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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 22h

My current old man yells at cloud opinion: today’s pop hits have too much melodic-harmonic divorce. Melodies are interchangeable and feel so slapdash.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seeing wee Sarka kicked off solo parenting weekend in style. She even melted the cold, cynical hearts of a teenage school group.

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Noah Kahrs @nkahrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thrilled to see my article on unison openings in (digital) print! mtosmt.org/issues/mto.2... I started keeping this list back in my composer days (circa 2018?), and once you know it's there, there's a lot of contemporary music to find these sorts of openings in.

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MTO 32.3: Kahrs, Unison Opening in Post-1945 Compositions

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today my music theory classes learned that terminology like “de jure” vs “de facto” and “eschatology” are helpful for analyzing Run the Jewels.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In order to get a MacArthur grant as a jazz musician, you need to play at The Jazz Gallery. I don’t make the rules. Congrats Immanuel Wilkins!

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only music story we should be talking about right now is how Eric Andre showed up to a fabulous and weird-ass avant contemporary classical show tonight

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wasn’t going to do this, but man, it was so easy to do a top 10 of shows that weren’t on the list. Crazy-Ex Girlfriend Shetland Veronica Mars Slings and Arrows Party Down Treme Last Tango in Halifax Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place Childrens Hospital Dickinson

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shostakovich is a very youthful 120 years old today

Shostakovich, bucolic as ever in Central Park with a pink tennis ball.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I refuse to let that stupid list give me a nervous breakdown, but it is ridiculous & disqualifying that Orange Is The New Black is not on it (along with a bunch of other brilliant shows, including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just finished the fabulous Furious and I gotta see Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Kathryn Hunter make pained smiles together in something.

Quincy Tyler Bernstine with a pained smile in Furious.

Kathryn Hunter with a pained smile in Andor

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can only assume Garth Marenghi's Darkplace hasn't shown up on the NYT list so far because it's in the top 20

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@shteyngart.bsky.social’s Super Sad True Love Story is a documentary, part 100. Äppäräts for all!

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“shape of you” by ed sheeran is from the perspective of a dog … he’s in love with the shape of you because it’s all he can see with his dog eyes

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a poster for the “John Coltrane Jazz Jam” and it’s a picture of… a trumpet

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!

Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do the Gold Blend Nescafé ads exist in the Buffy universe and did Joyce ever see them?

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And this is after the Welsh-est team in the Premier League moved into 3rd place today

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the band looks like this you’re going to get wrecked in the mosh pit

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 08/09/2026

If you've spent your whole life going hiking, driving a Prius and having a beautiful garden in the 'burbs, it's horrifying to think that the guy who takes the train and lives in a steel tower is doing a better job of saving the planet than you.

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New interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods - Berkeley News

Data on current carbon emissions will help cities meet goals set at Paris climate summit, and show people how they contribute to global warming.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone. Yet now I’m walking through the streets of the United States with a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...

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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead (Gift Article)

Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Peter Yarrow plays a show at my middle school and during “This Land is Your Land,” everyone starts clapping on the 1&3. As a smartass 6th grader I start clapping really loudly on 2&4 and eventually get the room to switch. Yarrow looks out at the crowd like “WTF is going on out there?”

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw So Percussion, Nexus, and Steve Reich play all of Drumming together at the outdoor venue where John Cage premiered 4’33”. It was really hot and humid, so the bongos got really out of tune. Before the last section, Russell Hartenberger is trying to retune while Reich screams “LOWER” at him

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Basically any time Brian Blade smashes his far-right cymbal (Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Fellowship Band). Especially good when it’s just after the downbeat.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wilco in Central Park during The Whole Love tour. It was awful early fall days where it just rains and rains, but it was just misting at concert time. Then come out and start with “One Sunday Morning” and it’s the quietest a rock concert has ever been. Magical.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In 1990, the town had 2 schools (K-6, 7-12) and a graduating class of 75. In 2008, there were 5 schools and a graduating class of 415. I gotta say, recent growth only seems booming if you’re a NIMBY.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The first Cassandra Wilson I heard was her version of Strange Fruit in my high school sophomore English class. There’s so much more beyond that, but it’s as good a place to start as any. youtu.be/paawBHlDa4w?...

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Strange Fruit

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 01/09/2026

As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 5 artists you’ve seen at least twice: Bill Frisell Fred Hersch Punch Brothers Django Bates Lupe Fiasco

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just like what the empire does in Andor s1

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NY Botanical Garden really missed an opportunity here. They should have called it “Summer is a-Moomin In”

A guide for the NYBG’s summer children’s exhibition based on the Scandinavian Moomin characters

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My uncle who spent the first 23 years of his life in Bayonne and the last 50 in Davenport is in a bit of a bind here

A scoreboard for the upcoming little league World Series game between Bayonne NJ and Davenport IA

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Top 4 this year gonna be Arsenal, Brentford, Everton, and Leeds, innit?

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

hot subway take, I think we should rename all the classical pieces whose names are just throwaway metadata. Symphony For Piano In Q-Minor Third Movement? No, now it's called Stompin' With Jimmy and we can all remember which one it is

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When I bought my first car in 2014, there were so many hatchback models to choose from. When I bought my next one in 2023, there were literally 4.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 20/08/2026

Decade later report: SING STREET is still perfect

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Has any screenwriter had a better 5 year run than Tony Geiss? 1983, Don’t Eat the Pictures 1985, Follow That Bird 1986, An American Tail 1988, The Land Before Time

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Baby is starting to walk, so I of course made him a jazz playlist that’s basically all shuffles

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Friction/scale is coming to replace low/high or pop/rock hierarchies” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/08/slop...

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Slop-doom-ism: a new era for pop music & criticism

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

lol Bill Clinton exists in the Inspector Morse universe

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How did the comrade Pete card not make it into @gittlitz.bsky.social’s book?

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And afterwards tried to kill Gerald Ford

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

just checking the lineup for tomorrows mets game

screenshot of the roster of baseball players in the 1994 japanese video game fighting baseball showing a blue screen with white text of the players names listed:
Sleve McDichael
Onsen Sweemey
Darryl Archideld
Anatoli Smorin
Rey McSriff
Glenallen Mixon
Mario McRlwain
Raul Chamgerlain
Kevin Nogilny
Tony Smehrik
Bobson Dugnutt
Willie Dustice
Jeromy Gride
Scott Dourque
Shown Furcotte
Dean Wesrey
Mike Truk
Dwigt Rortugal
Tim Sandaele
Karl Dandleton
Mike Sernandez
Todd Bonzalez

one underrated aspect of this famous meme of names is not just that the company did not have an MLB license so could not use actual players but that most of the names are actually just modifications of actual baseball and hockey players of the time

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Babe Ruth wasn’t only real, he was woke and went on a date with my great-great aunt

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If y’all haven’t heard the Earl Kim songs on this before, you should go rectify that asap.

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