Goodnight music. Thelonious Monk’s Reflections. When I was 20 at the @banffcentre.bsky.social creative jazz program (2004), new friends and I listened to a solo version of this by Steve Lacy when we learned he’d died that brought me to tears with its longing. Incredible song. youtu.be/4m-1BU58SJY

Brivele Stefanie Brendler - accordion & vox Maia Brown - vocals & banjo 11.15 Studio 34 West Philly

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

More from A Glezele Tey - Liberatory Yiddish and klezmer Ariel Shapiro - accordion & voice Rachel Leader - violin Richie Barshay - percussion Studio 34 (same place as last night!) West Philly

A Glezele Tey - Liberatory Yiddish and klezmer Ariel Shapiro - accordion & voice Rachel Leader - violin Richie Barshay - percussion Studio 34 (same place as last night!) West Philly Ot Azoy!

Excited to head back to studio 34 for a wonderful show of klezmer friends. They are my friends, and they are also excellent! events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...

I think a lot of the norms that allow society to function have utterly rotted away and I don’t know how you fix that long term but in the short term we start by destroying the sports betting industry.

Dos Shikage Vurstl! Geshmakt!

💥 Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say 👏 Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This thread! Always learning form @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Good morning! Noise last night, radical Yiddish folk songs tonight at the same venue in my neighborhood. Very Dan Blacksberg style! Come on out tonight for Seattle’s Brivele and Western MA’s A Glezele Tey! events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Philadelphia history! share.inquirer.com/dH6Zqv

Nightmare Neighbor 11.14 Studio 34 West Philly

here's the source of this, Wolff N. Kostakowsky's International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in NYC in 1916. It's in the public domain but I'm not sure if there's a better scan than this 4-part one on IMSLP. a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Julius Masri - Drums Dave Ross - Guitar 11/14. Studio 34 West Philly

I’m good with this.

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Somehow I had doubted this Facebook post.

monolingualism sucks, English is overrated

I loved this article by Janus Rose on @aftermath.site Been super inspired the way these independent media sites do work and structure their business! Especially Aftermath and @404media.co who balance groundbreaking seriousness with a lot of fun play. aftermath.site/ai-is-the-ul...

Listen and follow us here and on instagram! radiant-others-a.blubrry.net

Alongside all the music making, I also make the Radiant Others podcast, where I talk to musicians, scholars, and all the folks who create our beloved Yiddish world (and sometimes beyond)! New episodes once a month. Most recent: a 2-parter with Daniel Kahn. bsky.app/profile/radi...

Funny that the music I was told is controversial “free jazz” is uploaded by a YT channel called “modern jazz classics.” Correct! This is liberated Black music. Like Charlie Parker was liberated Black music. Listen for what’s there, not for what isn’t and you’ll be rewarded. youtu.be/_oH63aiGCs4

This shit feels like doom for…well, hopefully for the companies and these models.

Ooh can’t wait to have time to dive into this new Maintenance Phase episode. Raw milk being legal in Pennsylvania, it’s been such a thing at farmers markets and co-ops for years.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

WHOA

Jfc man, come on

What pretend-effective actions are power holders of money and access in music going to we say we should do in light of this? “Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.”?!?!? 🤢 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thanks to @yoni191.bsky.social for setting this up! Can’t wait! Tomorrow at 8:30 at Studio 34 in west Philly!

screaming in day four of migraine: YOU WILL TAKE MY IBUPROFEN FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

The late, Adrienne Cooper’s adaptation of a Hasidic shabbes song. Lyrics “if my voice were louder” can feel not up to today’s urgency. Like, Past time to get loud! But when she sings these conditional words, they sound like a command to us all. Her power through her music. youtu.be/Sr5JwgnkVxo

We need to bring our full humanity to the everything we do now more than ever. Music is a great place to practice. Here’s some extremely full-human music. Good night! youtu.be/kB-zG5EmdTk

I dream of a day when these companies curdle into shriveled husks and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get something better. In the meantime, I’ll be listening to @edzitron.com. Thanks to @darcyjamesargue.com for turning me on to Ed’s great work last year.

New interview with the awesome, musician, songwriter, political and cultural organizer Ira Temple! Ira work on and off the bandstand has changed my life for the better. It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.

Looked at a music “starter pack” was not surprised to not recognize a single person. Humbling to remember the world of music is unbelievably vast and also I am so distant from most mainstream fields/scenes/paths… Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...

Shout out to my colleagues and our excellent intergenerational Yiddish Scene!

Oh snap! Can't wait.

This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years. Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.” search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...

In need of some late night wind down music? I’m listening to This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good. michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...

just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)

Big hearty congrats to Sarah!

Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!

the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother

I feel for all my friends in New York who worked so hard to organize for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social (and so often get ignored by the mainstream press), that the price for winning is to work harder, but I know they are up for it!

Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month. Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan. Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.

More food for thought from @bcmerchant.bsky.social Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...

My brain’s wake up music! Is this song titled “And Now” or “Golden Heart?” Don Cherry is the perfect blend of melody and noise. Or a better way to understand it I think is that the boundaries of the melody stretch far, far beyond our usual understanding of key or sound. youtu.be/9RUGa4gggmg&...