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Stream or buy R.E.M.'s new EP of "Radio Free Europe" with proceeds to support Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, which is having its funding cut by Trump. Merch also available with proceeds to RFE/RL.
#PublicRadio #Music

Woohoo new @… podcast! @… introduces me to a great resource: https://mobygrati…

mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

This just gave me insight into what some Beatles fans probably think of remasters of their discography, I love the new mixes but the OG ones just have the sauce yknow https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nFsYahcXDlyaTAQrexVjCisAzI32hx-P4

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog https://cdm.link/moog-messenger-with-e

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog - CDM Create Digital Music
Moog Messenger is something new. Because that's the first major product entirely developed under new owners inMusic*, that might make you nervous. But this synth is full of surprises—and could be the Moog synth your rig has been missing. Moog's Erik Norlander, Director of Keyboard Product Development, walked us through the synth. I think it might wind up being his biggest hit since the Alesis Andromeda.

Sundialll – HUB
#acoustic

TikTok launches TikTok for Artists, which lets artists access data about their music and posts, and Pre-Release, a tool to promote upcoming album releases (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/tiktok-launches…

TikTok launches 'TikTok for Artists,' a new music insights platform | TechCrunch
TikTok is officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers.

The new Quadcast episode is also available on YouTube if you don't download podcasts. The Spread of Christianity in the Greek and Roman Empires with Professor Teresa Morgan https://youtu.be/ggjDX0Gcdg4

1/ Since it's open season on the Chinese in the US right now, I wanted to post about a remarkable Chinese-American experience that is one of the real gems of New England, making the region and country better in every way. It's about jazz and blues music. ↵

50 years ago tonight in san rafael, the only circulating tape of the full seastones ensemble featuring ned lagin, phil lesh, jerry garcia, david crosby, & mickey hart (in orchestra pit), celebrating the newly released LP. definition of a fully blended quintet & the last circulating lagin/garcia tape. one of the gems of the tape canon. owsley tape, tracks 34-42:

Why is Youtube suddenly bombarding me with brand new music releases, all with AI-gen cover art? I never played one but I won't be surprised if it's AI-gen music either.

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Debussy and Shostakovich
Debussy's Cello Sonata and Shostakovich's early Piano Trio from Radio 3 New Generation Artists feature today in a programme which also includes music by Strauss, Haydn and Dawson.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp71

The form factor of the sticks was never the issue, the problem is that compared to Apple TV the interface is incredibly slow and clunky. Is that resolved?
"Roku Announces New Streaming Sticks, TVs, More"
https://www.thurrott.com/music-videos/3200

After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Fall Sharply (Javier C. Hernšndez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/arts/music/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-subscriptions.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p150#a250603p150

slip inside last night's frow show, 3 hours of new music, global zones, jazz departures, cosmic arrivals, etc., via the @… archive. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Debussy and Shostakovich
Debussy's Cello Sonata and Shostakovich's early Piano Trio from Radio 3 New Generation Artists feature today in a programme which also includes music by Strauss, Haydn and Dawson
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp71

The new documentary, “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy”will premiere May 31 at the North Dakota Heritage Center on May 31.
"Born to German-Russian immigrant parents in Strasburg, ND, Lawrence Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted by ABC in 1955 to create the iconic "The Lawrence Welk Show,” "

New Video!
#youtube #art

Ayo, since when did #Spotify (free) start placing ads over cover art???
(Sidenote: Since switching to a self-hosted music streaming server, I only use Spotify to bookmark new songs, so I'm not on there much. This is another good reason to ditch streaming services)

Good Morning #Canada
On May 27, 1957, at 6:00 a.m., the CHUM radio station (1050 AM) increased power from 1,000 watts to 2,500 watts and switched from a daytime station to 24 hours. At that same moment, radios all over Toronto started playing Elvis Presley singing “All Shook Up” as the "New CHUM" became Canada’s first Top 50 music format. The station launched hundreds of careers and introduced new music to young and old alike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MusicHistory
https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html

open your third nostril to the beautiful sounds all around you with the gentle aid of the frow show, new music & other adventures from now 'til midnight ET on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

