Tuesday, July 7, 2026

• Herbie Mann, Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters (disc 1)
• The Ex, 1936: The Spanish Revolution
• Rush, Power Windows
• Captain Beefheart, Safe as Milk
• John Lee Hooker, Burnin’

June 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (1995)
• Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
• Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (1955)

visual:

• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1983 to 1984
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986

nonfiction:

• Michael Pollan, A World Appears (2026)
• Bill Perkins, Die with Zero (2020)

movies:

• Kane Parsons, Backrooms (2026)

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

Monday, July 6, 2026

• Phill Niblock, Touch Food (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (disc 2)
• Music Revelation Ensemble, No Wave (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Pelt, Ayahuasca (disc 1)
• Rush, Grace Under Pressure
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)

Sunday, July 5, 2026

• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Phalanx (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, On Impulse!
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Ex, Joggers and Smoggers (disc 2)
• Don Caballero, What Burns Never Returns
• Eiko Ishibashi, Antigone
• Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston
• Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Heart
• Rush, Counterparts
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)

Saturday, July 4, 2026

• Pelt, Max Meadows
• Air, Montreux Suisse
• The Outskirts (Rempis / Flaten / Rosaly + Warelis), Orbital (disc 2)
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• SML, Spontaneous Music Live
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Jandek, Fort Worth Saturday (disc 2)
• The Ex, 6.4
• Butthole Surfers, Rembrandt Pussyhorse
• The Fall, A Part of America Therein
• Lou Reed, Sally Can’t Dance
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Friday, July 3, 2026

• Pelt, For Michael Hannahs
• Christof Kurzmann, El Infierno Musical II
• The Vandermark 5, Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3: Six for Rollins
• Sonny Rollins, Alfie
• Music Revelation Ensemble, In the Name Of... (feat. James Blood Ulmer)
• The Ex, Dignity of Labour
• The Fall, Fall in a Hole (disc 1)
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• The Temptations, Psychedelic Soul (disc 2)
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie

Thursday, July 2, 2026

• Phill Niblock, Touch Food (disc 1)
• Pelt, Skullfuck (Bestio Tergum Degero)
• Autechre, NTS Session 2 (disc 2)
• Air, Open Air Suit
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• James Blood Ulmer, Black Rock
• The Ex, Joggers and Smoggers (disc 1)
• Ruins, Vrresto
• Patti Smith, Horses
• The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

• Pelt, Pearls from the River
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
• Miles Davis, Cookin’
• Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph
• Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (feat. Hamid Drake)
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• The Velvet Underground, The End of Cole Ave., Dallas, TX, 10-19-1969
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Violent Femmes, Hallowed Ground
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana

RIP Mikel Dimmick (of Pelt)

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

• Dollar Brand, African Piano
• Mars Williams & Hamid Drake, I Know You Are But What Am I?
• Air, Air Lore
• Sonny Rollins, On Impulse!
• Miles Davis, Relaxin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless
• Toots & the Maytals, In the Dark
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Monday, June 29, 2026

• Air, Air Raid
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• Miles Davis, Steamin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Lou Reed, Transformer
• Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 2)
• Toots & the Maytals, Funky Kingston

Sunday, June 28, 2026

• Olivier Messiaen, Complete Organ Works (Olivier Latry) (disc 4)
• Kevin Drumm, Stress
• Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang, Astragaloi
• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
• Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (feat. Hamid Drake)
• James Blood Ulmer, America - Do You Remember the Love?
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Saturday, June 27, 2026

• Kevin Drumm, Now
• Haptic, Ecliptic
• Das B, Love
• Erez Dessel, Pro Fake No Reject
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Live at WNUR
• Jon Irabagon, Raw Dog
• Miles Davis, Workin’
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 1)
• James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
• Fela Kuti, Expensive Shit
• John Lee Hooker, Endless Boogie

Friday, June 26, 2026

• Ahmed, Play Monk (disc 2)
• The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Phalanx (disc 1)
• Josh Berman, Everybody Else’s Life, Too
• Marty Ehrlich, Cartographies of Flight “Lines Set Afloat Towards Hope”
• Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Volume 2
• James Blood Ulmer, Revealing
• Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph
• Sightings, Terribly Well
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
• X-Ray Spex, Peel Sessions
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Blue Öyster Cult, Secret Treaties
• Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker, Hooker ’n Heat (disc 1)

Thursday, June 25, 2026

• Tangerine Dream, Underwater Sunlight
• Wheelhouse (Rempis / Adasiewicz / McBride), Boss of the Plains
• Cecil Taylor, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (disc 2)
• John Coltrane, Africa/Brass
• Sonny Rollins, Silver City (disc 2)
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
• Rush, A Farewell to Kings
• Esquivel, Cabaret Mañana

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• efzeg, Boogie
• Earscratcher, Otoliths
• Cecil Taylor, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (disc 1)
• The Fall, The Marshall Suite
• X-Ray Spex, Germfree Adolescents
• Rush, Counterparts
• The Who, Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
• Muddy Waters, At Newport 1960
• John Lee Hooker, Burning Hell

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

• Steve Lacy & Joe McPhee, The Rest
• Ahmed, Play Monk (disc 1)
• The Outskirts, Orbital (disc 1)
• Junius Paul, Ism (disc 2)
• Sonny Stitt, Sonny Side Up (feat. Sonny Rollins)
• Cut Hands, Sixteen Ways Out
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• James Blood Ulmer, Odyssey
• Caetano Veloso, Caetano Veloso (1971)
• Rush, Clockwork Angels
• Souled American, Sanctions
• Muddy Waters, Electric Mud
• Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Monday, June 22, 2026

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe)
• Dave Rempis & Tashi Dorji, Gnash
• Josh Berman, Everybody Else’s Life, Too
• Don Cherry, The Third World: Underground
• Junius Paul, Ism (disc 1)
• Gato Barbieri, Obsession
• Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
• Miles Davis, The Musings of Miles
• James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad to Be in America?
• Autechre, NTS Session 1 (disc 2)
• Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey
• Head of David, White Elephant
• Rush, Snakes & Arrows
• Muddy Waters, After the Rain

Sunday, June 21, 2026

• David Rempis / Darren Johnston / Larry Ochs, Spectral
• Abdullah Ibrahim, Cape Town Flowers
• Joe Pass, Virtuoso
• Sonny Rollins, Newk’s Time
• Bongwater, Double Bummer (disc 2)
• Rush, Counterparts
• The Misfits, Evilive
• Muddy Waters, His Best: 1947 to 1955

Saturday, June 20, 2026

• Kevin Drumm & Taku Unami, Zero Talk (disc 2)
• Spectral (Rempis / Johnston / Ochs), Empty Castles
• Dollar Brand, African Piano
• Miles Davis, Workin’
• James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
• Bongwater, Double Bummer (disc 1)
• Caetano Veloso, Transa
• John Lee Hooker, The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

Friday, June 19, 2026

• Frédéric Chopin, Etudes, Ballades, Nocturnes & Polonaise-Fantaisie (Svjatoslav Richter)
• Kevin Drumm & Taku Unami, Zero Talk (discs 1 & 3)
• Chicago Reed Quartet, Western Automatic
• Dollar Brand, African Space Program
• James Blood Ulmer with The Thing, Baby Talk
• Stephen Vitiello, Second (w/ Brendan Canty & Hahn Rowe)
• Boards of Canada, Inferno
• Bongwater, Breaking No New Ground!
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju
• Lou Reed, Street Hassle