About
/mu/ is a board dedicated to discussing music on the imageboard 4chan. Since its creation, it has become one of the largest music discussion boards on the English-speaking Internet.
History
/mu/ was added to 4chan’s board listings in 2004.[1] A /mu/ wiki was created on on January 1, 2013.[2]
Board Culture
/mu/ is known for creating a culture based around particular artists, such as Radiohead, Death Grips, King Crimson, Animal Collective, Grimes, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Kanye West; these artists have, as a collective, been dubbed as “/mu/-core”. Recurring topics on the board include share threads, where users post links to albums they recommend, chart threads, which are used to show what albums a user has been listening to, and threads for showing off user’s pages on Bandcamp and Soundcloud, alongside other, more specific threads around themes such as classical music, Death Grips, music production, and Korean pop music.[3]
Anthony Fantano
Anthony Fantano is a music critic known mostly from his YouTube channel The Needle Drop. His videos have a popular following on the board; in return, Fantano has acknowledged his following there on several occasions.
Death Grips
Death Grips was an experimental hip-hop group from Sacramento, California. Several of the band’s albums, such as Exmilitary and The Money Store have become essential listening to users of the board, and, because of their popularity, have had several board in-jokes linked to them, such as Jenny Death When.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea is an album by the indie rock group Neutral Milk Hotel. The album is an earlier example of a “/mu/-core” album, and has heavily become associated with the board.
Piero Scaruffi Beatles Copypasta
The Piero Scaruffi Beatles Copypasta is a /mu/-specific copypasta taken from a paper written about the seminal rock group The Beatles written by Italian music critic Piero Scaruffi. The copypasta is infamous for its pretentious writing style and controversial opinion.
Le Wrong Generation
Le Wrong Generation is a sarcastic term applied to examples of people asserting that music of the past is objectively superior to music of the present, often mocking the perceived pretentiousness and narrow-mindedness of such beliefs. It is often heavily associated with appreciation for controversial popular artists such as Kanye West.
