Thursday, November 20, 2025

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Niney the Observer, At King Tubby’s: Dub Plate Specials 1973–1975
  • 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

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
  • 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

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Peter Kowald, Was Da Ist
  • 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

Monday, November 17, 2025

Coil, Black Antlers
  • 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

Sunday, November 16, 2025

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
  • Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
  • Niney the Observer, At King Tubby’s: Dub Plate Specials 1973–1975
  • Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
  • Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • X, Alphabetland

Friday, November 14, 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025

X, Smoke and Fiction
  • Eberhard Weber, Little Movements
  • Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Deodato, Prelude
  • Tortoise, Tortoise
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  • X, Under the Big Black Sun
  • X, Smoke & Fiction

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Thursday, November 13, 2025

X, Unclogged
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • Miles Davis, At Fillmore (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Tortoise, It’s All Around You
  • Lumber, 2025 EP
  • Spitting Image, Full Sun
  • Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • X, Unclogged
  • X, Ain’t Love Grand
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway 2
  • Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • X, Under the Big Black Sun
  • X, Wild Gift

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Song X
  • Ornette Coleman & Pat Metheny, Song X (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
  • Deodato, Prelude
  • Niney the Observer, At King Tubby’s: Dub Plate Specials 1973–1975
  • Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • X, More Fun in the New World
  • X, See How We Are
  • Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder

Monday, November 10, 2025

Monday, November 10, 2025

Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
  • Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
  • X, Ain’t Love Grand
  • X, Los Angeles
  • Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Sunday, November 9, 2025

Sunday, November 9, 2025

Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
  • Arthur Blythe, Lenox Avenue Breakdown (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • X, Smoke & Fiction
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
  • Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Jack DeJohnette, Zebra
  • Biota, Tumble
  • Ben Hall’s She Shells String Trio, Negatively Complicating a Procedure That Is Already Flawed
  • Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
  • Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Jack DeJohnette, Zebra
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • Coil, Black Antlers
  • Spitting Image, Full Sun
  • Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
  • Joe Henry, Scar
  • Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (disc 1)
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)

Friday, November 7, 2025

Friday, November 7, 2025

Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
  • Biota, Awry
  • John Stevens, Touching On
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • Jack DeJohnette, New Directions in Europe
  • The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
  • Burning Spear, Garvey’s Ghost
  • Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  • Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
  • Los Lobos, Wolf Tracks (The Best of Los Lobos)

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Pat Metheny, 80/81
  • Collin Walcott, Cloud Dance (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Eddie Harris, Sings the Blues
  • Deodato, Prelude
  • Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
  • X, Los Angeles
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Biota, Biota
  • Biota, Biota
  • The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
  • Eberhard Weber, Little Movements
  • John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway
  • Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • X, Smoke & Fiction
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)
  • Joe Henry, Scar
  • Paul Simon, Seven Psalms

October 2025 reading & viewing

Michael Moorcock, The End of All Songs

fiction:

  • Barry Gifford, Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1979)
  • Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart (1989)
  • Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands (1974)
  • Michael Moorcock, The End of All Songs (1976)

nonfiction:

  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1908)
  • Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (2023)

movies:

  • Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (2025)
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza (2021)
  • Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia (2025)
  • Fred Halsted, L.A. Plays Itself (1972)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  • Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 1)
  • Alvin Lucier, Anthony Burr / Charles Curtis (disc 1)
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Ahmad Jamal, At the Pershing: But Not for Me
  • Khalil Abraham, Demo
  • Coil, Black Antlers
  • Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  • Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking

Monday, November 3, 2025

Monday, November 3, 2025

Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette
  • John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell, Around the Square, Above the Hill
  • Tim Daisy / Jeb Bishop / Andrew Clinkman / Brittany Karlson, Resound
  • The Necks, Disquiet (disc 1)
  • Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette, Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
  • Deodato, Prelude
  • Prince Far I, Under Heavy Manners
  • Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • Low, I Could Live in Hope
  • Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
  • Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  • Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Edith Frost, In Space
  • JG Thirlwell, Dystonia (Mivos Quartet)
  • Bill Evans, Trio 64
  • Jack DeJohnette, New Directions
  • Miles Davis, Black Beauty (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Biota, Awry
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
  • Khalil Abraham, Demo
  • Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
  • Current 93, Thunder Perfect Mind
  • Edith Frost, In Space
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Ruta and Daitya
  • John Duncan, Dark Market Broadcast
  • Bill Orcutt, Music for Four Guitars
  • Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette, Ruta and Daitya
  • John Abercrombie, Timeless (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
  • Joe Henry, Scar
  • Coil, Black Antlers
  • Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
  • Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (disc 2)
  • Nina Simone, Pastel Blues

