Tuesday, January 22, 2019

• Peter Kowald, Duos America
• Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
• Iggy Pop, American Caesar
• Joy Division, An Ideal for Living
• Grace Jones, Inside Story

Monday, January 21, 2019

• John Cage, Prelude to Meditation (hat Hut) (Hildegard Kleeb & Roland Dahinden)
• Henry Grimes, The Call (feat. Perry Robinson)
• Archie Shepp, Mama Too Tight (feat. Perry Robinson)
• Archie Shepp, The Magic of Ju-Ju
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness
• Afro-Cuban All Stars, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta
• Beto Scala, Beto Scala
• Grace Jones, Slave to the Rhythm
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette

Sunday, January 20, 2019

• John Cage, Music of Changes (Wergo) (Herbert Henck, piano)
• John Cage, The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (disc 2)
• John Cage, John Cage (Cramps)
• Don & Camille Dietrich, Dietrichs
• Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams, Ithra
• Nate Wooley, (Dance to) The Early Music
• Eric Revis 11:11, Parallax
• Fred Anderson, Staying in the Game
• Sonny Rollins, Work Time
• Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
• Sonny Rollins, Way Out West
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 1)
• Grace Jones, Nightclubbing

Saturday, January 19, 2019

• John Cage, Four Walls (Brilliant Classics) (disc 2)
• John Cage, Works for Piano, Toy Piano & Prepared Piano: Vol. III (Wergo) (Joshua Pierce, piano)
• John Cage, The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (disc 3)
• Philip Glass, Dance Nos. 1–5 (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 1)
• Wynton Marsalis, J Mood
• Iggy Pop, American Caesar
• Joy Division, Closer
• Joy Division, Ideal for Living
• Joy Division, Licht und Blindheit
• Joy Division, “Transmission” 7″
• Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” 7″
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette

Friday, January 18, 2019

• Phill Niblock, Touch Five (disc 2)
• Philip Glass, Dance Nos. 1–5 (disc 1)
• John Cage, The Perilous Night / Four Walls (New Albion) (Margaret Leng Tan, piano)
• John Cage, Works for Prepared Piano (Col Legno) (Markus Hinterhauser, piano) (disc 1)
• John Cage, The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage (disc 1)
• Yoko Ono, Fly (disc 2)
• Kid Millions & Jim Sauter, Bloom
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness
• Rubén González, Introducing... Rubén González
• Cellular Chaos, Dirty Girl
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette (bonus disc)
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero Group)

Thursday, January 17, 2019

• John Cage, Music for Percussion Quartet (Wergo) (Percussion Ensemble Mainz)
• John Cage, Works for Piano & Prepared Piano, Vol. II (Wergo) (Joshua Pierce, piano)
• Jimmy Giuffre, Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra / Mobiles
• Sonny Rollins, Work Time
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• James Blackshaw, Lost Prayers & Motionless Dances
• James Blackshaw, Celeste
• Cabaret Voltaire, Eight Crepuscule Tracks
• Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
• Grace Jones, Nightclubbing
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 1)

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

• John Cage, Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (Denon) (Yuji Takahashi, piano)
• John Cage, Complete Piano Music Vol. 7 (MDG) (Steffen Schleiermacher, piano)
• Sun City Girls, Sumatran Electric Chair
• Iggy Pop, American Caesar
• Joy Division, Closer
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

• John Cage, Works for Prepared Piano (Col Legno) (Markus Hinterhauser, piano) (disc 2)
• Barre Phillips, Journal Violone
• Misha Mengelberg et al, Groupcomposing
• Wynton Marsalis, J Mood
• Rubén González, Introducing... Rubén González
• Pärson Sound, Pärson Sound (disc 1)
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Cellular Chaos, Dirty Girl
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero Group)
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 1)

