Upcoming shows in NYC and LA on my website www.mutualbenef.it/shows-songwr...

Shows, Songwriting Class, Spring

bi-coastal show, a new songwriting offering

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We are playing an early show at the new Night Club 101 in Manhattan to do the opposite of celebrate president's day with friends Sister and Alice Does Computer Music / hope to see you there !

just thinking about the material history of the color pink literaryreview.co.uk/la-vie-en-rose

Norma Clarke - La Vie en Rose

Norma Clarke: La Vie en Rose - Pink: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding)

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I was nerding out about song arrangements with Sammy Weissberg after he played a great set last week (sidenote: more bands should have a french horn) and he recommended Billy Strayhorn's Peaceful Side Of Jazz which feels like a perfect lazy Sunday record

Lush Life

YouTube video by Billy Strayhorn - Topic

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I have a piano/synth instrumental on this comp benefiting LA mutual aid efforts with lots of good company if you are feeling give-y

Love Los Angeles: A Charity Compilation in Aid of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Benefiting the Mutual Aid LA Network, by Hit the North Records

88 track album

hitthenorthrecords.bandcamp.com

A welcome byproduct of starting to read centuries old novels is understanding a higher percentage of Joanna Newsom lyrics

I couldn't stop laughing during the insanity and sincerity of Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary about, yes, Hamlet staged entirely within Grand Theft Auto Online during London's lockdown youtu.be/g1mufiI88kc?...

Grand Theft Hamlet Trailer #1 (2024)

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Indie

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On my newsletter-blog-thing I wrote about @lizpelly.bsky.social book Mood Machine and how it brings up the pesky and interesting questions of how and who defines the value of different contexts of music www.mutualbenef.it/18-celebrati...

#18 Celebrating Mood Machine

Recommending Liz Pelly's incredible new book investigating the streaming economy and the true value of music

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at the age where a night out with friends is at the historical society using the provided magnifying glasses to read a collection of scrawled Robert Caro legal pads

Welcome fellow corporate social media exiles ! We can find a new way to procrastinate together, I believe in us

Liz's deep, shocking, and dot-connecting investigation into the inner workings of Spotify. It is well worth a read but a short version is... let's not entrust music culture to tech platforms :)

liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2y ago

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week harpers.org/archive/2025...

feels so good to delete the note I wrote to myself 6 months ago that said "join bluesky"

Maybe this site will be fun like how the internet used to be :)