I feel like we should be encouraging of Spotify's drive to turn its platform into a giant dumpster of AI garbage, but only if artists also pull their music from it. It will become the Sunny D. to Bandcamp's freshly squeezed OJ.
I made part one of a tribute to @bobbyweir.bsky.social for this week's @nqra.bsky.social station selects. 💔 Link in comments.
The framing of everything AI as a convenience tool will be the greatest scam of this century. When the divide between rich and poor extends to the level that no one makes enough money to have anything anymore, the implosion will be near irreparable. And if you use it for music, you are a worm.
Stoked to have my old friend and DSDV bandmate Otto Wilberg recording bass this week. It's ten years since we last made music together, so I can only imagine what a badass he's become. Nearing the finish line!
So glad to be working with the wonderful Dom Bojanic Tanner on mixing this new record. He worked on the first two 111h records and DSDV records and is just an amazing engineer.
Thank you to the great Tony Leone (Little Feat, Ollabelle, Phil Lesh & Friends, Levon Helm, CRB...) and Charlie Martinez (engineer for Little Feat, Steely Dan, Tom Verlaine...) for an amazing job on tracking drums yesterday.
Fully knocked it out the park. ⚾🛸
Recording guitars in this absolute pigsty. Note to self: clean up. 🎸🎵
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You know, this story is straight out of Philip K Dick's science fiction novel, The Simulacra, right?
About to record this opening guitar solo on a new song, written from a bunch of improvs. Only four more to go.
Cory Booker's senate speech almost as long as 12/6/73 Dark Star.
Tracking the new record
Just recorded two dark, excellent new songs by my brother-in-law Alejandro Maiato Llorens. Acoustic guitar and voice. If the next batch are as good as these two, it's gonna be a great record.
I bought the dogs a bed for the studio so they could chill there while I'm recording. Here's how that's going.
I'm writing a new series of articles (intended for a book at some point) about Spanish rock of the '60s, '70s, and '80s for Aquarium Drunkard. The first piece, on what may be the greatest of them all, went live today.
#veneno #rockandaluz
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/03/27/v...
The subtext of "coalition of the willing" is so overt, they might as well have called it the "powerless peace posse."
See if you can make out the castle on the horizon. I walked for 45 minutes and saw exactly 0 people.
Do it brother!
Legendary MOTU tech support means we're back up and running. While the Trident is in for repair, we're running everything through two sets of Warm Audio WA-412 mic pres and they are just fantastic. So much so that I'm thinking of finishing this record without a console.
Audio interfaces are on the fritz (or maybe it's just the cable), but it's sunny out finally, after a month of rain, so I'm commemorating the occasion with a balcony photo while I await tech support. Hi.
So sweet to hear Jesse Colin Young's voice ringing out at the end of Bernie Sanders' address in Phoenix, AZ. Bernie is America's sanest voice and his energy at 83 years of age deserves the world's unending gratitude. Love that guy.
Ya know me. Offsetting is tantamount to flicking peanuts at the Titanic and hoping that'll divert it from the iceberg. Who's got a billion trillion peanuts handy?
So long as the hegemony is Capitalism, artists will be justifiably demanded to show return on investment, even within those countries that currently support art production. Overturn financial fetishism, bring back production for the sake of joy.
If the new Spinal Tap movie is as brutally realistic as the first, they'll just be at home on social media complaining about poptivism into the void while failing to sell anything on Bandcamp Friday, but thanking everyone anyway.
The Trident is booked in for a service next week. If you want to come record here, we'll be back in action mid April. Message for details. #Valencia #recording #bands
Got some additional Warm Audio pres taking it up to 24 ins.
It's about to go in the workshop for a couple of tweaks. Some buttons fell off during transportation and two channels aren't working, but it should be fully ripping and running in about two weeks.
We CAN* organise. Not "cash" sorry.
