Kat Five

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Ace new release out today from @wherewesleep.bsky.social 🔥

Everyone, please welcome Brian Eno.......

In our brand new Music Streaming guide, we take a look at 12 streaming platforms, giving our recommendations on what to avoid and who is leading the way with their ethics.

We also include a bespoke rating on how each platform compensates musicians.

Read the full guide here: bit.ly/4968YWG

Primed!

Now wave surely!

London tonight will be 🔥

I’ll get to catch you all live tonight in London, can’t wait!

Iconic!

If the main channels of music distribution infrastructure on the internet are going to continue to enshittify themselves to death, the only logical response is to enact a digital dubplate mentality in your community both IRL and URL.

Yes!! I’m in, as in work in progress.

VR in progress. First capture the face. Working with 3D artist Tank Thunderbird on this immersive piece for my next release is so exciting!

#musicsky #VRsky

Big win for creatives today in the battle against exploitation by AI companies ⬇️

German court rules OpenAI infringed copyright when it trained on copyrighted song lyrics

www.reuters.com/world/german...

Ethical Christmas gift guide for co-operators The first instalment of our 2025 Christmas gift guide is made up of items from Ethical Consumer’s Best Buy Label list

Looking for some ethical, #coops-friendly #Christmas presents? Here's part one of our gift guide, compiled with Ethical Consumer

In a few mins, (and then @bbcsounds.bsky.social) it's our Freak Zone Art Time Punks special on the more experimental end of new wave. Expect Wire, This Heat, ATV, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, Television, Pere Ubu, The Fall and more....

Good point! Anyway check out new alternative @subvert.fm!

Excited to be speaking about music @ethical-consumer.bsky.social Conference today in their session on ‘Moving away from tech monopolies’

A brilliant book, chuffed to have been able to review this one for LTW

Looking forward to leading this foresight review over the next 9 months, examining how AI adoption intersects with worker safety, environmental safety and critical infra resilience. Also working with some brilliant partners including the Digital Futures Lab and Global Center on AI Governance

Self-cleaning bathrooms!

Artwork for the second edition CD of the Xqui album 'one enchanted evening' featuring Kat Five and other collaborators. The art depicts classical-style figures and striped shafts of light.

New second edition of the @xqui.bsky.social 'one enchanted evening' CD ft yours truly and other collaborators is out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social, with alternative artwork.

All profits to Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M.)

xqui.bandcamp.com/album/one-enchanted-evening

The kind of positive trolling I would do if I were rich would be unparalleled.

I’d hire every politics writer laid off from Teen Vogue and start a new publication for them called Teen Rogue

Sanctuary Lab Clare Archibald sound installation people check your emails as @archieislander.bsky.social has news about this wonderful work!

So excited to get to test @subvert.fm out next week. Ethical tech ftw!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Great news from aces @trupatrupa.bsky.social!

"we're not having a serious conversation about the future of music unless we're talking about public funding, cooperatives, unions, and international solidarity"
- Liz Pelly, Mood Machine

Issue 217 is out now!

This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.

We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW

Great to see this @moonbuilding.bsky.social review of the new @xqui.bsky.social release 'one enchanted evening'. Loved contributing to the album and it's out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/one-en...