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Another great week of Other People's Music! This time: acerbic indie pop, Lynchian art pop, subdued noise rock, ambient guitar & electro-primitive bops.
https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/03/27/opm-the-pull-of-strange-pop/
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
1996: be careful entering your credit card details online because the connection might not be secure
2026: be careful entering your credit card details online because the website might have an extremely secure connection to 798 advertising partners, 24 malicious NPM package authors, 5 secretly North Korean software contractors, 3 firms that collect personal info for right wing political campaigns, 2 data sets used for training the AI that picks ballistic missile targets, and ICE
Me: Posts about Kim Gordon and 72 years of artistic excellence being poured into one stellar effort of an album
Random masto fkoff: …but KPop has artistic excellence too! I’m gonna attempt to argue with you to make myself feel better now.
Me: ………………
I'm not salty or anything, and I don't live in America anymore - but I absolutely checked a couple major cybersecurity events with rotating venues because surely by now in 2026, they must have moved to places safe for women and trans attendees, surely, surely, surely,
nah of course not
Friday is the day for Other People's Music. Today brings idiosyncratic pop in strange varieties, noise rock, guitar ambient & electric primitive bops.
Find everything here:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/03/27/opm-the-pull-of-strange-pop/
Let's have a teaser look at this week's Other People's Music! Each post in thread is a preview of an entry, including the first line of the review, music & socials + a link to the full review.
You can always skip ahead and read the whole thing here...
https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/03/20/opm-soundscape-escape/