It turns out there are a lot of artists who don't want to play for exposure while children in Gaza are dying of it.

I wrote this song about a year ago while on tour in Australia, and then promptly forgot about it.  But now that banning TikTok is back in the news with a vengeance, I revised "Ballad of the TikTok Ban" a bit, and made a slightly better recording of it this morning in my living room studio.

The thousands of troll accounts spewing genocidal propaganda on my Facebook posts are abhorrent and completely full of crap, but they have a fascinating narrative, albeit completely farcical.  All the more fascinating is the fact that, although obviously farcical to anyone with an actual clue, the western press and politicians generally accept the narrative as self-evidently accurate.

a concert for gaza.

On March 6th, representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act. They're working with the United Musicians and Allied Workers union, and the Make Streaming Pay campaign.

The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press.

On the other side of the world, Aaron Bushnell's body burned in the same way the bodies of innocent people are burning every day in Gaza. As he burned he shouted repeatedly, "free Palestine."

After using starvation as a Total War, strategic weapon of collective punishment, the Israeli occupation forces are using food tactically as a weapon of war as well.

2,000+ hateful comments and one week later, what I have I learned from the Hasbara Trolls?

Report-back from the tour.