Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• Peter Brötzmann & Keiji Haino, The intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young (disc 4)
• Rova Saxophone Quartet, As Was
• Miles Davis, Quiet Nights
• Lungfish, Love Is Love
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Hot Head
• Brian Eno, The BBC Sessions
• Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• Éliane Radigue, Opus 17 (disc 1)
• Jim O’Rourke, Gametophyte 4 IX
• Hijokaidan, King of Noise
• Steve Lacy, The Cry (disc 1)
• Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
• Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out the Switch
• Sonic Youth, 1988-11-05 - Cabaret Metro - Chicago (Aadam Jacobs Collection)
• Rick DePaoli, Don‘t Lose Your Faith
• David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
• Sparks, A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing

Monday, April 13, 2026

• Taraf de Haïdouks, Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie
• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Muhal Richard Abrams, Mama and Daddy
• Old and New Dreams, A Tribute to Blackwell
• Wire with Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley, 2015-06-11 Chicago - Hideout - Drill Festival (Aadam Jacobs Collection)
• Gastr Del Sol, 1994-08-16 - Hothouse - Chicago (Aadam Jacobs Collection)
• Musica Transonic + Mainliner, Solid Static
• Kim Gordon, Play Me
• Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
• Sparks, Sparks
• The Winkies, The Winkies
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 1)

Sunday, April 12, 2026

• Wendy Carlos et al, The Shining (soundtrack) (disc 2)
• Cluster, Grosses Wasser
• Miles Davis, Miles in Tokyo
• Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Blues
• Jim O’Rourke, The Visitor
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Hot Head
• Brian Eno, The BBC Sessions
• Mission of Burma, Signals, Calls, and Marches
• R.E.M., Chronic Town

March 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) (2020)
• Beatriz Serrano, Discontent (2023)

nonfiction:

• William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself: Expanded Edition (2011/2022)

movies:

• Yasujirō Ozu, Tokyo Story (1953) *
• Harry Lighton, Pillion (2025)
• Fred Halsted, Sextool (1975)

* = re-read/re-view

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

Saturday, April 11, 2026

• J.S. Bach, French Suites (Glenn Gould)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations / 32 Variations / 6 Variations / Bagatelles (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zyklus / Refrain / Kontakte
• Don Cherry, Orient
• Lee Konitz, Stereokonitz
• Thelonious Monk, Underground
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
• Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
• Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
• Sonic Youth, Murray Street
• David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?

Friday, April 10, 2026

• Karlheinz Stockhausen / Mauricio Kagel, Zyklus / Refrain / Transición II (Time Series 2000)
• Merzbow, Nil Vagina Mail-Action
• Albert Ayler, Lost Performances 1966 Revisited
• Sun Ra, Calling Planet Earth (disc 2)
• Tripleplay, Gambit
• New York Art Quartet, Call It Art (disc 4)
• Miles Davis, Miles in Berlin
• Miles Davis, Quiet Nights
• Vince Guaraldi et al, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (soundtrack)
• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Patti Smith, Hey Joe / Piss Factory
• Talk Talk, Laughing Stock

Thursday, April 9, 2026

• Felix Hess, Frogs, a Selection of Field Recordings
• Lasse Marhaug, Nothing But Sound From Now On
• Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann, Fragments
• Miles Davis, Miles Davis in Europe (disc 2)
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 1)
• Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Totality
• Musica Transonic + Mainliner, Solid Static
• Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out the Switch
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Hot Head
• Kim Gordon, Play Me
• Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Déjà Vu

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• Don Cherry, Mu
• Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is... (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, Miles Davis in Europe (disc 1)
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 1)
• Bill Orcutt, How to Rescue Things
• Rotting Telepathies, Rotting Tapes II
• Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
• Keith Hudson, Pick a Dub
• Poison Idea, Feel the Darkness
• Lou Reed, Ecstasy

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

• Free Improvisation (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 2)
• Tomeka Reid, Dance! Skip! Hop!
• Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion
• Etran de l’Aïr, 100% Sahara Guitar
• God Is My Co-Pilot, Getting Out of Boring Time, Biting Into Boring Pie
• Paul Simon, Seven Psalms

