Damon K

Boston doesn’t even make the list of top ten US tour stops any longer - I blame consolidation and the loss of our independent venues to Live Nation and AEG - sure they bring big artists to their big venues, but they have gutted our regular gig-going audience and made this a second tier music market

I hear the first review of my new book is included…

I’m so sorry for your loss, Sam

Spotify and ChatGPT make a deal for “integration” and Universal Music Group praises it - what could possibly go wrong for recording artists?

Where in the World Is Eric Adams? Try Albania.

It’s like Nixon in China meets Duck Soup www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

THE DREAM.

The moon is like a searchlight

There are only two women left at P4K wtf

More than one color of MacBook

UMAW’s own @joeyquits.bsky.social has a new piece in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social about the grassroots Maine Music Alliance campaign to stop Live Nation in Portland, ME 💪

There is a generic quality to this album that goes beyond formulaic. Reviews are all focused on the lyrics - but I’m talking about the production. It sucks. Not cause it’s “bad”. Cause it’s blank

I take that back - even if Max Martin and Shellback insist there was no AI involved, I will still not believe them

I have a very specific hunch that Max Martin and Shellback used AI to help make the new TS album and I will cling to this hunch till proven otherwise

Wait. Do you mean bad reviews didn’t dictate low streaming numbers…? Are you telling me streaming is unconnected to the ongoing conversation about music, in which we look at ourselves and our society through the medium of song? Are you telling me THERE IS NO MEANING TO ANYTHING

Who wants to shop for Fado records with me in Lisbon this week? I’ll be speaking at MIL

Inspiring victory against Live Nation in Portland ME - when we organize… by @joeyquits.bsky.social

Inspiring victory against Live Nation in Portland ME - when we organize… by @joeyquits.bsky.social

We’ve ended up with goddam fascism. Isn’t that enough to sour you on stadium shows and capital consolidation? It’s not the content (enjoy the songs if you do). It’s the scale

The Life of a Billionaire… please let TS’s misstep serve a purpose and mark the beginning of the end of celebrity culture

Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...

The Living Wage for Musicians Act would claim a portion of streaming platform earnings for *human* recording musicians, which means if they choose to do nothing about AI slop, they pay us for the privilege weareumaw.org/make-streami...

Spotify’s New Policy Won’t Stop the Wave of AI Slop Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...

“Spotify won’t prohibit this music—not because it thinks it’s innovative or ushering in a new era of technological futurism (the platform has never cared about culture) but simply because it’s generating streams.”
— @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social, who knows from slop pitchfork.com/thepitch/spo...

UMAW Goes to Washington The Reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act

If you’re thinking musicians can’t make a change in the system, think again - and join us @umaw.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/umaw-goes-...

UMAW Goes to Washington The Reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act

If you’re thinking musicians can’t make a change in the system, think again - and join us @umaw.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/umaw-goes-...

We need a thousand thousand thousand flowers blooming

I’m not a pop critic but I read pop critics and my TS takeaway is a fascist emergency is no time for monoculture

UMAW Goes to Washington The Reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act

UMAW Goes to Washington dadadrummer.substack.com/p/umaw-goes-... with @umaw.bsky.social @joeyquits.bsky.social @lizpelly.bsky.social Julia Holter and Alexia Roditis

UMAW Goes to Washington The Reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act

UMAW Goes to Washington dadadrummer.substack.com/p/umaw-goes-... with @umaw.bsky.social @joeyquits.bsky.social @lizpelly.bsky.social Julia Holter and Alexia Roditis

We did once use a red barn for promo photos!

…Certainly not going to start now

I haven’t seen CBS news since Walter Cronkite was the anchor