Thursday, July 25, 2024

• Jim O’Rourke, Some Kind of Pagan
• Bengt Frippe Nordström, Natural Music
• Irène Schweizer, Wilde Señoritas
• Rova Saxophone Quartet, The Works (Vol. 1)
• Patty Waters, You Thrill Me
• Caroliner Rainbow Brain Tool Imbued with Rust and Mold, Wine Can’t Do It, Wife Won’t Do! (disc 2)
• Michael Morley, Pushed Streets
• Eiko Ishibashi, Carapace
• The Frogs, It’s Only Right and Natural
• Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
• ZZ Top, Eliminator

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

• Irène Schweizer & Günter Sommer, Irène Schweizer — Günter Sommer
• Gräwe/Mattos/Vatcher, Impressions of Monk
• Tripleplay, Gambit
• Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (disc 2)
• Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah
• Eiko Ishibashi, After the Smoke
• Patty Waters, College Tour
• Nervous Gender, Music from Hell
• feedtime, Suction
• ZZ Top, Afterburner
• The Frogs, Starjob
• Peter Ivers, Peter Ivers

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

• Irène Schweizer, Piano Solo Vol. 1
• Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Birdland, Neuburg 2011
• Louis Moholo-Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!
• Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (disc 1)
• Patty Waters, Patty Waters Sings
• The Frogs, The Frogs
• feedtime, Shovel
• ZZ Top, Degüello
• Fleetwood Mac, Rumours

Monday, July 22, 2024

• Charles Gayle, Spirits Before
• Miles Davis, Highlights from the Plugged Nickel
• Jandek, Somebody in the Snow
• feedtime, Billy
• Didjits, Hey Judester
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock
• ZZ Top, Eliminator

Sunday, July 21, 2024

• Irène Schweizer, To Whom It May Concern
• Albert Ayler, Live in Greenwich Village (disc 2)
• Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
• ZZ Top, Afterburner

Saturday, July 20, 2024

• Irène Schweizer, Piano Solo Vol. 2
• Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah
• Nervous Gender, Music from Hell
• ZZ Top, Tres Hombres

Friday, July 19, 2024

• Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
• Loren Connors & Alan Licht, Mercury
• Irène Schweizer, Chicago Piano Solo
• Patty Waters, You Thrill Me
• Damon & Naomi, More Sad Hits
• The Magnetic Fields, Get Lost
• ZZ Top, Eliminator

RIP Patty Waters

Thursday, July 18, 2024

• Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer, Berne Concert
• RKS Trio, Live at Bab-Ilo
• Tom Carter, Long Time Underground
• Costes, Sorcière
• Caroliner Rainbow Brain Tool Imbued with Rust and Mold, Wine Can’t Do It, Wife Won’t Do! (disc 1)
• The Magnetic Fields, The Charm of the Highway Strip
• ZZ Top, Afterburner
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

• Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, Celebration
• Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah
• 75 Dollar Bill, I Was Real
• Nervous Gender, Music from Hell
• Neu!, Neu! 2
• Eiko Ishibashi, After the Smoke

RIP Irène Schweizer

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

• Louis Moholo-Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!
• Eiko Ishibashi, Carapace
• Michael Morley, Pushed Streets
• AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Monday, July 15, 2024

• Autechre, Tri Repetae
• Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
• Albert Ayler, Live in Greenwich Village (disc 1)
• Rob Noyes & Joseph Allred, Avoidance Language
• Costes, Les Oxyures
• Caroliner Rainbow Brain Tool Imbued with Rust and Mold, Wine Can’t Do It, Wife Won’t Do! (disc 1)
• Captain Beefheart, The Mirror Man Sessions (disc 2)

Sunday, July 14, 2024

• Flowertops, Wallflower
• Cecil Taylor, Conquistador!
• Lester Bowie, The 5th Power
• Bobby Hutcherson, Happenings
• John Cale, Fragments of a Rainy Season
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock

Saturday, July 13, 2024

• Jason Adasiewicz, Roscoe Village
• Bobby Hutcherson, Stick-Up!
• The Necks, Travel
• AC/DC, Powerage

Friday, July 12, 2024

• Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker, WEBO (disc 2)
• James White and the Blacks, Off White
• Caroliner Rainbow Brain Tool Imbued with Rust and Mold, Wine Can’t Do It, Wife Won’t Do! (disc 1)
• Honeywell, Industry
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock

