News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Life before smartphones (2020). Parent comment

Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by kenjackson on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:47PM (#28040074)
Another thing was regional music. I used to hear about GoGo music in DC, but I couldn't get access to it on the West Coast. People who had access to lots of different music were the music elites. I worked in college radio and set up the college's first Real Audio server and that was a game changer (we were admittedly late to the game, but the whole notion was a game changer).

And now music really knows no bounds.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by lordnacho on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:53PM (#28040175)
This is even worse across language boundaries. Everyone everywhere seems to listen to the same Anglophone bands these days. In most European countries there used to be different sound you could get coming from local acts. They still exist, but their airtime is much reduced. Also a lot of them play songs in English, I guess to satisfy the customers and just in case they manage to break into the big time.
[ Parent | on HN ]