In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...

Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...

anna butterss rules

In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...

All day, the hub-bub around all things related to that boat has been pinging something in my brain and I finally realized it's because the Edmund Fitzgerald weaves about a bit in Station Eleven. We remember damage.

I saw Geese last night. Rock bands are fun! Review coming in a few days.

Check out my review of this mesmerizing listening experience!

In these videos l, Cindy Lee sounds like a one-person version of the entire The Velvet Underground & Nico album.

For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the new collaboration between Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider. It's a unique, remarkable, and intentionally psychedelic musical experience. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/06/j...

That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here: reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...

"A better life with bubblegum and driftwood." What a legend.

That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here: reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...

Remarkable

"Old friend of mine / Don't be denied"

"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line. reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...

"all five members dug into the tapes here, frequently stunning each other with the bits of sound they could twist into new shapes. In three years, SML has become a dazzling studio jazz band that’s never actually been in a studio, using live recordings as the raw material for radical postproduction."

great piece about my favorite post-pavement malkmus song, the part about christian/xian i didn't know

"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line. reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...

He was laid to rest in a damp paper towel

I hate that they interview the managers while the game is going on. LET THEM DO THEIR JOB

my recording of Setting (Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund) at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee a year ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and high quality mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/10/sett...

"Hashish. Interesting, interesting word. Arabic. It’s the source of the word assassin.” David Ferrie in Don DeLillo' Libra

Orcutt Shelley Miller played a session at Seattle's KEXP and there be video! Here's a short excerpt, check out the full thing on their youtube

We really should be revolting against customer service sludge. All of this from @99pi.org is enraging: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/644-...

For @aquariumdrunkard.com's celebration of the spooky season, I wrote about C Joynes & Mike Gangloff's song “Witch Marks," which takes its title from the etchings in wood beams of old houses that are supposed to provide security against evil spirits.

“𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴...[𝘪𝘵’𝘴] 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴.” Emmylou Harris is on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions today. Listen wherever you get podcasts via @talkhouse.bsky.social.

The penultimate post in the Stephen Malkmus Series considers "Forget Your Place" and the context surrounding the release of Groove Denied as well as the antecedents to Malkmus's solo electronic approach. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/26/s...

Tortoise and Rob Mazurek! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCv4...

The penultimate post in the Stephen Malkmus Series considers "Forget Your Place" and the context surrounding the release of Groove Denied as well as the antecedents to Malkmus's solo electronic approach. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/26/s...

A new Listed from Orcutt Shelley Miller. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7982999... @silvercurrent.bsky.social

Besides this amazing character actor run, Hootkins has a connection to the JFK assassination! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

You need to listen to "Night Gang"

You need to listen to "Night Gang"

For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I reviewed Touch, the first new Tortoise album in nine years. I wrote about the cavalcade of sounds and rhythms on Touch, the band's “creative problem making" approach, and much more! aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/23/t...

New music from Pullman is forthcoming! pullman.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Sam Prekop should win an award for album cover photography. The image is a perfect gateway to the music. I want to know what sort of music makes you feel like you are floating over a cloud. After listening, the album fulfills the cover's promise.

"Cast Off" is my favorite post-Pavement Stephen Malkmus song. On some days, it's my favorite Malkmus song of any era. I write about it and explore the inspiration behind the song's arrangement and how it serves as a goodbye to the Jicks. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/19/s...

"Cast Off" is my favorite post-Pavement Stephen Malkmus song. On some days, it's my favorite Malkmus song of any era. I write about it and explore the inspiration behind the song's arrangement and how it serves as a goodbye to the Jicks. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/19/s...

One of my favorite parts of the No Kings protest was seeing that someone wrote their sign on the back of a flattened Modelo box. Long live Sensei and Bob!

My favorite cover of the year is MJ Lenderman's version of the This Is Lorelei tune "Dancing in the Club." Lenderman presented a lovely rendition of the song last night in Asheville and I heard at least one person singing the melody while walking away from the venue after the show.

The latest post in my Stephen Malkmus Series focuses on "Lariat" and considers the rhyme that should be in the Rhyming Hall of Fame, "the best decade ever," and the sense of play that Malkmus finds in his songwriting. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/12/s...

The latest post in my Stephen Malkmus Series focuses on "Lariat" and considers the rhyme that should be in the Rhyming Hall of Fame, "the best decade ever," and the sense of play that Malkmus finds in his songwriting. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/12/s...

So far I've listened to one hour and 15 minutes of the new album from The Necks and only have about two hours left!

Annihilation was a documentary

"I should drink more." Same, Eno, same.

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him for the band’s new album, ‘Bleeds.’

I wrote about Rond, my favorite band in Asheville, and the unexpected acts of community-building that happen when they play the small town bar called The Joint Next Door. fairviewtowncrier.com/2025/10/rond...

It's alway great to read what Jeff Tweedy thinks of other musicians, but I especially enjoyed this interview with @hearingthingsco.bsky.social when he discusses his contemporary Bill Callahan: www.hearingthings.co/jeff-tweedy-...

"Senator," the latest post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series, touches on the California-ness of the album Mirror Traffic, Beck, speak-singing, mid-song recitations, fading out, and much more. reclinernotes.com/2025/10/05/s...