Daisy stays getting disrespected.

NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

"I feel like I've been cocooning or in a cave for such a long time, and I'm starting to recognize and reinvent who I am" - Danish singer Kleo talks her return with the Luna Collective www.thelunacollective.co/journal/qa-k...

In the mood for free music? Who isn't - head on over to KCRW for the chance to download Santiago-based band Chicarica's "Parará," the latest from their upcoming album 'Invierno en la playa.' www.kcrw.com/music/shows/...

idk if you can’t see that the problems of the united states are fundamentally foundational we aren’t gonna fix anything. we have no united states w/o genocide and slavery, and we have never reckoned with this as a nation in any meaningful way

This, not an op ed or a protest or a social media post supporting Palestinians, is antisemitic violence.

Therapists at Kaiser went on a hunger strike in Los Angeles to protest "factory" like working conditions and the automation of healthcare. I went down to the picket line on the last day to talk to the workers, some of whom hadn't eaten for 100 hours. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...

Missy got dudes in Orlando!!

So many singers today sound like Andrew Wyatt, so by extension Chris Martin

finally have a CD reader for my computer, it *is over* for you all *your opportunity to get a Mick's tape from me

In DC:

I love taking the bus through the city to my little destinations. You will never take this from me!!

Chicago's grocery stores have been a major site of unionization the past few years. This week, more than 2,400 employees of Tony's Fresh Market voted to decide whether to join UFCW Local 881 with results to be tallied tomorrow. My story for Block Club Chicago: blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/27/g...

Many thanks to @soundcloud.bsky.social for having Fusilier partake in Voice Notes. Listen in below: soundcloud.com/soundcloud-s...

really nice chat from the Bennington Banner with Flore Laurentienne (@secretcityrecords.bsky.social) about how applying boundaries can sometimes inspire artists to surpass them. Local journalism for the win www.benningtonbanner.com/arts_and_cul...

Stealing this from Liz Pelly but we need a way to talk about the need for universal music / culture access (ala borrowing books from the library) without endorsing all forms of piracy as equally valid in all situations

grindr noise heard in the new Lexie Liu video >>>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5aF...

Say his name: Bilal Mohammed Abu Matar. Among 8 people killed today in Israel’s ceasefire violation, Bilal is the 203rd journalist murdered in Gaza

just got permission to share -- a few weeks ago, my partner's brother was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma, completely unexpectedly, at age 28. one of his friends has set up a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/5whw5j-hel...

The first and perhaps only thing you need to understand about Schumer www.splinter.com/chuck-schume...

Benson Boone is the answer to “what if we made Aaron Taylor Johnson a pop star?”

hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!

I also believe OpenAI is misleading us about their user numbers. They claim they went from 200 million to 300 million weekly active users from August 29 to Dec 4 2024. Yet their unique monthly visitors have never gone higher than 247.1 million in that time. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

the democratic party raised enough money to fund one hundred regional party newspapers for four years and spent it all on ads

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

"U N I NO" by Fusilier is a Consequence Song of the Week "...the song is impossible to predict or pin down, careening through heavy guitars, distorted vocals, and energetic percussion at a driving pace." consequence.net/2025/02/thom...

Just learning that Paste does Hoopla movie roundups - a wonderful resource that's available to anyone with a library card. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/strea...

A veteran music biz executive mansplains Chappell Roan’s “naïve” Grammy speech in The Hollywood Reporter. The next day I use the same space to lead singersplain why he should take a seat.

Rapidly approaching the time when there is organizing and strikes and nothing else. You want something, you strike. No law. Only strikes. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times...

AMERICANS: a group of unauthorized thugs are raiding the treasury SCHUMER: then I will have to pass a law AMERICANS: it’s already illegal and you are a sitting senator SCHUMER: a law I shall do AMERICANS: at least filibuster everything until this stops SCHUMER: law time

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Armed with nothing but the audacity, I examine Charli XCX's ultimately underwhelming Grammys performance and propose what she should have done instead. It involves more overt subject matter references, Troye Sivan, and shouting out Obama. secondhandsetlists.com/2025/02/04/h...

Philip is one of the best editors I've ever worked with (and I've been lucky to do so as a writer and as an editor), and he's helped maintain Reader's music coverage as the gold standard for more than two decades. To lose it after so many other blows would be devastating.

You can move your newsletter to Ghost or Buttondown (I use the latter), but also... you can just do something different! Lotta friends are just starting zines, often for the first time! I know someone who is just gonna send an email on BCC once a month! I like this energy. Own your projects!

About White House press corps, in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/political_pr...

Music industry people with platforms and resources wondering what they can do to help trans people, some suggestions: - sign trans artists to your label - assign and pay trans writers to write for your sites & magazines - cover trans music - if you’re already doing those things, do it more often

this RULES

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

Neo-nazis, extremists and MAGA livestreamers are partaking in disaster tourism at the #LAWildfires to • solicit donations • juice social media engagement • gain clout • and recruit new members www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters. Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵

Carrie Bradshaw taking a cross-country train ride to San Francisco for heterosexual sex is camp

🔔 ?J ALBUM REVIEW 🔔 💿 Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter 💿 🔗 bit.ly/4gv7lm9

just in time for the holidays @random-j.bsky.social randomjpop.blogspot.com/2024/12/albu...

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Part 4 of my Kumi Koda video dive is finally here. At this point I asked myself, could her immense videography be the result of unguarded access to an artist's creative process, or am I just loosing it after watching 12+ hours of music videos? secondhandsetlists.com/2024/12/23/s...

I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?

i hadn't blocked anyone on bluesky because it hadn't come up as necessary, but i'm happy to make jesse singal my first block

Had a wonderful day at the mall with my friend from Baltimore