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YouTube video by plantoid plantoid - Parasite (Live at Farm Road)

New favourite band - discovered from a paid instagram story ad for their gig last night in Leeds, of all ways. just as good live as they are on record, if not better youtu.be/zdIkQxEPoT0?...

The deadline to submit to our biennial conference in Aberdeen this summer has been extended to 23 February. Please share this reminder widely with your networks for anyone who may have missed the initial call.

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exciting, can't wait for this to come out.

We're slowly building an alternative to Spotify and Bandcamp. Owned by artists, labels the people who work here. Why? Because if we work together and own it together it can never be taken away.

Volume 37 Issue 4 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

Article alert part 2 ❗Our co-authored piece w/ @jenessawilliams.bsky.social and Iván Navarros on Lofi Girl and its various vibes & social dynamics is also out now in an awesome special issue about researching popular music and online cultures: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... (DM me for a copy)

DJ Performance Analysis What do DJs do on their equipment and why? How might an analyst measure and interpret these gestures? What can researchers learn more broadly about performance by examining DJs’ creative improvisat...

Article alert! My short paper on analysing DJ performance, based on some of my PhD methodology work, is out now. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.

Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.

Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music

University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026

Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...

Deadline: 02 Feb 2026

Deadline approaching! Submit a proposal to our 'amplification and everyday life' conference by 15th December

Went to an event with about 40 people, had good fun playing and chatting but the crowd quickly thinned out when the store couldn't get carde.io working and we had to just play casuals at the table

Come and think about music and sound amplification in everyday life with me and my colleagues in Huddersfield next June! CfP is open until 15 December 2025.

Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

Professor Steve Waksman, leader of the Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield, poses smiling behind a stack of colourful amps by Marshall, Orange, Vox and other manufacturers.

Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.

Submission deadline 15 December 2025.

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Excited to announce a conference around our research project! Hopefully one of several we can pull off with our funding. It's about amplification and everyday life, interpreted very broadly. Submissions due 15th December, meeting in person 4-5 June next year.

Fender amplifier-shaped shop front of the Guitar Store, Southampton, UK

Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity

Home Welcome to the Low End Theories conference website. Date held: 19–20 May 2023 This free online conference was a response to the multidisciplinary field emerging around low-frequency sound and the soun...

Someone recently contacted me about accessing the archive of the Low End Theories conference we ran online in 2023, inspired by my PhD research. The site has been cleaned up and archived cfp + recordings of the talks are now fully online. sites.google.com/view/lowendt...

#LowEnd23 #LowEndTheories

We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.

The AMS (like any large org) doesn't always get it right, but it got this one VERY right

www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...

Ambitious research agenda for new five-year Amplification Project - University of Huddersfield A project to chart the past, present and future of the technology behind amplified sound has begun at the University of Huddersfield, with the backing of a Leverhulme International Professorship grant...

Amps! + a neat little summary of what our work is about www.hud.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - Call for Applications: The Leverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships at University of Huddersfield, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD call part II: we have three fully funded (home) scholarships still to award for students interested in researching sound amplification. Preference will go to topics like disability and the environment but all will be considered. Info below, deadline 12 May. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Hands holding a copy of "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power" by Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere.

While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, "Algorithms of Resistance" shows through a diverse range of case studies how people can resist algorithms across various domains. This book is available in a free, #openaccess edition: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254742...

Black History Month | Reading List During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History.  All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...

Walter Rodney's ambitious masterwork of political economy, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is part of our Black History Month sale.

Rodney makes the unflinching case that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature, but a direct product of imperial extraction.

Seminar poster, stack of amps on blue background.

I'm giving a short talk in a few weeks with my new team about our work where we want the Amplification Project to go, or think it could/should go. It's a weekday morning on campus but come along if you can, we'd love to hear from you.
#MusicSky #AcWri #Musicology #MusicStudies #Yorkshire

Awesome! That's my excuse to finally buy the game tonight ✅

Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

Check out Josh Davila author of "Blockchain Radicals", on @thebristolcable.bsky.social 's People Just Do Something Podcast on crypto and the contemporary left.
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