Tuesday, December 8, 2015

• Bill Orcutt & Jacob Heule, Colonial Donuts
• Arlo Guthrie, Hobo’s Lullaby

Saturday, December 5, 2015

• György Ligeti, György Ligeti (EMI Classics) (disc 2)
• Rembetika: Greek Music from the Underground (disc 1)
• Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
• Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol. 2

Friday, December 4, 2015

• John Cage / Christian Wolff (Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series)
• Jim O’Rourke, Then Left (Steamroom 18)
• Jason Lescalleet, This Is What I Do, Vol. 10
• Kevin Drumm, The Damned Sort (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, 090613NY
• ICP Tentet, In Berlin
• Atomic School Days, Distil (disc 1)
• Paul Bley, Scorpio
• Hrvatski, Oiseaux 96–98
• Thomas Brinkmann, Soul Center
• Heather Leigh, I Abused Animal
• Royal Trux, Cats and Dogs
• The United States of America, The United States of America
• Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• Rembetika: Songs of the Greek Underground 1925–1947 (disc 1)

Thursday, December 3, 2015

• P’ansori: Korea’s Epic Vocal Art & Instrumental Music (Nonesuch)
• Organum & The New Blockaders, Pulp
• Tobias Delius & Jason Roebke, Panoramic
• Tobias Delius, Pelikanismus
• Hrvatski, Räume 7″
• Sun City Girls, High Asia/Lo-Pacific (disc 1)
• Diamanda Galás, You Must Be Certain of the Devil
• Joanna Newsom, Divers
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
• Kurt Vile, B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
• David Bowie, Lodger

April–November 2015 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
• William Gibson, Burning Chrome
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
• Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
• Charles Burns, X-ed Out / The Hive / Sugar Skull

nonfiction:

• Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould's Secret
• David Grubbs, Records Ruin the Landscape
• (Jason Weiss, ed.), Steve Lacy: Conversations
• Garth W. Caylor, Nineteen+: Conversations with Jazz Musicians, New York City, 1964–1965
• Derek Ridgers, Skinheads 1979–1984
• Frédéric Chauvin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
• Thomas Gauld, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
• Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

viewing:

• Samuel Fuller, The Crimson Kimono
• Ridley Scott, The Martin
• Pete Docter, Inside Out
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock’n’Roll
• Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

* = re-read/re-view

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

• Jim O’Rourke, The Great Indoors (Steamroom 16)
• Fushitsusha, I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense… (disc 2)
• Pillow, Plays Brötzmann
• Tobias Delius, Apa Ini
• Max Roach, Max
• Max Roach, At Newport
• Träd, Gräs & Stenar, Djungelns Lag
• The Ex, Pokkeherrie

November 26–December 1, 2015

• Major Stars, 4
• Gang of Four, Yellow

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

• New Music from South America for Chamber Orchestra (Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series)
• Paul Bley, Open, to Love
• Paul Bley, Scorpio
• Paul Bley, The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
• Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages
• Major Stars, Distant Effects

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

• New Music for Violin and Piano (Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series)
• ICP Orchestra, Japan Japon
• Jeb Bishop Trio, 2009
• Fred Anderson (w/ Peter Kowald, Hamid Drake), Live at the Velvet Lounge
• Paul Bley, Mr. Joy
• Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd, School Days
• Parkay Quarts, Tally All the Things That You Broke
• Royal Trux, Thank You
• David Bowie, Lodger

Monday, November 23, 2015

• Jakob Ullmann, Fremde Zeit Addendum (discs 1 & 2)
• Richard Maxfield, Electronic Music
• Sten Sandell, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Disappeared
• Georg Gräwe, Marcio Mattos, Michael Vatcher, Subsymbolism
• Aster, Things That Just Happen
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 1)
• Fushitsusha, I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense… (disc 1)
• Major Stars, Space/Time
• Major Stars, The Rock Revival
• The Stooges, The Stooges
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
• Kurt Vile, B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
• Michael Hurley, Weatherhole
• Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• Rembetika: Songs of the Greek Underground 1925-1947 (disc 1)

Sunday, November 22, 2015

• Misha Mengelberg, Impromptus
• Georg Gräwe, Fantasiestücke I–XIII
• Guillermo Gregorio, Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Chicago Approach
• Fred Anderson, Staying in the Game
• Steve Lacy & Eric Watson, Spirit of Mingus
• Sun Ra, Super-Sonic Jazz
• Frank Wright, Church Number Nine
• P.J. Harvey, To Bring You My Love

Saturday, November 21, 2015

• Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyōbin
• Sun City Girls, High Asia/Lo-Pacific (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 2)
• Major Stars, Space/Time
• Royal Trux, Thank You
• The United States of America, The United States of America