Monday, January 14, 2019

• John Cage, Works for Percussion (Quatuor Hêlios) (Wergo)
• Sun City Girls, Libyan Dream
• Cabaret Voltaire, Eight Crepuscule Tracks
• Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Kill City
• Stereolab, Fab Four Suture
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club

Sunday, January 13, 2019

• Howard Stelzer, Bond Inlets
• Andrew Hill, Black Fire
• Andrew Hill, Point of Departure
• Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
• Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes (from the Underground)
• Stereolab, Dots and Loops

Saturday, January 12, 2019

• Debussy / Ravel: String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa (ECM)
• György Ligeti, Clear or Cloudy (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 4)
• Luc Ferrari, Interrupteur / Tautologos 3
• Henry Kaiser, Outside Aloha Pleasure
• Trân Van Khê & Nguyen Vinh Bao, Musique Du Viêt-nam: Tradition du Sud (Ocora)
• Rubén González, Introducing... Rubén González
• The Residents, Commercial Album
• Stereolab, Refried Ectoplasm

Friday, January 11, 2019

• Kevin Drumm, .,..
• Joseph Jarman, As If It Were the Seasons
• Anthony Braxton, Solo (NYC) 2002 (disc 1)
• The Rempis/Daisy Duo & Guests, Dodecahedron (disc 1)
• Cellular Chaos, Dirty Girl
• Iggy Pop, Zombie Birdhouse
• Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Kill City
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero Group)
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 1)

Thursday, January 10, 2019

• Joseph Jarman & Anthony Braxton, Together Alone
• Joseph Jarman, Song For
• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow
• Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened
• Wayne Shorter, Juju
• Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
• Thumbscrew, Convallaria
• The Necks, Vertigo
• Can, Future Days
• Yes, “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

• Melaine Dalibert, Musique pour le lever du jour
• Su Tissue, Salon de Musique
• Jimmy Giuffre, Western Suite
• Don Cherry, Live at Café Montmartre 1966 (disc 1)
• Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• Wayne Shorter, Odyssey of Iska
• Afro-Cuban All Stars, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta
• Compay Segundo, Lo Mejor de la Vida
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Cabaret Voltaire, Eight Crepuscule Tracks
• Crusaders, Ghetto Blaster

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

• Frequency Curtain, Two Days in May
• Steve Lacy, Torments
• The Art Ensemble of Chicaago, Urban Bushmen (disc 2)
• James Falzone, The Sign and the Thing Signified
• Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love, The Lions Have Eaten One of the Guards
• Charles Mingus, Mingus in Ahus
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, En concert à Paris (disc 3)
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero Group)
• Cellular Chaos, Dirty Girl
• Iggy Pop, Zombie Birdhouse
• Iggy Pop, Soldier
• Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Kill City
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape ’69

Monday, January 7, 2019

• Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa (ECM)
• The Art Ensemble of Chicaago, Urban Bushmen (disc 1)
• Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
• Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes (From the Underground)
• Iggy & the Stooges, Raw Power
• Iggy Pop, American Caesar
• Iggy Pop, New Values
• Iggy Pop, Party

Sunday, January 6, 2019

• Giacinto Scelsi, Streichquartett No. 4, et al (Kairos)
• Peter Kowald, Duos America
• Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams, Ithra
• Paul Rutherford / Ken Vandermark / Torsten Müller / Dylan van der Schyff, Are We in Diego?
• Harrison Bankhead Quartet, Velvet Blue
• Masada, Hei
• Wayne Shorter, Juju
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• Branford Marsalis, Trio Jeepy
• Wynton Marsalis, J Mood
• Rubén González, Introducing... Rubén González
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Cabaret Voltaire, Eight Crepuscule Tracks
• David Bowie, Scary Monsters
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette

Saturday, January 5, 2019

• Pierre Henry, Le Voyage
• James Falzone & the Renga Ensemble, The Room Is
• David Bowie, Heroes
• David Bowie, Low
• David Bowie, Station to Station
• Iggy Pop, Zombie Birdhouse
• Iggy Pop, The Idiot
• Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Kill City
• Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape ’69
• Lightnin’ Hopkins, Classic Sides 1946-1951 (disc 2)
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club
• El Caimán: Sones Huastecos (Corason)

