Outstanding show!

Coming to @lincolncenter.bsky.social on June 12: an event that will "likely be the loudest show in the history of Lincoln Center" (their claim): Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13 "Hallucination City" for 100 electric guitars, conducted by Reg Bloor. Details here: lincolncenter.org/series/summe...

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

new Hannah Lew record out today is great hannahlew.bandcamp.com/album/hannah...

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

Now that I’m breathing again, loving the beautiful, sophisticated solo set Caroline Davis is playing right now at @roulettenyc.bsky.social — streaming live for free. www.youtube.com/live/55XDvn7...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

EXTENDED CUT: Watch until the end for 3 min of nonstop dancing aurora last night in my driveway from North Pole, Alaska. Insane show!

“Composer & multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton will be honored with the 66th Edward MacDowell Medal in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to composition, improvisation, pedagogy & experimental music…Past recipients include Leonard Bernstein, Joan Didion, Nan Goldin, [&] Toni Morrison”

7:31 AM "Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)" by 𝐓𝐲𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐲 & 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐫 from 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒) (DACAMERA Editions) #nowplaying

7:26 AM "Rothko Chapel: 5th Movement" by 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐥, 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐤, 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭, 𝐔𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬 & 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭 from 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑚𝑎𝑛: 𝑅𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑘𝑜 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑙, 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠? (New Albion Records) #nowplaying

Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!

The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Station Model Violence carve post-punk's grooves into labyrinthine shapes on their self-titled debut www.treblezine.com/s...

HBD John Cale. Here's one of my favourite videos.

Emmylou Harris, Molly Tuttle, and Alison Krauss performed "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby" at the Grand Ole Opry's 25th anniversary celebration of the Coen brothers' film 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' and its famed soundtrack at the Opry House on February 28. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxi...

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...

A tone (147 1421/3600 Hz, when A=442 Hz), tunable by ear on the viola, which, when sustained, has a unique phase during each second of an hour

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Multiple agencies collected samples and confirmed the first cases of bird flu in the seals at the park. The outbreak marks California’s first confirmed detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a marine mammal, according to a press release.

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists said on Wednesday.

The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨 On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍 A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️ 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...

“No-one teaches you how to live!” I’ve never seen this gem before: The Raincoats recording “Fairytale in the Supermarket” (amazing, obviously) intercut with Mayo Thompson & Geoff Travis talking about their production philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ao...

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Laurie Spiegel’s Music Mouse now available from Eventide @eventideaudio.bsky.social www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...

NEW POST I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. I think this is extremely risky martinfowler.com/bliki/Agenti...

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

www.anothertimbre.com/products/mor... This is phenomenal. Remarkable. Intriguing , compelling and brilliant. Completely rescues these pieces

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso We reenacted an old Nena tune Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’ That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶

Shit I didn't include the link. Maybe you shouldn't trust me. Draw your horse here: gradient.horse

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

I have been looking forward to this release for about three years!

been waiting a long time for this recording. 💿✨

9th Cir. holds that Sec. Noem had no statutory authority to vacate TPS designations for Venezuela and Haiti. Judge Mendoza, concurring, would additionally hold Noem's action also violated the APA given Noem's explicitly racist comments in vacating TPS. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

I typically ignore this bloviation from our ignoramus President. But Philip Glass, apart from being a giant of modern composition whose place in the history of music is secure, is also an all-time mensch and friend who was good enough to supply the music for @talkingfeds.bsky.social. So let me just

If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.

One of the reasons that rapid response is so important is not just to prevent ICE from kidnapping people, but, if someone is taken, to inform family and friends of the kidnapped to start the legal process so that their family member isn't sent out of state.

Finally. A comprehensive look at the “neo-Nazi .. ethnic cleansing” content coming out of “the offices of the White House .. using official government accounts ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...