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❝ Fraudsters typically generate revenue on platforms such as Deezer by using bots to “listen” to AI-generated songs – and take the subsequent royalty payments, which become sizeable once spread across multiple tracks. →

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the just-landed new edition of the One Thing newsletter contains my daring self-plug for @thetonearm.com — the sudden + subsequent traffic boost took me by surprise ✨ thx @chaykak.bsky.social ! tons of other goodies + groovy recs in there so be sure to have a gander →

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he was probably in the middle of telling her the story of climbing Mount Everest

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this is a fortuitous development for marketing my newly launched product, Pew Polish

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Michel Lotito, #BOTD, famous for putting the following items in his stomach: 18 bicycles 15 shopping carts 7 TV sets 6 chandeliers 2 beds 1 pair of skis 1 computer 1 Cessna 150 aircraft 1 waterbed 500 metres of steel chain 1 coffin 1 Guinness award plaque

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behold! the latest Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter, now floating like an untethered balloon to the furthest reaches →

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here's a roundup of breaking music news you might have missed over the past several days

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I feel like even in Star Trek’s supposed socialized utopia 30% of the population believe that tricorders turn people gay or some other dumb shit

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❝ They are the cathedrals of our secular era. They are high among the great accomplishments of our civilization. But they don’t inspire bestselling novels or blockbuster films. No poets celebrate the sewage treatment plants that prevent them from dying of dysentery. →

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❝ … to replace power rooted in possession, privilege or circumstance by power and uniqueness rooted in love, reflectiveness, reason and creativity … If we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable. →

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happy father’s day

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There is only one king I will listen to.

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noticed that Che Guevara and Boy George were born on this day and wondering why Boy Guevara isn't a thing

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Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini rehearsing during the filming of LA DOLCE VITA — a mood this Friday if ever there was one.

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another fantastic week of stories on The Tonearm: → an extensive interview with jazz clarinetist Kinan Azmeh → Lawrence Peryer + author Kevin J. Hayes examine Hunter S. Thompson → Chaz Underriner speaks with composer Kory Reeder → our writers pay tribute to Brian Wilson check out the new biz! →

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was DJ’ing at a bar in Los Angeles and John Goodman bumped the turntables and made the record skip as he snuck out the back door behind me

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I have rewound this part at least a thousand times.

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I joined Sara Jayne Crow and Lawrence Peryer, fellow writers at The Tonearm, in paying tribute to Brian Wilson and the extraordinary worlds he imagined and then realized putting this one together was a bit of an emotional ride — I hope you like it @straypoodle.bsky.social | @lawrenceperyer.com

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Thread. I worry about this stuff. But I suspect that what will happen is nowhere near as apocalyptic as this sort of thing. Most people who want to work in the arts have never been able to make money. It's always been a thing where only a small fraction of those who want to are able to.

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when I was six years old, my mom let me pick out a 'grown-up record' from her small LP collection … I chose Pet Sounds, probably because it had cute animals on the cover it's amazing that, at that age, I made one of the best musical choices of my life, and Pet Sounds remains my biggest inspiration

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We live in an era of constant shifts in the cultural zeitgeist, but a world without Brian Wilson feels fundamentally different than the way it was yesterday. Worse. Emptier.

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"The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need." - WSB

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every day I make an effort to share some of my accumulated knowledge through email responses

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chrome 🤔

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heading out in a few minutes for a members' screening of The Sky Was On Fire at our local Enzian theater — the filmmakers will be in attendance to discuss the film so it should be interesting, to say the least

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this is what we in the biz call "an interesting development" →

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Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí's UN CHIEN ANDALOU - Premiered in France this day in 1929

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revisit these terrific bits from the past week via our wonderful team of writers on The Tonearm: → Tal Yahalom's Generous Guitar Moves → Arthur Arsenne and the Art of Texture → Charming Disaster Bring On the Night give 'em a view or two → www.thetonearm.com/linkinbio/ (+ follow: @thetonearm.com)

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your opinion might depend on how you feel about Brian Eno's particular take on 'hymn-like' songs, but, on first listen, the Luminal album with Beatie Wolfe might be my favorite music thing he's been involved with in a long while

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I imagine this was a particularly strange day to be one of the technology brothers

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easy answer: unannounced Sonic Boom/Spectrum set before My Bloody Valentine in San Francisco, 2008 — a set comprised entirely of Spacemen 3 songs I think about this night ALL OF THE TIME

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weird what happened to all the switch posts

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Laurie Anderson (with William S Burroughs and poet John Giorno) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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❝ So autobiographical was the extraordinary bozo subject matter in Dee Dee’s Ramone's songs that when he left the band in the late '80s, his excuse for pursuing a new career as the rapper Dee Dee King was that the move finally gave him a chance to write ‘less personally’. →

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I'm starting to think Descript's transcription tools may need the help of some sort of updated contextual analysis

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what if instead of saying hello I greet people for now on with “previously on Lost”

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❝ “It did feel a bit violent and hostile, but more than anything we just ruined people’s nights,” laughs Mallinder, with Watson recalling a memory from their very first gig: “The organiser said to me after, ‘You’ve completely ruined our reputation.’ That was the best news we could have hoped for.” →

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is it too late for me to have a hyperpop career under the artist name Lunar Vandross

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some have commented that my email newsletters don’t make much sense and to them I say: bed sores don’t give you pasta

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