I'm not anti-AI when it comes to music, I just want it to focus on doing the shitty administrative tasks while I do the fun part of making it.

Oh damn, I broke @mediaor.com weeks ago and no one told me. Sorry, fixing...

My Oura ring tells me I took 76 naps this year, and that feels low tbh.

"According to the DOJ, it can prove Live Nation regularly threatens venues with fewer shows if they don’t use Ticketmaster and withholds its promoted acts from venues that use competitors like AXS or SeatGeek." ⚖️ www.billboard.com/pro/live-nat...

I made the mistake of looking up reading glasses yesterday — and while I can't be completely sure, I'm pretty sure almost every one of those fuzzy blobs on my Instagram feed is an ad for a competing eyeglass company.

Everything about Hamnet was incredibly well done. It's going to clean up at Oscartime.

Dusting off my Nintendo Switch. What should I be playing?

Merry Xmas to me. From me.

JFC. Just burn it all down.

I see Spotify is rolling out music videos, so I thought I'd dig into the archives and dust this one off...

It is bonkers that Facebooks knowingly sells cheap ads that look like this with no repercussions.

Feels like Songtradr is sort of flying under the radar, but in the last few years they have acquired: - Bandcamp (indie store) - 7digital (b2b download store) - Big Sync Music + Cue Songs - Tunefind (sync placement db) - MassiveMusic - Musicube (metadata/search) and invested in Jaxsta (metadata).

Trying something different this year.

I've lived in NYC for 15 years and have still never eaten at a White Castle even though the Beastie Boys taught me long ago that their fries only come in one size.

Looking over the shoulders of a Broadway crowd as they kill time on their phones before the show starts is an utterly fascinating glimpse into the current state of our society. (Also, hello to whoever behind me is reading this!)

Almost 13 years later and I'm happy to report that we did successfully raise two music-loving kids (adults) - although according to Spotify Wrapped's "listening age" we are moving in opposite directions... 19 yo = 46 21 yo = 73 me = 38

I think my favorite thing about The Chair Company is that the laughs come in the places you least expect them.

Is there a Last.fm for video (tv/movie) streaming yet? I want to build a hack that serves you up a playlist of the songs that got sync placements in whatever you recently watched.

It has been pointed out to me that this means 2.5 billion-dollar AI music company Suno has spent less money on music than many individual music fans

Last night at Thanksgiving dinner I was telling everyone over the age of 50 how my childhood family tradition included a dish made of sweet potatoes, marshmallows and Tang. Then I had to explain to everyone under the age of 50 what Tang was.

Heading to Syracuse and just learned that they are expecting a foot of snow. I'm definitely not mentally prepared for that.

My daughter has a new music project with one of her friends at college. "Jesus Goes to Junkieville" and "Howl" by New Girlfriend are now up on Bandcamp - and I'm biased, but they are good. They sort of remind me of The Replacements. newgirlfriend.bandcamp.com/album/jesus-...

The Songkick aspect of the deal is a bit of a head-scratcher but WMG likely saw as a easy exit from a business they didn't really want to be in anymore. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music...

Well that's a first.

Me, to hairdresser: "Just make me look slightly more respectable for Thanksgiving — but not completely respectable." Hairdresser: "Don't worry, I got you."

Got one kid home from college last night and get the other one on Tuesday. My sister and brother-in-law show up today. Going to be a good week!

I was recently telling some friends about "the good old days" right after college when I managed a band and how we'd travel around the Mid-Atlantic with a couple of us laying on a mattress in the back of a capped pick-up truck.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results." - Music marketers that are better than me, probably

I don't know exactly who needs to hear this, but this is good.

UMG is about to get a $200m settlement... www.wsj.com/business/med...

Spotify acquiring WhoSampled is a pretty big deal (off-hand mention in this press release). When did that happen? artists.spotify.com/blog/spotlig...

If your jonesing for some new melodic indie rock guitar music, the one still has that new car smell... 🔗

In NYC? Come see my brother-in-law's art exhibit later this month/next month. www.thepaintingcenter.org/daniel-suthe...

I'm not face-blind, but there is no way I could describe *anyone* well enough that a sketch artist could draw anything that looked like them.

Well, I guess my next hour is now spoken for... www.theverge.com/podcast/8208...

One of the perks of not making music until later in life is occasionally getting messages like this from old friends you haven't seen in decades.

My new song is here. It's what I hear in my head when I imagine the Louvre heist going down. lnk.to/repressionWE

I feel like someone at Spotify just stumbled across the flowcharts I made 8 years ago. 😆 artists.spotify.com/royalties-gu...

Huh, I just happened to notice that my music has been getting played far more on Pandora than I would have ever guessed (I haven't looked at those stats in probably a year). It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.

I'm just going to tell myself that this democratic capitulation is all part of a master plan to get Grijalva seated and the Epstein files released.

Hey look, I took apart the loft I made for my daughter 15 years ago and turned it into a fireplace — and I only yelled profanity a handful of times!

Saying it louder for the Supreme Court in the back... TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

I added one additional little guitar part (with big effects) on my new song this afternoon and then hit upload. "The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌

Relatively recently I learned that I went to high school with the new Governor-elect of New Jersey. When I was trying to remember her, one of my friends that was in the same class as her told me "oh you wouldn't have known her, she was really smart". 😶‍🌫️

Of all the crazy things I've seen at the NYC Marathon, the craziest so far was the guy on the 3:15 pace running in jeans.

We had our first trick-or-treater at 4pm. I started drinking 🥃 at 4:30. It's a race to see if I can outlast the candy supply

But don't worry, several startups that spin out of Microsoft will build sex robots...

TIL the name of the French police division in charge of the Louvre heist investigation translates to "Brigade for the Repression of Banditry". Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.

Took less than 5 minutes.

Left the beach on North Carolina to go hike along the Virginia/West Virginia border.