The day #music #discovery failed me
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How did I not know about a new Manic Street Preachers until four days after its release? Part user error. Part product shortcomings.Manic Street Preachers circa 2018So much for counting on technology as a safety net. I’ll have to keeping doing the dirty work.The Manic Street Preachers released a new album, Resistance is Futile, on Friday. I didn’t find out about it until yesterday (Monday). To be truthful, I probably knew the street date at one point in time. No doubt I got some sort of message about it — I track the band as best possible. There were surely emails leading up to its release. I might have run across an article. But last week the album was far from being on my mind.Anonymity is a problem. I’m one of the few thousand people in the U.S. — excluding expats and Europeans on vacation (...)