Went to Small World Festival. Mostly dry and occasionally sunny.
Small World has such a nice friendly hippy vibe, lots of deadlocks and goths and pirates and beautiful face paints.
Bands all energetic and talented and mostly have been playing here together for 20 years in one form or another. All of 'em doing it for the love of it. Pony doing a great job of organizing the team to put it together.
One dude seemed pretty new, making up synth songs with his repeats and beeps and rapping from audience suggestions. Failed to photograph him well though. There's another 4 bands mentioned in the photo descriptions here.
Medically necessitated more or less total sobriety at the moment, so different whole thing. Those I knew well there mostly working, so lots of time alone dancing soberly and reading. Wish I was better at talking to strangers.
Still good times.
#smallWorldFestival #music #live

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Live music and chat with classical artists
Katie Derham introduces live music from cellist Mats Lidström, who has written a new concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp25

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09439 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Omni-R1: Do You Really Need Audio to Fine-Tune Your Audio LLM?
We propose Omni-R1 which fine-tunes a recent multi-modal LLM, Qwen2.5-Omni, on an audio question answering dataset with the reinforcement learning method GRPO. This leads to new State-of-the-Art performance on the recent MMAU and MMAR benchmarks. Omni-R1 achieves the highest accuracies on the sounds, music, speech, and overall average categories, both on the Test-mini and Test-full splits. To understand the performance improvement, we tested models both with and without audio and found that muc…

Intewesting! Via Wired:
Fender's GarageBand Rival
Fender has announced a new cross-platform app called Fender Studio that will let users easily record, jam, and release music from anywhere. The free app is available for iOS, Android, PC, Linux, and macOS, and looks to take on Apple's GarageBand for free recording app supremacy. It can use your phone's microphone or any compatible interface, and includes modeling for classic amplifiers, effects pedals, and mixing plug…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Feldman: Tactile listening and surface tension
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the sensuous, textural music of Morton Feldman.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp0l

Semantics-Aware Human Motion Generation from Audio Instructions
Zi-An Wang, Shihao Zou, Shiyao Yu, Mingyuan Zhang, Chao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23465

Semantics-Aware Human Motion Generation from Audio Instructions
Recent advances in interactive technologies have highlighted the prominence of audio signals for semantic encoding. This paper explores a new task, where audio signals are used as conditioning inputs to generate motions that align with the semantics of the audio. Unlike text-based interactions, audio provides a more natural and intuitive communication method. However, existing methods typically focus on matching motions with music or speech rhythms, which often results in a weak connection betw…

This week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: …

But can we use any of it without a bot automatically flagging it for a copyright violation?
https://boingboing.net/2025/05/08/moby-relaunches-free-music-library-for-creatives-with-500-new-tracks.html

Back home, first consolidation chemo done. Feel pretty wiped but numbers are great. Back to tracking and mixing the new record. Mostly duets w Danny Gotham, a few w full band, then each of us w a solo track or two. Here’s a demo/preview of my “solo” track. Two #lapsteel tracks, two “#acoustic

Lovely new Posy video, this time about lamps!
(great music in it too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJnsBeQ_Y8

For the metalheads: new album by #thrash legends The Haunted dropped this morning!
#music #HeavyMetal #MetalHeads

Ikonen der Popgeschichte on Tour: #Sparks - Mad! - The new #album on #tour
#Music

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
I've always been impressed by this video from New Scientist about #copepods, the planet's most abundant multicellular organism, with interviews from several UK uni…

How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration with Dr. Yii-Jan Lin, YDS Professor of New Testament.
https://youtu.be/EPEuz8uX0Ac?si=zl2G6ItryoF9UPRS

New Music!
I basically made an 8bit chiptune remix of a video by the wonderful SuperSisi
Please check it out! 😁
#supersisi

Lovely new Posy video, this time about lamps!
(great music in it too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJnsBeQ_Y8

New week, new set in my weekly playlist! 😃
Kickstarting with Helloween's darkest album "The Dark Ride" and a fairly unknown Brazilian Symphonic Metal band called "Eve Desire". :blobthinking:
Three "one-offs" to add more obscurity:
- Dutch act "VUUR" bringing some Prog Metal
- Gothic/Doom act "Trees of Eternity"
- Canadian group "Warpig" and their sole 1972 self-titled release