Cool show at Happy Dog tonight 😌

A photo that Jack Torcolese took of me at Empty Bottle last month. Proof that I smile with my teeth out sometimes (especially when I’m playing at Empty Bottle 😌)

A jam band unafraid of the darkness, and a duo occupying the most experimental, formless, epic end of the "jam" spectrum: Review of @rosecityband.bsky.social and @jenpowers.bsky.social @matthewjrolin.bsky.social duo at @evanstonspace.bsky.social. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/7905104...

First Empty Bottle show opens with @matthewjrolin.bsky.social / @jenpowers.bsky.social

Link to the audience recording from last night's show archive.org/details/03-2...

mind-blowing set by @jenpowers.bsky.social and @matthewjrolin.bsky.social at motorco in beautiful downtown durham, north carolina. there were minutes at a time where i just forgot to breathe. go listen to their music: aepowersrolinduo.bandcamp.com

We won’t be stopped by minuscule things like having our car totaled, instruments broken, stranded in a different country, etc. See you tomorrow in NYC at Bowery Ballroom ❤️

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and support. We’re getting a ride back home today and are going to try to figure everything out ASAP in the hopes of getting back on the road.

Unfortunate news for Matt’s and my tour with Rose City Band… our car got totaled by a giant box truck on the way to the gig in Toronto tonight & my dulcimer was broken in the process. Thankfully we are okay, but unable to perform for a time. Been a true bummer of a year, but at least life goes on 🙏

Tour with @rosecityband.bsky.social starts tonight in Ferndale, MI at Magic Bag ❤️

Good show this Sunday in Cleveland. Hope to see you there ❤️

Made it official with my true love four years ago today. I love you beyond everything, Matt 💖

Dreamy times last night. I love live (and recorded) music 😌

It was fun to jam with my friend Leia (for the first time ever!) in front of some folks last night at Little Rose ✨

Matthew J. Rolin - s/t Looking forward to starting the weekend early tonight at Little Rose w/ Ralph White @matthewjrolin.bsky.social (solo) @jenpowers.bsky.social with the great Leia Hohenfeld #firstrecordoftheday

Occasionally someone or other will ask if we’re going to make a dedicated P/R Duo social media account anywhere, or whether we’re going to update our Spotify bio or whatever, and the answer is always “No,” and a big part of it is because the internet is… the way it is these days

Blank Hellscape and Aaron Dilloway at Little Rose ✨

Farewell to Simon House—had this album running through my head out of nowhere this afternoon, just a couple of hours before I read the news youtu.be/ych8PPXc7GY?...

A friend’s IG got hacked so I tried to see if I could report it on their behalf—anyway, check out the first thing Google suggested after my own inquiry. I don’t know how to express my revulsion.

Very good show coming up in a couple of weeks. I’m pulling double-duty by collaborating with the amazing Leia for the first time and co-DJing with David throughout the evening ✨

Before "Thank you, Guitar" was an LP (forthcoming 6/13 on Palilalia) it was a fuzz pedal. Designed, built and sold by the maestro Cyrus Pireh himself — $100. While you're at it, check out his guitar amp in a pill bottle, $40 with a built in speaker. Buy on Cyrus's own website at 4gre.org.

Getting to see Takaat at Little Rose is a fine example of why I love living in Cleveland ✨

Winged Wheel / Swisher / talons’ — truly perfect bill last night ✨

Comin up soon!

Oblivion, Ryan Davis, and my first time seeing Bill Callahan—can’t complain about a great day 😌

Happy Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Day to those who celebrate ✨

Looking for some mesmerizing horror reading recommendations. By “mesmerizing horror” I mean things that make me feel like I do when I read up on the Chernobyl disaster, or certain passages in “The Sheltering Sky,” or certain elegant depictions of madness (Duras, Joy Williams, etc)

I was planning on a Gong post the other day but i got distracted. This ones for you @shelleyr.bsky.social as you mentioned you dont see them hit your timeline Super super early footage. I dont even think they were technically called Gong then www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojvU...

Words can’t express how much I despise Ohio Republicans and their relentless greed, stupidity, and malice. Here’s the email I got this morning from one of my local library systems:

Thinking back on when I played my ex Armchair Boogie and he said “This sucks” and I said “What the hell is wrong with you?” It’s like that John Waters quote about not fucking people who don’t read books—don’t trust anyone who doesn’t appreciate the music and art of Michael Hurley.

Farewell to one of the all-timer weirdo angels 💔 youtu.be/U9jbiKNVX9I?...

Recording new things today. One amp in the bathroom, one amp in the closet, one love in our hearts, way too many strings on our nightmare instruments ✌️

The state is now disappearing people, in this case another graduate student, because of their political beliefs. This is fascism. We have arrived. Where is Rumeysa Ozturk?

Savoring the final stretch of this book—insanely great. Yet another one I picked up for $1 at my library’s Friends shop. ✨

joyce's plaster palace, jonesboro, arkansas, 1980

Farewell to Jesse Colin Young. ✨ Youngbloods were big for me in my early 20s, and I especially love the way his first solo album was recorded—classic mid-60s lonesome reverb trove youtu.be/cuWvWSfEPeE?...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Saturday night at the Empty Bottle ✨ Excited to help celebrate the release of “Horses,” an LP on which Matt and I are happy to be featured. I heard tell that ticket levels are low, but not quite gone yet! Hope to see a ton of friendly faces—been too long since I was last in beloved Chicago.

Very much looking forward to this event in early August—so many folks I admire in one place! Presale tickets will be available March 6th. ✨ flyaroundfest.com

Deeply pleased to say Matt and I will be hitting the road with @rosecityband.bsky.social for half of July. Going to be a wonderful time! Come out if you wanna—tickets for all shows on sale now. ✨

RIP Bill Fay, your tenderness and wisdom were a lesson youtu.be/CH9krC2X8yU?...

Threads like this are pretty much the only reasons why I continue to tamp down my daily longing to disappear from social media.

When you see the federal government clawing back billions of dollars awarded to states/cities/environmental/immigrant support, you might ask: where will that money go now? That's very easy and I can tell you with complete certainty that it's yet another world-historic wealth transfer to the rich

Next three shows for P/R Duo: 02.15.25 — Little Rose, Cleveland — with Brian Straw, talons’ 02.26.25 — Grog Shop, Cleveland — with death’s dynamic shroud and Moth Cock 03.08.25 — Empty Bottle, Chicago — with Tobacco City and Hemlock

As the mental exhaustion marathon continues, this is more or less the only album I’ve been listening to for a couple weeks, which is kinda sweet—I miss the days of focusing all my energy on one album at a time. Easy to do, as this one’s so, so deeply good. chriscohen.bandcamp.com/album/paint-...

Ubuweb is back in action

absolutely gutted to learn of the passing of Susan Alcorn, an incredibly gifted improviser, arranger, and musician who bridged so many musical worlds. We just hung out last week at her show in Baltimore with David Grubbs. I am in shock at this loss but grateful to her for her work and her example.

It’s been a fucked up and impossibly long month for so many reasons personal/local/national/global, but at least the Lake Erie got like, really frozen this winter, and it’s beautiful in its extremity.

Allowing oneself to be vulnerable while standing at the edge of total darkness is, I think, the most valuable human experience. RIP to a visionary who truly understood.