How ‘Stereophonic’ Made Real Music for a Fake Band

Text me the link!We are showing you options for a computer but if you're on a phone or tabletPop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. This music doesn’t organically emerge from a scene or genre, hoping to find an audience. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on.

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