Posts by Josh
First feature in a while with Brian Brown, a Nashville rapper that recently celebrated 5 years of his acclaimed album, Journey. Beautiful work, beautiful person
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I do this not out of regret but to make my stance undeniably clear - fuck AI for each and every single “purpose” it serves. Anyways, idk if this makes you respect me more or less as a writer but i feel like my novella wasn't bad but I have better in the tank
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I have never and will never - for I am vehemently against it - used AI in my writing, not even "correcting" software outside of spellcheck. I have taken the step to go back and delete these AI slop photos and replace them with my creations or default options/photos
Two years ago, I started writing often on my substack, including peeks at my novella, The Laurentian War. Unfortunately, I used AI to create cover art for some of those stories and even the digital cover of my novella before I was educated on its effects on both the environment and creative field
I’m at the phase where every creative near or around the music industry struggles with - should I try to make it myself despite no experience
As Trump continues to threaten Canada, the events of my book The Laurentian War seem to be creeping closer which is terrifying because the war is preceded by the most consequential drought the US has ever seen 🥲
The batch so far this month! Also see the newsletter on the Medium blog and subscribe to keep up with the pubs latest
There’s literally like a dozen movies showing why it’s a bad idea to embrace AI what are we even doing
Reviewed Cordae’s album, The Crossroads, very good. Full review on my Substack
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And Mount Eerie with Night Palace - review now available by @eustisreviewsmusic.bsky.social
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Before we officially begin 2025 at MMA, take a look back at all of our coverage with the MMA Master Playlist ‘24! A couple of our favorite songs from each and every single album we covered is included - the variance here is incredible. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3OQ...
Twiddled my thumbs a lot this year so here’s my top 5 albums of 2024 to start the new year right
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So far this month, we’ve got reviews of Soccer Mommy’s latest, Leon Bridges, and Blu & Evidence’s, Los Angeles - check out full reviews on blog!
I think it’s so cute that journalists get to go on little dates with artists sometimes
Top Reads of November: Reviews of One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 by Marilyn Manson, The Crossroads by Cordae, and From Zero by Linkin Park - find this months best on modernmusicanalysis.blog!
Wow, lots of new followers, thank you! Got plenty on the horizon, especially with EOY lists — until then, find all the new on modernmusicanalysis.blog!
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Crazy stuff by Lamar, full review in link
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