Thursday, July 11, 2024

• Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
• David Grubbs, Borough of Broken Umbrellas

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

• Gene Coleman, Exploratorium
• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Lifetime of a Flower
• Mark Fell, Multistability
• Olivia Block, The Mountains Pass
• David Grubbs, Rickets & Scurvy
• The Godz, Godz 2
• Neu!, Neu! '75
• Peter Ivers, Terminal Love

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

• The Haters, Fire (7″)
• Michael Rother, Katzenmusik
• Steve Beresford, The Bath of Surprise
• The Shadow Ring, I’m Some Songs
• David Grubbs, The Thicket
• Caroliner Rainbow Brain Tool Imbued with Rust and Mold, Wine Can’t Do It, Wife Won’t Do! (disc 1)
• Contortions, Buy
• Honeywell, Industry

Monday, July 8, 2024

• Vilayat Khan & Bismillah Khan, Duets from India
• Albert Mangelsdorff, Albert Live in Montreux
• Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons, The Cry!
• Archie Shepp, The Cry of My People
• David Grubbs, Borough of Broken Umbrellas
• Eiko Ishibashi, The Dream My Bones Dream
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock

Sunday, July 7, 2024

• 10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces (1750 Arch)
• Flowertops, Wallflower
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, Stumble
• Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change
• Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
• David Grubbs, Rickets & Scurvy

Saturday, July 6, 2024

• Eiko Ishibashi, Der Mull, Der Stadt und Der Tod
• Georg Gräwe, Melodie und Rhythmus
• Caroliner Rainbow Solid Handshake & Loose 2 Pins, Transcontinental Pinecone Collector
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between
• Honeywell, Industry
• Horace Andy, Dance Hall Style

Friday, July 5, 2024

• J.S. Bach, The French Suites (Keith Jarrett, harpsichord) (disc 1)
• Jason Adasiewicz, Roscoe Village
• Spaceways Inc., Version Soul
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 1)
• Captain Beefheart, Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Thursday, July 4, 2024

• Loren Mazzacane Connors, Calloden Harvest
• Jim O’Rourke, Hands That Bind

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

• Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
• Jon Hassell, Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

• J.S. Bach, The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer) (disc 1)
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 1)
• Steve Beresford / David Toop / John Zorn / Tonie Marshall, Deadly Weapons
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between

Monday, July 1, 2024

• J.S. Bach, Two & Three Part Inventions (Glenn Gould)

June 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin
• Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains
• Edmund White, A Saint from Texas
• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
• John Knowles, A Separate Peace

poetry:

• Jandek, The Element of Nothing

nonfiction:

• Lucy Sante, The Factory of Facts
• Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk *

movies:

• Blake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather *
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II *
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part III *

* = re-read/re-view

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

Sunday, June 30, 2024

• Captain Beefheart, Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Saturday, June 29, 2024

• J.S. Bach, The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer) (disc 1)
• Glenn Gould, Salzburg 1959
• The Shadow Ring, Hold Onto I.D.
• David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange
• Captain Beefheart, The Mirror Man Sessions (disc 1)

Friday, June 28, 2024

• Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
• Edition Redux, Better a Rook Than a Pawn
• Joey Baron, Tongue in Groove
• Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change
• The Shadow Ring, I’m Some Songs
• Caroliner Rainbow Solid Handshake & Loose 2 Pins, Transcontinental Pinecone Collector
• Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Everything
• James White and the Blacks, Off White
• The Godz, The Third Testament
• David Grubbs, Rickets & Scurvy
• Captain Beefheart, Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Thursday, June 27, 2024

• J.S. Bach, An Imaginary Dance (Charles Curtis)
• The Shadow Ring, Put the Music in Its Coffin
• David Grubbs, The Thicket
• Captain Beefheart, Doc at the Radar Station
• Contortions, Buy
• Sufjan Stevens, Javelin
• Joan Baez, In Concert

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

• J.S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
• The Shadow Ring, The Mirror of Caves / Brought Down by Poultry
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between
• Captain Beefheart, Grow Fins (disc 5)
• Ramones, Ramones
• Britney Spears, The Essential Britney Spears (disc 1)

