Steve Smith
@nightafternight.bsky.social
Proud papa. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social senior copywriter. New music on stage and on record: https://nightafternight.substack.com [he/him/his]
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For the Record: Nov. 21, 2025.
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
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For the Record: Nov. 21, 2025.
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
Nothing on this earth compares with a slice of quality pecan pie.
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Nothing on this earth compares with a slice of quality pecan pie.
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Happy Birthday to my dear friend Bev Bevan, pictured here along with Geezer, Ian and myself in 1983. Hope you're having a great day mate. - Tony
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Happy Birthday to my dear friend Bev Bevan, pictured here along with Geezer, Ian and myself in 1983. Hope you're having a great day mate. - Tony
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Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Just saw the news about the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo and I’m gonna need a minute. #BlueMonday
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Just saw the news about the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo and I’m gonna need a minute. #BlueMonday
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
Jeff Conklin teaches me something new practically every week. This is very beautiful. If you aren't tuned in now, you can find the album here: lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
4. Michael Malis & Zara Teicher - Realign - Retreat (Low Versions, 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Jeff Conklin teaches me something new practically every week. This is very beautiful. If you aren't tuned in now, you can find the album here: lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
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Playing free psychedelic music for you on the radio air and net waves from 10am-Noon ET. Tune in! 91.3FM or
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Playing free psychedelic music for you on the radio air and net waves from 10am-Noon ET. Tune in! 91.3FM or
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
Profoundly beautiful show by claire rousay and band (Alex Cunningham, Lia Kohl, Mari Maurice, Wendy Eisenberg) with guest poet LA Warman at Powerhouse.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Profoundly beautiful show by claire rousay and band (Alex Cunningham, Lia Kohl, Mari Maurice, Wendy Eisenberg) with guest poet LA Warman at Powerhouse.
Transfixing opening set by Kelly Moran at Powerhouse… upright piano engulfed in electronic ambiance and samples.
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Transfixing opening set by Kelly Moran at Powerhouse… upright piano engulfed in electronic ambiance and samples.
Agenda: claire rousay with Kelly Moran at Powerhouse Arts.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Agenda: claire rousay with Kelly Moran at Powerhouse Arts.
Been getting pretty deeply into mainstream DC comics lately, perhaps because straightforward conflict between good and evil appeals just now. Tiptoeing gingerly into the DC Finest line with the titles below—and wishing one could cast votes for future volumes. Starman (Jack Knight)! Birds of Prey!
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Been getting pretty deeply into mainstream DC comics lately, perhaps because straightforward conflict between good and evil appeals just now. Tiptoeing gingerly into the DC Finest line with the titles below—and wishing one could cast votes for future volumes. Starman (Jack Knight)! Birds of Prey!
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In this fight we find ourselves in—the struggle for independence in the modern age—, we need to fearlessly push back against all market concentration wherever it arises.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In this fight we find ourselves in—the struggle for independence in the modern age—, we need to fearlessly push back against all market concentration wherever it arises.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
For the Record: Nov. 21, 2025.
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
For the Record: Nov. 21, 2025.
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For the Record: Nov. 21, 2025.
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
Introducing DACAMERA Editions, launching in January with a landmark Tyshawn Sorey work, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg, courtesy DotDotDotMusic
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Under the wire.
Reflections on recent live music encounters, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 19–25.
Photograph: Frank London by Anna London
Reflections on recent live music encounters, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 19–25.
Photograph: Frank London by Anna London
Under the wire.
Reflections on recent live music encounters, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 19–25.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Under the wire.
Reflections on recent live music encounters, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 19–25.
Photograph: Frank London by Anna London
Reflections on recent live music encounters, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 19–25.
Photograph: Frank London by Anna London
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Greg Ginn hadn't done an interview in 13 years when I reached out. I figured he would say no, if he said anything at all. But after enlisting three Gen Z musicians to be in Black Flag with him, he decided it was time to talk. For @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
Black Flag’s Latest Reboot Has Everyone Talking (Even Greg Ginn)
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Greg Ginn hadn't done an interview in 13 years when I reached out. I figured he would say no, if he said anything at all. But after enlisting three Gen Z musicians to be in Black Flag with him, he decided it was time to talk. For @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
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Jesus Christ. (if you go to the alt text and run the french through a translator, it's Holocaust denialism presented as fact.)
X devrait être bloqué en France. Nay. X devrait être bloqué sur l'ensemble de la planète.
Ce genre de merde devrait rendre unanimement tout le monde fou/folle de rage.
Les institutions françaises qui ont encore des comptes sur cette piscine de pus devraient les fermer immédiatement.
Et vous aussi.
Ce genre de merde devrait rendre unanimement tout le monde fou/folle de rage.
Les institutions françaises qui ont encore des comptes sur cette piscine de pus devraient les fermer immédiatement.
Et vous aussi.
On est pas bien là ? :)
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Jesus Christ. (if you go to the alt text and run the french through a translator, it's Holocaust denialism presented as fact.)
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Sure to be one of NEXT season's more memorable events: a 3.5 hour immersive realization of 'Music for 18 Musicians' by Steve Reich and Musicians, Alarm Will Sound, and student musicians in the Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall. Happening next October, on sale now. www.armoryonpark.org/season-event...
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sure to be one of NEXT season's more memorable events: a 3.5 hour immersive realization of 'Music for 18 Musicians' by Steve Reich and Musicians, Alarm Will Sound, and student musicians in the Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall. Happening next October, on sale now. www.armoryonpark.org/season-event...
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A book like this was never likely to have particularly good politics (which are a crapshoot in cape comics in any case) but having it be a J.Michael Straczynski project guarantees that it will also be resolutely, *thuddingly* uninteresting
@adamreck.bsky.social takes Marvel's 1776 #1 to task on its narrow view of history and limited cast: comicsxf.com/2025/11/16/1...
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A book like this was never likely to have particularly good politics (which are a crapshoot in cape comics in any case) but having it be a J.Michael Straczynski project guarantees that it will also be resolutely, *thuddingly* uninteresting
Muted the words "0livia Nuzz!" but it didn't work. Dark side of the Force is sooo damned strong.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Muted the words "0livia Nuzz!" but it didn't work. Dark side of the Force is sooo damned strong.
Me and my big mouth: after getting kid to school 25 minutes late because of train and signal malfunctions inbound, just sat dead still in a tunnel for 30 minutes on return trip because E train’s emergency brake deployed.
Some of these days it just plain feels like the NYC subway system is in free fall, crumbling by the minute.
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Me and my big mouth: after getting kid to school 25 minutes late because of train and signal malfunctions inbound, just sat dead still in a tunnel for 30 minutes on return trip because E train’s emergency brake deployed.
Some of these days it just plain feels like the NYC subway system is in free fall, crumbling by the minute.
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Some of these days it just plain feels like the NYC subway system is in free fall, crumbling by the minute.