It's that time again when I release new music and am reminded of how trash spotify is. New release checklist to keep the momentum building, you say? Surely, this is a trove of useful strategies.
*opens the "new release checklist"
Ah.
I would love nothing more than to watch your sleek corporate pitch deck with bisexual lighting and try to extract the important points from it!
Anyway, all this is covered in Liz Pelly's 'Mood Machine', but it's still crazy to see it up close.
cracked DAWs running on consumer-grade computers are an order of magnitude cheaper than proper musical instruments and the high cost of housing means spaces to practice and play shows are pricier. it's like how big bands disappeared when amplification made small bands competitive
Security officials evacuate U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as a shooter opens fire during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 25, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
I know everyone is busy talking about the NYT interviewer smiling and nodding enthusiastically as Hasan Piker says the murder of Brian Thomson is understandable because he was guilty of "social murder", but I want to focus on him electrocuting dogs.
https://t.co/NeWNDwCzvi
this song and the one with hayley williams on it were both written over the same demo instrumental. they just kept sending it out to other artists even after that like "if you write something over this, it'll be a hit, too!" the producer-as-artist era was so stupid
In Germany, prototypes of bioelectronic insects for military purposes were unveiled
The company SWARM Biotactics has developed a technology that combines living insects with neural interfaces, AI, and sensors, turning them into autonomous reconnaissance platforms.
The project has progressed from concept to application within a year, with field tests already completed.
The advantage of such systems over drones is their high mobility, low noise levels, and ability to access hard-to-reach places.
It's quite obviously both this and the opposite implication. Same wrt to Kendrick Lamar's show last year. NFL wants to be everything to everyone to increase market share on a flailing, boring sport.
mostly, we need to stop reading to much into a damn super bowl halftime show
Ezra Kleinβs politics aims to restore legitimacy to the neoliberal order of DLC-style Dems and Obama-era hegemony by winning back segments of capital from the right for an exclusively middle class politics against the working poor, incarcerated, unhoused, and dispossessed.
Thanks to ICE and local law enforcement, a whopping 650 dangerous illegal aliens have been taken into custody.
"Working with such a high-caliber group of agents who were assigned to Jefferson County made the decision to support the initiative worthwhile."