In honor of Genndy Tartakovsky and @fredseibert.bsky.social, the crew, and the cast, we celebrated the 30th Anniversary with our customary and splendid dinner.👨🏻‍🔬🧪🔧

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'Ascension' By John Coltrane Gets The Verve Vault Treatment A performance that marked John Coltrane’s decisive embrace of the avant-garde, 'Ascension' is joining the Verve Vault series.

Just like John Cage, John Coltrane’s Ascension was both highly and widely influential (to me and untold millions) and pretty difficult to listen to often (to me and many more untold millions). 🤪

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I've never seen this movie, it's only available on DVD (and that's too hard in this day in age), but I'm intrigued by anything that uses Louis Armstrong on its title card. Even with a lousy IMDB rating.
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Opinion | Change Your Life. Start a Band.

I’ve started a few pop bands in my day and in many ways I’ve been doing it ever since. You should too. Its fun. It’s good for you. And your soul. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

The Story Behind Michael Moore’s Controversial 2003 Oscar Acceptance Speech Days after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Michael Moore used his moment in the spotlight to rail against the war. Here’s what he and others onstage remember.

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Me: "We must preserve physical media at all cost."

Also me: "Why isn't RE2 Remake in its box"

Forget Florida. They Got Older and Moved to New York.

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The real story of the Monkees, straight from surviving member Micky Dolenz In a three-hour conversation with USA TODAY for 60 years of the Monkees, Micky Dolenz shares a detailed oral history of the TV show and the music.

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Fred Seibert (@fredseibert689583) Bad Bunny doesn’t make music for me, but after listening to this podcast from NPR’s Throughline, I love this guy! I came alive during the pop revolution of the 1960s, and even when pop music started...

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The Month In Jazz - February 2022 When Cecil Taylor began his career, in the mid-1950s, he recorded mostly in the studio, like everyone else. Between 1956 and 1961 he made a half dozen albums, and several more recordings from that era...

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31 Years Ago Today, Cartoon Network's Most Iconic Series Started (And Gave Fans All Their Favorite Characters) 31 years ago today, Cartoon Network premiered the first episode of What A Cartoon!, which would eventually give us Dexter's Lab and more.

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CNN And Universal Music Group Partner On New Docuseries Exploring The World’s Largest Music Archive CNN and Universal Music Group are launching a docuseries hosted by Fred Armisen that dives into UMG’s music vaults to examine the cultural impact—and long-term business value—of recorded music archive...

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A Representation of Life: Makaya McCraven Interviewed | The Quietus Makaya McCraven is releasing four new records on Halloween. What of it, says Daniel Spicer, he certainly has the range and the chops...

“…the legacy of jazz [is] a provocative music and music of the people.” -Makaya McCraven

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How Mamdani Is Moving to Cut Red Tape for Small Business Owners

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Book Review: Now Jazz Now Back in the late 1990s as a newer fan of improvised music and free jazz and with several years of listening to the weirder end of underground/independent rock music, it was only natural that I’d read ...

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What’s Missing from Today’s Pop Music and Museum Galleries? Call It Boogie Sound, Art, Vegetables

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Miles at the Plugged Nickel Sixty years ago, in the week before Christmas 1965, Teo Macero recorded the Miles Davis Quintet over two nights at a club called the Plugged Nickel on North Wells Street in Chicago’s Old Town…

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A Brief History of the Ownership of the Beatles Catalog Paul McCartney's lawsuit this week is the latest twist in the long and winding ownership tale of the Beatles' catalog.

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Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department? Type designers weigh in on the recent decision to replace Calibri with Times New Roman in official documents.

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#sounddesign #podcastlaunch #audioproduction #creativeprocess | Jim Stauffer | 11 comments Step into a world where every beep, boom, and whoosh tells a story. This podcast is designed to teach sound design like you’ve never heard it before—fun, fast-paced, and packed with personality. We b...

Hothead has been at the forefront of sound for decades.

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Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy

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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

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A Sacred Space Where 90-Year-Old Jazz Records Reign

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“That's the weird thing. I'm thinking, ‘I can hear John, he's never even heard this and he was there!’”: Giles Martin explains how AI de-mixing has resulted in fresh live audio for the Beatles Anthology remaster | MusicRadar

New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.

Fantastic story of persistence, talent and, most of all, the greatness of the youth of the world. (No booing or hissing from the gray hairs please.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/r...

Zohran Mamdani's branding is a graphic design masterclass Mamdani didn’t just run for office; he built a visual identity.

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Opinion | America Is Losing the Fight for the Teenagers of the World

“South Korea’s state-driven cultural model has explicitly fostered an environment that enables the success of various TV shows and pop acts, recognizing them as a force for soft power and export markets.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

For the win!
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