Monday, April 6, 2026

• John Cage / Christian Wolff (Time/Series 2000)
• Elliott Carter, Enchanted Preludes Etc.
• Kuzu, All Your Ghosts in One Corner
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Anthology of Persian Experimental Music
• Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
• The Sisters of Mercy, First and Last and Always
• Lou Reed, Ecstasy

Sunday, April 5, 2026

• Alice Coltrane, Turiya Sings
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Harmonia, Deluxe
• Sonic Youth, Bad Moon Rising
• Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
• Poison Idea, Feel the Darkness
• The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Rick DePaoli, Don‘t Lose Your Faith
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)

Saturday, April 4, 2026

• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Shane Parish, Autechre Guitar
• Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
• Willie Colón, La Gran Fuga
• Etran de l’Aïr, 100% Sahara Guitar
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Franco Battiato, Fetus
• Stereolab, Dots and Loops

Friday, April 3, 2026

• Morton Feldman, The Viola in My Life (ECM)
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• God Is My Co-Pilot, Getting Out of Boring Time, Biting Into Boring Pie
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 1)

Thursday, April 2, 2026

• Morton Feldman, Crippled Symmetry: Live in Austin, TX (Austin New Music Co-op)
• Paul Bley, Touching
• McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ (disc 1)
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion
• Franco Battiato, Pollution
• Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
• Poison Idea, Feel the Darkness
• Serge Gainsbourg, Couleur Café

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

• Musik der Nubier (Museum Collection Berlin (West)) (disc 2)
• Bill Orcutt, How to Rescue Things
• Tomeka Reid, Dance! Skip! Hop!
• Pharoah Sanders, Live at the East
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
• Willie Colón, La Gran Fuga
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Lou Reed, Ecstasy

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

• Musik der Nubier (Museum Collection Berlin (West)) (disc 1)
• Nean, Doo Dah Nean
• Paul Bley, Blood
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Etran de l’Aïr, 100% Sahara Guitar
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Poison Idea, Kings of Punk
• God Is My Co-Pilot, Getting Out of Boring Time, Biting Into Boring Pie
• Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
• American Primitive, Vol. 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897–1939 (disc 2)

Monday, March 30, 2026

• Old and New Dreams, A Tribute to Blackwell
• Harmonia, Live 1974
• Datblygu, 1985–1995
• Abazaba, Isolation
• Poison Idea, Feel the Darkness
• Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
• Elvis Costello, King of America
• Serge Gainsbourg, Couleur Café

Sunday, March 29, 2026

• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion
• Etran de l’Aïr, No. 1
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Smog, Burning Kingdom
• Willie Colón, La Gran Fuga

Saturday, March 28, 2026

• Tomeka Reid, Dance! Skip! Hop!
• Pharoah Sanders, Live at the East
• Natural Snow Buildings, Daughter of Darkness (disc 1)
• Etran de l’Aïr, 100% Sahara Guitar
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller
• Poison Idea, Kings of Punk
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Gastr Del Sol, Mirror Repair
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Summer in the Southeast
• Smog, The Doctor Came at Dawn
• Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet

Friday, March 27, 2026

• The Tape-beatles, A Subtle Buoyancy of Pulse
• Bill Orcutt, How to Rescue Things
• Fred Anderson, On the Run: Live at the Velvet Lounge
• Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (disc 2)
• Stereolab, Dots and Loops
• Abazaba, Isolation
• Datblygu, 1985–1995
• Lou Reed, Ecstasy
• Smog, Julius Caesar
• Will Oldham & Rian Murphy, All Most Heaven
• Serge Gainsbourg, Couleur Café
• American Primitive, Vol. 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897–1939 (disc 2)

Thursday, March 26, 2026

• Roscoe Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell Quartet (Sackville)
• Herbie Hancock, Mwandishi
• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion
• Etran de l’Aïr, No. 1
• Smog, Wild Love
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Wolfroy Goes to Town
• Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (disc 1)
• American Primitive, Vol. 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897–1939 (disc 1)

