en route to deptford to run a pilot workshop about how musicians and music platform coops can build things, coordinate, and learn together with @mirlo.space and @jam.coop - an exciting experiment in grounding online cooperation & distribution in real offline relationships

Looking forward to reading the copy of Action Stations's The Far Right Playbook that's landed on my desk. There's more information, including how to get a copy here farrightplaybook.nz/shop/

I'm stepping down after nearly six (!) years of service to the branch, please get in touch with any questions or ideas for contributing and keeping the organisation alive.

Free registration is open now for our Amplification and Everyday Life conference happening at U of Huddersfield on 4-5 June, including an exciting series of performances and installations presented by Yorkshire Sound Women Network: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amplificat...

Writing opportunity: The DJ Set. Special issue of the journal Dancecult This call aims to move forward how we understand DJ sets as the musical and social centre of gravity of most electronic dance music scenes. Deadline 1 June: dj.dancecult.net/index.php/da...

So! My buddy Derek and I have launched a music school! It's called Tuniversity and it was motivated by two different things: people want to study with us who don't attend NYU, and NYU does not have enough classes for us to teach. Our first songwriting class starts next month. tuniversityny.com

What makes an ideal DJ set? While continuity is key for a techno set, an artist influenced by dub or hip-hop may instead relish in rupture: the MC might demand they rewind the track when a bass line is so strong it simply has to be heard again from the top.

Bravo Ireland. This is such a great boost for artists. I have an Artists tax exemption in Ireland for works under 50k. It helped me so much - existence in a feast or famine career is hard. But consecutive Irish governments realized that writers, musicians, artists are the lifeblood of the country.

New favourite band - discovered from a paid instagram story ad for their gig last night in Leeds, of all ways. just as good live as they are on record, if not better youtu.be/zdIkQxEPoT0?...

The deadline to submit to our biennial conference in Aberdeen this summer has been extended to 23 February. Please share this reminder widely with your networks for anyone who may have missed the initial call. bsky.app/profile/iasp...

We're slowly building an alternative to Spotify and Bandcamp. Owned by artists, labels the people who work here. Why? Because if we work together and own it together it can never be taken away.

Article alert! My short paper on analysing DJ performance, based on some of my PhD methodology work, is out now. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University. Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM. Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026 Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the... Deadline: 02 Feb 2026

Deadline approaching! Submit a proposal to our 'amplification and everyday life' conference by 15th December

Come and think about music and sound amplification in everyday life with me and my colleagues in Huddersfield next June! CfP is open until 15 December 2025.

Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026. Submission deadline 15 December 2025. makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/c...

Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.

Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

VCs don’t run universities. We do. After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot. Ballot opens October. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity

Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt... #LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories

We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.

The AMS (like any large org) doesn't always get it right, but it got this one VERY right www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...

Amps! + a neat little summary of what our work is about www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

PhD call part II: we have three fully funded (home) scholarships still to award for students interested in researching sound amplification. Preference will go to topics like disability and the environment but all will be considered. Info below, deadline 12 May. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, "Algorithms of Resistance" shows through a diverse range of case studies how people can resist algorithms across various domains. This book is available in a free, #openaccess edition: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254742...

Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale. Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.

I'm giving a short talk in a few weeks with my new team about our work where we want the Amplification Project to go, or think it could/should go. It's a weekday morning on campus but come along if you can, we'd love to hear from you. #MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire

Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

Check out Josh Davila author of "Blockchain Radicals", on @thebristolcable.bsky.social 's People Just Do Something Podcast on crypto and the contemporary left. thebristolcable.org/2025/02/peop...

Catch the #Grammys? This week’s review introduces the concept of Blacksound to examine how the American popular #musicindustry "was built on the exploitation of slave song and blackface minstrelsy” in "Blacksound" from U California Press: ow.ly/JQtZ50USEBB #BlackHistoryMonth @ucpress.bsky.social

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

@lendavis.bsky.social , author of "Poor Things," talks with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about how people with money write about those without it. https://buff.ly/4gl9YGf

Grim news at Cardiff, probably more to come at other Universities. Please sign and share if you can. Solidarity to all the affected students and staff chng.it/xcSXRBZwW4

Music in Orbit is now available for pre-order, with the option to buy through @ucpress.bsky.social now available. Everything is happening. www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

En route to Berlin for #dc25 - speaking on an awesome music and the internet panel Saturday. We'll be talking archives, ephemerality, and platformization.

If you want to listen to a music provider you can feel good about (not Spotify), may I suggest Inhailer radio, which is currently playing "Free Nelson Mandela" in honor of Peltier's release? inhailer.com

Do you have questions about #OpenAccess? We're happy to answer them! #AskUP by submitting your questions on the @aupresses.bsky.social website: https://ask.up.hcommons.org/submit-a-question/

Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot - I take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions

Less than a week to go until Dr Joy White introduces her latest book "Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid" at UD music in East London! Get your ticket via www.isrf.org/events/book-...

I'm excited to announce I'm joining the University of Huddersfield as a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Amplification Project (2025-30) led by Prof. Steve Waksman. We have *12* fully funded PhD scholarships available with the deadline approaching soon, please RT and send to your masters students!

If you’re new to Bluesky, this is a really helpful thread that explains how to use this platform:

okay i did it — and there absolutely needs to be a part two! please let me know if you want to be added & please share widely! go.bsky.app/ABFHb8S