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

Thursday, February 26, 2026

• Adrián Demoč, Flute (Manuel Zurria, Elsewhere)
• Laetitia Sonami / Éliane Radigue, A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
• Jim O’Rourke & Christoph Heemann, Plastic Palace People Vol. 1
• Jimmy Lyons, Other Afternoons
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
• Mimir, The Single
• Panic Boner, Psychic Hygiene
• U.S. Maple, Sang Phat Editor
• The Durutti Column, LC
• Joy Division, Closer
• Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur
• Los Lobos, Colossal Head
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture
• Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

• Éliane Radigue, Biogenesis
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 5
• Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• U.S. Maple, Acre Thrills

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

• Anton Webern, Symphony/6 Pieces/Concerto et al (Craft) (Naxos)
• Elliott Carter, A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 4)
• Éliane Radigue, Opus 17 (disc 2)
• The Hafler Trio, Dislocation
• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Steve Lacy, The Forest and the Zoo (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
• Henry Cow, Vol. 3: Hamburg
• The Stooges, Fun House
• U.S. Maple, Purple on Time
• Tom Waits, Bad as Me
• The Cure, Faith

RIP Éliane Radigue

Monday, February 23, 2026

• John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 7)
• Schoenberg / Éloy / Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical) •
• Max Richter, From Sleep
• Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes
• Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Globe Unity
• Duke Jordan, Flight to Denmark
• U.S. Maple, Long Hair in Three Stages

Sunday, February 22, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Sun Ra with Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
• David Murray, Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club
• Albert Ayler, At Slugs’ Saloon
• Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
• Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, It Is Revealed
• Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (disc 1)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2)
• Kyoaku No Intention, Astral Projection (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience
• Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
• Los Lobos, Colossal Head
• Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
• Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Saturday, February 21, 2026

• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
• Joe Maneri / Barre Phillips / Mat Maneri, Tales of Rohnlief
• Lao Dan, Live at Willimantic Records
• John Coltrane, Meditations
• Joe McPhee, Musings of a Bahamian Son (Poems and Other Words)
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Friday, February 20, 2026

• Dreamies, Auralgraphic Entertainment
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip
• Tortoise, Touch
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub
• Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank

Thursday, February 19, 2026

• Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
• JD Allen, Love Stone
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Sparks, Propaganda
• Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle
• Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
• Sonny Simmons, Music from the Spheres
• Andrew Hill, Passing Ships
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 2)
• Henry Cow, Vol. 7: Later and Post-Virgin
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
• Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Ornette Coleman, Forms and Sounds: The Music of Ornette Coleman
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, I Wonder If I Was Screaming
• Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone
• Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929–1963 (disc 1)
• Henry Cow, Vol. 4 & 5: Trondheim (disc 2)
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 1)
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub
• Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Monday, February 16, 2026

• John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 6)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Warne Marsh, Ne Plus Ultra
• Henry Cow, Vol. 6: Stockholm & Göteborg
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Sunday, February 15, 2026

• Richard Strauss, Elektra (Solti, Nilsson) (disc 1)
• Morton Feldman, Beckett Material (Wergo)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Hella, Hold Your Horse Is
• Tom Waits, Small Change
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

Saturday, February 14, 2026

• Lol Coxhill, Diverse
• Henry Cow, Ex Box: Collected Fragments 1971-1978
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 1)
• Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Friday, February 13, 2026

• Charles Ives, Concord Sonata (Aimard/Graham)
• Alvin Lucier, String Noise (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, Crowded
• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Voice Crack, shock_late
• Eddie Harris, Playin’ with Myself
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience
• Henry Cow, Vol. 1: Beginnings
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good
• Peter Ivers, Terminal Love
• Van Dyke Parks, Discover America

Thursday, February 12, 2026

• Helmut Lachenmann, Klaviermusik (Col Legno)
• The Paul Motian Trio, At the Village Vanguard
• Noah Howard, The Black Ark
• Andrew Hill, Compulsion
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Henry Cow, In Praise of Learning
• Television, Television
• The Stooges, The Stooges
• Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 1)
• Herbie Hancock, Sextant
• Henry Cow, A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities
• Frank Zappa, Uncle Meat (disc 2)
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
• Herbie Hancock, Crossings
• Bitchin Bajas, Bajas Fresh
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Brian Eno, Another Green World
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
• John Fahey, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

Monday, February 9, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Steve Reich, Tehillim (ECM)
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

Sunday, February 8, 2026

• Robert Beatty, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
• John Butcher & John Edwards, Optic
• Eddie Harris, Live at Newport
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• Herbie Hancock, Fat Albert Rotunda
• Frank Zappa, Absolutely Free
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III

Saturday, February 7, 2026

• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Herbie Hancock, Sound-System
• Total 1 (Kompakt)
• Public Image Ltd., Compact Disc
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)

Friday, February 6, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces / Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Frank Zappa, Läther (disc 1)
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

January 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan (1913)

visual:

• Tom Gauld, Physics for Cats (2025)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (2017)

nonfiction:

• Jamie Stewart, Anything That Moves (2023)
• Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (2021)

movies:

• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (2025)
• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (2025)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Thursday, February 5, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Ballets - Vol. I (Sony) (disc 3)
• Joe Morris / Ken Vandermark / Hans Poppel, Like Rays
• Eddie Harris, High Voltage
• Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
• Herbie Hancock, Monster
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack