rec of the day CHRIS PORTKA "the album everybody wants" (seek collective LP) low-key but extremely compelling singer-songwriter ruralist moves with nice pedal steel in spots. somewhere between tom wanderer and barry walker, this one grows like a beard. cportka.bandcamp.com/album/the-al...

Live now! wednesday mercredi 9-11h CKUT featuring Byron's special poem for Dick Cheney... @byroncoley.bsky.social Invité spécial : Jonas Fortier! ckut.ca/playlists/sh...

so long donna godchaux. never liked her vocals or her husband's playing or the fact they brought heroin into the dead. i only saw that line-up live once, but it was a boogiefied ordeal. apart from the "seastones" break between sets. now she and elvis can shit on matching golden toilets. finally.

rec of the day: DRAGS "dragsploitation now!" (total punk MLP) 30th anniversary reissue of this new mexico garage punk band's debut 10". a beautiful example of the estrus/goner/crypt sound at its finest totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dragsp...

RIP ALISON KNOWLES the great poet, bookmaker, fluxus food art pioneer & the person who named the something else press for her husband, dick higgins. very good nyt obit with no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/a...

coming up l'oie de Cravan's 33rd birthday party in MTL publish, perish or party, the choice is yours

nice piece by nina corcoran about the steve albini's closet project pitchfork.com/thepitch/dig...

rec of the day: SAKINA ABDOU/BILL NACE "rinse cycle" (Open Mouth LP) groovy pairing of bill's multivalent electric string abuse and the fattened sax sound of france's sakina abdou, who is quickly making a name for herself as a blaring experimentalist openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rinse-...

NEW ON FEEDING TUBE RECORDS WEDNESDAY KNUDSEN "Atrium" 2LP feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/atrium...

nice nyt piece on berio's "sinfonia" no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

rec of the day: ANNIE ACHRON "never paradise" (siltbreeze LP) mesmeric LP by philly's nicole siering, whose synth-pop creations carry a sweet avant-euro 81 edge making the approach fresh yet oddly familiar. way outside my usual interests, but a smashing spin siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/annie-...

ESTEY FIELD ORGAN & MORE LIVE AT FEEDING TUBE TODAY SUNDAY OCT 19 4 PM

paul thomas anderson's "one battle after another" is a great damn movie. casting & acting are amazing, the pynchon edge is distinct, its look & roll are made for these times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUP...

no firewall link to danny's nyt obit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...

RIP DANNY THOMPSON bassist ojn so many great sessions, but still most spectacular, to my mind anyway, inside the amazing pentangle www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyV...

rec of the day NAPE NECK 'the h=shallowest end" (dot dash sounds LP) excellent buzz generated at the recent gonerfest by this great leeds trio, whose first "real" LP recalls little claw at their no waviest, amonst many other DIY-based gut-busting form moves. napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...

RIP JOHN LODGE. there's string of moodys LPs -- from lost chord" to "question of balance" -- that remain a guilty pleasure 50+ years after i first tripped to them in my dorm room. why deny it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Tb...

Voice, guitar, fading Parisian sunlight … what more do you need? Check out a great Myriam Gendron video: doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7961267...

nice piece on ken jacobs from the times. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...

anyone who's in the northeast next sunday should make haste to visit thr redscroll record fair. free admission, fine eats & drinks, lots of ace records redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/u...

RIP KEN JACOBS one of the last masters of lo-fi avant garde cinema. if you don't know his work, do yourself a favor and check it out no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

RIP CHRIS DREJA. those yardbirds sides still get regular play around here. there's no firewall on this link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/a...

NEW THIS WEEK ON FEEDING TUBE RECORDS JOMF "Give Me Shelter" LP feedingtuberecords.com/releases/giv... ERICA DAWN LYLE "On Fire" LP (co-release with half-a-million) feedingtuberecords.com/releases/on-...

sunday oct 5 4 pm at feeding tube records ERICA DAWN LYLE / BARBIE AI

rec of the day: BILL NACE "head 2" (open mouth pb) amazing collection with bill riffing on the idea of masks. it's halfway between something you'd see in "fangoria" and fine fuckin' art. i might start a new label just to use the images for LP covers. openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/head-2-2

