Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via The New Yorker

New Zealand plays Barry Manilow to repel parliament protesters bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

The Radical Experimentation of Black Psychedelia nytimes.com/2022/02/10/t-m…

via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/07/05/opi…

Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/7HtxwPY5 via Change.org

A quick and fascinating intro to Duke Ellington’s distinctive piano style (from 1958). This is high-level structural thinking channeled into swinging improvised music. A joy to hear. x.com/SadiKemalARSLA…

We lost Joey DeFrancesco Today😪

「Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022」 special.musicslash.jp/sakamoto2022/

Remembering Karen Carpenter, gone 40 years today. Here she is performing a drum solo in 1968 at the age of 18.

There's simply nothing that can be done about mass shootings except the things that work in every other civilized country

Brian Eno: why I sculpt sound ft.com/content/1fe893… via Financial Times

A Half-Century of Devo and The Spudeoisie pastemagazine.com/music/devo/dev… via Paste Magazine

Crucial album. Marvin captured something here that we have utterly lost.(TBH, it was a window that was open only briefly in life, at the time- from abt 16 to 35-before then, we knew too little, after then, we knew too much)-the thrill, the risk, temptation, & dangerous hope,

even if Biden ekes out a victory in November it is a stunning repudiation of our democracy, common & uncommon sense, & just plain decency, that a candidate so wretched as T***p will draw so many millions of votes. like a vote of 51-49 not to stone you to death.

though I knew better, I read the NYTimes interview with women who'd voted for T***p previously & are mostly intending to vote for T***p again. after a presidency that was sheer mendacity, after Jan. 6, after COVID mishandling etc., still the view prevails that T***p is a

Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents, as well as a dear friend and partner to me. Today, we’ve also been reminded – again – that he’s a patriot of the highest order. Here’s my full statement: barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

The nation will soon be 250 years old, and we are still dealing with this shit.

"It was 2016 all over again today ... the same mistakes are being made" -- @lawrence 🔥🔥🔥

Furthermore, the fact that Stevie Wonder made Where I'm Coming From, Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life by the age of 26 is astonishing. A monumental achievement.