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Genius Dot Com is an independent music exploration newsletter launched in January 2024 by Larry Michaels. Covering all types of major, indie, and tiny bands/artists from around the world.

About Larry

I’m a musician based in Baltimore (by way of NYC, by way of PDX, by way of Washington DC) who focuses largely on experimental music, with a wide-net listening habit. My favorite genres are 90s/00s post-hardcore & math rock, ambient/glitchy electronic, and free jazz — but I also listen to a lot of indie rock, hip hop, metal/grind/hardcore/harsh noise, worldwide music genres, etc.

I typically listen to about 60-100 albums a month. I listened to 951 unique albums in 2024. Of those 951, 614 were albums that I was listening to for the very first time. Every month I feature 5-10 on Genius Dot Com and an additional 25-30 in the Scrap Heap. Feel free to follow my listening in real time via the last.fm account I created when I was in high school, abandoned when I turned 25 and picked back up a couple years ago.

2024 End-of-year stats (courtesy of Albums The App)

As a musician, I have played in too many bands, but here is a list of bandcamp links to recordings I have been involved in:

Atlas At Last (post-hardcore from Washington DC — bass/vocals)
Oh No Oh No (jazz-informed weirdo stuff in Portland, OR — a little bit of everything but drums)
Nervous Energy (noisy electronic experiments wherever I live)
Clavel (screamo/chaotic hardcore from Portland, OR)
100% Enemy (noisy free experiments & industrial in NYC)
Plus even more, including being a helping hand in friends' bands like Fear Not Ourselves Alone

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