Monday, November 18, 2019

• Merzbow, Pulse Demon
• Masonna, Sonic Devil
• Sonny Simmons, Staying on the Watch
• Jimmy Giuffre, Thesis
• Jimmy Giuffre, Hollywood & Newport 1957–1958
• The Modern Jazz Quartet, Pyramid

Sunday, November 17, 2019

• Loren Connors & Jim O’Rourke, Two Nice Catholic Boys
• Billy Harper, Black Saint
• Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound
• Chrome, Half Machine from the Sun
• The Legendary Pink Dots, The Golden Age
• Wire, A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck

Saturday, November 16, 2019

• Pan Sonic, Kesto (disc 2)
• The Modern Jazz Quartet, Lonely Woman
• Sonny Rollins, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 5)
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 2)
• Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves

Friday, November 15, 2019

• Max Richter, Sleep (disc 3)
• Reinier van Houdt & Bruno Duplant, Lettres et Replis
• Bill Dixon, Son of Sisyphus
• Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound
• Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
• Merzbow, Vratya Southwards (Merzbox, disc 25)
• Masonna, Sonic Devil
• Chrome, Half Machine from the Sun

Thursday, November 14, 2019

• Tom Carter & Pat Murano, Tom Carter/Pat Murano
• Merzbow, Fission Dialogue (Merzbox, disc 28)
• Merzbow, Venereology
• Masonna, Shinsen Na Clitoris
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Angel in the Detail

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

• Merzbow, Pulse Demon
• Pan Sonic, Kesto (disc 1)
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
• Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks (disc 1)

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

• Masonna, Sonic Devil
• Pan Sonic, Kesto (disc 2)
• Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks (disc 2)
• Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox, Work
• News from Babel, Sirens and Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower
• Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust to Digital)

Monday, November 11, 2019

• Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (disc 1)
• Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound
• Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
• Chrome, Half Machine from the Sun
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Angel in the Detail

Sunday, November 10, 2019

• Merzbow, Storage (Merzbox, disc 27)
• Incapacitants, Quietus
• Pan Sonic, Kesto (disc 1)
• The Legendary Pink Dots, The Golden Age
• Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust to Digital)

Saturday, November 9, 2019

• Kevin Drumm, Bolero Muter
• Merzbow, Hybrid Noisebloom
• Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway, Affinities
• Audio One, What Thomas Bernhard Saw
• Chrome, Half Machine from the Sun
• Emitt Rhodes, Emitt Rhodes

Friday, November 8, 2019

• Masonna, Sonic Devil
• Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks (disc 2)
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox, Work
• Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
• News from Babel, Sirens and Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Angel in the Detail
• Public Image Ltd., Commercial Zone
• The B-52’s, Wild Planet

Thursday, November 7, 2019

• Kevin Drumm, Minutiaed
• Bernhard Günter, Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue (For Mark Rothko)
• Philip Corner, On Tape from the Judson Years

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

• Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust to Digital)
• Phillip Wilson, Esoteric
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Golden Age
• R.E.M., Monster

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• Max Richter, Sleep (disc 2)
• Lee Ranaldo, Ambient Loop for Vancouver
• Ashley Walters, Sweet Anxiety
• Illusion of Safety, The False Mirror 7″
• Illusion of Safety, Historical
• Merzbow, Metalvelodrome (disc 2)
• Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks (disc 2)
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
• Burkhard Stangl & Christof Kurzmann, schnee_live
• Mimi & Richard Fariña, The Best of Mimi & Richard Fariña

Monday, November 4, 2019

• Mimir, Mimir (1999)
• Bill Dixon, Berlin Abbozzi
• Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks (disc 1)
• Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (disc 1)
• Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox, Work
• Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
• Ginger Baker Trio, Going Back Home
• News from Babel, Sirens and Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower
• Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves

Sunday, November 3, 2019

• Bill Dixon, Thoughts
• Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl, Neuschnee
• Jandek, Maze of the Phantom (disc 2)
• Sun City Girls, Dawn of the Devi
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• News from Babel, Sirens and Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Angel in the Detail

October 2019 reading

fiction:

• Harlan Ellison, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
• Thomas Disch, Fundamental Disch *
• Robert Silverberg, The Book of Skulls *

visual:

• Johnny Ryan, Prison Pit Vol. 6

nonfiction:

• Keith Heyer Meldahl, Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
• (mIEKAL aND, ed.), Hold On To Your Hat: Interviews with Bern Porter

* = re-read

Saturday, November 2, 2019

• Terry Fox, Berlino / Rallentando
• Masami Akita, Wattle
• Bill Dixon, Son of Sisyphus
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
• Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Clifford Brown * Max Roach
• Jandek, Maze of the Phantom (disc 1)
• Chrome, The Chronicles I + II
• Mimi & Richard Fariña, The Best of Mimi & Richard Fariña

Friday, November 1, 2019

• Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox, Work
• Ginger Baker Trio, Going Back Home
• Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
• Smegma, Morass
• Public Image Ltd., Commercial Zone
• Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma), Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)

Thursday, October 31, 2019

• Chamber Music: Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman (Important)
• Tony Conrad, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (disc 1)
• Merzbow, Tauromachine
• Miles Davis, Big Fun (disc 1)
• Tal National, Tantabara

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

• Tony Bevan / Jeb Bishop / John Edwards / Michael Zerang, Nham
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 2)
• Jandek, Modern Dances
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• Naked Raygun, Throb Throb
• Mimi & Richard Fariña, The Best of Mimi & Richard Fariña

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• Merzbow, Dolphin Sonar
• Masami Akita, Wattle
• Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suite (disc 1)
• Ginger Baker Trio, Going Back Home
• Coil, The Ape of Naples
• Chris & Cosey, Songs of Love & Lust
• Devo, New Traditionalists
• Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma), Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)

Monday, October 28, 2019

• Terry Fox, Berlino / Rallentando
• Davey Williams, “Firing Up the Old Sikorsky” / “Requiem for Bosnia” 7″
• Bill Dixon, Son of Sisyphus
• Steve Lacy / Daniel Humair / Anthony Cox, Work
• Mimir, Mimir (1999)
• Carter Tutti Void, Triumvirate
• Smegma, Morass
• Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl, Neuschnee
• The Magic I.D., Till My Breath Gives Out
• News from Babel, Letters Home
• Tal National, Tantabara
• Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust to Digital)

Sunday, October 27, 2019

• Mazen Kerbaj / Birgit Ulher / Sharif Sehnaoui, 3 : 1
• Marzette Watts, The Marzette Watts Ensemble
• News from Babel, Sirens and Silences / Work Resumed on the Tower
• Public Image Ltd., Commercial Zone
• The B-52’s, Wild Planet
• Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold
• Selena Gomez, “Lose You to Love Me” / “Look at Her Now”

Saturday, October 26, 2019

• Kevin Drumm, DiZZY
• Wadada Leo Smith, Rosa Parks: Pure Love
• Pauline Oliveros / Roscoe Mitchell / John Tilbury / Wadada Leo Smith, Nessuno
• Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake, Live at Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
• Jandek, One Foot in the North
• Radiohead, OK Computer
• Devo, New Traditionalists
• Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma), Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)

Friday, October 25, 2019

• Masami Akita, Wattle
• Tim Daisy, Autotelic
• Mimir, Mimyriad
• The Magic I.D., Till My Breath Gives Out
• Jandek, Somebody in the Snow
• The Legendary Pink Dots, Angel in the Detail
• Tal National, Tantabara

Thursday, October 24, 2019

• Keith Rowe / Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler, Rabbit Run
• Davey Williams, “Firing Up the Old Sikorsky” / “Requiem for Bosnia” 7″
• “Baby Face” Willette, Face to Face
• Jandek, White Box Requiem
• Jandek, Your Turn to Fall
• Jandek, Staring at the Cellophane
• Jandek, Chair Beside a Window
• Jandek, Six and Six
• Public Image Ltd., Commercial Zone
• Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold
• Gregory Isaacs, Best of Gregory Isaacs Volume Two
• Selena Gomez, “Look at Her Now”
• Selena Gomez, “Lose You to Love Me”

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• Adam Sonderberg, Say No
• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Philip Thomas, piano) (disc 5)
• Melaine Dalibert, Cheminant
• Luc Houtkamp, The Art of Erasure
• Archie Shepp, A Sea of Faces
• Ginger Baker, Going Back Home
• Tom Carter & Ryley Walker, Sliders
• Mimi & Richard Fariña, The Best of Mimi & Richard Fariña
• Radiohead, OK Computer
• Public Image Ltd., Compact Disc
• Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma), Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