Friday, January 4, 2019

• Max Richter, Sleep (disc 1)
• Omit, Enclosures 2011–2016 (disc 5)
• Bill Dixon, Weight / Counterweight
• Jimmy Giuffre, Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961
• Danny Davis / Takehisa Kosugi / Peter Kowald, Global Village Suite — Improvised
• Eric Dolphy & Booker Little, Memorial Album
• Sonny Rollins, Way Out West
• Harry Pussy, What Was Music?
• Iggy Pop, Soldier
• Joseph Spence, The Spring of Sixty-Five

Thursday, January 3, 2019

• Anthony Braxton, Composition 113
• Muhal Richard Abrams, Rejoicing with the Light
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
• Wayne Shorter, Juju
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes (From the Underground)
• Stan Getz, Focus
• Pete Shelley, Sky Yen
• Cabaret Voltaire, Eight Crepuscule Tracks
• Cellular Chaos, Dirty Girl
• Swans, Young God
• Swans, Filth
• Buzzcocks, Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

• Jimmy Giuffre, Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra / Mobiles
• Fred Anderson, Staying in the Game
• Harrison Bankhead, Velvet Blue
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club
• Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero Group)
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Amon Düül II, Yeti
• Mission of Burma, Vs.
• Iggy Pop, Soldier
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape ’69

December 2018 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
• Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra
• Gary Indiana, Tiny Fish That Only Want to Kiss
• Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos *

visual:

• John Porcellino, The Hospital Suite

nonfiction:

• Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Rebecca Solnit, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

movies:

• Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
• Wim Wenders, Buena Vista Social Club
• Emile Ardolino, Dirty Dancing
• Jon M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
• Ron Howard, Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

* = re-read/re-view

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

• Carla Bley, Carla’s Christmas Carols
• John Zorn, A Dreamers Christmas
• Mars Williams, An Ayler Xmas, Volume 2
• Mars Williams, An Ayler Xmas

Monday, December 31, 2018

• Cabaret Voltaire, Mix-Up
• Rapeman, Budd
• Mission of Burma, Signals, Calls, and Marches
• Joseph Spence, The Spring of Sixty-Five

Sunday, December 30, 2018

• Debussy / Ravel: String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) (Deutsche Grammophon)

Saturday, December 29, 2018

• Eurythmics, Touch

Friday, December 28, 2018

• Dave Holland, Emerald Tears
• Joseph Spence, The Spring of Sixty-Five
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape ’69
• The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat
• Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks

Thursday, December 27, 2018

• Archie Shepp, Kwanza
• Iggy Pop, New Values

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

• Debussy / Ravel: String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Jimmy Giuffre, The Four Brothers Sound
• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 4: Omara Portuondo)

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

• Dave Brubeck, A Dave Brubeck Christmas
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 4)
• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 3: Ibrahim Ferrer)

Monday, December 24, 2018

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, En concert à Paris (Ocora) (disc 2)
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 3)
• Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas

Sunday, December 23, 2018

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, En concert à Paris (Ocora) (disc 1)
• The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World
• Joseph Spence, Happy All the Time
• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 5: Rubén González)

Saturday, December 22, 2018

• Sam Rivers, Aurora
• The Residents, The Third Reich ’n Roll
• Buzzcocks, A Different Kind of Tension
• Jimmy Reed, Just Jimmy Reed
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 2)

Friday, December 21, 2018

• Buzzcocks, Another Music in a Different Kitchen
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape ’69
• Jimmy Reed, Found Love
• Joseph Spence, The Spring of Sixty-Five
• Cuba Es una Maravilla (disc 1)

Thursday, December 20, 2018

• Steve Lacy, Torments
• Don Ellis, Autumn
• Iggy Pop, New Values
• Joseph Spence, Happy All the Time
• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 2: Compay Segundo)

