Cory Doctorow on how the movie made blues music and blues artists popular once again. A book review.

Pluralistic: Daniel de Visé’s ‘The Blues Brothers’ (21 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

" it's a rich and engrossing tale of an extraordinary creative collaboration that found an unlikely foothold at just the right time and place. It's a sensitive, funny, and revealing account of Belushi, Aykroyd, and the comedians, impresarios and friends in their orbit ... you will find something surprising and delightful in these pages."

How do you organise music for organic discovery?

Organising music for organic discovery

Details on how we organised thousands of tracks to build a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song from BBC Introducing...

"We reduced our 30+ descriptors to just eight ‘human’ ones: aggressive, danceable, electronic, happy, instrumental, party, relaxed, sad. Each track being rated from -1 (not at all) to 1 (very) on each of those. We tried various combinations until we could see some separation between opposed genres (e.g. classical vs dance) but see similarity between others (e.g.funk and hip-hop) ..."