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

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

Thursday, April 30, 2026

• Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, It Is Revealed
• Jimmy Smith, Plays Fats Waller
• Duke Ellington, Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (disc 2)
• Willie Colón, La Gran Fuga
• Autechre, Confield
• Wire, The Ideal Copy
• Souled American, Frozen
• Neil Young, After the Gold Rush

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

• Michael Tilson Thomas, Ives / Ruggles / Piston (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Adrián Demoč, Flute (Manuel Zurria) (Elsewhere)
• Josh Berman, Old Idea
• Anthony Braxton, 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 4)
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 2)
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Freedom Rider
• Duke Ellington, Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (disc 1)
• Autechre, Amber
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Low, C’mon
• Wire, 154
• Feedtime, Billy
• The Winkies, The Winkies
• The Humbuckers, Never Said Thanks
• Taraf de Haïdouks, Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie

RIP Michael Tilson Thomas

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

• Morton Feldman, Something Wild: Music for Film (Kairos)
• Fripp & Eno, Evening Star
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyōbin
• Anthony Braxton, 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 3)
• Shorty Rogers, Portrait of Shorty
• Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, Opening the Caravan of Dreams
• Autechre, Cichlisuite
• Edvard Graham Lewis, All Over
• Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle
• Rick DePaoli, Don’t Lose Your Faith

Monday, April 27, 2026

• Josh Berman, A Dance and a Hop
• Anthony Braxton, 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 2)
• Charles Mingus, The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine / “Four” and More (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
• Vince Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
• Manzanita Quintet, Osmosis
• Ornette Coleman, Of Human Feelings
• Boards of Canada, Geogaddi
• Wire, Snakedrill
• David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
• feedtime, feedtime

Sunday, April 26, 2026

• The Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble, Freedom & Unity
• Roscoe Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound & Space Ensembles
• Ornette Coleman, Virgin Beauty
• Duke Ellington, Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (disc 3)
• Autechre, Envane
• Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out the Switch
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Bob Dylan & The Band, The Basement Tapes (disc 2)

Saturday, April 25, 2026

• Bill Orcutt, The Four Louies
• John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh, Cincinnati
• Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah (disc 2)
• Autechre, Peel Session EP
• Brian Eno & David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• Wire, Pink Flag
• feedtime, Cooper S
• Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
• Grimes, Visions
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 1)
• Rick DePaoli, Don’t Lose Your Faith
• Bob Dylan & The Band, The Basement Tapes (disc 1)
• Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Nancy & Lee
• Taraf de Haïdouks, Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie

Friday, April 24, 2026

• Krzysztof Penderecki, Dies Irae / Polymorphia / De Natura Sonoris (Philips)
• Terrie Ex, Flaps
• Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah (disc 1)
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions, The Last Quintet (disc 2)
• Joey Baron, Tongue in Groove
• Bill Orcutt, Odds Against Tomorrow
• Stereolab, Mars Audiac Quintet
• David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?

Thursday, April 23, 2026

• Wendy Carlos et al, The Shining (soundtrack) (disc 1)
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions, The Last Quintet (disc 1) (feat. Mars Williams)
• Anthony Braxton, 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (disc 1)
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
• Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out the Switch
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• Kim Gordon, Play Me
• Stereolab, Sound-Dust
• Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend
• The Winkies, The Winkies
• Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1)

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

• Taraf de Haïdouks, Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie
• EKG, Electricals
• Marion Brown, Awofofora
• Boards of Canada, Geogaddi
• Musica Transonic + Mainliner, Solid Static
• Dazzling Killmen, Face of Collapse
• Wire, Chairs Missing
• Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Rick DePaoli, Don’t Lose Your Faith
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 1)

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

• Maya Bennardo, Rustlings (Elsewhere)
• Jacob Kirkegaard, 4 Rooms
• Crawl Unit, Everyone Gets What They Deserve
• EKG, 200 Years of Electricals
• Luke Stewart, Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier, Vol. 1 & 2 (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy & Andrea Centazzo, Tao
• Roscoe Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound & Space Ensembles
• Hans Reichel, Lower Lurum
• Wire with Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley, 2015-06-11 Chicago - Hideout - Drill Festival (Aadam Jacobs Collection)
• Brian Eno, Another Green World
• David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
• Gary Numan, Replicas
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Hot Head
• Tom Waits, Asylum Years

Monday, April 20, 2026

• Rafael Toral, Sound Mind Sound Body
• Nurse with Wound, Soliloquy for Lilith (disc 2)
• Kyle Bruckmann, Patternalia
• Joey Baron, Tongue in Groove
• Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out the Switch
• Lungfish, Feral Hymns
• Pere Ubu, Song of the Bailing Man
• Kim Gordon, Play Me
• Keith Hudson, Pick a Dub

Sunday, April 19, 2026

• Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis, Deep Listening
• Rafael Toral, Sound Mind Sound Body
• Pelt, Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
• John Edwards, Volume
• 75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures
• Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis

Saturday, April 18, 2026

• Gavin Bryars, The Sinking of the Titanic (w/ Philip Jeck, Alter Ego)
• John Cage, Violin Music (Paul Zukofsky, violin)
• Joe Colley, “EgoMix” (from For Lampo)
• Greg Kelley, If I Never Meet You in This Life, Let Me Feel the Lack
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Osorezan, Mimidokodesuka
• The Nihilist Spasm Band, Vol. 2
• Orcutt Shelley Miller, Hot Head

Friday, April 17, 2026

• Joe Colley, Waste of Songs
• EKG, Immaterial
• Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions (disc 3)
• Willie Colón, La Gran Fuga
• Radio Morocco (Sublime Frequencies)
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Lou Reed, Live in Italy

Thursday, April 16, 2026

• J.S. Bach, French Suites (Glenn Gould)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht / Pelleas und Melisande (Karajan)
• Leroy Jenkins, Solo (Lovely)
• Wadada Leo Smith, Creative Music - I
• Roscoe Mitchell, Sound
• Steve Lacy, The Cry (disc 2)
• Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
• Art Pepper, The Return of Art Pepper
• Wire with Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley, 2015-06-11 Chicago - Hideout - Drill Festival (Aadam Jacobs Collection)
• Kim Gordon, Play Me
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 1)

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• Nurse with Wound, Soliloquy for Lilith (disc 1)
• 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)