Dada Strain

We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

Bklyn Sounds 8/6/2025—8/12/2025 This week's events include Vernon Reid & Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber residency / A Space For Sound & Surya Botofasina in the park / Michael T: Bowie 80 / Kiernan Laveaux / much more

New Bklyn Sounds 8/6/2025—8/12/2025
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Math-rock @cushac.bsky.social?

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

LISTEN: ‘These Were the Real Culture Wars’

NYC Culture History Must-Listen 🔥🔥🔥 | On The City’s "LITNYC podcast," ExecEd/longtime NYC journalist Alyssa Katz speaks w/ J. Hoberman about his new book on the city's 1960s avant-garde; includes detours into discussion of local arts journalism’s responsibilities in growing independent culture.

Enjoyed the joke, but sadly, the first thing I thought of...

Brooklyn Mirage parent company, Avant Gardner, files for bankruptcy • Brooklyn Paper Avant Gardner, the parent company of the Brooklyn Mirage, filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.

You reap what you sow... but I feel awful for the working class folks on the sh*t end of the $800k "labor-related expenses" debt, who will never see a dime of what's owed to them.

News Analysis Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.

This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.

Night After Night | Steve Smith | Substack News and views about new music – contemporary composition, creative music & improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic work, and idioms for which no clever genre name has yet been coined – on stage...

still lotsa great resources for finding live music in nyc!
- @nightafternight.bsky.social: nightafternight.substack.com
- @dadastrain.bsky.social: dadastrain.substack.com
- cap'n neddyo's tapped.in app
- nyc noise: nyc-noise.com
- nyc jazz record: nycjazzrecord.com

YouTube video by 1Train Cyphers 1TRAIN CYPHER CITY SERIES | QUEENS EDITION

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niiice...

The unbearable attempts (and traps) of trying to live ethically in a platform-based, extreme-capitalism society...

San Antonio Tejano legend Flaco Jimenez dies at 86, family says Grammy Award-winning musical artist Flaco Jimenez has died, his family announced on his social media late Thursday night. He was 86.

Farewell to Flaco Jimenez, a true giant id Texas music.

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@dadastrain.bsky.social does NYC jazz & electronic dance curated highlights; I do DC & nearby rock, go-go, Latino, African, r&B, Caribbean, punk events stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/07/dc-b...

New Bklyn Sounds 7/30/2025—8/5/2025
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ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch - ONE MORE TUNE, by The Dark Outside, TDO Cassettes & Bibliotapes 41 track album

And we're live -- #OneMoreTune, the celebration/fundraiser album for the mighty #JDTwitch of @optimo-espacio.bsky.social. Hosted by @darkoutside.co.uk on @bandcamp.com, art by @jorgevelez.bsky.social, layout by @danergy.bsky.social, mastering by Crawford Blair. (1/x)

The Problem of Anxiety by John Ashbery Fifty years have passed since I started living in those dark towns I was telling you about. Well, not much has changed. I still can't figure out how to get from the post office to the swings in the park. Apple trees blossom in the cold, not from conviction, and my hair is the color of dandelion fluff. Suppose this poem were about you - would you put in the things I've carefully left out: descriptions of pain, and sex, and how shiftily people behave toward each other? Naw, that's all in some book it seems. For you I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches, and the glass eye that stares at me in amazement from the bronze mantel, and will never be appeased.

The Problem of Anxiety
John Ashbery

One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob

One reason I regard the Reader + other regional pubs/crits as guiding lights is, as musickers, they hear what's going on locally before anyone else, which young/unestablished artist to consider, and the listing is the natural first piece of coverage, an introduction and an invitation. #LoveThisJob

Dada Strain | Piotr Orlov | Substack Rhythm, Improvisation and Community (#BklynSounds). Click to read Dada Strain, by Piotr Orlov, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

You may be interested in what I've been doing since the summer of 2021: dadastrain.substack.com

The weekend section is shutting down???

Absolutely true about @dadastrain.bsky.social, and in fact I make a point of linking and x-reffing Piotr, Jim Macnie, and a couple of others every single week. It’s the same idea as having six or more listings writers and editors at Time Out… no one can know or do it all alone.

a) yes!!!

b) but the attempt to blame the decline of listings on poptimism is weird and waaaay off

c) there are others, in addition to the amazing @nightafternight.bsky.social, doing the crucial work of keeping listings culture alive in nyc. see, for example, the amazing @dadastrain.bsky.social

MONK a film by CHRISTIAN BLACKWOOD & MICHAEL BLACKWOOD. From New York to Atlanta, a whirlwind tour with a jazz icon at the height of his career.

NOW SHOWING/MUST SEE | Le Cinema Club has the 1968 documentary streaming until July 31st

In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

MUST READ | Richard Brody’s newest essay in The New Yorker is a response to the NYT’s note last week that four veteran culture critics are being reassigned; and is essential for anyone seeking a clear argument of for how criticism affects the arts. Gonna teach this one in the Fall.

Come to Rippers in the Rockaways on Saturday for our free, all-ages beach party 🏖️🎸🎹 🌙 hellgatenyc.com/rippers-shea...

Anybody can get it

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Overheard (cc: @heathendisco.bsky.social)