Friday, November 20, 2015

• Paul Bley, The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
• Diamanda Galás, The Litanies of Satan
• Diamanda Galás, You Must Be Certain of the Devil
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, Sumatran Electric Chair
• Chrome, No Humans Allowed
• Major Stars, The Rock Revival
• Parkay Quarts, Tally All the Things That You Broke
• PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
• David Bowie, Lodger
• The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street

Thursday, November 19, 2015

• Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton/Robert Schumann String Quartet (Sound Aspects)
• George Graewe & GrubenKlangOrchester, Songs and Variations
• Atomic, Lucidity
• Sam Rivers’ Rivbea All-Star Orchestra, Culmination
• Last Exit, Moers 1986 (w/ Billy Bang & Diamanda Galás)
• If, Bwana, They Call Me Bwana
• Suburban Lawns, Suburban Lawns
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
• Royal Trux, Cats and Dogs
• Lou Reed, Legendary Hearts
• Rembetika: Songs of the Greek Underground 1925–1947 (disc 1)
• Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (disc 2)

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

• Moebius, Nurton
• Su Tissue, Salon de Musique
• Sun City Girls, High Asia/Lo-Pacific (disc 1)
• Mars, Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977–1978
• Earth, Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
• Kurt Vile, B’lieve I’m Goin Down...
• Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (disc 1)

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

• John Cage, “Fontana Mix” (Milan, 1958)
• Max Neuhaus, Electronics and Percussion: Five Realizations
• Henry Flynt, Hillbilly Tape Music
• Henry Flynt, Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, Vol. 2
• Henry Flynt, I Don’t Wanna
• Gate, The Dew Line
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 1)
• Parkay Quarts, Tally All the Things That You Broke
• Parkay Quarts, Content Nausea
• Royal Trux, Thank You
• Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs
• David Bowie, Lodger
• Timmy Thomas, “Why Can’t We Live Together?”

Monday, November 16, 2015

• Nickel 7″ (Table of the Elements)
• Georg Graewe Quintet, Concert in Berlin 1996
• Sun Ra, Black Myth/Out in Space (disc 1)
• Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is… (disc 1)
• Henry Flynt, Purified by the Fire
• Henry Flynt, Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, Vol. 1
• The United States of America, The United States of America
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold

Sunday, November 15, 2015

• Charlotte Moorman, Cello Anthology (disc 4)
• John Cage, John Cage Shock Vol. 1
• Cornelius Cardew/The Scratch Orchestra, The Great Learning
• Elliott Carter, Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
• Paul Bley, The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
• Franco Battiato, Pollution
• Joanna Newsom, Divers
• Bongwater, The Big Sell-Out
• Parquet Courts, Content Nausea

Saturday, November 14, 2015

• Raglani, Husk
• Tangerine Dream, Hyperborea
• Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure
• Sam Rivers, Contrasts
• Wayne Shorter, The All Seeing Eye
• Keith Jarrett, Bop-Be
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 2)
• Sun City Girls, Funeral Mariachi
• Charalambides, Exile
• Guru Guru, Känguru
• Royal Trux, Accelerator
• Royal Trux, Thank You
• Kurt Vile, B’lieve I’m Goin Down...
• Richard & Linda Thompson, Shoot Out the Lights

Friday, November 13, 2015

• Steve Lacy, Tips
• Leo Cuypers, Heavy Days Are Here Again
• Max Roach, Max Roach + 4
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown & Max Roach
• Sun Ra, Sunrise in Different Dimensions
• Sun Ra, Fate in a Pleasant Mood
• Sun Ra, Continuation (disc 1)
• Sun Ra, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
• Sun Ra, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
• Sun Ra, My Brother the Wind Vol. II
• Sun City Girls, Cameo Demons and Their Manifestations
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 1)
• Frank Zappa, 1988 03 04 Chicago IL (audience recording)
• Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs
• Parkay Quarts, Tally All the Things That You Broke

Thursday, November 12, 2015

• Borbetomagus & Voice Crack, Concerto for Cracked Everyday Electronics
• Sun Ra, Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
• Sun Ra, When Angels Speak of Love
• Sun Ra, Astro Black
• Sun Ra, Soundtrack to the Film Space Is the Place
• Sun Ra, Some Blues But Not the Kind That’s Blue
• Sun Ra, Other Voices, Other Blues
• Barry Guy & Ken Vandermark, Occasional Poems (disc 2)
• Lean Left, Vol. 2
• Sissy Spacek, California Ax (disc 2)
• Sightings, Terribly Well
• Sightings, Future Accidents
• Sightings, End Times
• Sun City Girls, Djinn Funnel
• Sun City Girls, Grotto of Miracles
• Sparks, Introducing Sparks

