Saturday, January 3, 2026

• brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
• Zoviet France, Hessian
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 2)
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, Live at the Glenn Miller Café
• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Available Jelly, Al(l)ways
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• The United States of America, The United States of America (feat. Joseph Byrd)
• The Who, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good

RIP Joseph Byrd

Friday, January 2, 2026

• The Haters, Fire (7")
• Zoviet France, Collusion
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 1)
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Elliott Sharp‘s Carbon, Datacide
• Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun (disc 1)
• Butthole Surfers, Double Live (disc 2)
• Unwound, New Plastic Ideas
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?

Thursday, January 1, 2026

• Zoviet France, Shouting at the Ground
• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Total 1 (Kompakt)
• Bailter Space, Robot World
• Butthole Surfers, Double Live (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

• Zoviet France, Gris
• Los Lobos, Kiko

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 7)
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good
• XTC, Drums and Wires
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon

Monday, December 29, 2025

• Zoviet France, Mohnomishe
• Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators
• Chris & Cosey, Heartbeat
• Bailter Space, Robot World
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 1)
• Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
• Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
• Los Lobos, Colossal Head

Sunday, December 28, 2025

• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Bohannon, Insides Out
• Los Lobos, Kiko

Saturday, December 27, 2025

• Zoviet France, Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music (disc 3)
• Bohannon, On My Way

Friday, December 26, 2025

• Zoviet France, Gris
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
• Bailter Space, Robot World

Thursday, December 25, 2025

• Zoviet France, Hessian
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, Kiko

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

• Zoviet France, Just an Illusion
• Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, Automaginary
• Niney & Friends: Blood & Fire, Hit Sounds from the Observer Station 1970–1978 (disc 2)
• Orchid, Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

• Zoviet France, Mohnomishe
• Bitching Bajas, Bajascillators
• Björk, Fossora
• Orchid, Gatefold

Monday, December 22, 2025

• Zoviet France, Garista
• Cluster, Sowiesoso
• Terry Riley, Persian Surgery Dervishes (disc 1)
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
• The Stooges, The Stooges
• Los Lobos, Kiko

Sunday, December 21, 2025

• Zoviet France, Mohnomishe
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Björk, Fossora

Saturday, December 20, 2025

• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, The Neighborhood
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank

Friday, December 19, 2025

• Zoviet France, Norsch
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Los Lobos, La pistola y el corazon

Thursday, December 18, 2025

• Zoviet France, Hessian
• Lee Perry, Dubstrumentals (disc 1)

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

• Zoviet France, Garista
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good
• Carole King, Tapestry

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

• Zoviet France, Norsch
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 1)
• Reggae Hit the Town: Crucial Reggae 1968–1972 (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Los Lobos, The Neighborhood
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank

Monday, December 15, 2025

• Jaci Penelope, Folk Electronics
• Zoviet France, Shouting at the Ground
• Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You II

Sunday, December 14, 2025

• Jaci Penelope, Voyeur Electronics
• Zoviet France, Eostre
• Orchid, Totality
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
• Bailter Space, Robot World
• Los Lobos, La pistola y el corazon
• Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come: The Definitive Collection (disc 2)

Saturday, December 13, 2025

• Jaci Penelope, Healing Loops (Winter Meditations)
• Zoviet France, Gris
• Russell Thorne, Clauselarva
• Steve Silverstein, Twelve Piano Improvisations
• Don Ellis, Haiku
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Year of the Elephant (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Jandek, Fort Worth Saturday (disc 1)
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• Björk, Fossora
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 1)
• Dr. Feelgood, Down by the Jetty
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank
• Lefty Frizzell, Look What Thoughts Will Do (disc 1)

Friday, December 12, 2025

• Meredith Young-Sowers, Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (disc 5)
• brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
• Zoviet France, Mohnomishe
• Reeder/Seward/Weathers, Two Meditations from the Underground
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• Wadada Leo Smith, Golden Quartet (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You II
• The Tear Garden, The Last Man to Fly
• The Verlaines, Some Disenchanted Evening
• Minutemen, Tour Spiel
• Los Lobos, The Neighborhood
• Reggae Hit the Town: Crucial Reggae 1968–1972 (feat. Jimmy Cliff)

