Here’s a YouTube short of the hook/chorus of a song I wrote in my shed and recorded using real singers with absolutely no AI involvement “Sounds like Chris Stapleton” folks have said and I’ll take that🤠 #Americana #MusicSky #ChrisStapleton youtube.com/shorts/OFhlV...

Sounds about right 😊

This “Damn The Torpedoes” period of Tom Petty was as near perfect as it gets Under three minutes and not a second wasted😊 #MusicSky

One of several reasons I haven’t regretted quitting Facebook last year.

20 seconds of new music by folks you’ve never heard of 😱😱😱😱😱😱 Proceed with extreme caution! #MusicSky #Americana youtube.com/shorts/VLj3r...

Over Xmas, Ed Zitron put up four bite-size episodes of his Better Offline podcast entitled “The Case Against Generative AI” and it’s a compelling listen if you enjoy hearing economic calamity rolling towards you in slow motion 1/2

“Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim” Wonderful song from the much missed Kirsty MacColl 🤠 #MusicSky #Americana youtu.be/T7m1CZOq1Ho?...

Remembering the great Philip Lynott, who died 40 years ago today, aged just 36. This archive piece from the Guardian is an attempt to measure his considerable reach as a songwriter, recording artist and performer in just 10 tracks: www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

The seemingly AI-generated metalcore act Broken Avenue is accused of ripping off bands like Counterparts, whose frontman has now offered a response

Warning! Contains words and music by people you’ve never heard of 😱😱😱😱😱😱 What it definitely does not contain is anything to do with or any input from AI #MusicSky #Americana youtube.com/shorts/-AxdJ...

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

I don’t wast to appear to be part of the “something must be done about it” brigade but “something must be done about it” If only we had governments that could make some laws or something instead of the default being knee jerk tech-bro boot licking? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thinking LLMs will lead to superintelligence is like thinking you can ace a course by copying someone else’s homework. You can’t become cleverer by stealing other people’s work without really looking at it any more than you can get fit by making someone else do loads of push ups.

Music keeps us young. Having music in our lives keeps us open to things. - Henry Rollins #Truth

The very best music books I read this year (not in order of preference).

My big night out: I realised I could leave the house party behind – and everything else that made me feel small www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Well, depending on your take he’s either sincerely regretful and chastened and will not be guided romantically by Jordan Peterson books or a self pitying “Man Baby” but to decide you’d have to listen to the track? (see what I did there?) 😇 #MusicSky #Americana youtube.com/shorts/gXCqx...

And so shit that they can’t even get an imaginary bass player to join them 🤣🤣🤣 #MusicSky

Love this ❤️

Go round the outside.

The streaming services and digital distributors could stop this fraud (that’s what it is) but the truth is that they just don’t want to

In honour of Tracey Ullman's birthday Ron sings "They Don't Know" RS youtu.be/Hnbjx3gqNEA?...

Someone (not me) said it sounds a bit like Chris Stapleton 🤠 #MusicSky #Americana #ChrisStapleton

You did particularly well! You’ve just won a twenty second break from doomscrolling! Be warned though, it’s brand new music from folks you’ve probably never heard of 😱 youtube.com/shorts/-AxdJ... #Americana #MusicSky #CountryRock

"Yes, but I have something he will never have...enough."-Joseph Heller

Fresh Country talent The Alban Kings Project is a man who sits in his shed writing songs then gets real singers to sing them in a studio as a “songwriter for hire” but streaming incomes & AI means nobody’s hiring. He's just released his 1st Country song #CountrySky www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjW3...

Old Skool #Audio Stack. #Audiophile

Ed tech people, uni administrators keep pushing gAI on us, and dismissing criticisms. I want them to answer this question: how do you reconcile whatever benefits you proclaim from using LLMs like this if we end up endangering our students like this? Because Adam Raine is not the only case.

“…an insult to life itself” Wow! Looks like someone likes it even less than me? 😊 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

He calls himself a“Redneck Boomerang Boy” apparently which is maybe just an attempt to glamourise the fact that he got dumped and had to move back in with his mother 🤠 Sometimes it seems I dream up protagonists with limited self awareness? #MusicSky #Americana youtube.com/shorts/gXCqx...

Hope you’re wrong but fear you’re right

Informative and as a consequence depressing ☹️ in equal measure

And so shit that they can’t even get an imaginary bass player to join them 🤣🤣🤣 #MusicSky

“The war between art and slop” As good a summary of where we are as you could wish to read👍 #MusicSky

Support your local podcaster. They’re up against this huge machine of posh lads, production companies with huge PR budgets, and lazy millionaire comedians. It was once a steam rally, now it’s a car show.

Gary Clark Jr. - You Saved Me (live '12) #EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #GaryClarkJr #Guitar 27-🎸 Gary Clark Jr. is a modern day guitar luminary. Good songwriter, too. Every time I've seen him it's been smoking hot fire! youtu.be/ukTUVthCSQg?...

The strange guitar I wrote the song pinned to my profile on🎸 You can see a dogs bowl, a kitchen sink drain and the bridge cover is a kitchen cabinet door handle 🤣 No sound hole so it is quiet to play which was why I was strumming it late at night when the inspiration struck #GuitarSky #MusicSky

My favourite version of “Wichita Lineman” is the one by the feller who wrote it Taken from his “Ten Easy Pieces” album on which Jimmy Webb does most of his “big hitters” with not much more than a piano A fantastic song from a truly great album #MusicSky #Songwriter youtu.be/7X2TXwREYOY?...

Compelling www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“”Silent Night” then into the song 🎄From Austin City Limits live show Merry Christmas! 🎄👍🏻 youtu.be/a1v7HakNz4E?...

Something nice for Christmas morning……….. youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I?...

If you think you’ve sold a loved one short this Xmas you could be make amends by buying them this! The story of the 19 years @stephenhanley6.bsky.social spent in The Fall narrated by uber fan Stewart Lee. It’s brilliant. Truly. 💥👇🏼

#Music 🎵 #MusicSky 🎶 #Recommendations 👍 #TwoForTuesday 2️⃣ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee (Original) youtu.be/fFnOfpIJL0M?...

This is on the money

Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us

my friend drew this for me, help me convince him he could do numbers on etsy