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Kira Grunenberg
@shadowmelody1.bsky.social
Music Journalist🎵📰
Words: DownBeat, No Depression, NPR Music, Bluegrass Situation, etc. | Asst. Editor Aromatica Poetica | Writer for Hire📝 | Hot Sauce 🌶️ | Hockey🏒| Puns

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Mood Machine needs to be mandatory reading for collegiate music programs.

@lizpelly.bsky.social’s breakdown of Spotify’s manipulative practices and how it takes cues from other exploitative business models, is eye-opening and infuriating (in a good way).

*Everyone in music NEEDS to read this.
May 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Properly celebrating May Day with floral tea and @kimkelly.bsky.social’s “Fight Like Hell,” read via #audiobook and borrowed from my local library using the #Libby app.

Only a few chapters in and learning a lot; also have so many questions forming as I read.
May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#INTERVIEW ✍️ #BluegrassSituation 🪕

Start your Saturday with some new music and a fresh interview with spectacular #mandolinist #SierraHull.

We talk about what being an independent musician means to her, how music is much more than a job, and more:

thebluegrasssituation.com/read/with-ea...
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If your state senator is on this list, CALL THEIR DC OFFICE ASAP.

🔥The DC Office Switchboard can connect you to any Senator:
(202) 224-3121. 🔥

Tell them to VOTE NO on the Continuing Resolution *and* VOTE NO on Cloture.

NO TO BOTH IS THE ONLY ANSWER. FULL STOP.
March 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you called your senators yesterday and told the “VOTE NO” on the Continuing Resolution *and* Cloture, CALL AGAIN TODAY.

@schumer.senate.gov is full of it and gave us lip service.

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM VOTING NO AND STOPPING THE GOP AND THIS BUDGET IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ACTION.
March 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! ✨

#Pianist Sarah Cahill (@clusterbar.bsky.social) will be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, performing a magnificent marathon of works by women composers from the 1600s to present day!

2-8pm, free with museum admission:

engage.metmuseum.org/events/metli...
March 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
REVIEW: Waldos Gift - Malcolm’s Law
FEB 2025 DownBeat!

Debut LP from Bristol, UK trio Waldo’s Gift, is technical, addictive, high energy & intriguing. Not only do the hooks grab you but the story of how the album came to be is one wild backstory.

Chon fans: You need this.🎸

SUBSCRIBE: DownBeat.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Of course, compared to many of the other hectic, flaming hellscapes happening elsewhere online right now, BlueSky absolutely is chill, peaceful, ambient vibes.

Also makes me think of Geotic’s “Abysma” — chill but still with bright energy.
November 12, 2024 at 5:26 PM
It was a privilege to speak w/ Terri Lyne Carrington, Aja Burrell Wood, Kris Davis, Halley Elwell & Lara Pellegrinelli about gender equality in jazz ed & administration.

Honored to highlight the work they are doing w/ the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice through DownBeat's Oct. 23 Issue.
September 26, 2023 at 11:09 PM