just found a note with the artists steve albini recommended to me when we worked together. he didn’t listen to a lot of music

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

such a damn shame that the good ones keep dying. what a voice, what a loss

as per Donny McCaslin, Bowie was listening to "Black Messiah" during the making of Blackstar (it had come out a month or so before sessions began), and you really hear it in many corners of that record.

I want to play Puppet Motel so bad

Ok this is a pretty funny trick to bring an annoyingly obvious/obviously annoying question to the Q&A

"I wondered: can the symphony orchestra provide such intellectual and sensory pleasure, how can I guide the listener, and paint the colors that I imagine?" Kaija Saariaho born 14 October 1952

SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS tidal.com/transfer-music

Unspeakably furious that there's an AI music factory releasing music under the names of some of my favorite artists. Whoever "Gustina" is should be tarred & fucking feathered

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped. [Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

I will die angry that I can’t watch Hellraiser with the Coil score

This was a good thread

Shit like this demonstrates why the youth of America desperately need remedial music history classes

drake, amazingly, still finding brand new ways to lose to kendrick lamar

"sir, can i ask why you're drinking TWO huge beers?" "officer, I'm..." *turns to camera* "Dual IPA" *cop starts levitating*

Read about my father, Peter Amidon, who has passed on: aosa.org/peter-amidon...

Peter and Mary Alice Amidon - Parting Friends (from the Word of Mouth Chorus album Rivers Of Delight, 1978)

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

Marmaduke, six, is reported to have been the subject of near constant vocal stimming by Ellie Mulligan, 32. In response, Marmaduke concealed a microphone within his floofy orange trousers, and he is now rich beyond his wildest dreams.

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Mollena Lee Williams-Haas shared my review and I’ve never felt so “senpai noticed me” in all my years as a critic

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

GOOD NEWS ! "A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions." #baroque #music www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

and like plenty of the stories reporting this have a "but growth slows" line appended to the news: that's there because the coal guys want it there

In a non ironic genuine way middle aged guys have dealt with the male loneliness epidemic and it’s called getting into prog

Misread a sign advertising Cub Scouts as "Dub Scouts." Dub Scouts should be a thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post better designed to bait the jazz community than this one

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i'm joining the war on charli xcx on the side of charli xcx

It’s gotta be a tie between Double Negative by Low and Heroes by Bowie right? As a Low by Bowie fan, I give the edge to Double Negative by Low Confused yet? I always am!

This, but for The Shaggs

All that time I thought I’d see a school friend You said “I know how this ends He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance) Stay in Wittenberg I hear he’s fighting in graves” Saved my heart from the fate of Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)

saying something lightly critical of taylor swift to suicide by cop

A very thoughtful review by @linernotesdanny.bsky.social of this incredible production I’m so fortunate to be a part of at the Park Ave Armory

I reviewed 11,000 Strings by Georg Friedrich Haas for @parterrebox.bsky.social: parterre.com/2025/10/03/t...

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

I love it when I go to the opera and I can’t stop thinking about all of the ideas I saw and heard onstage. Last night I went to see Kavalier & Clay and the opposite has happened: I can’t stop thinking about how little it gave me to think about!

Happy birthday, @stevereich.bsky.social!

No but for real can we just print this tweet on little cards and distribute them to all the poptimists whenever Discourse happens

Good morning! It is Bandcamp Friday again and this time we are raising funds for @ndlon.bsky.social's Immigrant Defense Fund! We have a couple of very special, limited edition cassettes for it: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

A not very well publicized ORGAN recital with James McVinnie at Boston symphony hall is coming up next week! This is a rare chance to hear its Aeolian-Skinner Organ on its own. Works by Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Nico Muhly, Bach, Glass and others www.bso.org/events/oct-1...

Reminder that the US armed forces spend vastly more money on music & the arts than the rest of the American government put together

Half-off sale at the Bandcamp webshop of Ukrainian composer in exile Valentin Silvestrov, in honor of his 88th birthday

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

CHOTINER: A self-described Nine Inch Nails superfan should be capable of naming one song off the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo score. ME: "Is Your Love Strong Enough" is excellent. The "Immigrant Song" cover too. CHOTINER: I was referring to the instrumentals. ME: No no, of course. And that's fair.

Viability for my biz friends and visibility for my bi friends!