Somebody used my song title! How dare they! ;-) a-lyric.com/2026/04/ben-... #songwriting #musicsky

Story of my life...

Today is the 40th anniversary of the greatest technological disaster of the 20th century - the explosion at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This catastrophe could have had still much more disastrous global impact had it not been a sacrifice of the first responders.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

French #DJ Etienne de Crécy drinks from a glass of beer and smiles a lot at his gigs. How quaint! Seems his sound has got a lot heavier over the years though. True? #musicsky

I've changed my mind. This is my choice for #TGIF #musicsky open.spotify.com/track/53d3lG...

Why am hearing so much great music in Spanish? open.spotify.com/track/7tOAN6... #chile

Slovenian TV is replacing the #Eurovision broadcast with an evening of Palestinian cinema. The surprise is that there are a good few movies to choose from. I recommend the Tarzan brothers annals from #Gaza. NOT what you expect at all #Palestine

My protest song with Herman Martin, "In the Shadows", is a featured track on Music2Deal for the Benelux. The video is pretty raw (skip to 1 minute) music2deal.com/benelux/_9Lx... #musicsky

For those that celebrate St George: youtu.be/1ZFAC36h1Io?... Wait until 3'40". #musicsky #romani #soundtrack

My pal French freestyle rapper M'Tiss shows his roots. He has some incredible material in the pipeline www.tiktok.com/@mtiss_offic... #rap #hophop #frenchhips #rapfrançais

These headlines are becoming repetitive: www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #Ai #streaming #musicbiz

The vinyl renaissance reaches China www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/18/... #vinyl #indiemusic

Don't do this alone

Here's an MOR rant. Again, in that snack that plays AI playlists, I heard a perfect clone of... Johnny Logan. Why clone him? He's still alive and earning a living from his music. Why rob him/his writers of Spotify royalties if U like him? Don't get it!

Heh.

I've always felt that the Delta #Blues is very, close to the roots of Malian music. Or even #gnawa. But that's just me, perhaps

New service lets you promote your music through smartlinks (8 platforms), ticketing and conversion tracking for €5/month band.stream/en #musicbiz #indiemusic

What a wild, beautiful album this was. I keep coming back to it youtu.be/vOfWV4_2llU?... #dub #musicsky play loud

Is this new material from Joe Jackson? www.revieew.music/album/851590... #musicsky

There's this poignant song in "Project Hail Mary", Gracias a la Vida. People are asking about it. Turns out it was a #protest song in sixties South America, when ordinary folk were being disappeared by police yet people did not give up. a-lyric.com/2009/10/rip-...

RIP: Moya Brennan - it's the passing of a generation that re-invented Irish roots music

That time a Palestinian almost made to the #Eurovision finals 😄 a-lyric.com/2025/05/euro... #Palestine

Wow. Sting playing in the Paris Pantheon. Brilliant visually and musically. Look for it on @artefr.bsky.social

OK. Me too! Here's a link to some music. Check 5 mins and then go and find their videos. You won't be disappointed.

55 years ago today, David Bowie released ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ album in the UK in 1971.

"The annual revenues of the 3 majors from paid streaming have increased from $7.5 billion in 2021 to $12.21 billion in 2025, or +63% in 4 years. It... accounted for 36% of their combined revenue last year, compared to 29% in 2021." (in French) musiczone.substack.com/p/loligopole... #musicbiz

It just struck how dry the mix of White Stripes "7-Nation Army" sounds - it has almost a demo feel to it. Works though! #studiolife youtu.be/0J2QdDbelmY?...

Feelgood post of the day

Sheesh. The #FIFA Peace Prize has really gone to piss of late. It ain't what it used to be.

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you" Seen in Rochester, New York

One of the trad tracks I co-wrote with Perry Rose all those years ago. youtu.be/_d0KnvyG9_I?... #irishmusic

Important: another dark side of unregulated #AI in music. This is like the "lost tapes" of Otis Redding that found on YouTube. #musicbiz

Groovy!

One for fans of #chanson: the biography of Jacques Duvall, lyricist for Chamfort, Lio and Jane Birkin a-lyric.com/2026/04/book... #lyrics #books

1995 rvisited.

Another one for the collection: #bobdylan #lyrics found in a book once owned by the wife of his first manager www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Great session about the #streaming economy at the rights organisation SABAM.

Happy Birthday to Tracy Chapman.

Non-US people cannot vote in mid-terms. But we can still make our voices heard: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Thought for the day about "forms of music self-promotion that provide no return." #musicbiz

Hey, good news for once! The Spanish live music industry saw over 11% growth last year. Get me Madrid on the phone! musically.com/2026/03/27/s... #musicbiz #Spain #goodnews

There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!

Lol, gotta love the randomness of @artefr.bsky.social It's Friday night and I'm here watching Jean-Michel Jarre in concert. Not my style but he knows what he's doing

Deezer is licensing its AI detection tech www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/deezer-licen... #Ai #hungary #music

Indie association #Impala has a list of 100 artists to watch. Yikes! How the Smurf do you handle such a number? There are genre playlists to check. I'm curently listening to Emma Hessels (nice) impalamusic.org/impala-100-a... #playlist #indiemusic

REWIND (from 2010): Joe Walsh vs Joe Walsh. The Eagles guitarist knocks politician of the same name for re-writing one of his songs. It gets even better... a-lyric.com/2010/01/the-... #eagles #politics