’t already invested in the internet’s greatest echo chamber.*
*Or maybe they’re just learning all the wrong lessons from Andreessen’s seat on the Facebook board?
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