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These Women Are My Musical Influencers #musician https://muz4now.com/2022/these-women-are-my-musical-influencers

These Women Are My Musical Influencers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Tom Petty's 'Square One' was on The Bear in episode 8, I always forget how much I love that song. The things that guy could do with just a guitar and voice- damn. Magical. And then Strange Currencies later on in the episode. A lot of great and sometimes really unique musical choices on the show in general.
#TheBear #TV

#Spotify unhappy with Unwrapped helping users sell their data
https://musically.com/2025/09/11/spotify-unhappy-with-unwrapped-helping-users-sell-their-d…

Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems
Liam Pram, Fabio Morreale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08805 https://arxiv.org…

Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems
AI systems for music generation are increasingly common and easy to use, granting people without any musical background the ability to create music. Because of this, generative-AI has been marketed and celebrated as a means of democratizing music making. However, inclusivity often functions as marketable rhetoric rather than a genuine guiding principle in these industry settings. In this paper, we look at four generative-AI music making systems available to the public as of mid-2025 (AIVA, Stab…

extended obit for magical power mako, japanese underground weirdo who departed earlier this year. https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/behold-the-magical-power

Behold: The Magical Power
“... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once...”― Primo Levi

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Withers, Bill:
🎵 Lean on me (live at Carnegie Hall)
#NowPlaying #Withers #Bill
https://musicalmusaf.bandcamp.com/track/avot-bill-withers-lean-on-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zCJvrT3C7cIfHsR5iG95l

Hate to bring up HP but no other book has given me as close a feeling as when I read HP. Truly a joy to read with the world feeling both real and magical.
#books #fantasy

The past few months of hand-coding MastoGizmos and RSS Gizmos have both given me more knowledge and more comfort around working with CSS,
so last week I decided to see if I could create a single-page application that would allow the user to both find information about a person listed on Wikipedia and create informed, context-added searches of external sources like Google News, Bing, and Chronicling America.
And y’all, I think I made something pretty nice.
I haven’t put all m…

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Top three Goldfrapp albums IMO:
1. Felt Mountain (not up for debate, sorry)
2. Silver Eye
3. Black Cherry
With this list as a preface, I pose to you, the reader, a daunting question:
Should I listen to Alison Goldfrapp’s new releases, or are they going to make me Upset somehow (not musically, just re: the post-Goldfrapp era in which we now find ourselves)