Upcoming shows in NYC and LA on my website www.mutualbenef.it/shows-songwr...

We are playing an early show at the new Night Club 101 in Manhattan to do the opposite of celebrate president's day with friends Sister and Alice Does Computer Music / hope to see you there !

just thinking about the material history of the color pink literaryreview.co.uk/la-vie-en-rose

I was nerding out about song arrangements with Sammy Weissberg after he played a great set last week (sidenote: more bands should have a french horn) and he recommended Billy Strayhorn's Peaceful Side Of Jazz which feels like a perfect lazy Sunday record

I have a piano/synth instrumental on this comp benefiting LA mutual aid efforts with lots of good company if you are feeling give-y

A welcome byproduct of starting to read centuries old novels is understanding a higher percentage of Joanna Newsom lyrics

I couldn't stop laughing during the insanity and sincerity of Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary about, yes, Hamlet staged entirely within Grand Theft Auto Online during London's lockdown
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On my newsletter-blog-thing I wrote about @lizpelly.bsky.social book Mood Machine and how it brings up the pesky and interesting questions of how and who defines the value of different contexts of music www.mutualbenef.it/18-celebrati...

at the age where a night out with friends is at the historical society using the provided magnifying glasses to read a collection of scrawled Robert Caro legal pads

Welcome fellow corporate social media exiles ! We can find a new way to procrastinate together, I believe in us

Liz's deep, shocking, and dot-connecting investigation into the inner workings of Spotify. It is well worth a read but a short version is... let's not entrust music culture to tech platforms :)

feels so good to delete the note I wrote to myself 6 months ago that said "join bluesky"

Maybe this site will be fun like how the internet used to be :)