My 2025 in music: A review (opens in new tab)

I’ve written this post for years — comparing Spotify Wrapped with my ). It’s still relevant to compare these different patterns, but in reviewing my 2025 in music, the reading and research I’ve been doing for years culminated in some continued realizations. This past year, I read and and alongside user behavior data, and followed (and thus got exposed to his thoughtful cultural criticism on a more frequent basis than his books I dream of my favorite thinkers getting their own website or blog,...