I have no idea who Benson Boone is but Iām happy whenever anyone gets 77 year old Brian May to rise up out of the stage under the iconic Queen lighting rig.
Too bad the crowd at Coachella didnāt now what they had.
Bummer. Coachella must be attended by mostly Millennials, who the heck else has that kind of spare cash these days? [Boomers, X and Z seem to know who Brian May is, though. Not just as an astrophysicist, either.]
Looks like one of my favorite artists, Andrew Bird, will be playing a 20 year anniversary of his album Mysterious Production of Eggs here in Austin TX in Sept. Tickets havenāt gone on sale yet but hoping the price wonāt be too high. Taking the time to re-listen to the album, hereās a fave
Did not know if to put this here or on the commie memes thread:
Why not both? Absolutely perfect.
This song is a timeless anthem for the lower classes: a living breathing resistance to injustice. Its messages today are as impactful and revolutionary as they were when Ernest Jones spent two years in solitary confinement in the for publicly expressing them in the 1840s. In January of 2017, Windborne took a video of our last verse in front of Trump Tower, and over a million people saw it on Facebook and YouTube (630K views Ā· 20K reactions | SONG ON THE TIMES: 400 Years of protest songs sung for TODAY! Sung in 4-Part Harmony by internationally acclaimed folk band Windborne 50% of Sales... | By Windborne | Facebook). It was the response to this video that took our group from touring a few weeks out of every year to a full time occupation.
Windborne has been in my wheelhouse for years, but I never knew why they went full-time (very hard to do in folk music, as you know). Iāve always appreciated their talents and their research, but this really increases my respect immensely.
This weekend was Revision Party 2025, and while most of the demos where a bit underwhelming for me (a lot of AI-generated content that for me should be excluded from competition), it reminded me of one of the most brilliant demos Iāve heard recently.
At only 256 bytes, āA mind is bornā plays a tune, displays some graphics and in itās last instruction, resets the machine, showing the prompt and thus, the āmindā is born.
Is not an extremely complex tune, but thereās somthing haunting in it.
I am getting a flavour of Tangerine Dream, but the graphics are hordes of stealth bombers.
Knowingly or not, the demoscene style drinks a lot of inspiration from groups like tangerine dreams.
ETA: Among other things, of course. A lot of the early demoscene got a lot of inspiration by rock, pop and funk. Trance and techno had a healthy two way relationship with the mature demoscene, and nowadays you see a lot of ambient-soundtrack that is very reminiscent of Brian Eno, at least to me.
Joyful
A rather magnificent cover of Radioheadās āCreep.ā
Besides the absolute virtuosity of the singing, itās also a reminder that āCreepā really hits different when itās not a cis het white dude singing it.
