Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 9 (Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon)
• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Live at WNUR
• Sonny Rollins, Our Man in Jazz
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Butthole Surfers, Locust Abortion Technician
• Lewsberg, Out and About
• Howlin’ Wolf, Howlin’ Wolf
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 8 (Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon)
• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
• Derek Bailey, This Guitar
• Dave Rempis & Avreeayl Ra, Bennu
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
• Caetano Veloso, Caetano Veloso (1971)
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit

Monday, June 15, 2026

• Berndt / Schmidt, Cloud Machines
• Bibliotheca Hermetica, One
• Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Tim Daisy, Earscratcher
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 2)
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Music Revelation Ensemble, No Wave
• Jim O’Rourke, Halfway to a Threeway
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ease Down the Road
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll

Sunday, June 14, 2026

• David Rempis / Jason Adasiewicz / Chris Corsano, Dial Up
• Sonny Rollins, The Bridge
• James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad to Be in America?
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 4)
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Saturday, June 13, 2026

• Tony Oxley, Philipp Wachsmann, Wolfgang Fuchs, Hugh Metcalfe, The Glider & the Grinder
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), House and Home
• Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 3)
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• Wire, Chairs Missing
• R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues

Friday, June 12, 2026

• Autechre, NTS Session 1 (disc 1)
• Dave Rempis & Mars Williams, Hornithology
• Sonny Rollins, Tour de Force
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• James Blood Ulmer, Black Rock
• Killdozer, Twelve Point Buck
• feedtime, Shovel
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll

Thursday, June 11, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 2)
• Charles Ives, Symphonies Nos. 1–4; Orchestral Sets Nos. 1–2 (Decca) (disc 2)
• Maurizio Bianchi, CMRS/OPEA (disc 1)
• James Blood Ulmer, Harmolodic Guitar with Strings
• Rashied Ali Quintet, Rashied Ali Quintet (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• David Murray, Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club
• Darren Johnston, Life in Time
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

• Morton Feldman / Howard Skempton, Triadic Memories/Notti Stellate a Vagli (John Tilbury, piano) (disc 2)
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (disc 1)
• Arthur Blythe, Illusions (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Oxbow, An Evil Heat

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets / String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 3)
• Erik Satie, Socrate (Edition Wandelweiser)
• Morton Feldman / Howard Skempton, Triadic Memories / Notti Stellate a Vagli (John Tilbury, piano) (disc 1)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 2)
• Arthur Blythe, Lenox Avenue Breakdown (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• Sonny Rollins, Plus 4
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)

RIP James Blood Ulmer

Monday, June 8, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 2)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 1)
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 2)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Sunday, June 7, 2026

• Alban Berg, Violin Concerto, Lyric Suite, 3 Orchestral Pieces
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound Songs (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (disc 1)
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Nocturama
• Lou Reed, Street Hassle
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Howlin’ Wolf, The Real Folk Blues

Saturday, June 6, 2026

• Harrison Birtwistle, Complete String Quartets
• EKG, Electricals
• Sonny Rollins, East Broadway Run Down
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Esquivel, Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Live from KCRW
• Howlin’ Wolf, More Real Folk Blues
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)

Friday, June 5, 2026

• Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Music (Montaigne) (disc 2)
• Harrison Birtwistle, Theseus Games / Earth Dances (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Howard Riley, Three Is One
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)
• Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

Thursday, June 4, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello (ECM) (disc 1)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande op 5 / Variations op 31 / Violin Concerto op 36 / Piano Concerto op 42 (Erato) (disc 1)
• Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–3 (İdil Biret, piano) (Naxos)
• Harrison Birtwistle, Orchestral Music (Etcetera)
• Luciano Berio, Sinfonia / Ekphrasis (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Kevin Drumm, Behind a Sheet of Broken Glass
• The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Communication
• Sonny Rollins, Alfie
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 4)
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Don’t Forget to Boogie
• John Lee Hooker, I’m John Lee Hooker

May 2026 reading

fiction:

• Samuel M. Moss, The Veldt Institute (2025)
• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) (2020)
• Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1981 to 1982

nonfiction:

