For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Wyatt is SoundCloud's director of music intelligence and analytics and leads a team analyzing streaming trends and artist and fan communities on SoundCloud. His team's work informs fan, creator, and editorial strategy, and plays a pivotal role in A&R. He's also a journalist and photographer, write about music, music + data, culture, science, food and healthcare. With Ian Chainey, he's been writing Stereogum's monthly metal column, The Black Market, for over a decade.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• Nine Inch Nails


• Metallica


• Sepultura


• Relapse Records


• Spectrum Fest


• Amorphis


• “Weeper on the Shore” by Amorphis


• Pasi Koskinen


• Iron Maiden


• “Rock in Rio” album by Iron Maiden


• Napster


• Agalloch


• “The Mantle” album by Agalloch


• Cold Cave


• “Cherish the Light Years” album by Cold Cave


• “The Great Pan Is Dead” by Cold Cave


• Invisible Oranges


• BrooklynVegan


• Doug Moore


• Mike Nelson


• Pyrrhon


• Stereogum


• Saint Vitus Bar (NYC)


• Dave Castillo


• Liturgy


• “Aesthetica” by Liturgy


• Taylor Swift


• Aaron Lariviere


• Ian Chainey


• “Whole Lotta Red” album by Playboi Carti

Q&A

• Erech Leleth


• “Inevitable” album by Summer Haze ’99


• “God’s Hands” by Hardrock


• “Tales from the Thousand Lakes” album by Amorphis


• 夢遊病者 (aka Sleepwalker)

Discovering music today (37:37 ):

• Ian Chainey


• Doug Moore


• Bandcamp


• Fiadh Productions

Artists discovered in the past year (42:47 ):

• Summer Haze ’99


• Bergfried


• Damián Antón Ojeda


• Sadness


• abriction


• Hardrock

First album ever purchased (47:10 ):

• “Loser” by Beck

Most recent album purchased (48:07 ):

• “Banshee” album by abriction

Desert island discs (48:28 ):

• “Elegy” by Amorphis


• “ATLiens” by OutKast


• “Sing the Sorrow” by AFI