Kramer
@benkramer.com
3x Entreparkour | @aquariumdrunkard.com | music lawyer
Alexa play Mambo's 1-4 by Louhann Sebastian Bega
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Alexa play Mambo's 1-4 by Louhann Sebastian Bega
told my family the new U2 track was actually really good and had them going for the first eight seconds of Crazy Town's "Butterfly"
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
told my family the new U2 track was actually really good and had them going for the first eight seconds of Crazy Town's "Butterfly"
Irving Plaza, Friday April 18, 2003:
8pm: Kings of Leon
9pm: Adam Green
10pm: Ben Kweller
Interesting night.
8pm: Kings of Leon
9pm: Adam Green
10pm: Ben Kweller
Interesting night.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Irving Plaza, Friday April 18, 2003:
8pm: Kings of Leon
9pm: Adam Green
10pm: Ben Kweller
Interesting night.
8pm: Kings of Leon
9pm: Adam Green
10pm: Ben Kweller
Interesting night.
Because BlueSky was created the in the interim, I don't know that the legends Twin Peaks, one of the best Chicago bands of the century, are playing shows next year (for the first time in year)
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Because BlueSky was created the in the interim, I don't know that the legends Twin Peaks, one of the best Chicago bands of the century, are playing shows next year (for the first time in year)
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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Ram On LA: A Los Angeles Music Sampler (2009 Redux)
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Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece Ram. Re-upped!
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/31/r...
Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece Ram. Re-upped!
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ram On LA: A Los Angeles Music Sampler (2009 Redux)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/31/r...
Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece Ram. Re-upped!
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/31/r...
Originally released in 2009, the AD-curated Ram On LA compilation brought together a dozen Los Angeles artists paying homage to Paul & Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece Ram. Re-upped!
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Thank you for honoring our amazing @celtics Father Bill
Russell ✊🏾
As @massgovernor said,
"if you're going to The Garden, Take The Russell"
#billrussellbridge
Russell ✊🏾
As @massgovernor said,
"if you're going to The Garden, Take The Russell"
#billrussellbridge
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thank you for honoring our amazing @celtics Father Bill
Russell ✊🏾
As @massgovernor said,
"if you're going to The Garden, Take The Russell"
#billrussellbridge
Russell ✊🏾
As @massgovernor said,
"if you're going to The Garden, Take The Russell"
#billrussellbridge
I feel Whitney K's music is on par with the best stuff going on right now, and their latest, "Bubble" is their best yet. Interviewed Konner about the band and his process for @aquariumdrunkard.com and really appreciate how he opened up about it.
Whitney K :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/12/w...
... sonically, 'Bubble' is their boldest and coherent to date, adventurous but unhurried, segueing smoothly between choogling acoustics and scalded electricity.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/12/w...
... sonically, 'Bubble' is their boldest and coherent to date, adventurous but unhurried, segueing smoothly between choogling acoustics and scalded electricity.
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I feel Whitney K's music is on par with the best stuff going on right now, and their latest, "Bubble" is their best yet. Interviewed Konner about the band and his process for @aquariumdrunkard.com and really appreciate how he opened up about it.
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Beyond warning our neighbors of checkpoints, I think the primary goal of protesters encountering ICE and HSI agents should be to try to shame them into quitting their jobs. A big lift -- unlike the Guard they signed up for this shit -- but a good goal regardless
Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.”
As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”
As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”
August 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Beyond warning our neighbors of checkpoints, I think the primary goal of protesters encountering ICE and HSI agents should be to try to shame them into quitting their jobs. A big lift -- unlike the Guard they signed up for this shit -- but a good goal regardless
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Anyway, if you're gonna write or opinion on Trump's comments about Roger Clemens, and you center it solely on the Hall of Fame and steroids, you are committing journalistic malpractice. If you need a refresher, start here. pitcherlist.com/bbwaa-is-era...
BBWAA Is Erasing Mindy McCready from the Roger Clemens Hall of Fame Debate
Clemens met McCready when she was 15 years old.
pitcherlist.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Anyway, if you're gonna write or opinion on Trump's comments about Roger Clemens, and you center it solely on the Hall of Fame and steroids, you are committing journalistic malpractice. If you need a refresher, start here. pitcherlist.com/bbwaa-is-era...
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Good things are happening in North East Los Angeles
August 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Good things are happening in North East Los Angeles
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There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...
Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country
Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
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The second annual Dog Days of @aquariumdrunkard.com is out, our compendium of the vibes of summer 2025. Here's what's been on our minds and turntables.
Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard : Aquarium Drunkard
The heliacal rising of Sirius around late July traditionally marks the start of the dog days of summer. For the astrologically-minded, it begins an ill-omened period of drought and sickness. For the r...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The second annual Dog Days of @aquariumdrunkard.com is out, our compendium of the vibes of summer 2025. Here's what's been on our minds and turntables.
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anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
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Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
www.404media.co
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify
Best news for independent live music in L.A. a long, long time. Really stoked on this.
Best news of the day- a new venue is coming to South Pasadena!! @stcauditorium.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Best news for independent live music in L.A. a long, long time. Really stoked on this.
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With yesterday's disheartening Colbert news and today's deeply cruel gutting of our beloved PBS & NPR, maybe consider killing your Paramount+ subscription in favor of PBS Passport?
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
www.pbs.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
With yesterday's disheartening Colbert news and today's deeply cruel gutting of our beloved PBS & NPR, maybe consider killing your Paramount+ subscription in favor of PBS Passport?
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
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Direct File exists. We already paid for it. So we are now trashing software that we have already paid for, that people are using, that people *love*, in the name of "efficiency." Yes, blame the Trump administration for this, but Intuit has been desperate to murder Direct File for years.
SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Direct File exists. We already paid for it. So we are now trashing software that we have already paid for, that people are using, that people *love*, in the name of "efficiency." Yes, blame the Trump administration for this, but Intuit has been desperate to murder Direct File for years.
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My eleventh mixtape is up @aquariumdrunkard.com today. Two hours of spaced-out vintage dub for all your summer idylls. You need to get with this.
Dubwise Summer: An Aquarium Drunkard Mixtape : Aquarium Drunkard
Summer equals dub. It is the elemental music of the season. And not simply because it comes from a tropical island. Everything in dub feels suspended in the heat and humidity: a little slower, a littl...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My eleventh mixtape is up @aquariumdrunkard.com today. Two hours of spaced-out vintage dub for all your summer idylls. You need to get with this.
The comments section is open for this one - first time since 2019!
Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Two
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/08/yesternow-editors-note-volume-two
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/08/yesternow-editors-note-volume-two
July 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The comments section is open for this one - first time since 2019!
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ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism
June 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ai art is the modern aesthetic of fascism
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
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the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation
May 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation
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The rule of law lives or dies on our willingness to act—occasionally with grim resolve. It’s time for people who value justice to screw their courage to the sticking place.
Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly.
newrepublic.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The rule of law lives or dies on our willingness to act—occasionally with grim resolve. It’s time for people who value justice to screw their courage to the sticking place.