• Roland Kayn, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (disc 16)
• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Philip Thomas, piano) (disc 4)
• Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds
• Sun City Girls, Dawn of the Devi
• Tom Carter, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
• Tal National, Tantabara
• Talking Heads, Fear of Music

Monday, October 21, 2019

• Shira Legmann & Michael Pisaro, Barricades
• Roland Kayn, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (disc 15)
• Radu Malfatti, Cafe Oto 1
• Masami Akita, Wattle
• Keith Fullerton Whitman, Generatorss (disc 3)
• Ustad Bismillah Khan & Party, Shehnai Recital
• Bill Evans, Interplay
• The Magic I.D., Till My Breath Gives Out
• Gregory Isaacs, Best of Gregory Isaacs Volume Two

Sunday, October 20, 2019

• Nate Wooley, (Dance to) The Early Music
• Don Cherry, Live at Café Montmartre 1966 (disc 3)
• Kirk Knuffke, Little Cross
• Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold
• Radiohead, OK Computer
• Devo, New Traditionalists

Saturday, October 19, 2019

• Organum, Feldzug / Stumpf 7″
• Organum, Vacant Lights
• Michael Morley, The Lake
• Sun Ra, Monorails and Satellites (disc 2)
• Tal National, Tantabara
• Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club

Friday, October 18, 2019

• 18 Arickara Songs (Indian Records)
• Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl, schnee_live
• Christof Kurzmann & Burkhand Stangl, Neuschnee
• The Magic I.D., Till My Breath Gives Out
• Smog, Julius Caesar
• Daniel Johnston, Songs of Pain
• Public Image Ltd., The Flowers of Romance
• Public Image Ltd., Second Edition
• Gregory Isaacs, Best of Gregory Isaacs Volume Two

Thursday, October 17, 2019

• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Philip Thomas, piano) (disc 1)
• Sun Ra, Monorails and Satellites (disc 1)
• Smegma, Morass
• Killdozer, Little Baby Buntin’
• Public Image Ltd., First Issue
• Public Image Ltd., Compact Disc
• The Jesus & Mary Chain, Psychocandy
• Devo, New Traditionalists
• The Velvet Underground, Loaded
• Radiohead, OK Computer

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

• Morton Feldman, Two Pianos and Other Pieces, 1953–1969 (Another Timbre) (disc 1)
• Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds
• Cleve Pozar, Solo Percussion
• The No-Neck Blues Band, At 6am We Become the Police
• The Flying Luttenbachers, Incarceration by Abstraction
• Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold
• Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

• Christian Wolff & Antoine Beuger, Where Are We Going, Today
• Morton Feldman, Two Pianos and Other Pieces, 1953–1969 (Another Timbre) (disc 2)
• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Philip Thomas, piano) (disc 3)
• John Cage, Cartridge Music (Another Timbre)
• François Bayle, 50 Ans d'Acousmatique (disc 15)
• Keith Fullerton Whitman, Generatorss (disc 1)
• Mike Shiflet, Sufferers
• Mazen Kerbaj / Birgit Ulher / Sharif Sehnaoui, 3 : 1
• The No-Neck Blues Band, Roodemas
• Bad Brains, Rock for Light
• The Cars, Heartbeat City

Monday, October 14, 2019

• Julius Eastman, Femenine (Apartment House)
• Malcolm Goldstein, Goldstein Plays Goldstein
• Peter Brötzmann, Machine Gun
• Don Cherry, Live at Café Montmartre 1966 (disc 1)

Sunday, October 13, 2019

• Gate, The Lavender Head 1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2 (disc 2)
• David Grubbs, Thirty Minute Raven
• The No-Neck Blues Band, CINo51
• Bill Evans, Interplay

Saturday, October 12, 2019

• Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman Piano (Philip Thomas, piano) (disc 2)
• Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music
• Pita, 20190318 Non-Event@The Yard, Boston, MA
• The Fictive Five, Anything Is Possible
• The No-Neck Blues Band, First Kingdom of the Ghost

Friday, October 11, 2019

• Jim O’Rourke & Rafael Toral, Electronic Music
• 19 Sioux Songs (Standing Rock) (Indian Records)
• Made to Break, N N N (disc 2)
• Danny Davis / Takehisa Kosugi / Peter Kowald, Global Village Suite — Improvised
• Milt Jackson, Live at the Museum of Modern Art
• The No-Neck Blues Band, Angelo Mai
• Lou Reed, Coney Island Baby