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• Pharoah Sanders, Live at the East
• Tomeka Reid, Dance! Skip! Hop!
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 2)
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller
• Etran de l’Aïr, 100% Sahara Guitar
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Poison Idea, Kings of Punk
• The Godz, The Third Testament
• Smog, The Doctor Came at Dawn
• Will Oldham, Ode Music

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

• Darin Gray & Loren Connors, This Past Spring
• Nean, Doo Dah Nean
• God Is My Co-Pilot, Getting Out of Boring Time, Biting Into Boring Pie
• Glenn Branca, Songs ’77–’79
• Abazaba, Isolation
• Datblygu, 1985–1995
• The Stooges, The Stooges (disc 1)
• Poison Idea, Feel the Darkness
• Bonnie Prince Billy, I See a Darkness
• The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs
• Country Joe & the Fish, Electric Music for Mind and Body
• Low, Christmas

Monday, March 23, 2026

• John Tilbury, Barcelona Piano Solo
• Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray, Ichida
• Roscoe Mitchell, Duets With Anthony Braxton
• Michel Portal, Alors!!!
• Lou Reed, Ecstasy
• Country Joe & the Fish, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
• Neil Young, After the Gold Rush

RIP Michel Portal

Sunday, March 22, 2026

• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Loren Connors & Darin Gray, The Lost Mariner
• Roscoe Mitchell, Live at the Mühle Hunziken
• FJF, Blow Horn
• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Poison Idea, Kings of Punk
• Pere Ubu, The Tenement Year
• Smog, Wild Love
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Summer in the Southeast
• Neil Young, Live Rust

Saturday, March 21, 2026

• Éliane Radigue, Vice Versa, Etc...
• Pharoah Sanders, Live at the East
• Tomeka Reid, Dance! Skip! Hop!
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller
• Abazaba, Isolation
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Frank Zappa, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 2)
• Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Master and Everyone
• Smog, The Doctor Came at Dawn
• Neil Young, Unplugged

Friday, March 20, 2026

• Éliane Radigue, Feedback Works 1969–1970
• Roscoe Mitchell, Solo (3) (disc 1)
• Vince Guaraldi, You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
• Nean, Doo Dah Nean
• Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps
• Country Joe & the Fish, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
• Pere Ubu, Song of the Bailing Man
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 1)
• Fela Kuti, No Bread
• Cerrone, Love In C Minor
• Willie Colón, Lo Mato

Thursday, March 19, 2026

• Felix Hess, Frogs, a Selection of Field Recordings
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Relator
• Roscoe Mitchell, Solo Saxophone Concerts
• A.N.P., Ultrasonic Action
• The Dead C, The Live Dead See
• Poison Idea, Kings of Punk
• Datblygu, 1985–1995
• The Birthday Party, Mutiny!
• Pere Ubu, Song of the Bailing Man
• The Smiths, Strangeways, Here We Come
• Neil Young, Harvest Moon
• Cerrone, Cerrone’s Paradise
• Bohannon, Dance Your Ass Off

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

• Roscoe Mitchell Quartet, Before There Was Sound
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
• Jimmy Smith, Plays Fats Waller
• Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Ease Down the Road
• Smog, Dongs of Sevotion
• The Smiths, Meat Is Murder
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 2)
• Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

• Arnold Schoenberg / Jean-Claude Éloy / Henri Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical)
• Masayuki Takayanagi, Complete "La Grima"
• Roscoe Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound & Space Ensembles
• Sun Ra, Hours After
• Billy Bang, A Tribute to Stuff Smith
• Tim Buckley, Live at the Troubadour 1969
• Country Joe & the Fish, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
• Neil Young, Comes a Time
• Palace Brothers, Days in the Wake
• Smog, Wild Love
• The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs
• Eurythmics, Revenge
• Willie Colón, Lo Mato

