Daily Edit | Oct 23

The sensual, sonorous third record from Brittney Parks takes her already dexterous technical skills to the club, fusing her R&B pop background with Detroit and Chicago-influenced experimental beatwork and an earnestly optimistic take on technology. -Paste

10 / 23 / 2025

Headlines

• After months of the same songs on the Hot 100, ‘Billboard’ tweaks its rules [NPR]
  

• “We’re testing comments and reader scores on album reviews” [Pitchfork]
  

• Spotify users can now follow their favourite music venues [NME]
  

• The Recording Academy announces immersive pop-up experience, GRAMMY House, will expand to Egypt [Business Wire]
  

• I want the iPod back – and so do you, apparently [Business Insider]
  

• How Zohran Mamdani mobilized NYC’s indie rock community [The Fader]
  

• What it’s really like to make music with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder [UPROXX]
  

• The making of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’ [Complex]

Industry Standard is a 21-year-old experimental musician from Glens Falls, NY who played at the Avant Garde a Clue 2 festival in Rochester on Monday night. Ahead of his gig there, he gave a preview during a visit to the local news TV channel 13WHAM ABC. Although it was possibly the shortest performance in the channel’s history, Industry Standard made it quite the memorable one. -Stereogum

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