This from a Republican in Texas, no less. Bipartisan regulation of streaming is possible. Help us make it happen @umaw.bsky.social

Three Prose Poems on humours and spirits

Three new ones on love and hate

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Why can’t any US paper write clear headlines like this

Ha ha fair enough!

What do you want from folk music? I want a groove dammit. These are rhythm instruments

The recent double bill of Jake Xerxes Fussell and Sam Amidon, on the other hand, had me riveted. I did sound for each of them at that same club and loved every moment

Call it what you will, but I can’t get through a song by Kahan or Sheeran. I heard so many mediocre songs like theirs doing sound at a folk club where I was paid to listen through. Off the clock now

Three Prose Poems on humours and spirits

Would you like me to tell you the little story of right hand left hand? dadadrummer.substack.com/p/three-pros...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

If it works it’s only funnier

‘Donnyland’? Ukraine Proposes Naming Part of the Donbas in Trump’s Honor.

This is black humor familiar from my Jewish Eastern European roots. It’s Boaty McBoatface for a land soaked in blood www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Three Prose Poems on humours and spirits

Would you like me to tell you the little story of right hand left hand? dadadrummer.substack.com/p/three-pros...

The house is going to flip

But only middle aged in Keith Richards years

Congrats!

Non-Event celebrates 25 years of bringing experimental music to Boston Despite being an organization without a permanent venue, Non-Event is dedicated to presenting music that is inherently as non-commercial as it gets. "If they weren’t doing what they are doing, I don’t...

Thanks to WBUR's Noah Schaffer for the profile of us as we turn 25! www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...

I don’t know why Amazon sells my book for less than wholesale cost but it keeps going down and now it’s 65% off… less than $10 hardcover… take advantage

44% of new uploads are AI-generated, and 85% of their subsequent streams are fraudulent. This is the new tech that all major stakeholders in music are scrambling to profit from

Financialization is a Psyop Sound, Art, Vegetables

The numbers in music are rigged - and what’s worse, finance bros take them seriously dadadrummer.substack.com/p/financiali...

Financialization is a Psyop Sound, Art, Vegetables

The numbers in music are rigged - and what’s worse, finance bros take them seriously dadadrummer.substack.com/p/financiali...

Financialization is a Psyop Sound, Art, Vegetables

I swear it’s not about Geese dadadrummer.substack.com/p/financiali...

Uma análise muito boa do problema fundamental da era de streaming.

smart stuff as usual

Financialization is a Psyop Sound, Art, Vegetables

Must Read | Damon Krukowski’s short essay is not a pro-/anti-Geese jeremiad, or payola history lesson. It points to something floating around my brain since around 2017-18, the initial recognition that all platforming of creative monetization may be, essentially, built on fake data - on lies.

Financialization is a Psyop Sound, Art, Vegetables

I swear it’s not about Geese dadadrummer.substack.com/p/financiali...

I don’t think any two guitarists fingerpick the same way

So nuts when physical stores follow this pattern

Got some words in this great NPR music piece on the Live Nation decision

Speaking as the broader Jewish, that review bot can f-off. I read the book cover to cover this weekend. A gift

No physical release this year but we do have a doozy of a bootleggy digital album out on Bandcamp