Tao of Glass - Fond memories of this beautiful part-performance part-concert homage to Philip Glass from its premiere at the Manchester International Festival, currently played at Soho Place in London. The original music soundtrack by Philip Glass is out, too. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master

This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.

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The French Exception - The War, De Gaulle, Brel, Barbara, Brassens, Ferré, Gainsbourg, and the Rock and Roll Revolution that Never Happened. By @thehinternet.bsky.social www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-french...

The French Exception

The War, De Gaulle, Brel, Barbara, Brassens, Ferré, Gainsbourg, and the Rock and Roll Revolution that Never Happened

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Gugusse et l'automate, Georges Méliès, 1897.

Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world.

JOB VACANCY - SENIOR PRODUCER We’re looking for a new Senior Producer to help plan our programme and make it happen: www.cafeoto.co.uk/job-vacancy-...

Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner

Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner

Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto

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Sony Music backs AI rights startup Vermillio - Axios www.axios.com/2025/03/03/v...

Exclusive: Sony Music backs Vermillio's $16M Series A

The startup offers an AI licensing and protection platform.

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On AI - "The only uncertainty [around intellectual property] is around who has been using the UK’s creative crown jewels as training material without permission and how they got hold of it.” - John Naughton, The Observer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton

The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong

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Bill Fay, 9 September 1943 – 21 February 2025. pitchfork.com/news/bill-fa...

The library of analogue sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is now publicly available for the first time www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-radiopho...

#jesuisCharlie

Rattrapé mon retard sur ce docu signé Moby qui donne envie de manger du punk vegan et de devenir hardcore, ou l'inverse. Avec Ian Mackaye, Steve Ignorant de Crass, Captain Sensible et bien d'autres.

Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023) | Teaser

YouTube video by Moby

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Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan & James McNew @dumpland.bsky.social - Little Black Egg aka Yo La Tengo - Café OTO, London - 30/11/2024

Starling murmurations from Dr. Kathryn Cooper

I wasn’t expecting to like the much-hyped Anastasia Samoylova show as much as I did. Beautifully curated at Saatchi Gallery, many of the images focus on climate anxiety in her adopted home state, Florida.

Great to see Nada Surf in top form last night at Islington Assembly Hall in London. Hats off to Matthew, Daniel, Ira and Louie!

"For creators, the only way to avoid pitfalls associated with investors is to own your own platforms." Another must read by @davetroy.com 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Dave Troy@davetroy.com · 2y ago

NEW: "Without Sky: Social Media and the End of Reality" Users are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the possibility of capture by potentially hostile investors. america2.news/without-sky-...

Photographer and drummer Joe Dilworth in conversation with Jeff Barrett for the launch of the excellent book 'Everything, All At Once Forever' tonight at The Social bildbandberlin.com/products/joe...

On Huggy Bear - “We defined ourselves by what we loved, and also what we hated and despised,” says Rowley. “Our ethics were from left-field feminism, queer politics, situationism. We wanted to carve away all we found terrible and corrupting.” www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

‘We didn’t intend to create outrage’: Huggy Bear on radical politics, riot grrrl – and causing chaos on live TV

They said they’d exist for three years, then split. And that’s what the British punks did, winning love and notoriety for their feminist, queer worldview. Thirty years on, a new book tells their story

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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

Hi Bluesky! We've created a (constantly-growing) starter pack for you rounding up all the Quietus editors, writers and contributors who've made the move over here. Go on - give everyone a mass-follow! go.bsky.app/i6DSod

Watching the new video for Everything is Recorded new single ‘Porcupine Tattoo ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfe...

Everything Is Recorded - Porcupine Tattoo (ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan) (Visualiser)

YouTube video by Everything Is Recorded

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Social music platform Hangout.fm has opened its digital doors with access to over 100 million tracks. Users can sign up, select an avatar, invite friends to their personal space, and take turns playing songs from their favorite artists in a virtual DJ booth. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

Social Listening Platform Hangout Launches With Universal, Sony, Warner Music Backing

With more than 100 million tracks, the service is "inspired by queuing up the jukebox or putting on a favorite album with friends" at a time when social media is "based on division," says CEO Joseph P...

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Rafael Toral - Café OTO - 23/06/2024

A Kharkiv des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie d'Ukraine faisant 7 morts. Cette frappe intervient 90 ans après l’exécution en 1934 de 33 écrivains de Kharkiv symboles de la «Renaissance» de la littérature ukrainienne. via @stefsiohan.bsky.social www.liberation.fr/internationa...

Guerre Ukraine-Russie : Moscou détruit la plus grande imprimerie ukrainienne, un symbole culturel

A Kharkiv, des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie du pays, faisant 7 morts. La frappe, coup terrible au secteur de l’édition qui gagne en puissance depuis 2022, est emblématique d’un...

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Evil Does Not Exist written and directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (wonderful) music by Eiko Ishibashi

Ars longa, vita brevis.

‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/m...

‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers

The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early days

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“It only takes a moment for everything we thought that we have achieved to fade away.” France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right. ✌🏻 apnews.com/article/fran...

France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right

A woman’s right to an abortion will be enshrined in the French Constitution after lawmakers approved a bill during a historic session of parliament.

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Simon Rattle condemned “the poisonous idea” that the arts are only for the elite. “It will become a self-­fulfilling prophecy if we are not careful. Everybody deserves to get the best – that was what once made this ­country so special,” he said. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/m...

Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe

Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcy

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