Sunday, August 3, 2025

• Philip Glass / Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (disc 2)
• Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano, No Place to Fall
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• ICP Orchestra, Aan & Uit
• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kabalaba
• Boy Dirt Car, 1983–87 Live w/out a Body
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wild God
• Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
• Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic

Saturday, August 2, 2025

• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• The Necks, Aethenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab (disc 4)
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Black Sabbath, Master of Reality
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

RIP Daniel Lentz

Friday, August 1, 2025

• Philip Glass / Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (disc 1)
• Jason Stein, Anchors
• Eric Revis 11:11, Parallax
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Whatitdo Archive Group, Exotique / Italian Love Triangle
• Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
• The Verlaines, Some Disenchanted Evening
• Steely Dan, Gaucho
• Syd Barrett, Barrett
• Tom Lehrer, More of Tom Lehrer

RIP Robert Wilson

Thursday, July 31, 2025

• Nihilist Spasm Band, ¬x~x=x (feat. Bill Exley)
• Paul Bley, The Complete Footloose
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• 75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
• Pink Floyd, London 1966/1967
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
• Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy
• Giles, Giles & Fripp, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor
• Jackie Mittoo, The Keyboard King at Studio One

RIP Bill Exley

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Quartet No. 4 (Quatuor Bozzini)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Blue Notes, Legacy: Live in South Afrika 1964 (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Throbbing Gristle, CD1
• Nihilist Spasm Band, No Record
• Haruomi Hosono, Cochin Moon
• DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo, Ki-Oku
• Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
• Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman
• Black Sabbath, Vol. 4
• Pink Floyd, The Early Singles
• Tom Lehrer, Songs by Tom Lehrer

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

• Hello Spiral, Staunch Advocate of Doing Nothing
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• Boy Dirt Car, Winter (+ F/i split)
• Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, It’s a Love Song
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
• Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
• Syd Barrett, Barrett
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was

RIP Tom Lehrer

Monday, July 28, 2025

• J. Soliday, Beached
• Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet, Re-Collect
• Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet, Blues in Time
• Gate, Hate
• Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Steely Dan, Gaucho
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 1)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Solid State Survivor

Sunday, July 27, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma II (disc 1)
• Bailey/Bryars/Oxley, Joseph Holbrooke ’65
• Tristan Honsinger 5tet, Map of Moods (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 3)
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Neal Markowski, Holiday Cheer Where You Need It
• Black Sabbath, Sabotage
• Steely Dan, The Royal Scam
• Todd Rundgren, Faithful
• Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends

Saturday, July 26, 2025

• Derek Bailey & Han Bennink, ICP 004
• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Todd Rundgren, A Wizard, a True Star
• Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy

Friday, July 25, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Crazy
• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• Mike Osborne, Dawn
• Donald Byrd, A New Perspective
• Tim Barnes, Dead-Loop
• Herman Chin Loy, Aquarius Dub
• Black Sabbath, Never Say Die!
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

RIP Ozzy Osbourne

Thursday, July 24, 2025

• Jeb Bishop / Pandelis Karayorgis / Damon Smith, Duals (disc 1)
• Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley / John Surman, In the Evenings Out There
• Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
• Boy Dirt Car, Winter (+ F/i split)
• Gate, Hate
• Glen Brown, Termination Dub (w/ King Tubby)
• Bohannon, On My Way
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• Steely Dan, Aja
• Spacemen 3, Playing with Fire
• The 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 2)

RIP Chuck Mangione

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

• Wire, Chairs Missing
• Bohannon, Stop & Go

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Monday, July 21, 2025

• Boy Dirt Car, Winter

Sunday, July 20, 2025

• Paul Bley, The Complete Footloose
• David Grubbs, Whistle from Above

Saturday, July 19, 2025

• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

Friday, July 18, 2025

• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd
• On Fillmore, On Fillmore (Box 100) (disc 2)
• Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time

Thursday, July 17, 2025

• Tim Barnes, Dead-Loop
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Magic Hour, Secession 96
• Gate, Hate
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
• Pere Ubu, Cloudland
• Steely Dan, Aja

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

• Irène Schweizer / Rüdiger Carl / Louis Moholo, Messer Und...
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• Mark Fell, Multistability
• Tim Barnes, Lost Words
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

Monday, July 14, 2025

• Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Pivot
• COWWS Quintett, Grooves ’N’ Loops
• Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi, Tea Time for Those Determined to Completely Exhaust Every Bit of This Body They’ve Been Given
• Altarage, Nihl
• Gastr del Sol, Mirror Repair
• Bobby Conn, Rise Up!
• Roy Harper, HQ

