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With Love and Squalor and “Buckle” get their due, finally (again) (opens the original)
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We’ve been diligently gearing up for next week’s With Love and Squalor anniversary shows in the UK — sharpening up our chops, learning lyrics we’d been mishearing for decades, rewriting parts and then acknowledging that the original versions are better and then so relearning those original parts. Honestly, we’ve gotten so deep in the weeds of getting ourselves technically prepared, that we’d almost lost sight of the reason we originally wrote this dirty dozen of ditties all those years ago: so t
What, No Encore? (opens the original)
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PEEPING TOMS: Puppy Love 🐶 Double Header (opens the original)
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Peeping Toms is where we offer a nice, unobstructed listen to never-before-heard music from our recent and sometimes distant past. It’s a series of hot reveals, too hot for most to handle. We’re dropping the wall on today’s episode for a few days to give you a feel — throw your arms around it and decide whether you can stand the pleasure. ❤️🔥 To access the growing Peeping Toms archive, upgrade your subscription her
Workin’ Hard at Lazydays (Tour Diary #47) (opens the original)
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REGISTER YOUR (CON/DIS)SENT: On Monday, we posted about the (very limited) use of AI on this blog. Yesterday we added a poll to the post. If you haven’t yet, please take a moment to vote in the poll, and, if you like, leave a comment. We will use the poll & comments to decide whether to continue (occasionally) using AI.<br
(Un)righteous Uses of AI in the Arts (opens the original)
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Edit: I added a poll to the bottom of this post. What’s more fun than a poll? Take the poll. … A few days ago we live-streamed a conversation with our good buddy during which I, Chris, presented Keith and Sean with a quiz/game thing that involved AI-generated illustrations. (The game starts at around 15:00, if you want to <a href="https://wearescientists.substack.com
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