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Mary Halvorson @maryhalvorson.bsky.social · 20h

Congratulations to Craig Taborn on his MacArthur Fellowship!

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Craig Taborn | 2025 MacArthur Fellow

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 21h

Craig Taborn has been named a MacArthur Foundation fellow for 2025, the only musician on the list

Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 1.12.19

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 21h

Two members of the legendary Sun City Girls are brothers Alan & Richard Bishop. I recently interviewed them separately. During this episode Alan gave me a question to ask his brother. Tune in Nov 29 @wfmu.bsky.social for Richard's response to his brother's question.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 4d

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

Sasquatch Landslide: The Dwarfs of East Agouza Interview

STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16h

A quick reminder that you can also find me on Mastodon, which of course isn't a perfect platform either. But regardless.

Ned Raggett (@[email protected])

1.01K Posts, 622 Following, 1.16K Followers · Hello! Relocating to a local server at last, glad to be here. I write about #music at various spots like #TheQuietus, #TheWire, #Shfl and my Patreon, also...

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 15h

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Rhizome DC @rhizomedc.bsky.social · 1d

JUST ANNOUNCED
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DIY in DC Festival - James June Schneider / Crowmeat Bob and Irina Kruchinina / Homemade Pozole — Rhizome DC

Sunday October 19 * 6pm * Free / donations * RSVP The DIY in DC festivities continue and conclude for the weekend at Rhizome with: Projections by James June Schneider on the outside of t...

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ARLnow @arlnow.bsky.social · 1d

Goodwill on Glebe Road will close this month for affordable housing redevelopment

Goodwill on Glebe Road will close this month for affordable housing redevelopment | ARLnow.com

The Goodwill on S. Glebe Road is closing this month to redevelop as a mixed-use affordable housing project. The donation center, retail store and career center at 10 S. Glebe Road is set to close for...

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 2d

RIP CHRIS DREJA. those yardbirds sides still get regular play around here. there's no firewall on this link

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Chris Dreja, a Founding Member of the Yardbirds, Dies at 78

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit! Roger McGuinn posted The Byrds 1965 touring schedule and it's the first I've ever heard of rock band playing at Lakeside Amusement Park.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ralph Wiley @squealermusic.bsky.social · 5d

A new Electric Sandwich radio program blasting 100 years of underground sound directly to yr furloughed cranium. We are a gubment of free jazz and not weak men. Health care not hair care. Acid jamz not shutdown plans! bit.ly/ElecSand100225
#FreeDC #NoShutdown #HealthCareForAll #FreePortland

Ralph Wiley @squealermusic.bsky.social · 6d

All-new Electric Sandwich coming up from 4-5pm on WOWD-LP Takoma Park. 94.3FM in the DC area, takomaradio.org anywhere! Got the shutdownouttaworkbutdamntheweatherisnicesosittingoutsideenjoyingtheshitouttaitblues? This is the answer!
#DMV #FreeDC #EpsteinShutdown

Takoma Radio WOWD-LP FM

Community radio low power FM station in Takoma Park, MD and DC.

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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 7d

Finn Wolfhard adapting The Replacements biography 'Trouble Boys' into a movie www.brooklynvegan.com/finn-wolfhar...

Finn Wolfhard adapting The Replacements' 'Trouble Boys' into a movie

Stranger things have happened in Hollywood

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, DC area folks! I'll be in conversation with the splendiferous @bethmacy.bsky.social about her new book PAPER GIRL at 7pm on October 22 @politicsprose.bsky.social. It's powerful story, and we'll be diving deep into the current state of the union. I hope to see you there...

Beth Macy — Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America - with Andrea Pitzer — at Conn Ave

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 7d

We agree with Lina Khan, who suggested that unlicensed AI training on music that then is used to compete with the original music likely qualifies as an unfair method of competition under the FTC Act.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 7d

“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting."

A Welsh Band Spent a Decade Building a Fanbase -- An AI Imitator Outpaced Them in Two Months

AI band Bleeding Verse cite Holding Absence as an influence — and they have more monthly listeners on Spotify than the human band.

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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · 7d

episode 279 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours now playing (link below), this week with new stuff from Brainwash Victim, Applejuice, Mick Harris, Kinlaw and Franco Franco, Garden Of Love and more

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10/01/25 Show 279 : Richer Sounds' Lifetime Warranty Does Not Specify Whose Lifetime

greetings friends, I nearly wasn’t able to complete this week’s epsiode after being diagnosed with a case of minor men’s whiplash acquired while reading the New York Times’ recent, “Is It OK To Use Yo...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mamdani: "What we have built in this city is also an indication of what politics can be. After the November election, we heard that young people were leaving the Democratic Party, they were getting disinterested in politics. And we built a campaign where we said, what if we treated them w/ respect?"

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Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 8d

This is a pattern for Trump: he creates these spectacles that are supposed to show his strength, but it only exemplifies his weakness.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 10d

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

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4x4 grid of 16 album covers, see link in post for full trackless details

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Ralph Wiley @squealermusic.bsky.social · 8d

I will say that the streets of DC are dangerous "for him." There's no way he could walk the streets without being showered with verbal abuse.

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Ralph Wiley @squealermusic.bsky.social · 8d

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Trouble In Mind Records @troubleinmind.bsky.social · 8d

Humbled & grateful for this 60-song Trouble In Mind mix that Andy from @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social made on Mixcloud... Some of these songs we haden't listened to in years. 😢 Support his excellent writing over at the site 🫡

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Goodbye Trouble In Mind

This one hits harder than most. It’s a rough time out there for the indie edge of the music industry; whether its press, labels, bands, or shops. After 17 years running as one of the best voices in in...

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Derek Monypeny @derekmonypeny.bsky.social · 8d

OUT NOW: The 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label:

Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP

3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.

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Voiceless Mass - Vinyl 2LP Edition, by Raven Chacon + Present Music

0 track album

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