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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 34m

Fuck Amazon and “Prime Day”

Big Tech is not your friend. It’s a toolset for economic exploitation.

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UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3h

A link you’d shared a week or two ago about human cells emitting specific frequencies sent me down a rabbit hole, which then back linked to a back issue from ‘23 talking about Mashed Up and how remixing threatens hegemonic forces.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll check it out! Serendipitous timing, you actually get an unrelated shout out in this Saturday’s edition of the newsletter.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 23h

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

bandcamp.com/veaukab/play...

Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 15h

periodic reminder that art spiegelman, author and artist of maus, is also the creator of the garbage pail kids.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 14h

“Some genres endure because people are devoted to them; others, like soft rock, endure because they are useful catchall categories, and because no one cares enough to police their boundaries.” - Kelefa Sanneh, from the book “Major Labels”

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 15h

Shlohmo is back with a new song that blurs the lines between between cloud-rap beats and screwed-emo:

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Chore Boy (feat. SALEM) [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Shlohmo

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

A stone cold EP from 2021 containing mystical jazz breaks like Alain Goraguer got lost in the desert.
#musicsky #rediscoveries

glassbeams.bandcamp.com/album/mirage

Mirage, by Glass Beams

4 track album

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Hudson Valley folx, here’s an exciting concert announcement for next spring at Basilica in Hudson. Tix go on sale on Thursday for retro-garage-psych rocker Ty Segall in April 2026.
#hudsonvalley #concerts

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Ty Segall concert poster with vector image of him holding a guitar colored by a rainbow gradient from top to bottom. April 29, Basilica, Hudson is on the lower left side.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 19h

I see the word “taffy” somewhere while going about my normal day and without fail, I got this song running through my head for a couple hours afterward. 🍬🍭

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D4L - Laffy Taffy (Video)

YouTube video by TheArchitects

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 23h

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

bandcamp.com/veaukab/play...

Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Mexican Summer just added a gold-vinyl reissue of Connan Mockasin's 2013 record of off-kilter indie-psych-pop, "Caramel." Definitely worth a revisit if you yearn for wavy, pitch-shifted sounds straddling weird and smooth with aplomb.

connanmockasin.bandcamp.com/album/caramel

Caramel, by Connan Mockasin

11 track album

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Trummors @trummors.bsky.social · 1d

Warren Zevon took piano lessons from Igor Stravinsky

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

“When musicians improvise, the portion of the brain associated with the “inner critic,” the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is less active, while the medial prefrontal cortex, the part in the center of the brain associated with creativity and language, takes over.” - from the book Transcendent Waves

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Hudson Valley folx, here’s an exciting concert announcement for next spring at Basilica in Hudson. Tix go on sale on Thursday for retro-garage-psych rocker Ty Segall in April 2026.
#hudsonvalley #concerts

www.eventim.us/event/ty-seg...

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 4d

Keep on rocking in the surveillance state.

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The Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File

YouTube video by Gonzalo Rey

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a great story to be told in porn site user data regarding the 10-year trend line for trans-related videos’ keyword search volume and the geolocation of those searchers by state.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Another good use:

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Tortoise Djed

YouTube video by umatique

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

New theory: Somewhere in the world there is always someone’s neighbor blasting Queen’s Greatest Hits.

Right now, it is my neighbor.

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Scaper @filthylucre78.bsky.social · 1d

True

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Punky, grungey speed riffs against everything. If we’re talking about neo 90s-Maxxing, this might be it. Zeitgeist af.

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Snooper - Pom Pom - Official Music Video

YouTube video by SNõõPER TV

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Damn this album is so good. Textures ☑️. Rhythms ☑️. Just a fantastic work of electronic music.

jacquesgreene.bandcamp.com/album/verses...

Verses GT, by Verses GT

10 track album

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

A stone cold EP from 2021 containing mystical jazz breaks like Alain Goraguer got lost in the desert.
#musicsky #rediscoveries

glassbeams.bandcamp.com/album/mirage

Mirage, by Glass Beams

4 track album

glassbeams.bandcamp.com

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