"Fuck ICE" Spotted in Flint, Michigan

Zen dancing on ice to Donna Summer in Milan >>>

Honestly don’t understand how @atrupar.com does this shit every day. The level of stupid is off the fucking chain.

New Bklyn Sounds 2/19/2026—2/25/2026 + Short thoughts on 'Dweller' & 'Urban Stomp' (+ a t-shirt deal for subscription upgrades)

apropos Bruce Springsteen's tour announcement, may I once again share my list of his 10 best original protest songs (before you ask me why Edwin Starr's "War" isn't here): www.salon.com/2026/02/10/b...

This thread has music + youth + anti-fascism, and brought a tear to my eye...

I strongly suggest, BTW, if you have any interest at all in all kinds of rock, jazz and other styles in terms of live recordings done in Chicago from the 80s until, well, now, you follow @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy on here. Lots more shows being uploaded all the time. More here from last year:

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

New Bklyn Sounds 2/12/2026—2/18/2026

New Dada Music_January 2026 dadastrain.substack.com/p/new-dada-m...

New Bklyn Sounds 2/5/2026—2/11/2026 | On The Lot Radio's Birthday + the Value of Local Frequencies dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

Friday Morning Radio PSA!

New Bklyn Sounds 1/29/2026—2/3/2026 + Short thoughts on aesthetics vs. intentions

The grotesque.

And ofc the most significant "protest music" of the MPLS crisis is the callithumpian racket being kicked up by citizens themselves in the streets—alerting neighbors to the presence of Trump's thugs w/whistles & raising hell outside ICE agents' hotels w/drums, sticks, pots, pans, sirens, chants, etc.

Do something!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Thank you!

As the man said, "Nostalgia is not a strategy" #Fuck2016

to be fair it wasn’t difficult at all to see where this would go, you just had to take people at their word and think seriously about what they were proposing

New Bklyn Sounds 1/23/2026—1/27/2026 | The Glory of L&SD + How New Spaces Generate New Sounds Wrote a bit about my Greenpoint fave, Light & Sound Design Studio, which hosts 'Dada Strain @ L&SD' on Saturday, how it fits in with and extends NYC's leftfield culture creation.

New Dada Work | IN MEMORIAM: More than any other member of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir demanded that listeners' ears go furthur to understand the sound. I wrote a bit about how, for me, that priceless education never ended.

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

Snow is falling in Manhattan In a slow diagonal fashion On the Sabbath, as it happens Snow is falling in Manhattan If it looks like it might be a bad one The good caretaker springs to action Salts the stoop and scoops the cat in Tests an icy patch for traction

New Bklyn Sounds + Details on Peter Shapiro's Homegoing

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to our favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios in Greenpoint, for another 'Dada Strain @ L&SD,' on Saturday, January 24th at 7p.

Bklyn Sounds 1/8/2026—1/13/2026 | Dada Strain Guide to the WJF Marathons (and Talks)

NYC LIVE PSA! Presenting the third annual Dada Strain @ WJF show, starring friends, homeys and beloved colleagues, Sat 1/10. Details + discount code at the link. dadastrain.substack.com/p/dada-strai...

It's never too late to start wearing a mask. It's never too late to stop using Chat GPT. It's never too late to start supporting your community. It's never too late to do better.

Friday Morning Radio PSA! Happy New Year! I am back on @thelotradio.com tomorrow with Dada Strain's annual NYC Winter Jazzfest episode of the radio program, featuring special guest Amirtha Kidambi of Elder Ones, playing the Dada Strain NYCWJF show at Union Pool, Sat 1/10/26. www.thelotradio.com

AMAZING! Kudos to Toby Morton for this incredible bit... www.trumpkennedycenter.org

New Bklyn Sounds 12/26/2025—12/30/2025 + 12/31/2025—1/6/2026 // No paywall this week + public service announcements for community assistance. dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

New Music (review) | Steve Dyer, 'Multipolar' (Ropeadope) substack.com/profile/1848...

So many folks who’ve shaped music died this year. This is a great comprehensive retrospective that’s also missing Chicago music folks such as Ron Carrol and Keith Nunnally from J.M. Silk. I wrote a few obits of more marginal local musical figures I’ll thread below.

First Light starts now on East Village Radio. Tune in for two hours of bliss :) I'll be threading some thoughts here. If you don't care to follow just tap the three dots and "Mute thread" eastvillageradio.com/first-light-...

saw plenty of fun shows at music hall, & it was a fine venue, but more fondly recalling it as north six before it was gutted & turned into a bowery semi-clone that felt like a generic template for a chain (especially in contrast to the other venues in the neighborhood at the time it opened).

Having worked with Chris Anderson a bit at Victory Journal, he is a Real One! Proud to know him for that exchange alone!

New Dada Merch| A limited-edition t-shirt for the holidays, inspired by NYC's Mayor-elect, with proceeds going to local food-accessibility, trans culture and youth musicking organizations. Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, whichever/however you celebrate.

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

Today in alternative timelines: say what you want of Al Gore (and feel free to sh*t on the heinous running mate), but he recognized climate change as a priority three decades ago...

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

New Bklyn Sounds 12/11/2025—12/16/2025 + 'Heavy Florals presents Dada Strain Holiday Mixer & Coat Drive' dadastrain.substack.com/p/bklyn-soun...

New Dada Read | Ed Gillett's "Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain' (2023) - The best book I’ve read about dancing, the importance of dance music, its values and its social history since Emma Warren’s essential 'Dance Your Way Home.' Heavy #RootsOfDadaStrain energy. [h/t Eddi]

I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison. Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...

Brittany is a an excellent music writer and reporter. May be too "pop" for many DS subs, but if you're gonna read an informed writer/listener on pop, make it her.

"Music + advocacy go hand in hand"

Bklyn Arts Spaces News | The Gowanus sound-room/club-space/vegan-eatery (identified in thsi article as "a multi-dimensional cultural space and platform") is punching up big time.

New Dada Music_October & November 2025 dadastrain.substack.com/p/new-dada-m...

New Music (review) | Catherine Brookman, 'If A Song Fades Out, It's Playing Forever Somewhere' (Long Echo Records) substack.com/profile/1848...