David Menestres
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Destroy the original. Fax the images to Newark. davidmenestres.com
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Erik Carlson
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Scott Robertson recorded and transcribed 50 of his yawns
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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label)
about 9 hours ago
Oh HELL yes. Five tracks from July 1975, two from May 1976. Collective personnel: Oliver Lake (saxes), Baikida Carroll (trumpet), Michael Gregory Jackson (guitar), Fred Hopkins (bass), Phillip Wilson and Jerome Cooper (drums). Primo recording, too.
nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rivbea...
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Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 4, by Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson
7 track album
https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rivbea-live-series-volume-4
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N. K. Jemisin
about 10 hours ago
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
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Fieldwork Thereupon (2025) Tyshawn Sorey
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Thereupon, by Fieldwork
9 track album
https://fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereupon
about 11 hours ago
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Eyeless In Gaza Drumming The Beating Heart (1982)
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Eyeless In Gaza - Drumming the beating Heart 1982 Full Album Vinyl
YouTube video by luis german lombo
https://youtu.be/QwRLlXdRm7o
about 11 hours ago
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Stuck in a captcha loop where I can't prove to software that I'm human. I hate how often this happens to me.
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gfm for Silviano Mora Vera, who was abducted by ICE a month ago while he was waiting with his son for the school bus in RVA
@vpm.org
story on the abduction:
www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...
gfm:
www.gofundme.com/f/bring-silv...
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Bring Silviano Mora Vera Home: Donate Now, organized by Guillermo Mora
My name is Guillermo Mora, and I’m an Honor Roll High School Senior. On Septe… Guillermo Mora needs your support for Bring Silviano Mora Vera Home: Donate Now
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-silviano-mora-vera-home-donate-now
about 15 hours ago
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old French fishing nets being used as protection against drones in Ukraine "The nets we are sending are made of horse hair and used for deep-sea fishing to catch monkfish which are quite powerful and hit the nets with a strength similar to that of a drone.”
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Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine
Fishers from the Brittany coast are sending horse-hair nets to catch weapons and shield civilians and soldiers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/08/old-fishing-nets-vital-protection-against-russian-drones-ukraine
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jj skolnik
about 24 hours ago
“eat the rich” should be the moderate position at this point
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NPR
1 day ago
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
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Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
https://n.pr/43MJsCk
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jeff
1 day ago
The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.
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Preserving the Past & Sharing It Today: A New Partnership with the University of California
The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.
https://dusttodigital.substack.com/p/preserving-the-past-and-sharing-it?publication_id=886197
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
1 day ago
People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you
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Rick Brown
1 day ago
It would be good if more non-musicians started to understand this shitty company.
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Lori Emerson
1 day ago
the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish”
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
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Diedre Murray Fred Hopkins Firestorm (1992)
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Firestorm - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l-v3OwePnoKJ_VwiDrUB0qhEO1FKsIKZ0&si=ulqOUcDch8pomW15
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That fucking cum rag of a human Kim Davis is back in the news. "Supreme court considering taking up case challenging legality of same-sex marriage"
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Supreme court considering taking up case challenging legality of same-sex marriage
Court could revisit issue in case brought by county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage
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Fred Hopkins bass Diedre Murray cello Newman Baker drums Brandon Ross electric guitar
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Emily Hilliard
1 day ago
Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming
@uncpress.bsky.social
book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too.
uncpress.org/978146969396...
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It Is Not Enough to Survive
Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who...
https://uncpress.org/9781469693965/it-is-not-enough-to-survive/
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Roland Kayn
1 day ago
rolandkayn.bandcamp.com/album/extary-i
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Extary I, by Roland Kayn
1 track album
https://rolandkayn.bandcamp.com/album/extary-i
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Han-earl Park
1 day ago
Lara and Pat are doing some of the most exciting work right now in enrolling electronic and digital techniques into improvised musics. And their determination to steamroller the borders between club and concert spaces, between the spontaneous and composed, is truly inspiring.
#juno3
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new solo piano music from Pat Thomas
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HIKMAH, by Pat Thomas
8 track album
https://taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/hikmah
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FT
1 day ago
Thread. Please read this. For me and many other people like me, this is the worst-case scenario we live with every day.
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Gary Kennedy
1 day ago
good morning [cd - hatOLOGY 2-540] John Carter (clarinet), Horace Tapscott (piano), Cecil McBee (double Bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums). Recorded live at Catalina Bar & Grill, Hollywood on December 14-17, 1989. Engineer: Peter Pfister info:
www.discogs.com/release/3693...
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Canary Records
1 day ago
I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
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None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
https://theatticmag.com/features/2488/none-of-us-know-the-words%3A-lessons-from-the-mid_20th-century-monocultural-americana.html
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Every morning this week has started with a double listen of this incredible album.
