For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.
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Wyatt is SoundCloud's director of music intelligence and analytics and leads a team analyzing streaming trends and artist and fan communities on SoundCloud. His team's work informs fan, creator, and editorial strategy, and plays a pivotal role in A&R. He's also a journalist and photographer, write about music, music + data, culture, science, food and healthcare. With Ian Chainey, he's been writing Stereogum's monthly metal column, The Black Market, for over a decade.
MUSIC MENTIONS
- Nine Inch Nails
- Metallica
- Sepultura
- Relapse Records
- Spectrum Fest
- Amorphis
- “Weeper on the Shore” by Amorphis
- Pasi Koskinen
- Iron Maiden
- “Rock in Rio” album by Iron Maiden
- Napster
- Agalloch
- “The Mantle” album by Agalloch
- Cold Cave
- “Cherish the Light Years” album by Cold Cave
- “The Great Pan Is Dead” by Cold Cave
- Invisible Oranges
- BrooklynVegan
- Doug Moore
- Mike Nelson
- Pyrrhon
- Stereogum
- Saint Vitus Bar (NYC)
- Dave Castillo
- Liturgy
- “Aesthetica” by Liturgy
- Taylor Swift
- Aaron Lariviere
- Ian Chainey
- “Whole Lotta Red” album by Playboi Carti
Q&A
- Erech Leleth
- “Inevitable” album by Summer Haze ’99
- “God’s Hands” by Hardrock
- “Tales from the Thousand Lakes” album by Amorphis
- 夢遊病者 (aka Sleepwalker)
Discovering music today (37:37):
- Ian Chainey
- Doug Moore
- Bandcamp
- Fiadh Productions
Artists discovered in the past year (42:47):
- Summer Haze ’99
- Bergfried
- Damián Antón Ojeda
- Sadness
- abriction
- Hardrock
First album ever purchased (47:10):
- “Loser” by Beck
Most recent album purchased (48:07):
- “Banshee” album by abriction
Desert island discs (48:28):
- “Elegy” by Amorphis
- “ATLiens” by OutKast
- “Sing the Sorrow” by AFI
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