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

• 5 Leyendas de Cuba (disc 1: Eliades Ochoa)
• The Breeders, Last Splash
• Skip Spence, Oar
• Jimmy Reed, Just Jimmy Reed
• Elvis Presley, The Sun Sessions

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

• Trân Van Khê & Nguyen Vinh Bao, Musique Du Viêt-nam: Tradition du Sud (Ocora)
• The Mamas & the Papas, The Papas & the Mamas
• Jimmy Reed, Found Love
• Elvis Presley, “There's No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car”
• Elvis Presley, “Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce”

Monday, December 17, 2018

• Masada, Vav
• Buzzcocks, Spiral Scratch
• Iggy Pop, New Values
• Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (disc 3)
• Joseph Spence, Happy All the Time

Sunday, December 16, 2018

• Masada, Hei
• The Breeders, Last Splash
• Buzzcocks, A Different Kind of Tension
• Jimmy Reed, Just Jimmy Reed

Saturday, December 15, 2018

• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Message to Our Folks
• Harry Pussy, What Was Music?
• Buzzcocks, Love Bites
• Jimmy Reed, Found Love

Friday, December 14, 2018

• Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady
• Nicholas Krgovich, Ouch
• The Mamas & the Papas, The Papas & the Mamas
• Lee Hazlewood, Cowboy in Sweden

Thursday, December 13, 2018

• Charles Mingus, The Complete Birdland Broadcasts 1961–1962 (disc 3)
• Sun Ra, The Magic City
• Skinny Puppy, Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
• Buzzcocks, Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

• Don Ellis, Soaring
• Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (disc 3)
• The Breeders, Last Splash
• Jimmy Reed, Just Jimmy Reed

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

• Milford Graves, Bäbi
• Nicholas Krgovich, Ouch
• Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
• Lee Hazlewood, Cowboy in Sweden
• Jimmy Reed, Found Love

Monday, December 10, 2018

• Harry Pussy, What Was Music?
• Alex Rex, Vermillion
• Iggy Pop, New Values
• Buzzcocks, Parts 1–3
• The Mamas & the Papas, The Papas & the Mamas

Sunday, December 9, 2018

• Don Ellis, Soaring
• Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription
• Buzzcocks, Spiral Scratch
• Moby Grape, Moby Grape
• Ed Askew, For the World

Saturday, December 8, 2018

• Luc Houtkamp, In Chicago
• The Breeders, Last Splash
• Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady
• Iggy Pop, Lust for Life
• Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
• Nicholas Krgovich, Ouch
• Lee Hazlewood, Cowboy in Sweden

Friday, December 7, 2018

• Pete Shelley, Sky Yen
• Fushitsusha, Fushitsusha (PSFD 3/4) (disc 2)
• The Residents, Commercial Album
• Iggy Pop, The Idiot
• Buzzcocks, Another Music in a Different Kitchen
• New York Dolls, New York Dolls
• The Who, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
• Tom Waits, Franks Wild Years
• Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (disc 3)

Thursday, December 6, 2018

• Charles Mingus, The Complete Birdland Broadcasts 1961–1962 (disc 2)
• On Fillmore, Happiness of Living
• Harry Pussy, What Was Music?
• Iggy Pop, Zombie Birdhouse
• Buzzcocks, Love Bites
• New York Dolls, Too Much Too Soon
• The Mamas & the Papas, The Papas & the Mamas
• Ed Askew, For the World
• Jimmy Reed, Just Jimmy Reed

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

• Jahawarlal Jha, Inde Du Nord: Mithila/Chants d'amour de Vidyapati (Ocora)
• Icepick, Hexane
• Charles Mingus, The Complete Birdland Broadcasts 1961–1962 (disc 1)
• Iggy Pop, Soldier
• David Johansen, David Johansen
• Alex Rex, Vermillion
• Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
• Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (disc 2)