This Sunday at 2pm at Centrala, Digbeth England-Jones / Johnson  Partridge / Morland / Holyoake centrala-space.org.uk/events/england… fizzle Centrala Jazzwise

The city I call home is being turned into a cultural desert. You could point fingers locally BUT nationally the whole of the UK has been attacked by a government who will happily boast about The Arts but won’t pay for it or fund the education needed to support it!

Joe Lycett and others condemn 100% budget cut to Birmingham arts theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

Snoop Dogg reveals how much he was paid for getting 1B streams on Spotify

Honoring an artist's death with ai art is like honoring firefighter's death by burning a nearby forest.

Spotify is trying to classify working musicians who aren’t benefiting from their streaming model as “amateurs.” Whether you’re an underpaid working professional or just getting started, all musicians deserve to be paid fairly for streaming.

Spotify is the enemy of music and of musicians

As of April 1st, Spotify has demonetized any track on the platform that receives less than 1000 streams per year. That’s an estimated 86% of tracks on the platform. This new policy will impact small artists the most — the same artists that Spotify claims to support.

Happy birthday to one of my greatest heroes, Joe Henderson. Here he is at age 31 in 1968 and in total command of EVERYTHING. A universe of creativity and expression. Nobody took you on a trip like Joe. I miss him more these days than any of the ancestors. youtube.com/watch?v=4wazNs…

What an incredible self own by Apple, lol—at a time when artists, musicians and creatives are more worried than ever that tech companies are trying to crush them into dust for profit, along comes Apple and makes an *ad* whose whole message is: yes that is exactly what we're doing

Standard wages for musicians haven’t changed since the 90’s. Artists are expected to tour to expand their fan base and outreach, but many artists lose money on tour. What if these wages were simply updated for inflation?

OK, British students, start researching how to get a postal vote NOW, and figure out where best to use it. You are PERFECTLY ENTITLED to be registered at both a term-time and permanent address, and to vote from whichever suits you, as long as you only cast one vote!

I don't care how good AI gets I don't want to read words no one cared enough to write I don't want to look at pictures no one cared enough to draw I want to experience things made by human beings because, as a human, I'm craving human interactions

Funny how they don’t call them race riots when it’s white people

Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

🚨 NEW: There have been no reports of riots tonight as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumber anti-immigration demonstrators across the country

Arts funding