• Caroline Tracey, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (2026)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello (ECM) (disc 2)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande op 5 / Variations op 31 / Violin Concerto op 36 / Piano Concerto op 42 (Erato) (disc 2)
• Pierre Boulez, Répons / Dialogue de l’ombre double
• John Cage, Etudes Boreales / Harmonies / 10'40.3'' (Wergo)
• Patricia Bosshard & Simon Grab, MRI
• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Christmann/Altena/Lovens, Weavers
• Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness
• Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 3)
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Oxbow, An Evil Heat
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

• Jack DeJohnette, Music We Are
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Ramsey Lewis, Maiden Voyage
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Meets Hawk
• Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy, Soprano Sax
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 2)
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 2)
• John Lee Hooker, House of the Blues
• Circle Jerks, Group Sex
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee

Monday, June 1, 2026

• Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma II (disc 2)
• Tom Johnson, The Chord Catalogue
• Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître / Dérives 1 & 2
• Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Music (Montaigne) (disc 1)
• Berg: Violin Concerto; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (BBC Music)
• Easley Blackwood, String Quartets (Pacific Quartet)
• Liof Munimula, The Jonah Syndrome (feat. Don Meckley)
• Company, Trios
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Jim Hall, Concierto
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Don’t Forget to Boogie
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)
• Captain Beefheart, Doc at the Radar Station

RIP Don Meckley

Sunday, May 31, 2026

• Morton Feldman, For Samuel Beckett (Kairos)
• Easley Blackwood, Microtonal Compositions
• Sonny Rollins, Work Time
• Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (disc 1)
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
• 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)
• How Low Can You Go? (Dust to Digital) (disc 3)
• Te Roopu Tangai, Maori Action Songs: 20 Hakas and Pois

Saturday, May 30, 2026

• Derek Bailey, To Play: The Blemish Sessions
• Joe McPhee, Musings of a Bahamian Son (Poems and Other Words)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 3)
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• Autechre, Chiastic Slide
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana
• Ultra-Lounge: Organs in Orbit
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Dinosaur, Kiss Me Again
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee
• Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• John Lee Hooker, Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948–1952 (selected tracks)
• Huun‐Huur‐Tu, 60 Horses in My Herd: Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva

Friday, May 29, 2026

• Die Enttäuschung, Lavaman
• Sonny Rollins, On Impulse!
• Sonny Stitt, Sonny Side Up (feat. Sonny Rollins)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 4)
• The No-Neck Blues Band, The Birth of Both Worlds (disc 1)
• Henry Cow, Vol. 3: Hamburg
• Ruins, Vrresto
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 2)
• Autechre, Garbage
• Boards of Canada, Inferno

Thursday, May 28, 2026

• Jürg Frey, String Quartets (Edition Wandelweiser)
• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman (Edition RZ)
• Tetuzi Akiyama, Don’t Forget to Boogie
• Luke Stewart, Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier, Vol. 1 & 2 (disc 2)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 3)
• Sonny Rollins, Way Out West
• Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins
• Autechre, Exai (disc 2)
• The Red Krayola, Hazel
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

• Walter Marchetti, Vandalia
• Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel / For Frank O’Hara (Columbia)
• Sun Ra, With Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• Clare Fischer Orchestra, Extension
• Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 1)
• Autechre, Anvil Vapre
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 2)
• Iggy & the Stooges, Raw Power
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

• Morton Feldman, The Viola in My Life (ECM)
• Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus
• Miles Davis, The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (disc 2)
• Moebius & Roedelius, Apropos Cluster
• Autechre, Incunabula
• Cabaret Voltaire, Code
• John Lee Hooker, The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948–1954
• American Primitive, Vol. 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897–1939 (disc 2)

Monday, May 25, 2026

• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
• Lao Dan Chicago Quartet, Klotski
• Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
• Sonny Rollins, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 5)
• Autechre, Exai (disc 1)
• Half Japanese, 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts (disc 1)
• Circle Jerks, Group Sex
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee

RIP Sonny Rollins

Sunday, May 24, 2026

• Josh Berman / Paul Lytton / Jason Roebke, Trio Correspondences
• Ahmed, New Jazz Imagination
• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Autechre, LP5
• Suns of Arqa, Seven
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 2)
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• feedtime, Shovel

