@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
The public sphere is a little more structurally transformed today
Even the CEO is tired of Bluesky
I had figured out how to find solid blocks of writing when the kids were pretty young, but, like often home sick and stuff. I'm finding it hard to figure this out for this new phase of after-work and weekend activities. I'm thinking big things like, "maybe a white board?"
Nobody in mountain time complains about the start time of a hockey game. We're just happy to be included.
"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless."
Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
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Unbelievably great day to have phoned it in at work and watched these games all day
Happy #WorldRadioDay. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?
Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
You absolutely need to get some 50/50 tickets
In fifteen minutes, a brand new episode of WHAT DO WE KNOW is airing. We're doing an all vinyl show today. We got the new Kid Rock song. We have everything. CJSR 88.5 FM, cjsr.com.
Leaning into something that is celebratory, flawless, colourful, joyful, powerful, beautiful, etc., etc., is the right move when Trump and Vance and Kid Rock and Rob Schneider or whoever are taking their ball and going home.
To set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."
Does this include doctors of philosophy?
At least in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada they do
They do. Even in daycare.
Those two guys don't give a fuck about how sunny it is
Saw some really great bands at Winterruption last night. Had one beer that was ice cold and one that was room temperature. That's how it goes sometimes. Might have to do it all again tonight.
Every job in my field was like, AI and Media, and now it's like, AI and Media (but maybe it's a little bit bad)
I mean, it doesn't really matter this year, does it?
I think it would be really helpful if everyone posting their very cool takes on the state of music journalism this week would also encourage people to subscribe to worker-owned outlets & support independent writers trying to make new things happen
Me, checking my email one last time on my death bed in 2067: "You have received a new comment on your review of 'Animal Collective: Centipede Hz.'"
I'll see what I can do
$50 it is
Persistent pessimism is one way to put it
The annual grad conference in Music at the University of Alberta is going down April 23 and 24th, with a deadline for submissions of February 20th. Dr. Judith Klassen, Curator for Music and Performing Arts at the Canadian Museum of History, will be giving the keynote.
Feel for the Bills. Losing to a guy named Bo Nix is just brutal stuff.
I see the point about how it's difficult to say, yes this counts as AI and is banned, or that this doesn't and is permitted. But more importantly, Bandcamp's move signals a resistance to tech industry influence in music communities, and narratives of AI inevitably, and is valuable as such.
A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.
We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.
Almost had to post my music grid here