Does Ultimate Guitar pay royalties to songwriters? I'm paying for a subscription and care about whether that money finds its way back to them. It is common currency among a lot of players, and it really is useful as hell. But it's also gross and exploitive and I hate myself for using it.

New indie rock in my BC collection ex-juncos.bandcamp.com/album/the-ea...

"Due to his Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C."

24/7 modular synth livestream on Twitch via @earthmodularsociety on IG www.twitch.tv/earthmodular...

Steve Reich threatens to add a 19th musician and to keep adding musicians until his demands are met

NYC people, I'll be playing a cool little bar in Greenpoint on Tuesday night with the bassist + modular synth player as.dB. Two solo sets and a jam. www.eventbrite.com/e/live-ambie...

I came across a photo in one of my father's albums. It is from an anti-apartheid demonstration in 1963 or 1964. In the photo, a demonstrator is carrying a sign. The demonstrator is a trans woman. 1/?

Switch to Proton. "Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist" theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

Did not expect to see Harry Partch and Paul Simon being mentioned in the same sentence. But what do you know... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange...

Added my fav tune from the new William Tyler / Kieran Hebdan album to the top of my experimental folk playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/3CU...

Sound collection of two antique German printing machines.

A still from the next video

Fixed it for you Can we just ban the CONTENT idea forever? It's a song, or an expressionist painting, or renka, or a diary entry, or fluxism. CONTENT as placeholder is how VCs see the world.

Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

Hunting for Little Mimi (2/3) | Movement Art www.youtube.com/shorts/xBOdg...

I saw a Wet Leg show in Central Park last night. The songwriting is really strong, the sound design is excellent, and frontwoman Rian is absurdly magnetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHf...

Galen Buckwalter: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... The album by his band Siggy is good: open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu... I have seen them play live a couple times. He is incredibly badass on stage.

This burbled in my ears for the full 30 minutes and 40 seconds without wearing on me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXN...

Making a list of professors who don’t mourn Redford in the appropriate way in refusing to acknowledge how hot he was

Trying to market music on Apple Music is so hard it makes Spotify look good. Not easy!

Playing Cosmic Crossings on 9/27: "An electronic, space, ambient, experimental music concert series, with stunning sound, large visual projections,and unique lighting. A unique aural and visual experience" Streamed live: www.twitch.tv/cosmic_cross... Details: www.facebook.com/share/18fxLd...

michaelhurley.bandcamp.com/album/broken... Michael Hurley passed away on April Fools' Day this year, which feels very fitting given his wry and gentle sense of humor. This is a lovely little recording.

Nothing to see here, move along (koma-elektronik.com/new/shop-2-2/)

Even Groypers think its Groyper who did it. Meanwhile, Republicans are still blaming "the left."

Like, one thing that both this shooting and the one at Annunciation make *massively* clear to me is that society has moved on to a point where large subcultures that I have no exposure to are increasingly spilling out into current events in violent ways, and I/we need sources who know what's up

Reasons to make music: -killing time before something more interesting happens -get to generate download codes -spite -trying to communicate with dolphins -spreading a sinister ideology -need hold music for company’s service line -woke -not good at podcasting -want to find out what a “flanger” is

""Bella ciao" is an Italian song dedicated to the partisans of the Italian resistance, who fought against the occupying troops of Nazi Germany and the collaborationist Fascist forces during the liberation of Italy. " youtu.be/50GvkAO0OIg?...

When somebody leaves you that's the time to cry --Paul Anka www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RYC...

"my dad sent a picture of his will – a napkin with the words “Have at it!” scribbled"

Last night my house was empty and quiet. I sat on the sofa in front of real actual speakers and played two good albums front to back. I had a good book and a good whiskey.

Ridiculously great Halloween song

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The reason there's no famous documentary about Erik Satie's life is that his life feels fictional. "Satie received a commission from the Princesse de Polignac, funding the composer's masterpiece. Composition was interrupted in 1917 by music critic Jean Poueigh's libel suit and the threat of jail. "

#art #psychedelic #drawing #ink #watercolor #doodle #trippy #mandala #tondo #LGBTQ #Hawaii #bsky.art #pizza #paella #collage September 7th, 2025 Post With Aloha a Tutti !

I feel like I owe the makers of some effects an "effects programming" credit on the recording. Some effects are so elaborate and personal that you can hear the voice of the maker.

Projection Mapped AV Performance by Grant Bouvier in Philly www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9F... from grantbouvier.com/video/index....

Stereo Loop Fader patch for Organelle - basic stereo wav player for background textures. Two auto-looping players with crossfader (manual or LFO automated), individual EQ controls, stereo compressor with sidechain options, and stereo reverb/diffuser. patchstorage.com/stereo-loop-...

It's starting to smell like Possum Springs outside 🍂

"The circle of fifths is the same as the whole tone scale if you change to octaves of the fifths. The fifth is the 3rd harmonic, the 2nd is the octave which proves that the fifth is the most important interval. Simple calculations coming from the harmonic series." --Marco Raaphorst

Nobody told this Ipomea, or the Begonia, that they shouldn't be growing out of a gap in the paving.

I am listening to the MyNoise "Cafe Restaurant" noise generator with headphones on, while working in an actual cafe. mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

The live music events at Silence Please (in NYC) are framed creatively. "Deep Work" ... "Evening Tea". silenceplease.com/pages/events

"The TSA agents used to help Spanish speakers. The agents have been told they are not allowed to help people by speaking Spanish to them. This is so the non English speakers can be pulled out of line. 😡" (RP from Signal) #racialprofiling

What do you think a Live Role Playing Performance is?

“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”

I just assume no one listens to my music but I'm too stubborn to not do it. spite releases are the way

The internet is a lonely place to make music. You release something and have no real idea of what happened with it. It's like sending messages in a bottle - maybe they'll never be read at all, maybe somebody will love them, you'll never know. Playing live has drawbacks but it's human as hell.

Russia is shelling right on the EU's doorstep. The latest attack on Ukraine (the one that destroyed a US factory owned by Flex Ltd) was 30km from Hungary & Slovakia, 50km from Poland, here: If this is not a warning shot about war potentially coming to the EU, not sure what is.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.