Rep. Rashida Tlaib will reintroduce the Living Wage for Musicians Act this September. This bill is a real, concrete way to make payouts fairer for musicians on Spotify and across the streaming economy. @reprashida.govpeeps.us musically.com/2025/08/19/l...

This year, for my birthday (which, I cannot stress this enough, is also Snoopy's): Consider checking out a *brand new* @sailorboyfriend.bsky.social remix of @sunkin.bsky.social we put out this week! Perfect for watching headlights on the parade… Available/streaming wherever your data is sold 🫡

Let Us Now Salute NYC's Most Legendary Synth Doctor hellgatenyc.com/nyc-most-leg...

"Look for the Helpers" - Fred Rogers

Broken clock is better

i often think about when an xAi representative went in front of the community they’re destroying with how how much pollution they create to operate grok and just lied to the entire town

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The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

happy 50th birthday to sufjan. sometimes it feels like, every time I sit down to write a song, I'm trying to make something as good as "too much": www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQS...

@totom.bsky.social did you ever make a boot of the human league's "don't you want me" and nin's "the hand that feeds" ? I fondly remember this existing, but can't seem to find it on my backups, nor google/internet archive. figured it wouldn't hurt to ask the NIN Bastard Pop Legend™ about it, thx!

imagine if someone told you in 2003 that Dave Matthews would have better politics than Radiohead

Kenny G for millennial graphic designers

This has been a great week for my business, actually, where we make graphs of stock prices

laughed pretty hard at this boat

The community organizing against this Manhattan public school parents' council that adopted an anti-trans resolution last year—showing up to hearing after hearing, sharing their rage and disgust and love—is one of the more compelling things I've seen in a minute. hellgatenyc.com/fighting-tra...

look. you Know I adore d*vid b*rne – his voice, his work - so so much …And, with all the love in my lonely hunter heart, I type out with no real authority: he Needs to start saying no to live, televised gigs until he can (a) sing reliably in key or (b) find a good, subtle pitch corrector

I will accept any excuse to repost the handmade placeholder card I drew for MONSTER in my record store days.

seeing oreos locked up behind glass at CVS is particularly fu*king me up; they're meant to be my reward for the calls [plural] I made [varying hold times] to successfully transfer my zoloft script here… whaddya mean I gotta talk to ANOTHER customer service rep for my Lil' Treats

A supergroup consisting of Les Claypool, Isaac Brock and Colin Meloy that only plays songs about being a fisherman or a sea captain

what good is migrating to a new social media platform if it won't let me post my flash fiction [see attached screenshot]

People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.

they are trying to overwhelm us. don't let them. we wont give up. we're gonna win. it's going to take awhile, we're gonna get our asses kicked around a little, but we're gonna win. don't let the darkness of the moment blind you from the light of the future (it's so bright! i swear).

mutual aid los angeles network (MALAN) has a megalist of resources across the southland: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... and they’re collecting donations in chatsworth: www.instagram.com/p/DElevTEyzVD/

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Alot of discussion has been spurred since the arrest of Luigi Mangione, including the nature and costs of incarceration. Given his crowdfund rapidly approaching $500,000, both critics & supporters are asking how others behind bars can be aided My latest: tinyurl.com/55jtwe2x

ok here we go. i'm listening to your favorite songs of the year, for the rest of the year, and i'm blogging about them on I Enjoy Music. let's kick things off...

lifehack! save time filling out therapy/psychiatry intake forms by simply attaching photos of your family's 20 year old bathroom reading material ("the book of bunny suicides" by andy riley)

ANDY: How many other people do you think are having this same conversation we’re having right now? ME: Like, in this room? ANDY: Yeah. ME: About Hickman’s X-Men? ANDY: Yeah, well, this is a They Might Be Giants concert, so…probably someone, right? cc: @ndyjwaldron.bsky.social

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough

I know you like to line dance Everything so democratic and cool But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules

⚠️ THE STRING HORN AND WIND ARRANGEMENTS ON THE NEW FATHER JOHN MISTY RECORD ARE SPECIAL AND POWERFUL!!! ⚠️

apologies to those trying to talk to me about anything but ff's stellar streak of covering songs by non-dudes — and not changing lyrical pronouns — this week (i.e. "shut up kiss me", "womanizer", "call me", "what you waiting for", "oblivion", "maid to minx", "sorry angel", and now "good luck, babe")

THANK YOU Them for adding "Young Adult Novel" to ur shelf – alongside some heavy hitters! Consider this an invitation to SCREAM WITH ME (ur Sailor Boyfriend) at a couple FREE shows this month: - Williamsburg's The Gutter TOMORROW 11.21 at 8p - Jersey's The Asbury Hotel on Black Friday, 11.29 at 7p

THIS THURSDAY: The Gutter BK (Williamsburg) BLACK FRIDAY: The Asbury Hotel (Asbury Park) - "glowing and anthemic while also offbeat and interesting" - "thought-provoking…inventive multi-media stage antics" - "the only artist in nyc rn I would really call 'an entertainer'" deets in the next post…

"There was one film I liked a great deal I saw two weeks ago called “I Saw the TV Glow.” It really was emotionally and psychologically powerful and very moving. It builds on you, in a way. I didn’t know who made it. It’s this Jane Schoenbrun." h*ll yeah brother

can I curse on this platform? because h*ly m*ly: I'll be sailin' between NY + NJ this month • details in bio - THIS THURSDAY • Bar Freda • Queens - FREE!! Thurs. 11.21 • The Gutter • Williamsburg • bandnada presents - FREE!! Black Friday, 11.29 • Asbury Hotel • Asbury Park • Black Lipstick presents

they should make a cold medicine that doesn't make you feel like god herself is flippantly kneading your body on the Marshalls home goods cutting board of reality

supporting worker-owned media means happily paying $7 to learn about my former employer [b*ker falls] since i'd rather not text my former boss

friendly reminder!!! if you're looking for music that's cool, you're at Union Pool. if you're looking to laugh 'till ya bawl, you're at Union Hall!

It is not good in Asheville & western NC right now. There’s no power and no water and all roads out are blocked. There is an extensive list of places to donate to here: www.wfmynews2.com/article/weat... thank you all

many of the bandcamp staff laid off in oct 2023 don’t have jobs still, some of us (me included) are temping/underemployed/not able to make enough to make ends meet. you can donate at bit.ly/bcu-solidarity-fund

TV as omnivore home invader: Bowie's sketch for his SNL performance of "TVC 15", 1979; Videodrome, 1983; Poltergeist, 1982

Too tired to parse what level of dystopia this is.

simply delighted to learn the guy behind Hey Arnold! is a Lodger freak

brace yourselves.... Pop (1997) is finally gonna get its due www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRI6...

10 years ago today: the last act begins. Bowie goes to see Maria Schneider at Birdland. They talk, agree to get in touch about a possible collaboration. Schneider: "I was so fearful in working with him and he kept saying, ‘Maria, if the plane crashes, everyone walks away.’”