Friday, October 31, 2025

Friday, October 31, 2025

John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Gateway 2
  • Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
  • John Duncan, Incoming
  • Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink, Still Quite Popular After All Those Years
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway 2
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 3)
  • Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription (disc 2)
  • Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 1)
  • Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
  • Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
  • Al Green, The Belle Album

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Khalil Abraham, Demo
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
  • Biota, Awry
  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown * Max Roach
  • Lee Konitz, Satori (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Miles Davis, At Fillmore (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Deodato, Prelude
  • Khalil Abraham, Demo
  • Luke Vibert, Stop the Panic (w/ B.J. Cole)

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
  • Charles Curtis, Ultra White Violet Light/Sleep (disc 1)
  • Pierre Henry, Apocalypse de Jean (disc 2)
  • Hello Spiral, Loss Prevention
  • Biota, Tumble
  • Jack DeJohnette, Pictures
  • Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 2) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
  • Joe Henry, Scar
  • Nina Simone, Pastel Blues

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Hello Spiral, Detached Objects
  • J.S. Bach, An Imaginary Dance (Charles Curtis)
  • Hello Spiral, Detached Objects
  • Jack DeJohnette & Bill Frisell, The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers
  • Pat Metheny, 80/81 (disc 1) (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
  • Eberhard Weber, Endless Days
  • Shoko Numao, The Siwnin Sails
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
  • Khalil Abraham, Demo
  • Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  • Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
  • Kiss, Alive II (disc 2)
RIP David Ball (of Soft Cell)

Monday, October 27, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

Tortoise, Touch
  • Samuel Reinhard, For 10 Musicians (Elsewhere)
  • Pita, Get Out
  • Rafael Toral, Traveling Light
  • Machine Gun, Machine Gun
  • Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
  • Biota, Awry
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)
RIP Jack DeJohnette

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
  • Robert Musso, Absolute Music
  • Machine Gun, Open Fire
  • The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
  • Major Stars, More Colors of Sound
  • Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow
  • Olivier Messiaen, Turangalîla-Symphonie (Nelsons/BSO)
  • Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 4)
  • Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 6)
  • Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow
  • D’Angelo, Black Messiah
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Friday, October 24, 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

Lasse Marhaug, The Shape of Rock to Come
  • Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 5)
  • Lasse Marhaug, The Shape of Rock to Come
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
  • Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 3)
  • Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
  • Crass, Best Before 1984
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
  • Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works, Olivier Latry
  • Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 1)
  • Cecil Taylor, In Florescence
  • The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 2)
  • Joe Henry, Scar
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Cecil Taylor, Looking (Berlin Version) Trio
  • Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces
  • Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
  • Cecil Taylor, Looking (Berlin Version) Trio
  • Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (disc 1)
  • Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Pedestrian Deposit, Dyers' Hands
  • Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
  • Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 5)
  • Pedestrian Deposit, Dyers’ Hands
  • Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
  • Crass, Best Before 1984
  • D’Angelo, Brown Sugar
  • Prince, Parade
  • Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Monday, October 20, 2025

Monday, October 20, 2025

David First, Revolutions
  • David First, Revolutions
  • San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
  • The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
  • Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
  • Brian Eno, Another Green World
  • Tears for Fears, Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 2)

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Kiss, Alive!
  • Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 4)
  • brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
  • Keiji Haino, My Lord Music...
  • Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
  • The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
  • Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
  • Kiss, Alive! (disc 1)
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Pareidolia
  • Lasse Marhaug, Provoke
  • Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
  • Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
  • Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
  • Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
  • Black Pus, All My Relations
  • Crass, Best Before 1984
  • Kiss, Destroyer
  • Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)
RIP Ace Frehley

Friday, October 17, 2025

Friday, October 17, 2025

Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982
  • Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 1)
  • The Necks, Disquiet (disc 3)
  • Ornette Coleman, The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (disc 1)
  • Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
  • Pentangle, Reflection
  • Al Green, The Belle Album
  • The Feelies, Rewind

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
  • Farmers Manual, fsck
  • Jim O’Rourke, Some Kind of Pagan
  • The Necks, Disquiet (disc 2)
  • The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide
  • Pentangle, Cruel Sister
  • Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
  • Bohannon, The Collection
RIP Danny Thompson (of Pentangle)