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

• Georg Graewe, Impressions of Monk
• Sun Ra, Sun Song
• Max Roach, Max
• Kid Millions & Jim Sauter, Fountain
• Sun City Girls, High Asia/Lo-Pacific (disc 2)
• Sun City Girls, Funeral Mariachi
• Guru Guru, Hinten
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 2)
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

• Lee Patterson & Vanessa Rossetto, Temperament as Waveform
• Georg Gräwe, Stills and Stories
• Rempis/Johnston/Ochs, Spectral
• Barry Guy & Ken Vandermark, Occasional Poems (disc 1)
• Tomeka Reid, Tomeka Reid Quartet
• Max Roach, On the Chicago Scene
• Max Roach, At Newport
• Paul Giallorenzo’s GitGo, Force Majeure
• The Thing, Shake
• Kaiser/Noyes/Walter, Ninja Star Danger Rock
• Sun City Girls, High Asia/Lo-Pacific (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 2)
• Guru Guru, Dance of the Flames
• Guru Guru, Guru Guru
• Parquet Courts, Content Nausea
• Royal Trux, Thank You

Monday, November 9, 2015

• The Necks, Silent Night (disc 1)
• Max Roach, Plays Charlie Parker
• Max Roach, Jazz in 3/4 Time
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• Sun City Girls, A Bullet Through the Last Temple
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings
• Sun City Girls, Dawn of the Devi
• Sun City Girls, Grotto of Miracles
• The Ex, Aural Guerrilla
• Foetus, Nail
• Parkay Quarts, Tally All the Things That You Broke
• Kurt Vile, B’lieve I’m Goin Down...
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 1)

Sunday, November 8, 2015

• Tomeka Reid, Tomeka Reid Quartet
• Max Roach, Max Roach + 4
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Study in Brown
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown/Max Roach
• Sun City Girls, Cameo Demons and Their Manifestations
• Sun City Girls, Djinn Funnel
• Sun City Girls, Funeral Mariachi
• The Art of Noise, In Visible Silence

Saturday, November 7, 2015

• John Butcher & Paal Nilssen-Love, Concentric
• Max Roach, The Max Roach Quartet Featuring Hank Mobley
• Lee Konitz, Meets Jimmy Giuffre
• Jimmy Giuffre, The Jimmy Giuffre 3
• Jimmy Giuffre, Tangents in Jazz
• Sun City Girls, Kaliflower
• Faust, IV
• Breaking Circus, Smokers Paradise
• Breaking Circus, The Very Long Fuse
• Parquet Courts, Content Nausea
• Lou Reed, Coney Island Baby

Friday, November 6, 2015

• Merzbow, Tauromachine
• Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd, Monk’s Dream
• Getatchew Mekuria, Moa Anbessa
• Sun City Girls, Grotto of Miracles
• Sightings, Future Accidents
• Sightings, Terribly Well
• White Suns, Sinews
• Lou Reed, Sally Can’t Dance
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 1)

Thursday, November 5, 2015

• Georg Graewe/Peter Van Bergen/Barre Phillips, Other Songs
• Arto Lindsay & Paal Nilssen-Love, Scarcity
• Sun City Girls, Sumatran Electric Chair
• Sun City Girls, Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings
• Sun City Girls, 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (disc 2)
• Sun City Girls, Valentines from Matahari
• Guru Guru, Live in Essen 1970

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

• Birmanie: Musique d’Art (Ocora) (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, Djinn Funnel
• Guru Guru, Hinten
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 2)

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

• Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron, Hot House
• Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (disc 2)
• Sun City Girls, Cameo Demons and Their Manifestations
• The Ex, History Is What’s Happening
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 1)

Monday, November 2, 2015

• Sonny Rollins, East Broadway Run Down
• Sun City Girls, Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings
• Sun City Girls, Valentines from Matahari

Sunday, November 1, 2015

• Elliott Sharp, Larynx
• Sun City Girls, Grotto of Miracles

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

• V.G. Jog & Bismillah Khan, Jugalbandi
• Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China (Sublime Frequencies)
• Sun Ra, Other Planes of There
• Sun Ra, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2
• Sun Ra, Monorails and Satellites
• Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 (disc 3)
• Pharoah Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
• Sun City Girls, Djinn Funnel
• Sun City Girls, Dawn of the Devi
• Sun City Girls, Torch of the Mystics
• Sun City Girls, Grotto of Miracles
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 2)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

• Laraaji, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
• If, Bwana, Organ Life
• If, Bwana, Wah Yu Wan
• Morton Feldman, Violin and Orchestra (ECM)
• Nick Hennies, Work
• Sam Rivers, Portrait
• Sun Ra, Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
• Sun Ra, Super-Sonic Jazz
• The Ex, Instant (disc 1)
• Sun City Girls, Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings
• Boredoms, Chocolate Synthesizer
• Guru Guru, Hinten
• Guru Guru, Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 1)

