> For every one of these fledgling anarcho-syndicalist collectives, there are a thousand or a million kids alone in their bedrooms staring at Protools screens w

> For every one of these fledgling anarcho-syndicalist collectives, there are a thousand or a million kids alone in their bedrooms staring at Protools screens wondering what they have to do to get the Swedish cabal to write a hit song for them. There's always been pop music. More people were listening to Ace of Base and Hanson in the '90s than to Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I get it's a personal essay, but I wish he had spent some time talking to young people who are making music about their actual practices. To bring it back to HN, nobody's typing Basic code out of Creative Computing or swapping homebrew code on the local BBS anymore, but there are more people making video games than ever.