Ric Leichtung

Invite request | Freq A place to find music with friends.

Ok... who wants to try out my social media site for community-centered music discovery?

It's a fun place to hang out and talk about music, but it's also a pretty unique attempt to develop software *with* the actual communities who are going to be using it.

www.freq.social/welcome/invi...

On purple background in white text: "The Prince Estate and Netflix have come a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince's archive. As a result, the Netflix documentary will not be released," plus the Prince symbol.

The official Prince estate account on FB posted this an hour back. This sadly clearly means that Ezra Edelman's nine-hour documentary, which would have provided a truly all around portrait of him rather than a gloss, will never surface. And that's a damn shame.

now that it’s over… not one word about climate change at the grammys.

despite it doubling as a benefit for los angeles fire victims.

nothing even from people who will usually take any opportunity to talk about climate change, like billie eilish.

a missed opportunity.

So frustrating to see the camera cut to her reaction to pretty much everything

Chappell Roan is completely correct! Musicians are workers, and we deserve fair payment & dignity in our workplace. UMAW introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act with Rep. Rashida Tlaib to build a fairer music industry and increase wages for musicians. We need your help to make it happen!

if anyone heard chappell call for a liveable wage for performing musical artists and songwriters at the grammys and thought

“what is the best organization i could support that’s fighting for that”

that organization is called @umaw.bsky.social

Je t’aime

Thank you Chappell Roan for speaking up for all musicians - music workers, join @umaw.bsky.social in demanding passage of the Living Wage for Musicians Act to make streaming pay musicians directly and fairly. We deserve it!!

and Robin Carolan would be perfect to do soundtrack for that too

One of many reasons that going to shows is so important

if you’re feeling a bit depressed right now (can’t blame you!) and you love live music, can i recommend going out to see a show? has mild-to-moderate restorative effects on one’s faith in humanity

If you work in the arts, letters, or education, your work is inherently political.

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture), by Q Lazzarus 21 track album

Goddamn, this took forever but glad to see it: a proper full length album of work by the mighty and sadly departed Q Lazzarus.

Introducing Low Frequency Moments in the history of music community online

Officially ending my nearly decade long blogging hiatus.

Low Frequency is where I'll be digging deep into the history of music community online, plus other stuff I've researched.

Like a teenage bride with a baby inside, let's get high on information.

low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/introducin...

Death by Audio closed ten years ago today. 🔥

Literally adhoc post-altered zones

Post punk bands LOVE closeups of eyeballs

Our plan moving forward is to treat selftitledmag.substack.com like a living archive — a survey of our first 16 years — with new content split between free and paid subscribers. 🙏 in advance to all of our early supporters!

the DOGE agency will not have the authority to reallocate funds (nor would that be constitutional), it is a PR tool to create the impression that government spending is inherently wasteful and build political momentum for spending cuts

A thing that a lot of musicians from TikTok do today— their fans don’t seem to mind??

going to tell my kids it’s Jandek

blue sky aka slowed and reverb twitter

michael kelly would be great as james carville

horsegiirl exceeding all equestations, really raising the barn, etc

Christmas In New York store is absolutely cursed

These are polarized times, but we can't cede the idea of "government efficiency" to the cynical right. What would efficiency that really helps people look like?

Public healthcare and college, no means testing. No humiliating red tape for SNAP, FEMA, debt relief. Websites for UI that actually work.

bump

only a matter of time

these circled items are all data the US govt admitted last month to purchasing in bulk to circumvent the need to go to a judge for a warrant.

is anyone on 90 day fiancé on here yet