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

• The Shadow Ring, I’m Some Songs
• David Grubbs, Act Five Scene One
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 1)
• James White and the Blacks, Off White
• Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Everything
• Ramones, Rocket to Russia
• The Stooges, Fun House

Monday, June 24, 2024

• Pierre Henry, Variation pour une porte et un soupir
• Chris Abrahams, Thrown
• School Days, In Our Times
• The Shadow Ring, Lindus
• David Grubbs, Rickets & Scurvy
• The Godz, Contact High
• Honeywell, Industry
• The Stooges, The Stooges
• New York Dolls, New York Dolls
• AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Sunday, June 23, 2024

• Mauricio Kagel, Tactil/Unter Strom
• Reeder / Seward / Weathers, Two Ballads from the High Plains
• Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change
• The Shadow Ring, Lighthouse (disc 2)
• Gastr del Sol, Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
• David Grubbs, The Thicket
• The Godz, Godz 2
• AC/DC, Powerage
• Iggy & the Stooges, Raw Power
• Can, Future Days
• Sufjan Stevens, Javelin

Saturday, June 22, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 18)
• Steve Silverstein, Solo Swarmatron Union Pool 2024
• Bricoleurs, False Friends of a Translator
• Flowertops, Wallflower
• Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad, In the Merry Month of May
• John Russell / Steve Beresford / John Edwards / Ståle Liavik Solberg, Will It Float?
• Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker, WEBO (disc 1)
• Sebastiaan Janssen, Hubert Kostkiewicz, Ken Vandermark & Marta Warelis, Koniec
• Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones, Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones
• The San Lucas Band, Music of Guatemala
• The Shadow Ring, Lighthouse (disc 1)
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 2)
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between
• James White and the Blacks, Off White
• Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Everything
• The Godz, The Third Testament
• AC/DC, Let There Be Rock

Friday, June 21, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 3)
• Tom Djll, Solstice Drone
• David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson, Apertura
• Dietrichs, QuaranTunes Series No. 052
• Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy, August Music
• Archie Shepp, Black Gipsy
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 3)
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 1)
• Mark Fell / Rian Treanor / Kakuhan, Promo
• The Shadow Ring, Hold Onto I.D.
• Costes, Terminator Moule
• Caroliner Rainbow Solid Handshake & Loose 2 Pins, Transcontinental Pinecone Collector
• Mahogany Brain, Smooth Sick Lights
• Honeywell, Industry
• The Godz, Contact High
• Kazuko Hohki, Chante Brigitte Bardot (w/ Steve Beresford)

Thursday, June 20, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 20)
• Tony Conrad, Slapping Pythagoras
• Steve Beresford & Han Bennink, B + B
• The Vandermark 5, Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3: Six for Rollins
• Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change
• The Melody Four, Hello! We Must Be Going
• The Shadow Ring, Wax-Work Echoes
• Illusion of Safety, Fifteen/Finite Material Context
• Whitehouse, Psychopathia Sexualis
• James White and the Blacks, Off White
• The Godz, Godz 2
• David Grubbs, The Thicket
• Sufjan Stevens, Javelin

April–May 2024 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves
• Jerzy Kosińksi, Steps

visual:

• Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night
• Evan Doherty, Stop Looking at My Tiny Town

nonfiction:

• John McPhee, Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
• Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
• Andy Hamilton, Pianos, Toys, Music, and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford
• Patrick Cowley, Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journal of Patrick Cowley

movies:

• David Zellner & Nathan Zellner, Sasquatch Sunset
• Tom Tykwer, The Princess and the Warrior
• Ron Clements & John Musker, The Little Mermaid
• Irvin Kirshner, Never Say Never Again *

* = re-read/re-view

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

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 14)
• Steve Beresford, The Bath of Surprise
• Albert Mangelsdorff, Albert Live in Montreux
• Spaceways Inc., Version Soul
• Loren Mazzacane Connors, Calloden Harvest
• David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange
• The Shadow Ring, Put the Music in Its Coffin
• Contortions, Buy
• Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Everything

RIP James Chance

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

• Kali Malone, The Sacrificial Code (disc 2)
• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 2)
• Albert Mangelsdorff, The Wide Point
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 2)
• Steve Beresford / David Toop / John Zorn / Tonie Marshall, Deadly Weapons
• The Melody Four, Love Plays Such Funny Games
• The Shadow Ring, City Lights
• Mahogany Brain, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger)
• The Godz, Contact High with the Godz
• David Grubbs, Rickets & Scurvy