Sunday, July 13, 2025

• Alice Coltrane, Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• 75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
• BASIC, This Is BASIC
• Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 1)
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• Souled American, Flubber

Saturday, July 12, 2025

• Kunaichō Gakubu Ensemble, Gagaku Collection 2 (Victor, SLJ-59)
• Kory Reeder, Codex Vivere (Apartment House)
• Peter Brötzmann / Harry Miller / Louis Moholo, The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat
• Susan Alcorn & Tom Carter, Ajax Peak
• Gate, Hate
• Stereolab, Dots and Loops

Friday, July 11, 2025

• Alice Coltrane, Carnegie Hall ’71
• Sonny Rollins, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 4)
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Live at Willisau (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Donald Byrd, A New Perspective
• Math, Bask Math
• Matmos, Return to Archive
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Roy Harper, HQ

Thursday, July 10, 2025

• Morton Subotnick, Silver Apples of the Moon
• Mike Osborne, Dawn (feat. Louis Moholo)
• John Coltrane, Evenings at the Village Gate
• Thelonious Monk, In Italy
• Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet, Blues in Time
• Duke Ellington, Black, Brown & Beige
• BASIC, Dream City
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

• Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath
• USA/Mexico, Del Rio
• David Thomas & Two Pale Boys, Meadville

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

• David Murray, Hamid Drake & Brad Jones, Seriana Promethea
• BASIC, This Is BASIC
• USA/Mexico, Laredo
• Math, Bask Math
• Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Bohannon, Stop & Go

Monday, July 7, 2025

• Elliott Carter, A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 2)
• Jean-Luc Guionnet, Bending Contumax (disc 2)
• Dudu Pukwana & Spear, In the Townships
• Fuubutsushi, Yamawarau
• Stereolab, Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
• Yes, Yesstory (disc 2)
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (disc 2)
• Roy Harper, HQ

Sunday, July 6, 2025

• Elliott Carter, The Music for String Quartet, Vol. 1
• Susan Alcorn & Tom Carter, Ajax Peak
• ICP Orchestra, Jubilee Varia
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 4)
• David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 3)
• BASIC, Dream City
• Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
• Graeme Downes, Hammers and Anvils

Saturday, July 5, 2025

• London Jazz Composers Orchestra w/ Irène Schweizer, Theoria
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3)
• Jim O’Rourke, The Visitor
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 2)
• Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die
• BASIC, This Is BASIC
• Sly & the Family Stone, Life
• Harry Nilsson, Nilsson Schmilsson

Friday, July 4, 2025

• Elliott Carter, A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 3)
• Evan Parker’s Foxes Fox, Foxes Fox (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
• Tortoise, TNT
• Pere Ubu, Shape of Things
• Kathryn Mohr, Waiting Room
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• Funkadelic, Funkadelic (disc 1)
• I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70
• The Beach Boys, Love You

Thursday, July 3, 2025

• Elliott Carter, The Music for String Quartet, Vol. 1
• David Murray, Hamid Drake & Brad Jones, Seriana Promethea
• Dudu Pukwana & Spear, In the Townships (feat. Louis Moholo)
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 1)
• Tortoise, It’s All Around You
• Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
• Gate, Hate
• Iron Lung, Sexless//No Sex
• USA/Mexico, Laredo
• David Thomas & Two Pale Boys, Meadville
• Burning Spear, Creation Rebel
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
• Omara Portuondo, 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 4)

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Another Set of Days Now Over
• Peter Brötzmann / Harry Miller / Louis Moholo, The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat
• Sun Ra, Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano
• Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal
• COWWS Quintett, Grooves ’N’ Loops
• Tortoise, Standards
• Matmos, Return to Archive
• Math, Bask Math
• USA/Mexico, Del Rio
• Pere Ubu, Cloudland
• Bohannon, Essential Dance Floor Artists Vol. 4
• Sly & the Family Stone, A Whole New Thing
• The Beach Boys, Endless Summer
• Roy Harper, HQ
• Yes, Yesstory (disc 2)
• U2, October

June 2025 reading

fiction:

• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

visual:

• Charles Burns, Final Cut

nonfiction:

• Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

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

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Disintegrating Day to Day Incorporeal Matters
• Vic Rawlings, Howard Stelzer, Jason Talbot, Open
• Jim O’Rourke & Mats Gustafsson, Xylophonen Virtuosen
• Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
• Tortoise, Beacons of Ancestorship
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70
• Sly & the Family Stone, Fresh
• David Thomas & The Pedestrians, More Places Forever
• Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
• Paul McCartney, McCartney II
• The Beach Boys, Love You

Monday, June 30, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Disintegrating Day to Day Incorporeal Matters
• Hello Spiral, granular lol analysis
• B.C. Gilbert & G. Lewis, 8 Time
• Louis Moholo-Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!
• Tobias Delius, Luftlucht
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Duke Ellington, Black, Brown & Beige
• Tortoise, It’s All Around You
• BASIC, This Is BASIC
• David Thomas and the Wooden Birds, Blame the Messenger
• Pere Ubu, Worlds in Collision
• Bohannon, Summertime Groove
• Sly & the Family Stone, Small Talk
• U2, October

Sunday, June 29, 2025

• Hello Spiral, Staunch Advocate of Doing Nothing
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 67
• Henry Threadgill Sextett, You Know the Number
• David Murray, Hamid Drake & Brad Jones, Seriana Promethea
• Tortoise, Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
• Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
• Bohannon, On My Way
• I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70
• Pere Ubu, Shape of Things
• The Beach Boys, Surf’s Up
• U2, Under a Blood Red Sky

Saturday, June 28, 2025

• Iannis Xenakis, Kraanerg (Erato)
• Sun Ra, Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano
• COWWS Quintett, Grooves ’N’ Loops (feat. Stephan Wittwer)
• Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal
• James Booker, Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
• Dudu Pukwana & Spear, In the Townships (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
• Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Forces and Feelings
• San Agustin, The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
• Tortoise, The Catastrophist
• Matmos, Return to Archive
• Gate, We Want a Riot
• David Thomas & Two Pale Boys, Meadville
• BASIC, Dream City
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• Sly & the Family Stone, There’s a Riot Goin’ On
• Yes, Yesstory (disc 2)
• U2, The Unforgettable Fire
• The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions (disc 1)

Friday, June 27, 2025

• Ouest, No It Isn’t
• Sven-Åke Johansson, Schlingerland
• David Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams, Allium
• Louis Moholo-Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!
• James Booker, Spiders on the Keys
• James Moody, James Moody and His Modernists
• Miles Davis, In Concert (disc 1)
• Yussef Dayes, Live at Joshua Tree
• Tortoise, A Lazarus Taxon (disc 2)
• Chris & Cosey, Heartbeat
• LFO, Frequencies
• Bohannon, The Collection
• Sly & the Family Stone, A Whole New Thing
• The Beach Boys, Love You

Thursday, June 26, 2025

• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Tortoise, It’s All Around You
• USA/Mexico, Laredo
• The Heptones, Party Time
• I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70
• U2, October
• The Beach Boys, Endless Summer

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, In Concert (disc 2) (feat. Al Foster)
• David Thomas and the Wooden Birds, Blame the Messenger
• Killing Joke, Night Time
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• Sly & the Family Stone, There’s a Riot Goin’ On
• The Beach Boys, Today!

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, Live at the Glenn Miller Café

Monday, June 23, 2025

• Donald Byrd, A New Perspective

Sunday, June 22, 2025

• Sly & the Family Stone, A Whole New Thing

Saturday, June 21, 2025

• Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Crystal Silence
• Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet, Blues in Time
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 1)
• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 4)
• The Beach Boys, Endless Summer

Friday, June 20, 2025

• New York Art Quartet, Old Stuff (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Stereolab, Sound-Dust
• The Beach Boys, Sunflower

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• Derek Bailey / Louis Moholo / Thebe Lipere, Village Life
• Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks, Orange Crate Art

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

• Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo, Ancestors
• Brian Wilson, Smile

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 2)
• Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
• Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
• Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Recording Together for the First Time
• Tortoise, It’s All Around You
• James Brown, Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971–1975 (disc 2)
• Sly & the Family Stone, Dance to the Music
• The Beach Boys, Endless Summer

Monday, June 16, 2025

• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 1)
• Fuubutsushi, Yamawarau
• Sun Ra, Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano
• Dudu Pukwana & Spear, In the Townships
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 4)
• Allan Holdsworth, Metal Fatigue
• David Thomas and the Wooden Birds, Blame the Messenger
• The Beach Boys, Love You
• I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70
• James Brown, Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971–1975 (disc 1)