Monday, October 26, 2015

• Aaron Dilloway, Sounds of Nepal (disc 2)
• John Fahey, America
• Sun City Girls, Valentines from Matahari
• Guru Guru, UFO
• Neu!, 2
• The Ex, Tumult
• Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap
• X, Under the Big Black Sun
• Nikki Sudden, Waiting for Egypt
• The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers

Sunday, October 25, 2015

• Aaron Dilloway, Sounds of Nepal (disc 1)
• Jandek, Ghost Passing (disc 6)
• Jason Lescalleet, This Is What I Do, Vol. 9
• Magma, Köhntarkösz
• Mars, LP: the Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977–1978

October 20–24, 2015

• Birmanie: Musique d’Art (Ocora) (discs 1 & 2)
• Atomic, Retrograde (disc 2) (10/19)
• Moebius & Beerbohm, Double Cut
• Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets

Monday, October 19, 2015

• Gavin Bryars, After the Requiem
• Derek Bailey, New Sights, Old Sounds (disc 1)
• Marion Brown, Sweet Earth Flying
• Carla Bley, Jazz Realities
• Atomic, Retrograde (disc 1)

October 16–18, 2015

• Cecil Taylor, Jazz Advance
• Guru Guru, UFO
• Guru Guru, Hinten
• Guru Guru, Mani und Seine Freunde
• Parquet Courts, Content Nausea

October 11–15, 2015

• Miles Davis Quintet, Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 (discs 1 & 2)
• Magma, Live
• Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
• Hüsker Dü, Metal Circus

Saturday, October 10, 2015

• Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China (Sublime Frequencies)
• Boredoms, Super Ae
• Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap
• Nikki Sudden, Waiting on Egypt
• Frank Zappa, Over-Nite Sensation

Friday, October 9, 2015

• Christina Kubisch & Fabrizio Plessi, Tempo Liquido
• John Coltrane, Live in Seattle (disc 2)
• Faust, Faust
• Scratch Acid, The Greatest Gift
• X, Wild Gift
• X, Los Angeles

Thursday, October 8, 2015

• Stars of the Lid, The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (disc 2)
• Ed Blackwell, Shades of Edward Blackwell
• Willem Breuker, Lunchconcert for Three Barrelorgans
• Tyondai Braxton, HIVE1
• Squarepusher, Ultravisitor
• Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun
• Boredoms, Super Ae
• Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985–95 (disc 2)

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

• Harrison Birtwistle, Music for Wind and Percussion
• Colin Stetson, New History of Warfare, Vol. 1
• Peter Kowald & Maarten Altena, Two Making a Triangle
• Peter Kowald & Barry Guy, Paintings
• Carla Bley, Jazz Realities
• Marion Brown, Three for Shepp
• Jandek, Maze of the Phantom
• Autechre, Exai (disc 1)
• Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985–95 (disc 1)

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

• Stars of the Lid, The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (disc 1)
• Faust, 71 Minutes of Faust
• Nikki Sudden, Waiting on Egypt
• The Cure, Bloodflowers

Monday, October 5, 2015

• Peter Kowald & Barre Phillips, Die Jungen: Random Generators
• Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap

Sunday, October 4, 2015

• Giacinto Scelsi, Natura Renovatur (ECM)
• Tod Dockstader, Quatermass
• Autechre, Exai (disc 1)
• Faust, The Faust Tapes
• Faust, So Far
• Pere Ubu, The Art of Walking
• Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time
• Magazine, The Correct Use of Soap
• Swell Maps, Whatever Happens Next…
• Nikki Sudden, Waiting on Egypt
• The Psychedelic Furs, The Psychedelic Furs
• Low, The Invisible Way

Saturday, October 3, 2015

• Douglas Quin, Antarctica
• Andrew Chalk, A Light at the Edge of the World
• John Coltrane, Live in Seattle (disc 1)
• Gastr del Sol, Upgrade and Afterlife
• Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs
• Andy Pratt, Andy Pratt
• Frank Zappa, Zoot Allures
• Frank Zappa, Roxy & Elsewhere
• The Cure, Bloodflowers

Friday, October 2, 2015

• Fred Van Hove, Church Organ
• Borbetomagus, Á Go Go
• John Coltrane, Interstellar Space
• Tyondai Braxton, HIVE1
• Low, The Invisible Way
• Peaches, Rub

Thursday, October 1, 2015

• Sounds of Nepal (Hanson) (disc 3)
• Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China (Sublime Frequencies)
• Willem Breuker, Lunchconcert for Three Barrelorgans
• Scorch Trio, Luggumt
• DKV Trio, Sound in Motion in Sound (disc 5)
• Tim Buckley, Happy Sad
• The Cure, Bloodflowers
• The Psychedelic Furs, The Psychedelic Furs
• Andy Pratt, Andy Pratt