Monday, June 17, 2024

• Jim O’Rourke, It Takes Time to Do Nothing
• Albert Mangelsdorff, Trilogue – Live at the Berlin Jazz Days
• Django Reinhardt, Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934–53 (disc 1)
• Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change
• Can, The Lost Tapes (disc 2)
• The Melody Four, Hello! We Must Be Going
• The Shadow Ring, Gladly Turning Sun to Stars
• Caroliner Rainbow Solid Handshake & Loose 2 Pins, Transcontinental Pinecone Collector
• Gastr del Sol, Upgrade & Afterlife
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between
• Shellac, At Action Park
• Smog, Kicking a Couple Around
• Claire Rousay, Sentiment
• Sufjan Stevens, Javelin
• Rush, 2112

Sunday, June 16, 2024

• Jürg Frey, Circles and Landscapes
• Adrián Demoč, Piano
• Bricoleurs, False Friends of a Translator
• Kory Reeder / Ryan Seward / Andrew Weathers, Two Ballads from the High Plains
• Thollem, Thollem’s Astral Traveling Sessions with Alex Cline and Susan Alcorn
• Manfred Schoof Quintet, Live in Bremen 1978 (disc 2)
• The Vandermark 5, Free Jazz Classics Vol. 2
• Jason Adasiewicz, Roscoe Village
• Bill Orcutt & Michael Morley, Electric Guitar Duets
• Brise-Glace, When in Vanitas...
• Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur
• David Grubbs, The Thicket
• Shellac, The End of Radio

Saturday, June 15, 2024

• Roscoe Mitchell, Discussions
• Manfred Schoof Quintet, Live in Bremen 1978 (disc 1)
• The Vandermark 5, Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1
• DKV Trio/Joe Morris, Deep Telling
• David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 1)
• Shellac, To All Trains
• Talk Talk, It’s My Life

Friday, June 14, 2024

• Samuel Reinhard, For Piano and Shō (Elsewhere)
• Fred Anderson, Dark Day + Live in Verona (disc 2)
• Steelwool Trio, International Front
• The Vandermark Quartet, Solid Action
• Steve Beresford / David Toop / John Zorn / Tonie Marshall, Deadly Weapons
• The Melody Four, Hello! We Must Be Going
• Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Brace Up!
• Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (disc 2)
• Rush, Permanent Waves
• Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II

Thursday, June 13, 2024

• Sarah Hennies, The Reinvention of Romance
• Masayuki Takayanagi, Station ’70: Call in Question / Live Independence (disc 1)
• Witches & Devils, At the Empty Bottle
• Spaceways Incorporated, Thirteen Cosmic Standards
• Joe McPhee & Marker, McPhee Marker
• Claire Rousay, Sentiment
• Rush, Moving Pictures

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

• Nurse with Wound, A Sucked Orange
• Ken Vandermark, Snapshots: Complete
• Steam, Real Time
• The Melody Four, Si Señor!
• DNA, On DNA
• Rush, Hemispheres
• Duran Duran, Greatest

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

• Fred Van Hove, Prosper
• Fred Anderson, The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1
• Ken Vandermark & Mats Gustafsson, Verses
• Cinghiale, Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine
• Flower-Corsano Duo, The Halcyon
• Costes, Lung Farts
• The Ex, Een Rondje Holland
• Still House Plants, If I Don’t Make It, I Love U
• Shellac, To All Trains
• Rush, Grace Under Pressure
• Sufjan Stevens, Javelin

Monday, June 10, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 12)
• Whitehouse, Halogen
• Ken Vandermark, Two Days in December (disc 2)
• Joe McPhee & Marker, McPhee Marker
• Rush, Signals

Sunday, June 9, 2024

• The Avantgarde Series (Deutsche Grammophon) (disc 19)
• The Vandermark Quartet, Big Head Eddie
• The Flying Luttenbachers, Retrospektiw III (1991-1995)
• Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique

Saturday, June 8, 2024

• Von Freeman, Serenade & Blues
• Costes, Livrez les Blanches aux Bicots
• Bastro, Diablo Guapo
• Still House Plants, If I Don’t Make It, I Love U
• Gastr del Sol, The Serpentine Similar
• Duran Duran, Greatest