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Necks, Disquiet
  • Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis (disc 2)
  • Orton Socket, 99 Explosions
  • The Necks, Disquiet (disc 1)
  • Cecil Taylor & Louis Moholo, Remembrance
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 5)
  • Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
  • Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Feelies, Rewind
  • India: Festival Music of Kerala (JVC)
  • J.S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier (András Schiff, 2011) (disc 1)
  • Steve Reich, Tehillim (ECM)
  • Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
  • The Feelies, Rewind
  • Bohannon, Bohannon
  • Al Green, The Belle Album

Monday, October 13, 2025

Monday, October 13, 2025

Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis
  • Ustad Bismillah Khan, The Shehnai’s Humble Master (disc 2)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations / 32 Variations / 6 Variations / Bagatelles (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
  • Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
  • Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis (disc 1)
  • Jürg Frey, Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit: Räume 1-8 (disc 1)
  • Bill Evans, Trio 64
  • Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
  • Henry Kaiser, The Deep Unreal
  • Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
  • Wire, Mind Hive
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
  • Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto, Love, Love
  • Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto, Love, Love
  • Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
  • Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
  • Wire, Not About to Die (Studio Demos 1977–1978)
  • Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Crass, Best Before 1984
  • Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser
  • Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
  • Crass, Best Before 1984
  • Wire, 10:20
  • The Feelies, Rewind
  • Al Green, The Belle Album

Friday, October 10, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer's Day
  • Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, Automaginary
  • Steve Lacy, The Beat Suite
  • David Murray, Ming
  • John McLaughlin, Devotion
  • Dome, Dome 2
  • Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
  • The Feelies, Time for a Witness

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
  • John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 5)
  • Music Before Revolution (disc 4)
  • Alvin Curran / Roberto Laneri / Giancarlo Schiaffini / Frances-Marie Uitti / Tony Ackerman / Bruno Tommaso, The Beat 72 Lost Date
  • Crass, Penis Envy
  • The Feelies, Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy, I Have Made a Place

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Sophie Agnel, Michael Zerang, Draw Bridge
  • Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
  • Gene Coleman, Exploratorium
  • Sophie Agnel & Michael Zerang, Draw Bridge
  • Darren Johnston & Tim Daisy, Crossing Belmont
  • Cecil Taylor, The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973 (disc 2)
  • Ornette Coleman, Croydon Concert
  • Charles Mingus, Mingus
  • Bill Evans, Trio 64
  • Crass, The Feeding of the 5000
  • The Feelies, Rewind
  • Bohannon, Phase II
  • Al Green, The Belle Album
  • Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

AMM, Fine
  • Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
  • Pierre Henry, Apocalypse de Jean (disc 1)
  • Kevin Drumm, Eremition 3
  • AMM, Fine
  • Darren Johnston, Life in Time
  • Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer
  • Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
  • Crass, Best Before 1984
  • Bohannon, Bohannon

Monday, October 6, 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025

Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
  • Salamat Ali Khan, Metamusik Festival Berlin ’74
  • Éliane Radigue, Ψ 847 (disc 1)
  • Taku Sugimoto, Opposite
  • Cecil Taylor, Respiration
  • Marion Brown, Porto Novo
  • Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
  • Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
  • Slovenly, We Shoot For the Moon
  • Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
  • Galaxie 500, Today
  • Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
  • Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Kory Reeder, Homestead
  • Kory Reeder, Homestead (Apartment House)
  • Alan Watts, This Is It
  • Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
  • Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
  • The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
  • The Feelies, Rewind
  • The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
  • Bohannon, Phase II
  • Al Green, The Belle Album
  • Billboard’s Top Rock ’n’ Roll Hits: 1969

August/September 2025 reading & viewing

Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal

fiction:

  • Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal (1949)
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
  • Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat (1972)
  • Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (2024)
  • Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951)
  • Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
  • Stephen King, Carrie (1974)
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912) *

nonfiction:

  • Jane Giles, The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un chant d’amour

movies:

  • Jean Genet, Un chant d’amour (1954) *
  • Chuck Jones, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) *
  • Saul Bass, Phase IV (1974)
  • Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats (2017)
  • Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Eugenio Martín, Horror Express (1972)
  • Steve Scott, Rough Cut (1979)
  • Fatty Arbuckle, Coney Island (1917)
  • Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (2024)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Walter Marchetti, Natura Morta
  • Walter Marchetti, Natura Morta (Cramps)
  • Alvin Lucier, String Noise (disc 2)
  • Olivia Block, Breach
  • Kevin Drumm, The Real Sound of Small Talk
  • Brent Gutzeit, Micro-Regressions
  • Andrew Cyrille / Jeanne Lee / Jimmy Lyons, Nuba
  • Allan Holdsworth, Metal Fatigue
  • Bohannon, Bohannon
  • Paul McCartney, McCartney II
  • Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
  • Enya, Watermark