Can I ask advice? I'm starting on a new series of music videos. For me video is necessary, not a passion. Sound is my thing. I have music to make. How can I inspire others to make videos for these tracks? Video artists, what kind of approach works for you? What angle should I take?

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Fight me: Ronnie James Dio turned Black Sabbath into mediocre schmucks.

Opez is a sleeper favorite of mine. They’re not showy but they are always ridiculously cool. youtu.be/HCDG91aUBlA

Irish alternative trad/folk group Rattling Ark share “Coleraine Jig,” from their forthcoming debut album “Top of a Mountain”...this haunting instrumental piece fuses cello with cascading zithers and percussion — the melody framed before resolving into a trancelike groove. klofmag.com/2026/05/ratt...

I made a thing to let you grab a playlist from Spotify into Parachord. github.com/lucasgonze/s... /cc @jherskowitz

A dad-rock playlist for your Parachord: gonze.com/playlists/Op... (parachord.com/blog/2026/04...)

One of the great almost-unknown 1970s French Underground sounds. 15 minutes of actor Bernard Verley intoning Rimbaud’s poem over a massive psych improvisation by Catharsis. Verley sounds completely transported by the band’s flight. 1972, since you ask

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~ Francis de Sales Je Shen (China b. 1973)

How I used AI to write an important email related to making money: 1. Freeform notes. Just a brain dump. 2. Several iterations with the AI to organize thoughts and structure the document. 3. Retype and rewrite every sentence in my own voice.

www.timesunion.com/music/articl... (archive.ph/6CGMt)

"Like Swimwear (Modern Avant Jazz & Broken Beat) Experimental jazz for hip-hop heads & drum nerds. Polyrhythmic chaos, spaced-out soul, and beats falling apart perfectly. Feat. Madlib, DOMi & JD Beck, Denzel Curry. "JAZZ IS DEAD" – long live the weird stuff." open.spotify.com/playlist/3JB...

Spock: "Captain, would you like to see my latest modular synth rack setup?" Jim: "Damn, Spock. Now I know where most of your pay is going.."

Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) ——> auditory pareidolia? youtu.be/UGU-zkJqr2E

#TIL about Jivari, Sawari, Rustle Noise "I stumbled on something first discovered thousands of years ago -- the miraculous buzzing of the sitar. Jivari is the Indian word. It's created by a (nearly) flat bridge on a sitar or similar instrument" cochranemusic.com/node/301

I do think it’s better to do things about than complain about (maybe I have just complained enough already tho lol), so I always suggest then supporting folks like @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com or these writers or others in some way when complaining jodyshenn.com/newnews

I’ve been crushing on horror soundtracks lately, which led me down a dark and frightening path to the music of Mark Korven. Two of his tracks now lead off my Stigmatic Ambient playlist—one from The VVitch and one from The Lighthouse. open.spotify.com/playlist/4Wo...

One of the rare acoustic Americana releases that I keep coming back to: joewalsh.bandcamp.com/album/trust-...

A warning to all creative writers: Microsoft wants to alter your words, and allow AI to *make* changes, not just *suggest* them. If you want out of this mess, check out @libreoffice.bsky.social / www.libreoffice.org for a free, open source, MS-compatible, office suite with no baked-in AI.

What was the first playlist you were aware of? What was the first one you heard?

19 streams from 10,000 open.spotify.com/track/4MNnKt...

Would immediately buy the mid-century novel that began with this sentence.

Completely new vision of what Squarepusher was about all along. I don’t know how I’ll feel about this in the long run. Will I love it as much as golden age Squarepusher?

When I heard this music I felt like I had been looking for it

A melodic track that’s so sparse, calm, and sonically sensitive that I thought it was ambient at first: nobleson.bandcamp.com/track/eidola

I give up on Masayoshi Takanaka. The goopiness makes me bristle. What’s the appeal? My best guess is that he’s running the mallsoft / vaporwave / double-reverse-irony play. youtu.be/UGDQVZ4caR0

I got a little gig backing up this singer who I’ve played in pickup bands with. We’ve always gotten along. I went to her house for a practice.

New lead-off track in Retro Futurist Instrumental Rock playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/6SO...

The Department of Homeland Security is not a church. Using an official government account to broadcast Christian scripture is a blatant violation of the Establishment Clause and a clear wink to Christian nationalism. #holdfast

A lost story by Beatrix Potter has surfaced

A question for my fellow jazzholes. See that F diminished in the 6th bar? There’s an E natural note in the melody. WTH? That is about as far from a chord tone. as you can get. I checked a couple different transcriptions to verify that this is how people play it. And the melody is not wrong. #jazz

Spotted just now this great reimagining of classic 1936 Spanish Civil War poster "Aixafem el feixisme - Let's crush fascism" by Pere Pic i Català, this 2026 version produced the Centre LGTBi de Barcelona.

So many wonderful ideas and sounds We are in a golden age of instrument tech youtu.be/6sPbJwzi87k

The world is always weirder and more beautiful than you can imagine. Case in point, ERD/WORM soundcloud.com/martin_howse...

Nothing says Spring like brooding, occult-inspired soundscapes youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Remembered Sky Whitley Bay 2019 #RememberedSky

"At the very end of spacetime, on an old wooden dock suspended over the calm and iridescent waters of eternity, a hobo dangles his legs over the edge and plays his harmonica without a care."

You can use sQratch.us to strip the formatting off rich text. To try it out, copy something fancy like goop on a web page. Open the site. Paste. Hit this button.

There’s no way to raise this much money without enshittification. Bluesky’s manner of death is foretold.

Art not made with AI.

A better, simpler, more obvious test for replicants and other computer beings: impossibly comprehensive knowledge. Like, Google Maps knows the traffic 1000 miles away and it knows the houses on your block. An AI knows everything about prime numbers and current memes. Only a computer could know.

Poonam Khanna

Can — live in Paris, March 1976. Complete flow state, interstellar krautboogie at its finest, pure elemental groove. Or as Irmin Schmidt said, “A lot of the time in the mid-70s we felt quite funky.”

🚨 NEW MUSIC ALERT 🚨 My son Simon just released his first album on @bandcamp.com. It’s a gorgeous chamber pop confection with cascading vocal harmonies, impressionistic lyrics, and some really impressive songwriting and arranging. Sufjan meets Hosier meets Sondheim. Give it a listen:

In composition/improvisation, musical direction can either be imposed by unelected, centralized bureaucrats or left to be steered by the invisible hand of the free market.

TIL the advent of robotic lawn mowers has led to an uptick in hedgehog deaths

I wasted a photo from an Ilford HP5 roll to capture the churro shop in my neighborhood. Not a customer but I'm happy it exists. I would contemplate the churro shop while I smoke from my window and the churro shop owner would contemplate me while he inspires the churros' smoke. A bond, truly.