My dad somehow might be indirectly responsible for a lot of major streaming holdouts. My dad loves both Bob Seger and Garth Brooks. And it’s not that we have zero digital music holdouts remaining today. I seem to recall subscribing to Tidal just to listen to Prince a time or two. It’s like the major beloved artists that weren’t streaming or selling MP3s, but then suddenly, often with great ceremony, they were: so, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Aaliyah, Bob Seger, Prince intermittently, sort of, kind of.

The reasons for those absences are often quite complicated, of course. You think about the span, over the past 20 years or so, of streaming holdouts, digital music holdouts, or just digital music absences.

This is a universally joyous, heartening, I-can’t-believe-it’s-finally-happening-type occasion. My editor and producer and dear friend Justin Sayles would like you to know that AOI: Bionix, from 2001, has three of their best songs.

Their full catalog will hit streaming on March 3, 2023-meaning the group’s first six records, starting with 3 Feet High and Rising in ’89 and then their next three records that span the ’90s, De La Soul Is Dead in ’91, Buhloone Mindstate in ’93, Stakes Is High in ’96 then a couple more in the early 2000s. But it’s 20,000 times cooler that after an arduous, yearslong, really decades-long process, De La Soul’s full catalog is finally coming to streaming. (Which owns The Ringer and has excellent health insurance.) However, mostly for boring technical reasons, this show is no longer confined to only songs available on Spotify, which is cool. I have wanted to do a De La Soul song on this show forever, but until recently, I could not do a De La Soul song, because until recently, this show, mostly for boring technical reasons, was confined to only songs available on Spotify.

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