Monday, March 16, 2026

• Bill Orcutt, How to Rescue Things
• Vince Guaraldi, You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
• Sun Ra, Reflections in Blue
• Roscoe Mitchell, Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin’ Shoes
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 1)
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
• Neil Young, Harvest Moon

Sunday, March 15, 2026

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound
• Gastr del Sol, Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 2)
• Fela Kuti, No Bread
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Ease Down the Road
• The Reverend Lester Knox of Tifton, Georgia, Put Your Face in Gwod: The 366th Revival

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China (Sublime Frequencies)
• Peer Raben, Berlin Alexanderplatz (soundtrack)
• Jürg Frey, Fields, Traces, Clouds
• Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah (disc 2)
• Willie Colón, Lo Mato
• Franco Battiato, Juke Box
• Asahito Nanjo, M
• Magic Hour, Secession 96
• Country Joe & the Fish, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
• Neil Young, Comes a Time

Friday, March 13, 2026

• Don Peake, The Hills Have Eyes (soundtrack)
• Maya Bennardo, Four Strings (Elsewhere)
• Angharad Davies & Axel Dörner, A.D.
• Roscoe Mitchell, Discussions
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 1)
• Datblygu, 1985–1995
• Magic Hour, Will They Turn You On Or Will They Turn On You
• Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
• Neil Young, Harvest Moon
• Peer Raben, The Music from Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• Schoenberg / Éloy / Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical)
• Sarah Hennies, SOVT (Richard Valitutto, piano) (Elsewhere)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Solo (3) (disc 2)
• Jason Roebke, Four Spheres
• Steve Lacy, The Flame
• Keith Jarrett, Nude Ants (disc 1)
• Massacre, Funny Valentine
• Fela Kuti, No Bread
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 2)
• Magic Hour, No Excess Is Absurd
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Ease Down the Road

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

• India: Festival Music of Kerala (JVC)
• Roberto Cacciapaglia, Sei Note in Logica
• Henry Kaiser, Where Endless Meets Disappearing
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Relator
• EKG, Shift or Latch
• Roscoe Mitchell, Solo (3) (disc 3)
• Anthony Braxton & Andrew Cyrille, Duo Palindrome 2002, Vol. 2
• Willie Colón, Lo Mato
• Fela Kuti, O.D.O.O.
• Country Joe & the Fish, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
• Neil Young, Comes a Time

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

• John Cage, Works for Prepared Piano (Col Legno) (disc 2)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 2)
• Borah Bergman / Peter Brötzmann / Andrew Cyrille, Exhilaration
• Marion Brown, Juba-Lee
• Peer Raben, The Music from Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films
• Don Peake, The Hills Have Eyes (soundtrack)
• Fela Kuti, J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop)
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 2)
• Mouse On Mars, Niun Niggung
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 1)
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Country Joe & the Fish, Electric Music for Mind and Body
• Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
• Neil Young, Harvest Moon

RIP Country Joe McDonald

Monday, March 9, 2026

• Gavin Bryars, The Sinking of the Titanic / Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Obscure)
• John Cage, Works for Prepared Piano (Markus Hinterhauser/Col Legno) (disc 1)
• Christmas Decorations, Far Flung Hum
• Bobby Hutcherson, Medina-Spiral
• Herbie Hancock, Future Shock
• The Stooges, Fun House (bonus disc)
• Yma Sumac, Miracles
• Felt, Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty

Sunday, March 8, 2026

• Gastr del Sol, Upgrade & Afterlife
• Tar, Toast
• Plastic People of the Universe, Muž bez uší
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 2)
• tUnE-yArDs, BiRd-BrAiNs
• Beck, Mellow Gold
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Ease Down the Road

Saturday, March 7, 2026

• Philip Glass, Solo Piano
• Fela Kuti, No Bread
• Workshop, 1987–2004 (disc 1)
• Fugazi, In on the Kill Taker
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy, I Have Made a Place
• Neil Young, Comes a Time
• Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours

