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Local Music vs. The Machine

Generative AI isn't the Grim Reaper for local music outside major hubs, but it's playing an effective role-as-omen: The Coroner.

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somewheresy
Jun 21, 2026
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A twenty-nine-year-old has been making dubstep in the same mid-sized city since he was nineteen. He has 1,400 monthly listeners, a SoundCloud with eleven years of uploads, and a Discord where forty of the same people have encouraged each other since 2016. He often buys his slot at the venue: twenty tickets fronted, sold to the same friends, the unsold o…

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