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