Kami Rayne

7 years since we released #BurningBridges 🌉🔥 …. - youtu.be/3Z6dNvAJM-g?si=Xarj… #punk #resistance #rocknroll #metal #hardrock #indiebands #music

Amoeba is celebrating 25 years in Hollywood today! 🎉 Get a commemorative bandana with $50+ in-store purchase (while supplies last), DJ @Monalisa7872 is spinning 2001 tunes from 1–3pm, and enjoy a birthday treat from Paso Cookie Co. at 1pm! Details: bit.ly/4BZGZEj

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it. Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now. The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work. Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028. This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators. A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music. “Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.” Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵

Musk Says Tesla Will Wind Down Cybertruck Production Next Year go.forbes.com/w5ODOX

Understand that keeping Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer in leadership is only going to lead to more of the same status quo, and look where that got us.

fuck it make bernie senate majority leader

Jennifer Welch: “I want to say this Chuck Schumer: we won in spite of you and we will do everything on this channel, everything, to make sure that you are not the Senate Majority Leader. You do not represent us. You’ve made it crystal clear who your loyalties are to. What you did to Angie Nixon, I will never ever forgive you. Quit taking victory laps on Twitter like you won this. Nobody likes you”

Democratic Socialist @NithyaVRaman beats AIPAC backed Karen Bass for Los Angeles Mayor!

U.S. Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan is calling for new leadership among Senate Democrats following her election victory in Minnesota. Flanagan praised Chuck Schumer for his years of leadership, but said voters are ready for “new voices and new leadership” in the Senate caucus.

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan General Election #DecisionMade: 7:49 PM EST Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/rac…