THIS, RIGHT HERE. 👏👏👏

It's real easy to complain. How about you try to build something, instead.

Nice work @amandabeland.bsky.social

As war grinds on, local Ukrainians keep art tradition alive Tuesday marks four years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began. In Massachusetts, Ukrainian Americans support their homeland with an ancient and traditional folk art form that is a co...

My recent reporting for @wbur.org aired this week on @npr.org's Here and Now. I spoke with local #Ukrainians about creating Pysanky to honor their country after four years of war. www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

NFTs are a historical footnote / laughingstock, "the Metaverse" is a multi-billion-dollar write-off / boondoggle, and Sora has now been shuttered. Just a reminder for the next time a tech grifter tries to use words like "inevitable."

Fantastic reporting from @amandabeland.bsky.social

Cent'anni! — The Soul Shop Happy 100th birthday to my largest friend (also a playlist, in her honor)

Happy 100th (!) birthday to the Soul Shop Steinway, who rolled off the line in Queens, NY on November 19, 2025. In honor of her centennial I wrote a little bit about her history, and made a playlist of some of our favorite recordings.

Always a good day when I get to share a stage with @jtkantor.bsky.social

Ivy Boy debut LP — Elio DeLuca “Spend our time trying to look through the eyes of our younger years”

Wrote a little about my side of the making of the new album from Ivy Boy.

Staring at the Damage, by Peaceful Faces 4 track album

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Sifting Through The Goo, Reaching For The Candlelight, by Peaceful Faces 10 track album

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Without A Single Fight, by Peaceful Faces 9 track album

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 219: Peaceful Faces Peaceful Faces (©Addie Vogt) Peaceful Faces is the singer-songwriter vehicle of multiinstrumentalist and composer Tree Palmedo, who also leads the instrumental unit Drinking Bir…

Thanks to Tree for the shoutout here at @tristesunset.bsky.social. Can always count on the Italians to spell my name right.

For this Bandcamp Friday scope the latest releases from Peaceful Faces, links in comments

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The next JHS pedal is gonna be the preamp from a Mackie 1604

Stellar reporting from @amandabeland.bsky.social

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."

A Hispanic man from Everett won Love Island and I just heard the Tavares version of "More Than A Woman" on the radio. Massachusetts stays winning.

This whole thing really puts a hammer to the whole "women are too emotional to be president" thing, huh?

Hinckstrumentals Vol. 1, by David Hinckley 3 track album

Out today from David Hinckley. Produced by Dave & I, mixed by me at the Shop, mastered by Alex DeTurk at The Bunker, NYC.

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I'm a huge Celtics fan now. Nobody is more surprised than me I've watched every Celtics game this season, writes WBUR senior producer Amanda Beland. I don’t walk away from my friends when things get tough and my fandom isn’t conditional either.

A beautiful piece of writing on fandom by @amandabeland.bsky.social, filtered through the lens of this unique and challenging moment we @celticsnba.bsky.social fans are experiencing

A Chicago-native pope will likely be very similar to all other popes, but with celery salt

Not sure America is ever coming back from this

Lakers in 5 (derogatory)

Bass #reamp, killer sounds thru the old standby Shop B15. Not all the stuff is vintage all the time, though, proven by stellar fuzz sounds from this DOD Carcosa, and the Vanguard Audio V4 FET condenser, far and away my favorite newer microphone on the scene. #soulshop

My favorite part of walking home from the Shop at 3AM is running into my wabbit neighbors. This time it was a special moment between these two lovebirds, an obvious analogue to myself and @amandabeland.bsky.social. (I won't post the video of the flirt-jumping, cause that's between the two of them.)

Still grooving high on last weekend's live performance by @ryanleecrosby.bsky.social here at the Soul Shop. RLC is currently on his "Boston to Bentonia" tour, please check his itinerary and catch him along the way if you can. Absolutely transcendent.

A newer member of the stable of weirdo #solidstate amps at the Soul Shop, this 1960s Standel Studio XII has been working hard lately as a #reamp machine. It may not have the rep of the tube models, but it's incredibly valuable as tonal seasoning on tracks ranging from pedal steel to accordion.

Me putting reverb on the 2bus

100 Years Ago Recording Studios Got a New Tool: Microphones On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and how we hear it.

Imagine the universe where this didn't happen. Fools would instead be on messgeboards debating the quality of Behringer acoustical horns.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...

Mayor Wu responding to the administration like