Thursday, April 25, 2024

• Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon
• Phill Niblock, Touch Strings (disc 1)
• Rafael Toral, Space Solo 1
• Howard Stelzer, We All Are
• Illusion of Safety, Fifteen/Finite Material Context
• Lol Coxhill, Ear of the Beholder
• Lightning Bolt, Earthly Delights
• Jimi Hendrix, Live at the Fillmore East (disc 1)
• Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus, Love Thy Neighbour
• The Upsetters, Chapter 1
• Khruangbin, A La Sala

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

• Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille, Let the Darkness Fall
• Cabin Fever Cleansed My Mind Vol. 1 (Chocolate Monk)
• Lol Coxhill / Steve Lacy / Evan Parker, Three Blokes
• Bobby Hutcherson, Components
• Duke Ellington, Liberian Suite
• Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Grounation (disc 1)
• Dredd Foole and the Din, See God
• Kim Gordon, The Collective
• Heart, Dreamboat Annie
• Metallica, Garage Inc. (disc 1)

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

• Jim O’Rourke & Rafael Toral, Electronic Music
• Charles Gayle, Spirits Before
• Steve Lacy Quartet, Revenue
• Duke Ellington, Ellington Uptown
• Hella, The Devil Isn’t Red
• The Residents, God in Three Persons
• Kim Gordon, No Home Record
• Burmese, Monkeys Tear Man to Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys Environment
• Dredd Foole and the Din, We Will Fall
• You’ve Got Foetus on Your Breath, Ache
• They Might Be Giants, Flood
• Blondie, Blondie
• Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

Monday, April 22, 2024

• Steve Beresford, The Bath of Surprise
• Peter Brötzmann Die Like a Dog Quartet, Close Up
• Mike Reed, The Separatist Party
• Steve Potts, Musique pour le film d’un ami
• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Fargo, North Dakota, November 7, 1940 (disc 2)
• The La Drivers Union Por Por Group, Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana
• Jimi Hendrix, Axis: Bold as Love
• Blondie, Plastic Letters
• Khruangbin, A La Sala

Sunday, April 21, 2024

• Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
• Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet, Witchi-Tai-To
• Bobby Hutcherson, Components
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, A Night in Tunisia (1957)
• Duke Ellington, Ellington Uptown
• Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
• Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette
• Robert Fripp, Exposure
• R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction
• Blondie, Out in the Streets
• The Who, Who’s Next
• Pink Floyd, The Wall (disc 2)
• Heart, Dreamboat Annie
• Echoes of the Ozarks Volume Two

Saturday, April 20, 2024

• Surface of the Earth, Surface of the Earth
• Agencement, Boxe Consonantique
• Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall, Their Power Reached Across Space and Time — To Defy Them Was Death — Or Worse
• Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder
• Lester Knox, Put Your Face in Gwod: the 366th Revival
• Hella, The Devil Isn’t Red
• Aphex Twin, Come to Daddy
• Kim Gordon, No Home Record
• Silver Apples, Silver Apples
• Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
• Buzzcocks, Parts 1–3
• Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
• The Who, Tommy
• Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

Friday, April 19, 2024

• Hijokaidan, Modern
• Borbetomagus, Seven Reasons for Tears
• The Necks, Unfold
• Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
• The Jesus & Mary Chain, Psychocandy
• Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant: The Athens Demos

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

• Jimmy Giuffre, Jimmy Giuffre
• The Ex, Turn (disc 1)

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• Foetus, Flow

Monday, April 15, 2024

• The Who, Tommy

Sunday, April 14, 2024

• Gerry Mulligan, The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (disc 1)
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• Duke Ellington, Liberian Suite
• Curtis Mayfield, Roots
• The Who, Who's Next

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Fargo, North Dakota, November 7, 1940 (disc 1)

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• Steve Lacy, Axieme
• Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
• The Who, Tommy

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• Can, Future Days
• Lewsberg, Lewsberg
• Heart, Dreamboat Annie

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• Steve Lacy, Morning Joy
• Gerry Mulligan, The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (disc 2)
• Duke Ellington, Ellington Uptown
• Foetus, Flow
• R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction: The Athens Demos
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell
• Echoes of the Ozarks Volume One

Monday, April 8, 2024

• Duke Ellington, Liberian Suite
• Steve Potts, Musique pour le film d’un ami
• Steve Lacy Quartet, Revenue
• Pere Ubu, Dub Housing
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois

Sunday, April 7, 2024

• Steve Lacy, The Way (disc 2)
• Hella, The Devil Isn’t Red
• Kim Gordon, No Home Record
• Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
• The Who, Tommy
• Heart, Dreamboat Annie
• Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

Saturday, April 6, 2024

• Harry Partch, The World of Harry Partch
• Globe Unity Orchestra, Jahrmarkt / Local Fair
• Fred Van Hove, Die Letzte
• Schlippenbach Quartet, The Hidden Peak
• Rodrigo Amado, A History of Nothing
• Steve Lacy, The Beat Suite
• Steve Lacy Trio, Bye-ya
• Gerry Mulligan, The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (disc 1)
• Foetus, Flow
• Yma Sumac, Inca Taqui
• Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume III (County) •

Friday, April 5, 2024

• Mike Shiflet, Tetracosa, Volume One
• Michael Rosenstein, CRT
• Keith Rowe, Cultural Templates (ErstLive 007)
• Rüdiger Carl & Hans Reichel, Buben
• Lol Coxhill / Steve Lacy / Evan Parker, Three Blokes
• Steve Lacy & Brion Gysin, Songs
• Gerry Mulligan, The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (disc 2)
• Mark Fell, UL8
• Khruangbin, A La Sala
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell

