BY WILL HARRINGTON How Spotify wants to be “the best thing that ever happened for artists.” After my first discovery of D.A. Wallach ’07 through his music I became very confused. Googling his name constantly turned up the result that he was Spotify’s “artist-in-resident.” While I was familiar with the concept in the world of […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON D.A. Wallach and life in the industry D.A. Wallach ’07 wasted no time in making a name for himself. Even before he had graduated and left his Eliot dorm room behind for L.A., he was in contract negotiations with Star Trak, a record label imprint of Interscope run by none other than […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON When a video game leads to the birth of a religion. Twitch is an online video game streaming service. For the past few weeks it’s been host to a channel called “TwitchPlaysPokemon,” or TPP. Using the chat box, normally reserved for commentary on the human player/owner of the channel, stream-watchers have been […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON The branding of Russia at the Olympics Games A friend of mine spent the fall in Siberia improving his Russian. His bags didn’t include a winter coat when he left in late August. He reasoned that nobody in the world would make warmer winter coats than the Russians in Siberia, so he […]