working up a new unit in Technomusicology where I task students with making a remix using only short loops (2 beats?) of the source material. having trouble finding any good writing on the practice of composing with short loops. any articles come to mind?

national anthems symbolize nationalism so well. they all suck shit.

world cup footage cut to RFK Jr in the stands and he was roundly booed at the bar here

"This was a new way of working. We were trying to emulate the hip-hop pioneers in New York. We loved how you could make random connections and how it made our quirky British songs sound cool and American."

when the timeline forks in a good way

little known fact about becoming a trillionaire: you must then be thrown into the nearest volcano

and San Benito is officially canonized as Papa Leo belts out 'Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii" www.ncronline.org/vatican/bad-...

the new MoM album is 🔥 probably Perry's posthumous best. someone should pay me to write about it.

get a load of this absolute tome

my friend Pace asked me to slap a breakbeat on some Cheech & Chong, but then I realized how much the song must have inspired the Beasties and it turned into a mashup www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTxk...

just heard a loud explosion in the neighborhood?!

*Delroy Wilson voice* 🎶 I'm in a posting mood... 🎶

"we're dancing animals" is a beautiful way to put it, but I would add, we're not the only ones.

me, hearing about new vaccine: just hook it to my VEINS provider: sir, this is a CVS, and it's an inhalable

oh, did you think I said "lapsed catholic"? oh no, I'm a "based catholic" now.

novel gustatory experiences? bro, I just ate the same thing for breakfast and lunch. (delicious both times, would eat again.)

I'm at a concert in Harvard Sq, and the people behind me are talking about Winthrop and Billerica but in a Slavic accent. it's effing with me.

watch out, "The Cool S," here comes...

just getting roasted over here by Zari #oldheads

cybercriminals returning the hacked personal data

one of my students wrote "late 1900s rock" instead of, say, "80s rock" and I am herewith deceased.

welp, i guess that's it for grading for the day. probably won't be able to hold class in a couple hours either. back to the garden it is...

more like can'tvas

pa' mi gente de la mañana

hello bluebook my old friend 🎶

new pub alert! 👀 🚨 🇵🇷 🇲🇽 🎉 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

I made an earnest post. might delete.

to "harness the power of AI" as they say, far as I can see, is to have enough domain knowledge to know how (or whether) to use it. if the government wants to support students and workers in that, the answer is not by integrating AI with everything, it's by supporting AI-free learning.

I was one of the 250 "music insiders" consulted for this piece (a full year ago!) and I'm cheered to see 14 of the 16 I listed here. (Joni was disqual'd for being Canadian; I knew that but cmon. Tom Waits was a long shot?) was afraid hip-hop & R&B folks might be overlooked and I'm glad they weren't.

we turn to hip-hop this week in my American Popular Music class, so you know I had to do it to em

Boston record heads: Brian Coleman has opened up his own shop in Newton, next door to a dispensary (for you other heads). Rooting for him: www.rootforus.net

choice placement of this ad right in the midst of a discussion of the allegations against Bambaataa

beautiful, yes, but real cruelest month vibes. sometimes it snows in april :/

April is the cruelest month

comp seems cool but was this review written in the 80s? "...with the spiritual sounds of caressed congos, shakers, and emotional vocal crooning, you can almost feel the rich smoke of this séance emanating from the speakers as Bio calls to the Rastafarian deity." daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

tfw when you're reading an Eek-A-Mouse transcription

just drove past a bank of some sort in Xalapa called Más Kapital 🤣

ay que bonito es volar

so nice to be able to open the windows (sound on)

"viewer discretion" means watching the videos, no?

this doesn't do justice but the sunset was absolutely cooking tonight

gmail just showed me a preview of an AI-reply I could use to respond to an email, and while I shouldn't be so shocked, I was truly flabbergasted that the answer it composed drew from recent in-person conversations (as spied on by my phone) and my browsing history (to divine my travel plans). creeps.

a piece I wrote last year about dembow dominicano for Hyperlocal is now online: hyper---local.com/magazine/dem... a post-script today would add that the recent Tokischa collabs with Ice Spice and ASAP Rocky suggest that dembow might have more room for English verses than reggaeton.

I love the idea of trying to fire a dog. Good luck with that.

far prefer the Pru to tell me the Celts are playing than that we're bombing other countries

we discussed W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" in class last week, and now my snitch-ass phone is pushing me notifications about the hockey team

the impressive choppa (scammer) code-switching is the big sell here, but I can't get over the irony that at the same time as this dembow lawsuit, dancehall drums have gravitated toward a 3-2 clave pattern (as also heard in trap and afrobeats). www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzW...

riding my bike around town like a complete maniac (for riding my bike around town on these streets)

"sound system culture has expanded all over the world…The result of this is hundreds & hundreds of sound systems in Jamaican molds scattered around the world - as in Brazil, w. the sound history of this culture being passed on decade after decade, preserving the trajectory & creating new memories”