During this pandemic, I’m getting tons of suggestions for music or playlists with the hashtags “chill,” “cozy,” “quarantine,” “indoors.” Self care, mental health and staying calm is crucial to these times, and I’m thankful for the outpouring of music that promotes calmness, opportunities for meditation, reflection, and domestic bliss, and I consider this a type of introspective inquiry as much of the music I produce and listen to is ambient, abstract and pleasant. But should music be comforting right now? Where is the music that is galvanizing, brewing, threatening a revolution? Where is the cathartic, completely unironic, furious music? Is it even possible for music to be countercultural and anti-corporate in the age of streaming? How could there be a diy scene in a corporate-internet?