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Proud papa. Conspicuous consumer of music, fresh and preserved. Writer, editor, storyteller. he/him/his. nightafternight.substack.com

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For the Record: July 5, 2024.
Stop what you're doing and pay attention to Canadian composer Paolo Griffin… plus two weeks' worth of new, recent, and upcoming releases. nightafternight.substack.com/p/for-the-re...

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Just read a new article with a theory that makes a whole lot of sense in the wake of 'The Acolyte' S1E6, "Teach/Corrupt."

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Stating this at face value, not at all as h8r noise: I *really* need to know how the Vernestra Rwoh of the novels came to be the Vernestra Rwoh of the TV series.

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In-between days.
Live-music picks for the next seven days in NYC, including three nights with Lesley Mok, pictured, for The Stone series at The New School. (Photograph: Tarishi Gupta) nightafternight.substack.com/p/in-between...

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Trying something new today… pulling up the Best Contemporary Classical Music list Peter Margasak writes monthly for Bandcamp, and pressing the big "play" button (indicated here in red) *without* looking first to see what's in store. Let's be surprised and delighted, shall we? (Link in next skeet.)

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Brooklyn Music School, one of the borough’s leading arts education centers, faces potential closure unless it can raise at least $80,000 by the end of the week, according to school officials.

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The great Nona Hendryx introducing the Willie Mae Black Sound Salon & Synth Orchestra and an AI named Bina48 at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium.

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Sharing peaceful and progressive sounds on the radio air & streams from 10am-Noon ET. Tune in via WVKRdotOrg, Tune In, or 91.3FM if yr a neighbor.

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮's avatar Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social
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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

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Listening to Dio loudly is something I should do much more often.

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Agenda. Coming up: Jen Shyu, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, and James Blood Ulmer.

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there are simply so many fascinating music stories to tell and about 2% of the necessary money to tell them

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RIP James Chance, No Wave icon. The announcement/update is in his GoFundMe here.

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Will Mason's avatar Will Mason @willmasonmusic.bsky.social
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Finished mixing my next album today, with the ever-talented Joseph Branciforte at the board. "Hemlocks; Peacocks" is coming out January 2025, and look for a few shows in the fall on the east coast and then headed toward the midwest in the wintertime. (What could go wrong?)

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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

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The media and journalism worlds have been beaten up for so many years that it's hard to have hope. But the indie, worker-owned digital media we see rising today remind me of how alt-weeklies used to inspire. Maybe the New Alt Media is a way forward. www.anildash.com/2024/06/14/t...

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I don’t think this site will ever be the glory days of Twitter, I think the vibe will be a very strange town where we all know each other and every day the same 30 people in town go to the park and fight as the rest of us hoot and holler

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At a bare minimum, I want an explanation of how the joyous, inquisitive, and inventive fledgling Jedi Vernestra Rwoh of the High Republic novels became the stiff bureaucrat we met in 'The Acolyte,' who left me crestfallen.

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Early days, but 'The Acolyte' (and some of the High Republic literary canon that came before it, storywise) seems to suggest it was the overabundance, militarization, and hubris of the Jedi that presented opportunity for a Sith-backed Empire to arise. I find that detail provocative, at least.

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We were all better off receiving news on paper in the morning and on TV for no more than 30 minutes in the evening.

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Selectively unfollowing pundits who can't stop dropping Xitter screengrabs here. If I wanted to follow those folks, I'd still be on the Xitter.

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New: Hackers embedded malware in a Stable Diffusion extension hosted on GitHub and have been hacking people generating AI images

"You have committed one of our sins: Art Theft"

www.404media.co/hackers-targ...

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I honestly had no idea how true it was until I heard them blow up a tiny space in an improv set with Madison Greenstone, and then do it again with Tamarisk.

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we saw a rat run across the floor in chelsea market yesterday morning and I've never seen a cashier more conflicted about deciding whether to pretend to be surprised or concerned

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Sarah Hennies and Her Amazing Technicolor Dream Band getting ready for ‘Motor Tapes’ at the Whitney Museum.

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Here's a very good piece from Justin Davidson about why NYC needs congestion pricing. (That said, Berlin Wall-ing Manhattan laterally at 60th St. is, to me, a slightly odd and out-of-step approach to the borough and the issue, but it's unfortunately moot now.) www.curbed.com/article/cong...

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Lester Bowie Quintet

1978-09-01
Willisau Jazz Festival
Willisau, Switzerland

Lester Bowie - trumpet
Arthur Blythe - alto sax
Amina Claudine Myers - piano
Malachi Favors - bass
Phillip Wilson - drums
youtu.be/zakUBHt_nRY?...

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