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Learned about gas gangrene this week and that's all I could think about punching down the pizza dough I left to rise on the counter overnight.
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Tin Machine on Arsenio '91 CW: Topless Bowie & Steinberger madness.
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TIN MACHINE SUBLIME ON ARSENIO HALL ~ HEAVENS IN HERE '91
YouTube video by MT- TVC15
https://youtu.be/YTjrqLtjb78?si=gb7ZlovJDsunEYzr
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Mike O'Brien
2 days ago
If you made $45 million/year, you would have had to start working during the last glacial maximum to make this much money. There is no reason anyone should ever have anything near this amount of money.
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jael holzman
2 days ago
rulings like the one from scotus today hurt me most because i know how many trans kids and adults are quietly dying in the shadows
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Daniel Bachman
2 days ago
Good on Tom Hanks for normalizing masking, its a really bare minimum community minded practice that you can do while our government goes full fascist/eugenics.
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$88 for 13 cds of the best shit.
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The one time I saw Mulatu Astatke my body was so moved it had a massive allergic reaction in the middle of his set lol. Was a great show.
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walking to the east everything is beautiful walking to the west everything is beautiful walking to the north everything is beautiful walking to the south everything is beautiful Jim Pepper - Witchi-Tai-To
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Another morning where I am also a clumpy galaxy, possibly merging, and observed. Must be time for another cup of coffee.
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FT
3 days ago
A green card holder is being indicted for basically having zines in their car. This is incredibly alarming.
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Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong at Artspace on Monday for a 60th anniversary celebration of the AACM
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OOYH Records @ Artspace: Second Mondays (11/10) - AACM 60th w/ Nicole Mitchell + JoVia Armstrong
Event in Richmond, VA by Artspace Richmond and 3 others on Monday, November 10 2025
https://www.facebook.com/events/2746221499062534/
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Firestorm Books
3 days ago
"Antifa materials" is intended to sound sinister but the government is talking about ESSAYS. If you read literature the regime disapproves of, you might be a terrorist, too.
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Paul Motian Quintet Jack of Clubs (1985) Jim Pepper Joe Lovano Ed Schuller Bill Frisell
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Jack Of Clubs - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kfX1ymEOyP4c9mSul8CxOOarlOIF9i7D0&si=0zSwUzVECqw5lzYi
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Pat Thomas & Mark Fell? Sign me up!
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Jim Pepper Amina Claudine Myers Anthony Cox Leopoldo Fleming Afro Indian Blues (2006) Recorded live at the Jazzfestival Raab Austria, May 19, 1991
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Afro Indian Blues (Live) - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mE9w9DJbCsAWJH26S9xi50JHAyup9Hh9g&si=T6ur73pkj4BNsDhy
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Cat Fitzpatrick
3 days ago
I wrote an essay on
@defector.com
about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to
@laurentheisen.bsky.social
it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!
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Unearthing The Hidden History Of A Singular Trans Punk Zine | Defector
I wasn't ready for how much it loved trans people.
https://defector.com/unearthing-the-hidden-history-of-a-singular-trans-punk-zine
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In 10 days. Thrift store gigs are always the best.
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jeff
3 days ago
Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy :: African Skies (1993) digital: Nov. 7, LP: ? :: Listening Position
www.stonesthrow.com/store/africa...
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Peter J Woods
3 days ago
Listen. We aren’t stopping til we win this thing.
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Kyoko Kitamura
3 days ago
Last night. (Tonight, we'll demonstrate how this all works in a performance.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-j9...
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A Workshop on the Music of Anthony Braxton // Live at Roulette
YouTube video by Roulette Intermedium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-j9_OgFadM
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This album is one of my favorites.
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Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor Kaiso Stories (2010) Roy Campbell Daniel Carter William Parker Charles Downs
@freesongsinger.bsky.social
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Kaiso Stories, by Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor
8 track album
https://silkheart.bandcamp.com/album/kaiso-stories
3 days ago
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Reminded myself of the great Bobby Previte piece The 23 Constellations Of Joan MirĂł. The 2001 recording on Tzadik
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The 2008 revised version
bobbyprevite.bandcamp.com/album/the-23...
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Good to see the return of Another Screen with films by Helena Solberg, LetĂcia Parente, Regina Camlian, InĂŞs Castilho, Eunice Gutman, Maria InĂŞs Villares, made between 1966–1985.
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Six Times Woman | Another Screen
In the shadow of a dictatorship (1966–1987) Films by Helena Solberg, LetĂcia Parente, Regina Chamlian, InĂŞs Castilho, Eunice Gutman, Maria InĂŞs Villares
https://www.another-screen.com/six-times-woman
4 days ago
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