Thursday, December 11, 2025

• Morton Feldman, For Christian Wolff (hat Hut) (disc 3)
• Sarah Hennies, Embedded Environments
• Zoviet France, Norsch
• Robert Beatty, Solos
• Keiji Haino, My Lord Music...
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 6)
• Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (disc 3) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Skinny Puppy, Last Rights
• Bailter Space, Robot World
• The Beatles, Past Masters (disc 2)
• Los Lobos, La pistola y el corazon
• Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come: The Definitive Collection (disc 1)

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• Patrick Quinn, Wheaton, Illinois (USA), 12/18/2023, 3.00pm
• Mora, The Singer / Songwriter
• Franklin Morris, Ron Marquisee, Dick Averson, Electronic Beds Vol. 2 1971
• Musik Werks, Intersketches
• Zoviet France, Eostre
• Russell Thorne, The Scholarship of Sleep
• Archie Shepp, Blasé
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 3)
• Doubting Thomas, The Infidel
• Björk, Fossora
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms
• The Beatles, Past Masters (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?

November 2025 reading

fiction:

• Charles Portis, Norwood (1966)
• Han Kang, The Vegetarian (2007)
• Vincent Latronico, Perfection (2022)
• Barry Gifford, Perdita Durango (1992)
• Barry Gifford, Francis Goes to the Seashore (1982)
• Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme (1968)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

visual:

• Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story (2023)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

• J.S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Pierre-Laurent Aimard) (disc 2)
• Meredith Monk, Cellular Songs
• Franklin Morris, Ron Marquisee, Dick Averson, Electronic Beds Vol. 1 1970
• Musik Werks, Songs You’ve Never Heard Before
• Zoviet France, The Decriminalisation of Country Music
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You II
• The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Skinny Puppy, VIVIsectVI
• Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart
• D’Angelo, Black Messiah
• Los Lobos, The Neighborhood

Monday, December 8, 2025

• Brian Eno, Ambient 4: On Land
• Kevin Drumm, Slow Tape
• Zoviet France, Digilogue
• Rob Noyes, Arc Minutes
• Collin Walcott, Cloud Dance (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Wadada Leo Smith, Golden Quartet (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• Skinny Puppy, Mind: the Perpetual Intercourse
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 2)
• Reggae Hit the Town: Crucial Reggae 1968–1972 (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank
• Los Lobos, La pistola y el corazon

Sunday, December 7, 2025

• Morton Feldman, For Christian Wolff (hat Hut) (disc 2)
• Zoviet France, Shadow, Thief of the Sun
• Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette, America
• Miles Davis, Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms

Saturday, December 6, 2025

• Morton Feldman, Works for Piano 2 (hat Hut)
• Zoviet France, Eostre
• Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 5) (feat Jack DeJohnette)
• Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart
• D’Angelo, Black Messiah
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?

Friday, December 5, 2025

• Morton Feldman, The Viola in My Life (CRI)
• Philip Glass, Music with Changing Parts
• Brian Eno, Discreet Music
• Zoviet France, Just an Illusion
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon

Thursday, December 4, 2025

• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Another Timbre) (disc 2)
• Zoviet France, Shouting at the Ground
• Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette, America

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• Morton Feldman, For Christian Wolff (hat Hut) (disc 1)
• Zoviet France, Garista
• Los Lobos, La pistola y el corazon

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

• Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet (Kronos/Takahashi) (Nonesuch)
• Zoviet France, Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, Kiko
• The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (feat. Jimmy Cliff)

Monday, December 1, 2025

• J.S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Pierre-Laurent Aimard) (disc 1)
• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Another Timbre) (disc 1)
• Zoviet France, Gris
• Reggae Hit the Town: Crucial Reggae 1968–1972
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?

