Colin Nagy

1 month ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here.Philip Sherburne, for my money one of the most important music and culture writers around, wrote an excellent retrospective about Kompakt. The Cologne-based label just celebrated its 500th release. Similar to labels like Ghostly International (from friend of WITI Sam Valenti), Kompakt has had a unique worldview, aesthetic, and a level of con…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Why is this interesting?

1 month ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. I often get songs stuck in my head that were repeated to me over and over on MTV during high school. One is "More Human Than Human" by White Zombie, which I remember for being a catchy yet abrasive track that took a weird genre and somehow made it famous. Recently, as the song's slide guitar riffs, 95' heaviness, and Rob Zombie's unmistakable growl (yeahhhh) once again found their way into my mental playlist, I was curious to understand the song a bit more.

1 month ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

This originally appeared behind our paywall. But opening it up to all today. Colin here. I first heard about AramcoWorld at a great dinner party on the Upper East Side in New York, the kind where the conversation went everywhere. An attendee mentioned a very good magazine put out by the Saudi oil company. I looked it up the next morning and subscribed. It was so delightfully unexpected I had to check it out. Founded in 1949, AramcoWorld began as a newsletter for American employees of Aramco.

2 months ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. We wrote about the Shultz Hour a while back. In essence, it is 60 minutes every week where you can focus and think about your most important tasks, and not be disturbed by anyone—especially your phone. If we're being honest, this is rare. There isn't a lot of slack to the systems in today's workplaces (particularly with things like Slack), and the mind often needs a bit of time to settle in order to do deep thinking.

2 months ago | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Colin Nagy

Colin here. We throw a lot of words at you every week. So wanted to share an album I consistently revisit, Utility by Barker, released in 2019 on Osgut Ton. Start with the track Paradise Engineering. Pitchfork’s review, written by the great Philip Sherburne: The music resembles techno in all the style’s outward characteristics: the pulsing chords, the r…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Why is this interesting?