Damon K

This auction ends Monday ebay.us/m/bwciqm

A Nobel prize for assholes might solve a couple problems all at once

Looks like a prize for climate change denial

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future An interview with Ethan Diamond

On this last Bandcamp Friday of the year (and last before it has competition in the form of @subvert.fm?), a reprise of an interview I conducted with its CEO and co-founder in 2020 dadadrummer.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future An interview with Ethan Diamond

On this last Bandcamp Friday of the year (and last before it has competition in the form of @subvert.fm?), a reprise of an interview I conducted with its CEO and co-founder in 2020 dadadrummer.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

John Cage strikes again:
“So if it’s noise, it could be signal?” “Definitely.”

Lots of new paid subs today thank you

stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social

(Ilhan stands with @umaw.bsky.social and is a sponsor of the Living Wage for Musicians Act!)

Thanks so much! If you’re in London Jan3-5 come by Cafe Oto and I’ll get you a copy

That’s net £5 or 6k for over 9 million streams, if on a label. You read that right!

Thank you @loscampesinos.bsky.social for being so generous with info - this should be illuminating for all. And note this key paragraph:

Music folks, do you read Damon? You should!

The Year AI Broke Recommendations from 2025

My recommendation from 2025 is to listen to humans dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-year-a...

New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds Pace of area’s temperature rise, outpaced in US only by Alaskan Arctic, apparently increased in past five years

A band starting out in Boston now wouldn’t be writing Snowstorm and covering Listen the Snow is Falling - “most of the warming [is] since the late-1980s,” says the research paper cited here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bien d'accord avec le syndicat de musiciens United Musicians And Allief Workers (UMAW) : il y a bien des meilleures façons d'écouter de la musique que de tendre l'oreilles à Spotify. Ils ont trop de méfaits sur la conscience.
@umaw.bsky.social @dadadrummer.bsky.social

Either I don’t follow anyone who still posts a Spotify wrapped or this thing has run its course, kind of like a stomach bug

Ok this is the next live auction - minimum bid is in, so there’s no turning back!

Sure feels like everyone at every company has either been laid off or is doing three people’s jobs

Seems like we’re in the stage of economic collapse where you can’t even get sales on the phone, much less customer service

Last day! ebay.us/m/GinMFC

Spotify sent me a lump of coal wrapped in an ICE recruitment ad

New auction starting! This Is Our Music (1990, Rough Trade UK) test pressing, in handmade sleeve by Naomi ebay.us/m/bwciqm

The rankings, whatever - but thank you to all sites that put their annual top lists on a single page and don’t make you click and click

Authors filing claims in the Anthropic class action suit: I'm seeing now I can only claim works that were registered with the Copyright office by the publisher and assigned an ID number through that system. This seems to rule out a number of my books. Anyone find a way around this, or know more?

New auction starting! This Is Our Music (1990, Rough Trade UK) test pressing, in handmade sleeve by Naomi ebay.us/m/bwciqm

30% discount on paid subscriptions to Dada Drummer Almanach dadadrummer.substack.com/3500e7c3

AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models

Good one for “cyber Monday” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ornette’s album title (borrowed by a young indie band with attitude) continues to trace its path of influence

Desert Island Discs - Tom Stoppard - BBC Sounds Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tom Stoppard

Listening to the infinite regress of Stoppard on Desert Island Discs, an episode that followed the one staged in The Real Thing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...