Itchy and the Nits – Smelly Boys
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, thereโs also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
Each week, I look at all the artists I track on Spotify (over 3,000 of them at the most recent count) and capture their Popularity score, a metric that Spotify assigns to each artist. I select all the artists with Spotify follower counts less than 20,000 to create a (somewhat arbitrary) pool of “emerging” artists, […]
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