Friday, March 6, 2026

• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy, The Flame
• Herbie Hancock, Crossings
• Fela Kuti, Beasts of No Nation
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 1)
• Iron Lung, Adapting // Crawling
• Yma Sumac, Miracles
• Fred McDowell, You Gotta Move
• Neil Young, Harvest Moon

Thursday, March 5, 2026

• Muhal Richard Abrams, Spiral: Live at Montreux 1978
• Jimmy Lyons & Andrew Cyrille, Something in Return
• Herbie Hancock, Fat Albert Rotunda
• Tortoise, Beacons of Ancestorship
• Gastr Del Sol, Mirror Repair
• Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1)
• Wilco, Summerteeth
• Beck, Mellow Gold
• Yma Sumac, Fuego del Ande

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

• Speech After the Removal of the Larynx (Folkways)
• Peer Raben, The Music from Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films
• Arnold Schoenberg / Jean-Claude Éloy / Henri Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical)
• Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings
• Steve Lacy, Reflections
• Tortoise, Tortoise
• Jim O’Rourke, Bad Timing
• John Fahey, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
• Desperate Bicycles, Another Commercial Venture (1977–1979)
• The Stooges, Fun House
• Neil Young, Comes a Time
• Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (2)
• Los Lobos, Colossal Head
• John Lee Hooker, The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948–1954

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

• Fennesz, The Last Days of May
• Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes
• Don Peake, The Hills Have Eyes (soundtrack)
• Franco Battiato, Pollution
• Loose Fur, Born Again in the USA
• Magic Hour, Heads Down
• Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves
• Y. Bhekhirst, Hot in the Airport
• Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (3)
• Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
• Yma Sumac, Miracles
• Willie Colón, Lo Mato

RIP Willie Colón

Monday, March 2, 2026

• Steelwool Trio, International Front
• Jon Hassell/Brian Eno, Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
• Herbie Hancock, Sound-System
• Massacre, Funny Valentine
• Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur
• Loose Fur, Loose Fur
• Franco Battiato, Fetus
• Peter Gabriel, Security
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• Killing Joke, Fire Dances
• Smog, Julius Caesar
• Portishead, Third
• Beck, Mellow Gold
• Paul McCartney, McCartney

February 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Tony Duvert, Odd Jobs (1978)

poetry:

• William Minor, Sketches and Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy (2025)

nonfiction:

• Josh Peterson, Granite City Blues (2019)

movies:

• William Friedkin, To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Fred Halsted, Sex Garage (1972)

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

Sunday, March 1, 2026

• Éliane Radigue, Vice Versa, Etc...
• Merzbow, Nil Vagina for Mice
• Josh Berman / Paul Lytton / Jason Roebke, Trio Discrepancies
• The Durutti Column, LC
• Jim O’Rourke, Halfway to a Threeway
• Peter Gabriel, So
• Smog, Burning Kingdom
• Nick Drake, Pink Moon
• Fairport Convention, What We Did on Our Holidays
• Los Lobos, Colossal Head
• John Lee Hooker, I’m John Lee Hooker
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Saturday, February 28, 2026

• Arnold Schoenberg / Jean-Claude Éloy / Henri Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical)
• Éliane Radigue, Jouet électronique / Elemental I
• Peter Plonsky, Op. 30 Hairy Vibe + Double Identity
• Maya Bennardo, Rustlings (Elsewhere)
• Rempis / Adasiewicz / Abrams / Damon, Propulsion
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
• Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams
• Mimir, Mimir (1990)
• Andreas Martin & Christoph Heemann, Lebenserinnerungen eines Lepidopterologen (disc 1)
• Shane Parish, Autechre Guitar
• Jim O’Rourke, Eureka
• Smog, Dongs of Sevotion
• Souled American, Fe
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
• Cerrone, Love In C Minor

Friday, February 27, 2026

• Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)
• Éliane Radigue, Chry-ptus (disc 1)
• Chas Smith, Nakadai
• Andreas Martin & Christoph Heemann, Lebenserinnerungen eines Lepidopterologen (disc 2)
• U.S. Maple, Talker
• Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
• John Cale, The 1975 John Peel Session
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Cerrone, Cerrone’s Paradise