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Boom and echo

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Beef

The right to resent.

on the class-ridden stakes of rage in Netflix’s *Beef* (2023), Met Gala ‘fits, and restaurant NFTs.

Beefin'

30 Rock subtitle founder

Closed captioning on.

on the increasingly common practice of watching movies and TV with subtitles switched on.

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Indistinct chatter

Dirt Watercooler

Discord > discourse

recaps the latest Dirt Discord discourse, summer reads, and media news.

The Dirt watercooler

Riley Keough as Daisy Jones

The uncanny valley of the fictional band.

on phantom celebrities, the fictional bands supposedly incredible enough to sell out stadiums.

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Fleetwood Mac, Daisy Jones

Adam Faze Spotify

Fake lo-fi beats to relax/study to.

on AI-generated "elevator" music and media layoffs. Plus, some weekend podcast recs ft. the girl-mosses of Dirt.

Spotify psy-op

Creem 

On the relaunched rock magazine's second issue. 

interviews *CREEM*'s VP of content Fred Pessaro.

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CREEM returns

Frank Chella

Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment.

on Frank Ocean at Coachella, Love is Late, and the HBO rebrand.

Bad livestreams

Hogwarts

Video games are in their baroque era.

on the au courant visual style in video games. 

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Going baroque

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