Listening to new music - necessary

A great text on Pitchfork about why we need to listen to new music, especially now: "The world will keep spinning and culture must move with it, even if we are staid and static in our homes... The choice to listen to new music prioritizes, if for one listen only, the artist over you. It is an emotional risk to live for a moment in the abyss of someone else’s world.... It also appears that we are in the most impressionable era in generations... Don’t let history be recursively defined by a feedback loop. Steer into the skid, pour the fear and dread leaking through your roof into something unfamiliar, because it could be the new artifact that exclusively defines this moment for you".