I recently dumped Spotify in favour of my own music collection sourced from Bandcamp and my CD collection. I don’t miss Spotify at all - it’s a lot more rewarding and fun to discover bands on my own instead.

Also, I find myself avoiding AI content where possible now. I’ll often add ‘reddit’ on the end of search queries because it’s more reliable than the default results which are littered with AI slop.

I think both of these are related, and curated content is usually better:

  1. I realised I don’t need an infinite music library (or books or films, or auto-generated lists of things). Less is more. Quality over quantity.
  2. It’s more meaningful when someone has put effort into curating it, whether that’s me or someone else.

Anyway, I was thinking about creating a website for upcoming concerts in Singapore. It was going to be auto-sourced from various event websites, etc, so I’d never miss an interesting gig. Only, I know this would inevitably be full of duds. It would never be as good as just creating this list myself.

So I decided to go ahead and just do this. I made a static site of upcoming rock and metal concerts and deployed it to beer.sg (because I had to put something there!) While I was at it, I decided to put another curated list of beer resources on there.

This isn’t going to appeal to everyone. It will sometimes be outdated and miss things. But that’s fine - it’s useful to me and I’m pretty sure someone else out there will find it useful too.