Good morning, dear friends, random stumblers, and longtime readers. My ongoing contribution to this quiet corner of the world has been slowly declining, thanks to bot attacks, AI scraping, and the overall pillaging of what I’ve built here over the past twenty years. So I had to step away from the public stage and, over the last year, focus my energy on something even more personal and human. This became Headphone Community, where we’re currently concluding our month-long residency with Benoît Pioulard, during which Tom has been sharing his honest words on honest music through many in-depth, intimate interviews and, of course, his gorgeous music. We do that by giving away Bandcamp codes to a select tier of supporters, and the funds raised go back to the artist featured for a month or more. We’re about to announce the next resident, but in the meantime, we still have a few codes left to share. So if you join for only $1 a month, you can grab a digital [and hopefully lossless] copy of Stanza IV, which we highlighted on the platform a few days ago.
