When the algorithm forgot the underground
There was a time when discovering new music meant curiosity, not comfort. You stayed up late recording radio shows onto Maxell tapes or chasing after half-heard IDs from pirate frequencies. Record shops were temples then. Half community center, half confessional booth. A place where DJs and obsessives traded gossip, swapped white labels, and tested each other’s taste. You’d hit those spots the moment you landed in a new city, because […]