1980s indie music wasn’t supposed to grow into a bigger thing. “Indie was odd, misshapen, flawed and messy. It was never meant to be popular or endure,” Stephen Armstrong writes. And yet the Gen Xer recently found himself in a club, almost thinking he’d time traveled back to the decade of The Cure and Talking Heads when he saw the girls dancing and the boys lumbering. Turns out the Gen Z crowd can't get enough of it. Read more from @Independent:

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1980s indie music wasn’t supposed to grow into a bigger thing. “Indie was odd, misshapen, flawed and messy. It was never meant to be popular or endure,” Stephen Armstrong writes. And yet the Gen Xer recently found himself in a club, almost thinking he’d time traveled back to the decade of The Cure and Talking Heads when he saw the girls dancing and the boys lumbering. Turns out the Gen Z crowd can't get enough of it. Read more from @Independent:

https://flip.it/FvExY8

#Culture #Music #Entertainment #Indie

"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"

#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"

#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson