Fare thee well, Jim McNeely.

sadly expected news iverson.substack.com/p/jim-mcneely

new tune with Lau Noah called “Bones” 🏜️

On Instagram, there is a NYC jazz bassist who is very aggressively promoting his “BassGPT” LLM app. I admit, I didn’t see the jazz pdf-seller to AI grifter pipeline coming, but in retrospect, it was inevitable.

The sheer number of “I’m a real musician, I swear!” posts on the r/Suno subreddit is pretty sad, honestly. Other music-related subreddits are just people sharing tips on how to make dope beats, but the main effect of making AI music seems to be deep existential anxiety of the value of your work.

if you like nerds in pajamas playing electro fusion I have just the video clip for you

fuck it, sungazer is a blues band now

heretics

I have an EP coming out June 13th with Lau Noah - presave it here! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

Canada tour vlog up now on YouTube/nebula Watch me learn swear words in Québécois

I will be doing some very fun things this summer including 1. opening for snarky puppy 2. touring east asia 3. doing 3 nights at the blue note Come hang!

100 tenor sax players at the smalls jam vs a gorilla

Shredding across the UK/Ireland this summer with Maddie Ashman

want

We’re playing some gigs in China and Japan I hope they like notes over there, because we sure have a lot of them

We’re Sungazer. We’re here to play time signatures at you. We’re sorry.

Trump: las malvinas son argentinas

we keep playing metal festivals for some reason

We’re excited to announce the next wave of artists playing this year’s edition of ArcTanGent, including Wardruna (Wednesday Headliner) / TesseracT (Saturday Headliner) / Clown Core / Leprous / Mew / SLIFT / Arab Strap / Green Lung / Kalandra / Unprocessed / Pelican / Ahab / envy / Sungazer and more.

@adamneely.bsky.social hitting all those notes (I also got hit by a 4)

Suzgazer put on one hell of a show! Thanks, @adamneely.bsky.social !

touring North America be like

The Secret for Better IEM Rigs (for touring bands) New video up on Nebula/Youtube where I geek out about Analog Audio over Ethernet

I now have another reason to be annoyed at Damien Chazelle for making Whiplash.

Listening to any sungazer record is just an extended chance to lose your mind over Jared Yee.

merry catmas from meeshka

tour is fun

Bass play-through for Sungazer’s Hot Saturn is now up! youtu.be/iZTuj589uYI?...

new video essay on why all the pop singers of the past 20 years sing the phrase “caught in the middle the exact same way. Now on YouTube/Nebula!

WEST COAST FANS!!!!! I will be on tour with Sungazer in December! Heres a SNESified version of the ending Vamp from our collaboration “Hot Saturn” from their most recent album “Against the Fall of Night”. This ones been getting a lot of attention so I thought it would be fun to do.

oh hell yeah we’re doing baby it’s cold outside discourse We’re so back baby

come check out my band, we play 4/4, but weird

Notes, ranked S tier - Db, F#, Bb A tier - G, D, E, C# B tier - B, F, Ab, A C tier - Cb, D#, Gb, G# F tier - A#, Fb, E#, C

Musicians are arguing here in Bluesky. Nature is healing. ☺️

match the time signature with the song from against the fall of night (we cut one song, there are only 9 tunes on the album, so this may be tricky, but I have faith!)

I’m not a fan of hearing, “well, at least we’ll get good art out of the next 4 years!” In this view, art is treated as a consumable good whose quality - insofar as it is to entertain an audience that consumes it - increases with tragedy.

playing lots and lots of notes across Europe this month, come hang

Fun fact, the name is a tribute to another tune named Skrontch by Duke Ellington that also really does sound like a track called “Skrontch”

oi. Tour in europe starts tomorrow. come see us play time signatures

new album! Sungazer’s against the fall of night out now

we’re doing a tour please come thanks

Hats off to one of the best in the game. Congrats to @tomscott.com on a truly incredible achievement, and while I hope to see more videos from you some day, I hope it's not before you're ready to make them again. Enjoy the break, and enjoy whatever comes next.

Current time signatures for Sungazer’s next album 1 - 4/4 (hard) 2 - 4/4, but also 3/4 ?? 3 - 4/4, then another 4/4 using math 4 - not 4/4 (sorry) 5 - 4/4 6 - 4/4 (eventually) 7 - not 4/4 (sorry) 8 - 4/4 (if you believe) 9 - 4/4 (Bulgarianly) 10 - 4/4 (probably)

Merry jazzmas from meeshka, my sister’s cat

Sungazer tour has been fun! Come out and hang, we’ll be playing all the notes

Laufey’s bossa nova hit From the Start is soon going to overtake The Girl From Ipanema as most streamed bossa nova tune. It was released in May. Any y’all Bluesky folk writing about this?

Most people don't know that you don't need to go somewhere to hear "live" music. You can listen to music at home, where it's free, convenient, and sounds better

oh, new social media platform? time to gig spam. Come to Sungazer’s fall tour