Saturday, May 23, 2026

• Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (feat. Hamid Drake)
• Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Shorty Rogers, Portrait of Shorty
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929–1963 (disc 1)
• Autechre, Draft 7.30
• Grimes, Visions
• Lewsberg, In This House
• American Primitive, Vol. 2 - Pre-war Revenants 1897–1939 (disc 2)

Friday, May 22, 2026

• Popol Vuh, Aguirre
• Angine de Poitrine, Vol. II
• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 1)

Thursday, May 21, 2026

• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
• Bohannon, Dance Your Ass Off

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

• Bohannon, Music in the Air

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

• Utah Kawasaki, Static Pulse

Monday, May 18, 2026

• Angine de Poitrine, Vol. II

Sunday, May 17, 2026

• Sylvester, 12 x 12 Collection

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 (disc 1)
• John Prine, Bruised Orange

Friday, May 15, 2026

• Toshiya Tsunoda, Vibrational Movements on Metal Sheets / Limiting the Feedback Oscillation
• The Winkies, The Winkies

Thursday, May 14, 2026

• John Cage, Cheap Imitation
• Michael Pisaro-Liu, Revolution Shuffle (disc 1)
• Keith Rowe / Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler, Rabbit Run
• Die Enttäuschung, Lavaman
• Michael Morley, Pale Rider
• Angine de Poitrine, Vol. II
• Grimes, Visions

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

• Vince Guaraldi, You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
• Bohannon, Dance Your Ass Off
• Alvarius B., Malarial Dream
• Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

• Smog, Burning Kingdom
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Summer in the Southeast
• The Winkies, The Winkies
• Bohannon, Music in the Air

Monday, May 11, 2026

• Company, 6 & 7
• Miles Davis, Miles Davis in Europe (disc 2)
• Jimmy Smith, Plays Fats Waller
• Carlos Giffoni, Severance
• Grimes, Visions

Sunday, May 10, 2026

• Miles Davis, Miles Davis in Europe (disc 1)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Angine de Poitrine, Vol. II
• Wire, The Drill
• Alvarius B., Malarial Dream
• Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend

Saturday, May 9, 2026

• Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 2)
• Edvard Graham Lewis, All Over

Friday, May 8, 2026

• Terry Riley, The Harp of New Albion (disc 2)
• Lasse Marhaug, Science Fiction Room Service
• Roscoe Mitchell, No Side Effects (disc 2)
• The Necks, Unfold
• Autechre, Untilted
• Alvarius B., Malarial Dream
• Lungfish, Artificial Horizon
• Wire, The Drill

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Autechre, EP7
• Grimes, Visions
• Low, I Could Live in Hope
• Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
• Joey Baron, Tongue in Groove
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Angine de Poitrine, Vol.II
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Edvard Graham Lewis, All Over

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

• Tangerine Dream, Zeit
• Paul Bley, Live in Haarlem
• Can, Future Days
• Alvarius B., Malarial Dream
• Low, The Curtain Hits the Cast
• Wire, The Drill
• Killing Joke, Night Time

April 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Nicholson Baker, House of Holes (2011)
• Lee Child, Killing Floor (1997)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: Comics and Stories 1950–2000
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1979 to 1980

nonfiction:

• David Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007)

movies:

• James Whale, Frankenstein (1931)
• James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) *
• Phil Roman, Bill Melendez, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) *

* = re-read/re-view

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

Monday, May 4, 2026

• Autechre, Move of Ten
• Grimes, Visions
• Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend

Sunday, May 3, 2026

• Squirrel Bait, Squirrel Bait

Saturday, May 2, 2026

• Autechre, Oversteps
• Wire, 1987-12-01 — The Town & Country, London

Friday, May 1, 2026

• Himba Hymn: Ghosts of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast (Sublime Frequencies)
• Olivia Block / Sarah Hennies, Yarn/Wire Currents Vol. 6 (Yarn/Wire)
• Joe Colley, Deformation of Tone
• Body/Head, The Switch
• Scott Tuma / Loren Connors, A West Bound Brook / Gone to Turin
• Bill Orcutt, Odds Against Tomorrow
• Paul Bley, Touching
• Autechre, Untilted
• Coil Presents Black Light District, A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
• Edvard Graham Lewis, All Over
• Wire, The Drill
• Rush, Moving Pictures
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Alvarius B., Malarial Dream
• The Verlaines, Ready to Fly