Down the Wormhole
Fake news Grammy nominations, Indiana Jones doom, Fugazi lust, and more
Welcome to the wormhole, a new weekly Deep Voices email. Consider these dispatches an exercise in music lover world building. Expect to find vintage T-shirt deals, obscure and excellent albums not on streaming services, mini-rants about the music mainstream, and, possibly, jokes. I’ve spent my life digging into this weird and fruitful universe of music and art and I’ll be ~paying it forward~ here just for paid subscribers.
This week: Bjork vs Britney, thoughts on the Grammy nominations, a great essay about learning to play bass, Arto Lindsay, and an Indiana Jones-related spiral.
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“Comparison is the thief of joy,” said Teddy Roosevelt, who was not alive to see this side by side of Bjork and Britney Spears.
Every year the Grammy nominations come out and they drive everyone insane.
It’s understandable: it often seems like the people who pull the strings have very little interest in or curiosity about music. You want to scream at them that good and popular are not two sides of the same coin. But there’s something freeing about the inherent dullness to me, though. These awards have nothing to do with me. If you really believe John Batiste is the pinnacle of all music, by all means, follow your bliss.