“She has perhaps the most instantly recognizable guitar sound this side of Jimi Hendrix... It’s not so much that she defies conventional form as that she doesn’t bother with it at all." —DownBeat on @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, its Artist, Group, and Guitarist of the Year downbeat.com/news/detail/...

Wow this Marianne Amacher book from Blank Forms is pretty incredible as an archival document / artist book. (“Intelligent Life”)

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Alex Ross, Stéphane Denève, Pride, and more. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/the-loss-o...

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition By George Grella daily.bandcamp.com/lists/morton...

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

A short series of sound pieces performed in Colchester: each artist takes a 360º spatial audio recording made at locations of 20 paintings by John Constable (recorded by Stuart Bowditch), and creates a live performance in reaction. These are intimate, immersive presentations in situ.

This essay is amazing

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Historic cuts to Medicaid and low-cost California health insurance could leave 4.6 million residents with no coverage. A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center says the working poor, older workers and undocumented workers could bear the brunt. news.berkeley.edu/2026/06/10/t...

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Truly an unreal moment, as a crowd gathers at 10:30pm on a Friday night outside the Kennedy Center as a crew puts up scaffolding to take down Donald Trump’s name.

Thousands of people are watching this on multiple live feeds; CSPAN has an excellent angle

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

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...