I would love to talk to one or two more musicians who have recently (let’s say within the last 1-2 years or so) pulled their music off streaming platforms for a story I’m writing. if that’s you, drop me a line at [email protected]

filling in on bass with the mighty PRISON for a few shows on the road next month, catch me in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh 🤘

Especially since the publication of 'Mood Machine,' there's a growing sense among underground musicians that we don't have to simply accept our own exploitation by streaming. I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it hearingthings.co/musicians-not-…

TRUMP ONLYFANS REVEALED i have no idea how to get people to read stuff on here these days (maybe this'll work...) but i tweeted a big piece about music streaming yesterday and maybe you want to give it a look ~~thanks~~

there's a practice near Woodstock called Transcend Dental, always felt like it belonged in one of the hippie noirs

I often call my cat “bud” and lately when he’s curled up all pool-like on the ground I’ve taken to calling him “puddle of budd”

Hearing Things, the music publication we launched after Pitchfork layoffs last year, is now 100% worker-owned. it's a big, exciting step, and it means we need the support of our readers more than ever. hearingthings.co/hearing-things…

Saluzzo, Italy 🇮🇹

reupping my piece about playing bass in Prison, which is also about small-time touring more generally, the sweetness and indignity of life on the road, which may or may not be separable. I think you might like it even if you don’t know the band. enjoy—

Giving away the Abundance game here a bit

starting a spiritual jazz ensemble called Universal Music Group

i mostly hate phones/streaming, but i must say idly staring at a screen is a more noble way to spend your day than posting to twitter 500 times, smugly presuming to know exactly how the world works and what goes on in other people's lives, and pretending this is a useful vocation

amazing set by Takaat at TV Eye tonight. felt like seeing Can or something. absolute power-washing of all my cynicism about music. the 10” only barely scratches the surface of what this band is up to. can’t wait to see them again.

charming newness from pulp, the thinking man's perverts..... pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

my friend Hamilton Nolan may be a scoundrel and a layabout with many regrettable qualities but his book about the power of organized labor is beautiful, inspiring, dare I say even a gravely necessary rejoinder to the manifold ills of our era. I got teary at the end!

After several cowardly failed attempts, tonight I finally dropped a track from Yes bassist Chris Squire’s 1975 solo debut ‘Fish Out of Water’ into a DJ set

there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here hearingthings.co/the-great-inst…