Thursday, October 10, 2019

• Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea Madang (Ideologic Organ) (disc 2)
• Toshiya Tsunoda, Extract from Field Recording Archive (disc 5)
• Gate, Highway Ghosts
• Michael Morley, Call Back Your Dogs
• A Handful of Dust, Dragging Her Wings of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994–2016 (disc 1)
• Made to Break, N N N (disc 1)
• Peter Kowald, Duos Europa
• Tokyo Flashback P.S.F. - Psychedelic Speed Freaks (Black Editions) (disc 2)
• The No-Neck Blues Band, Ever Borneo!
• Lou Reed, New Sensations

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

• Lesli Dalaba, Timelines
• Darren Johnston’s Gone to Chicago, The Big Lift
• Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands
• Kirk Knuffke, Little Cross
• The Bern Nix Trio, Alarms and Excursions
• Charles Mingus, Presents Charles Mingus
• New York Contemporary Five, Consequences
• New York Contemporary Five, Vol. 2
• Jonathan Kane, I Looked at the Sun
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• The Cars, Shake It Up
• The Cars, Heartbeat City
• Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight
• Neil Young, Zuma
• Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

• Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark, Screen Off
• The Magnetic Fields, The Charm of the Highway Strip
• Lou Reed, Street Hassle
• Lou Reed, Rock N Roll Animal
• Public Image Limited, Compact Disc
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 1)
• Neil Young, On the Beach
• Neil Young, Time Fades Away

Monday, October 7, 2019

• Tony Conrad / Tim Barnes / Mattin, Tony Conrad / Tim Barnes / Mattin
• New York Contemporary Five, Consequences
• Archie Shepp & John Tchicai, Rufus
• Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club
• Cream, Wheels of Fire (disc 2)
• Cream, “Sunshine of Your Love”

Sunday, October 6, 2019

• Sun Ra, Monorails and Satellites (disc 3)
• Lou Reed, Sally Can’t Dance
• The Cars, The Cars
• The Cars, Shake It Up
• The Cars, Heartbeat City
• Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
• Neil Young, Trans

Saturday, October 5, 2019

• Ustad Bismillah Khan & Party, Shehnai Recital
• Tokyo Flashback P.S.F. - Psychedelic Speed Freaks (Black Editions) (disc 1)
• Keith Fullerton Whitman, Generatorss (disc 2)
• Georg Gräwe, Fantasiestücke I–XIII
• Ken Vandermark, Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (disc 5)
• Tom Carter, Skyline Grinder
• Neil Young. Rust Never Sleeps
• Neil Young, Harvest
• Neil Young, After the Gold Rush

Friday, October 4, 2019

• Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea Madang (Ideologic Organ) (disc 1)
• Ken Vandermark, Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (disc 1)
• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Alternate Express
• Charlie Haden, The Golden Number
• The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers
• Lou Reed, Legendary Hearts
• Lou Reed, The Blue Mask
• Lou Reed, The Bells
• Lou Reed, Berlin
• The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (disc 1)

Thursday, October 3, 2019

• Toshiya Tsunoda, Extract from Field Recording Archive (disc 4)
• François Bayle, 50 Ans d'Acousmatique (disc 14)
• Ken Vandermark, Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (disc 2)
• Neil Young, Sleeps with Angels
• Neil Young, Trans
• The Cars, Heartbeat City
• The Cars, Shake It Up
• Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

• Kevin Drumm, Fall
• Switched-On Eugene (Numero Group)
• Ornette Coleman, This Is Our Music
• Arthur Russell, World of Echo
• The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
• The Jesus & Mary Chain, Psychocandy
• Young Marble Giants, Final Day 7″
• The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

August–September 2019 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Alain Robbe-Grillet, Snapshots
• Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
• Cory Doctorow, Radicalized
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
• Michael Moorcock, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
• Harlan Ellison, No Doors, No Windows

visual:

• Johnny Ryan, Prison Pit Vol. 5

nonfiction:

• Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
• Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
• Samuel R. Delany, Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters
• Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

movies:

• Jennie Livingston, Paris Is Burning
• Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, Ready or Not
• Alan Rudolph, Remember My Name
• Ari Aster, Midsommar
• Phil Karlson, The Phenix City Story