Thursday, April 4, 2024

• Mark Fell & Will Guthrie, Diffractions
• Fred Van Hove, Prosper
• Radu Malfatti & Stephan Wittwer, Und?
• Tristan Honsinger & Olaf Rupp, Stretto
• Peter Brötzmann, Wolke in Hosen
• Peter Kowald, Was Da Ist (Live)
• Steve Lacy, Stabs
• Steve Lacy, Follies
• Schlippenbach Quartet, Three Nails Left
• General Magic, Frantz
• Kim Gordon, No Home Record
• Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
• Heart, Dreamboat Annie

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

• Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet, Busman’s Holiday
• Hello Spiral, Guitarded
• Steve Lacy, Remains
• Steve Lacy, The Beat Suite
• Steve Potts, Musique pour le film d’un ami
• Gerry Mulligan, The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (disc 1)
• Nurse with Wound, Sylvie and Babs (disc 2)
• Foetus, Flow
• The Who, Tommy

March 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
• John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
• Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Raymond Carver, Cathedral

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

February 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

nonfiction:

• Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, The Courage to Be Disliked

movies:

• Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune
• David Lynch, Dune *

* = re-read/re-view

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

January 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Thomas Bernhard, The Lime Works
• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

movies:

• Wes Anderson, The Rat Catcher / The Swan / Poison / The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

• Steve Lacy & Masahiko Togashi, Eternal Duo
• Steve Lacy & Brion Gysin, Songs
• Steve Beresford, Signals for Tea
• Von Freeman, Have No Fear
• Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan, Two of a Mind
• Jandek, Vision of Jewels
• Tom Verlaine, Cover
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell

Monday, April 1, 2024

• Suzanne Ciani, Improvisation on Four Sequences
• Dagar Brothers, Berlin 1964 — The Lost Studio Recording
• The San Lucas Band, Music of Guatemala
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, A Night in Tunisia (1957)
• Steve Lacy, Clichés
• Mark Fell & Peter Rehberg, Kubu / Zikir
• The Residents, Santa Dog
• Can, Future Days
• New Order, Substance (disc 2)
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
• Jack Nitzsche, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sunday, March 31, 2024

• Anthony Moore, Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom
• Steve Lacy, Anthem
• The Residents, God in Three Persons
• Kim Gordon, The Collective
• New Order, Substance (disc 1)
• Stephen Prina, Push Comes to Love

Saturday, March 30, 2024

• Steve Lacy, The Forest and the Zoo
• The Residents, The Third Reich ’n Roll
• Kim Gordon, No Home Record

Friday, March 29, 2024

• Steve Lacy & Steve Potts, Tips
• The Residents, Eskimo
• Foetus, Gash
• The Who, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois

Thursday, March 28, 2024

• Anthony Moore, Secrets of the Blue Bag
• The Residents, Mark of the Mole
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

• The Residents, Fingerprince
• Kim Gordon, The Collective

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

• Anthony Moore, Reed, Whistle and Sticks
• Zoviet France, A Flock of Rotations
• The Residents, Meet the Residents
• Foetus, Gash

Monday, March 25, 2024

• Harry Partch, The Harry Partch Collection (disc 1)
• Steve Beresford, Signals for Tea
• Normal Brain, Lady Maid
• Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Hole
• The Residents, Commercial Album
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
• Miklós Rózsa, Ben-Hur (disc 2)

Sunday, March 24, 2024

• Hideaki Shimada, October Variations
• JG Thirlwell, Dystonia (Mivos Quartet)
• You’ve Got Foetus on Your Breath, Ache
• The Residents, God In Three Persons
• Tangerine Dream, Poland (disc 2)
• Jack Nitzsche, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Saturday, March 23, 2024

• Harry Partch, The Harry Partch Collection (disc 3)
• Agencement, Agencement (Pico-02)
• Tristan Honsinger & Steve Beresford, Double Indemnity
• Rudolph Grey, Mask of Light
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Home
• Foetus, Gash
• Kim Gordon, The Collective

Friday, March 22, 2024

• The Residents, Mark of the Mole
• David Bowie, Low

Thursday, March 21, 2024

• Steve Beresford, Signals for Tea

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Koksofen
• Sonic Youth, NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

• Rick Reed, Dreamz / Blue Polz
• The Residents, Duck Stab / Buster and Glen
• Normal Brain, Lady Maid
• New Order, Substance (disc 2)

Monday, March 18, 2024

• The Residents, Intermission
• Martin Rev, Martin Rev
• Foetus, Gash
• New Order, Substance (disc 1)

Sunday, March 17, 2024

• Andrew Cyrille, Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu
• The Residents, Not Available
• Brian Eno, Another Green World
• New Order, Movement

Saturday, March 16, 2024

• Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
• Suzanne Ciani, Lixiviation
• Christian Wolff, Kompositionen 1950-1972 (disc 2)
• Bruce Russell, Spit Sonatas (Aramoana 2021)
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Home
• Kim Gordon, The Collective
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois

Friday, March 15, 2024

• The Residents, Mark of the Mole
• Foetus, Gash

Thursday, March 14, 2024

• John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette, Gateway
• The Residents, Eskimo
• Foetus Interruptus, Thaw

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

• Taku Sugimoto, Short Pieces
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Koksofen
• You’ve Got Foetus on Your Breath, Ache

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

• Sonic Youth, Sonic Death: Early Sonic 1981–1983

Monday, March 11, 2024

• Kim Gordon, The Collective
• Sonic Youth, NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Sunday, March 10, 2024

• Omit, InSec
• Iannis Xenakis, Electroacoustic Works (disc 1)
• Rafael Toral, Space Solo 1
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Der Abend der schwarzen Folklore
• Sonic Youth, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
• Normal Brain, Lady Maid
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinois