I didn't know this, but of course there's a *reason* I always say "there's no first anything". (Pretty certain Les Paul will have been the first one to use tape though as at the time it was basically only him and Bing Crosby using tape for anything other than storing radar information)

Gonna learn what capitalists actually worship real fast I guess

going back to thinking about The Who after @andrewhickey.500songs.com's post and how effective they were at building big loud riffy jams around intense existential crises you wind up carrying long after you outgrow your teen angst

They did this in the Lebanon War in 2006: they just bombed anything that looked like it had any social or economic value - bakeries, ports, factories, on and on, then told the world every single one was a military target. It was all lies then, just as it has been for years here.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health reports 394 people died since Monday from Israeli attacks. 22 percent of those are children. That’s 86 children in a week.

Commentary: I Am The God Of Your Children. I Am The Final Parent.

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

I just don’t get people who can’t live without algorithms to do their own discovery for them. The discovery process has always been part of loving music for me. We are outsourcing our taste-making process. We are outsourcing part of the identity-making process, and that scares the shit out of me.

I often forget just how important the Monkees are to me. There are very few bands whose music gets to me as deeply. Which to about 95% of you will sound like a ridiculous statement, but the 5% who get it will get it.

Counterpoint: Charles Mingus deserved every penny he had coming to him for his revolutionary jazz music and cat toilet training guide.

Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference. "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’" A must read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fucking burn it down

Epic Fury’s frontman asked to leave Warped Tour after inappropriate behavior

I briefly worked on a tour Neko Case was on in 2007. Hearing her sing every night was the absolute highlight of that experience.

I dunno but lying in the dark blasting Xenakis' Persepolis at ear-splitting volume seems a very apt response to the current world situation

The other thing I forget unless I'm actually watching Elvis shows is what a *monster* drummer Ronnie Tutt was. Keith Moon and Animal clearly both watched him and thought "I need some extra arms to keep up".

Just unsubscribed from @rollingstone.com (I had only been subscribing to read @milesklee.bsky.social anyway)

ABSOLUTELY PEDRADA™

Physical tickets are also available for in-person purchase at Surface Noise (cash only), 600 Baxter Avenue, through about 5 PM today, Thursday. More information about the tomorrow night's show at: the-other-side-of-life.com/2026/02/03/s...

Definitely the CIA. Definitely not that a music that initially defined itself by youthful rebellion is now seventy years old and the favoured choice of the establishment. No, it's the CIA.

The AUDACITY to see what they did to disco in the name of rock and claim that rock was intentionally marginalized. I genuinely hate y'all. Ties were severed and it damn sure wasn't white rock artists who suffered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGi...

RIP Carlos Ward (1940-2026) Sadly, I have yet to see a proper obituary anywhere (& he died in mid-January), but here is a good remembrance

"Blindsight" was commissioned in 2022 by the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University, and will be performed by the [Switch~ Ensemble]. frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah... www.switchensemble.com/about/

In addition to Sarah Hennies's solo performance at Art Sanctuary on Friday, the world premiere of her "Blindsight" (2025) is taking place at Comstock Hall, University of Louisville's School of Music at 7:30 PM on Thursday, March 5th. More information below: www.switchensemble.com/performance/...

There are many, many people I feel sorry for in the Middle East right now. British tax exiles who have moved to a murderous homophobic slaveholding torturing dictatorship in order to avoid paying for hospitals and roads are not among them.

New for my paid Patreon backers, a 48-minute bonus episode on the Zombies and "Time of the Season", expanding greatly on the 13-minute one I did five years ago.

The great Lewis Porter turns his research sights onto Alice Coltrane:

No one wants this except a few elite bastards. No one

You're welcome.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wd...

if the free jazz quartets upright bass player looks like this you are about to die in that pit

If you can support, excuse, or even well-actually what the US and Israel have done today, kindly block me and fuck off because we have nothing to talk about.

Especially timely:

pissed at a universe where cats have to die absolutely incandescently livid that it's also full of the stupidest most banal worthless fuckers actively trying to make everything worse

Every bomb is waves of trauma that last generations

It's not a fucking distraction for those poor schoolgirls who were killed or their families. Plus, while the Epstein stuff is horrific, I think murdering children is *even worse* than raping them.

Before you pull "nOnE oF tHiS wOuLd Be HaPpEnInG uNdEr KaMaLa” consider for the nth time the obvious and now undeniable consequence of supporting a racist apartheid regime in Israel for decades and continuing to support it into a genocide, signaling to its authors that they can do whatever they want

Also anyone I see pushing the idea that “Oh this is all Trump’s fault, the Democrats don’t want this” is gonna catch a block and I know you don’t care about that but try to listen to your soul dying Democrats wanted this, they worked for it, and their only objection to it will be purely procedural

My entire thing with Zeppelin is just to say “everyone is right about them.” They are awful and amazing. They are boring and exciting. They are thieves and also excellent arrangers of existing songs. Jimmy Page is a piece of shit and Jimmy Page is a huge piece of shit.

As Black History Month comes to a far too soon close, we celebrate W.E.B. Du Bois during his birthday week.

Why would you ever use an AI, just ask me questions and I'll happily give you incorrect information and drink a bottle of water

Almost as if liberal-left voters want to vote for liberal-left policies, and not for transphobia, racism, and general petty nastiness.

Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors https://theonion.com/kash-patel-faces-backlash-after-partying-with-nancy-guthries-captors/

thinking of this young person I met nearly five years ago at the Texas state Capitol—when activists defeated a raft of anti-trans laws introduced that year—and this sign they made:

I believe culture war issues are cooked up by think tanks and consultants to keep people from getting angry about climate change and income inequality

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

White music enthusiasts who say Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil to get good at guitar are racists tbh It's functionally the same as saying "aliens must have built the pyramids, because dark-skinned people could never achieve something like that"