Sunday, November 30, 2025

• Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
• Kevin Drumm, Winter
• Zoviet France, Norsch
• Collin Walcott, Cloud Dance (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon
• Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World

Saturday, November 29, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
• Jean-Claude Éloy, Shânti (disc 2)
• Robert Beatty, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
• Zoviet France, Hessian
• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
• Archer, Sudden Dusk
• Jack DeJohnette, Zebra
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance
• Edith Frost, In Space
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms

Friday, November 28, 2025

• Jean-Claude Éloy, Shânti (disc 1)
• Zoviet France, Look into Me
• Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette, America
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Sightings, Amusers and Puzzlers
• Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You II
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Talking Heads, Remain in Light
• The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
• D’Angelo, Black Messiah

RIP Jean-Claude Éloy

Thursday, November 27, 2025

• Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators
• Zoviet France, A Flock of Rotations
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 2)
• Mouthus, Slow Globes
• Sightings, Absolutes
• Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon
• Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Zoviet France, Eostre
• Biota, Invisible Map
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Lumber, 2025 EP
• Björk, Fossora
• Edith Frost, In Space
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance
• Reggae Hit the Town: Crucial Reggae 1968–1972 (feat. Jimmy Cliff)

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

• Zoviet France, Mohnomishe
• Wayne Shorter, Super Nova (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, Live-Evil (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You II
• The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (feat. Jimmy Cliff)
• Spitting Image, Full Sun
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• The B-52’s, Wild Planet
• Soft Cell, This Last Night In Sodom
• D’Angelo, Black Messiah
• Los Lobos, The Neighborhood
• Edith Frost, In Space

RIP Jimmy Cliff

Monday, November 24, 2025

• Zoviet France, Garista
• Collin Walcott, Cloud Dance (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Clark Terry, Mumbles
• Jandek, One Foot in the North
• Ramones, End of the Century
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance
• Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank
• Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, The Essential Bob Wills 1935–1947

Sunday, November 23, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Into Striped Light
• Robert Beatty, Solos
• Biota, Biota
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One (feat. Clark Terry)
• Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
• Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
• Björk, Post
• Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart
• Jandek, Foreign Keys
• Geese, Getting Killed
• Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon
• Ramones, Ramones

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid, Let Our Rejoicing Rise •
• Paul Motian Trio, Dance •
• Sun Ra, Continuation (disc 2)
• Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
• Jandek, Follow Your Footsteps
• Lumber, 2025 EP
• Spitting Image, Full Sun
• Ramones, It’s Alive
• Coil, The Ape of Naples
• Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)
• Edith Frost, In Space
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
• Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World

Friday, November 21, 2025

• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 3)
• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, Live-Evil (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
• Khalil Abraham, Demo
• Foetus Interruptus, Thaw
• Coil, Black Antlers
• X, Unclogged
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance

Thursday, November 20, 2025

• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 4) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 6) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Niney the Observer, At King Tubby’s: Dub Plate Specials 1973–1975
• Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Nail
• Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
• X, Smoke & Fiction

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• Philipp Wachsmann, Writing in Water
• Ahmad Jamal, Chicago Revisited: Live at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase
• Miles Davis, A Tribute to Jack Johnson (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Captain Beefheart, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
• Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
• Lumber, 2025 EP
• Spitting Image, Full Sun
• Fugazi, Steady Diet of Nothing
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• X, More Fun in the New World
• Los Lobos, Wolf Tracks (The Best of Los Lobos)
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

• J.S. Bach, An Imaginary Dance (Charles Curtis)
• Peter Kowald, Was Da Ist
• Ben Hall’s She Shells String Trio, Negatively Complicating a Procedure That Is Already Flawed
• Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
• Miles Davis, Black Beauty (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
• Niney the Observer, At King Tubby’s: Dub Plate Specials 1973–1975
• Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• X, Wild Gift

Monday, November 17, 2025

• Biota, Measured Not Found
• Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
• Coil, Black Antlers
• Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
• Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
• X, Smoke & Fiction
• Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World
• Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, The Essential Bob Wills 1935–1947

Sunday, November 16, 2025

• Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 3)
• Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators
• Lumber, 2025 EP
• X, Ain’t Love Grand