If you can read this, you have the money and equipment you need to make music. Since I got laid off, I’ve started making music to send to my friends, using basically nothing but Audacity, which is free, and GarageBand, which came with my computer. It’s fun and fulfilling and you can do it too

Happy International Women’s Day from Pitbull

*Jethro Tull voice* Shin Ultraman

Word. Any professional orchestra who hasn’t programmed “Montgomery Variations” at least once since Minnesota recorded it for wider accessibility in 2021 is asleep at the wheel

Since we’re talking about our favorite women composers for International Women’s Day idk why everybody isn’t talking about Margaret Bonds all the time. As a boy I idolized Langston Hughes, and I don’t think anybody’s ever set him as thoughtfully or as sensitively or as well

Decca update: that posted this story TODAY:

It has been a few years since I made one of these, but they're all on Qobuz now, so I thought: why not reshare them? Playlists for International Women's Days, 2011–2018 #IWD2026 Music by Lockwood, Rehqvist, Weir, Neuwirth, Monk etc: open.qobuz.com/playlist/442...

I too would like to see Peter Gelb go to Mars

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

(Joni Mitchell voice) “Hangin out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride”

It’s crazy to think how much money Fugazi left on the table by only charging $5 for tickets. One of the most boneheaded business decisions of all time 😂

For the Record: March 6, 2026. Bandcamp Friday brings an orchestral gem by Qasim Naqvi amid many more new releases and coming attractions. Photograph: Qasim Naqvi by Smriti Keshari

My dream project with Brad Mehldau and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band premieres tonight! Some thoughts about my process for this project, and the misunderstood of arranging: darcyjamesargue.com/brad-mehldau...

Physically recoiling in disgust from this take

After withdrawing Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” from the Kennedy Center earlier this year, Philip Glass has a new premiere venue. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present the work’s at Tanglewood on July 5, conducted by Karen Kamensek. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/philip-glass...

Close-mic technique that sounds like ASMR from Doris Day in 1961. If you don't want to hear Doris Day's mouth sounds, like she is right there in your ear, do not play this video. youtu.be/oXkDRIpajmQ

Eventually we all live long enough to watch people that were cool in our youth turn into creepy old weirdos.

To be fair, I’m sure you realized even at the time that D’Arcy and James were way cooler

Anyways enjoy this video of Chinary Ung crip walking to Snoop Dogg

another perfect song. i listen to this at least three times a week. i'll never get tired of it music.apple.com/us/album/you...

This might be Ung's most performed work, a stunner for solo cello that grew from the genocidal murders of Cambodia's killing fields. I first heard it when my friend Kirsten Whitson made it the centerpiece of a recital about a decade ago. It still stops me cold every time I hear it.

The Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung (b. 1942), studying in the US at the time of the horrendous civil war in the country of his birth, went on to become the first American to win the Grawemeyer Award, arguably composing’s highest honor.

Join us Friday at Carnegie Hall in tribute to the great Ustad Zakir Hussain! www.worldmusicinstitute.org/zakir-hussai...

Once you learn that Prince wrote Manic Monday you start seeing all the parallels with Garfield, patterns emerge, synchronicities reveal themselves, until you are left with one conclusion - they are Twin Flames

Composer @sksnider.bsky.social's fifth full-length LP, the all-orchestral album 'Forward Into Light,' produced by Silas Brown and recorded by Metropolis Ensemble led by artistic director/conductor Andrew Cyr, is out now on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records: sarahkirklandsnider.lnk.to/ForwardIntoL...

@sksnider.bsky.social on her new album, 'Forward Into Light'

Ah yes here’s the screenshot

@chrisdeville.bsky.social talked to Bill Callahan about writing his excellent new album, collaborating with Noah Cyrus, soundtracking that weird Bob Dylan commercial, (almost) meeting Tom Verlaine, and much more Our latest We’ve Got A File On You: stereogum.com/2489087/weve...

it’s so funny to me the way he calls it a “Lebrecht interview” like, what a weird brain he must have

Norman Lebrecht suffering any kind of consequence for his toxic approach to music “journalism” is a vibe shift that I will celebrate.

ENDLICH! Dieser Typ hat sich über viele Jahre so verhalten, hatte sich als 'Musikkritiker' zB wie ein Dreijähriger über Rebecca Saunders Brille lustig gemacht, anstatt sich zu freuen, dass sie den Siemens-Preis kriegt. Gab vor Jahren schon nen Shitstorm auf Twitter samt Blockwelle. #Komponistinnen

And nothing of value was loat

Please contact the Park Police if you have any leads on who might have written his own name on the side of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performjng Arts

Psst hey #MusicSky! New book about Beck! Its rare for a woman to get to write something like this about a male artist for a major publisher so I really want it to be huge!

first shocked thought, before actually seeing what this post was quoting, was "is this about Glass or Wilson??"

Yes, "of African descent" and "Black" are not synonymous, but there is more contextual evidence from Lusitano's life (his disenfranchised position in the church, for instance) that aligns with his evidently identity and the later language that racializes him is unambiguous

Here's a great @garrt.bsky.social article about Lusitano's chromatic technique & the reception of his music:

His music has been written about plenty in recent years, but I hadn't read it, because I am a doofus—so the big discovery for me here was the music of Vicente Lusitano, who may have been the first Black composer ever published. This stuff is amazing:

Adrian let me go long on Bard College president t Leon Botstein, his relationship with pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and how elite men’s tolerance for sexual abuse is reflected in the institutions they control. www.patreon.com/posts/151641...

(My first CVNA review!)

I reviewed an incredible program by The Marian Consort for Classical Voice North America: classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/18/l...

Even if you can get past the typos this is dumb as hell

Oh man, this hits me right in the feels

A new report is out that details how Nicki Minaj used a sophisticated army of bots of more than 18,000 to unconditionally praise and amplify her content, and drive algorithms to spread Minaj’s posts on X. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

here's something for maybe 2 other people to get

it’s so cool everything is either a scam or designed to take away human rights or both now

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Full age is of different connotation Symbolization from the void Immeasurable fullness Feeling determinant Full age Is of the priceless treasure Above eternities Full age Is the feel of things And Intergalactic Master Control (Sun Ra)