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September 8, 2013 06:00 am GMT

The Internet Has Ushered in a Golden Age of DIY Music

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I set out to write a post about the New Zealand indie pop act Lorde (née Ella Yelich-O’Connor). As I was doing my preliminary research, I came across something I didn’t expect. Lorde is 16, going on 17, this November. I started to realize that quite a few of the hot new artists I’ve been listening to lately are rather young.

Chance the Rapper is 20King Krule is 19 and a handful of daysBishop Nehru is 17. Lorde is 16. And that’s only within the bounds of my personal taste. Looking elsewhere we see that Miley Cyrus is 20, Justin Bieber and Earl Sweatshirt are 19, and Austin Mahone (just signed to Cash Money Records) is 17. Put simply, hot music is getting young in a way that it never could have before. Read more...

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