A tech publication scene, with politics ranging from left-liberal to far-right, has flourished in the Bay Area — @counteroptimize.bsky.social dives into an intellectual world whose social and political boundary lines have become increasingly blurred. bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

“Free Key Choir rocks” -me

This Oakland DIY singing group, known as the Free Key Choir, has gone from just-for-fun to the next-big-thing, with a Pacific Northwest tour on the books. @copypasteyonders.bsky.social explores how a do-it-yourself ethos was central to their success. bayareacurrent.com/all-rise-the...

We just had our first real test of integrity as a company. It cost us $200,000. An investor committed funding to Subvert. Then they pushed for concessions - permanent voting board seats not subject to community election. We said no.

jesus fuckin christ is there any aspect of the music industry that is going to make it through the next year

This took forever, but I am very glad to be able to write this morning that the entire run of Arthur magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) is finally available online as single issue PDFs. Every page of every issue, either scanned or from the original digital files. FREE. arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...

“But although he also sold out tickets to a Dallas concert for 50,000 fans at AT&T Stadium, they never got to see him play: The show was canceled because his visa was revoked.”

‘Saafir got his start as a breakdancer. By his own account, he spent all but ten months of his teens in the system, and was behind bars when he heard LL Cool J for the first time and thought: “I can do that.”’ Alex Abramovich on the Bay Area MC, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

top shelf ambient dub

Favorite pope, Leo Favorite drink, O'Doul's Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls

Seems pretty depressing that Vinyl Me, Please is publishing A.I. slop about Deerhoof, a band that consistently embodies whatever the opposite of A.I. slop is.

two of the heaviest hitters, I auto-subbed

european appliances

“It makes some people very angry to suggest that reality might be more moldable than they’ve been raised to believe. It might just force them to consider the unendurable stagnancy of their own lives.”

this is a bar

Finally can upload this here.

LFG!!!!

noz said every year is a great year for rap music

was haunted by this post had to make it

ML Buch drummer playing an electronic kit with only the fakest Guitar Center 2002 presets and it’s so fucking good

I’m at ML Buch and she’s playing a triangle, hell yeah

I actually grew a little fond of the SF tech bro who built BopSpotter, and then he snitched on the health insurance CEO assassin. never again

choosing to believe this the only time in history a drummer has put count-off stick clicks at the END of a song m.youtube.com/watch?v=A1l-...

Eartheater SOAD cover is good

why yes I enjoy scholarly pursuits. A bit of an autodidact you might say. The life of the mind, etc