RIP VIV PRINCE insane drummer for the early Pretty Things. his legend will live forever. no firewall to this link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/a...

rec of the day VANGAS "you left us in the spring" (chunklet LP) recorded in '23, while still in ATL (they're now in BRKLN), this quartet has made a brilliant post-core noise-pop freak-out smoosh LP that'll tickle the ears of anyone who's not lame. dont fuck up. chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/you-le...

rec of the day LES RALLIZES DENUDES "jittoku '76" (temporal drift 2LP) another great archival set from LRD with playing that veers between their explosively-oit avant psych & their more inside-hard-blues-rock stance. a wild and wonderful teeter. lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/jittok...

rec of the day: JORDAN DARBY "follow me up" (hissing objects LP) most blasted effort yet by ventura's answer to the question -- what's yahowha? three guitars spinning their own wigs in a dark room while god tries to tickle you. that's entertainment! hissingobjects.bandcamp.com/album/follow...

rec of the day GARY PANTERS "flycatcher" (smoke signals #44 newspaper) superb new sketchbook sequence from the great garloo, brough to us by the geniuses at desert island. roast your brain & eyes today! www.desertislandbrooklyn.com/smoke-signal

rec of the day: ANN POWERS "traveling: on the path of joni mitchell" (harper collins) played the audio book & it's great i still don't care about any of joni's post-reprise recordings (question of time/place) but now i kinda understand them at least. solid book. www.harpercollins.com/products/tra...

rec of the day: NOISE NOMADS "obsidian shards pooled in silver" (open mouth LP) a decade and a half after his last LP, jeff hartford returns with another monster of unshackled forms. two side-long noise-pulsed blasts of percussive energy. can't beat it, openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/obsidi...

rec of the day: CHRIS BROKAW "ghost ship' (12XU LP) another mesmeric solo album from this boldly eclectic electric string maestro. a bleary-eyed travelogue with shades of the velvets and a noisy take on dream pop that is addictive. an instant classic. chrisbrokaw12xu.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-...

rec of the day: JIM SHEPHARD "panties & perfume" (no label LP) akin to a follow-up to the "wreckage" LP, an incredible journey through the o-mind of big jim -- a collaged bramble of sacred profanities. essential for anyone with a hankering for scum-freakery. siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/jim-sh...

rec of the day: PG SIX "the well of memory/lost & live" (amish 2LP) fantastic expanded reissue of PG's 2nd LP, combining both his most traditional folk playing as well as some very outwardly-canted explorations. still one of my faves -- the extras are just superb. pgsix.bandcamp.com/album/the-we...

rec of the day: EVAN PARKER/JEAN MARC FOUSSAT "insolence" (nashazphone LP) one side of splendidly wiggling synth/soprano mystery duets, one bracing tenor by parker & some solo synth explosions by j-m to wind things up. the snake still decides! and then some. nashazphone.bandcamp.com/album/insole...

record the day: BRANIMIR NORAC/BYRON ASHER/ROBBY BOWEN "clarinets & drums" (yes we cannibal LP) 4tet session w/ the titular instruments in a mode making me think of '70s l.a. - john carter & vinny golia's scene - some w/ more moderne percussion. sweet stuff. byronasher.bandcamp.com/album/clarin...

rec of the day WATER DAMAGE "instruments" (12XU 2LP) with grubbs & shiroishi along for the ride, these TX tornadoes swap some of their drones for a psychedelic pulse rumble, creating 4 more sides of instrumental yearning & delivery. bang your head slowly. waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/album/instru...

TODAY SUNDAY AUG 31 4 PM AT FEEDING TUBE RECORDS PAUL FLAHERTY/CHRIS CORSANO MARCIA BASSETT the last time they gigged together eggs flew like birds proof that miracles can still happen even in trump's amerikkka

rec of the day CAMILLE DIETRICH "grates of love" (ornette coleman fiend club MC) boss solo debut by a cellist known for her work with the dietrichs. shorn of don's sax squall, the rough textures of CD's strings are raw & powerful but not skreeky! ornettecolemanfiendclubb.bandcamp.com/album/grates...

CAN YOU SPARE A FEW BUCKS TO HELP LOCAL SUB-UNDERGROUND HERO, CONRAD CAPISTRAN, KEEP ROLLING? www.gofundme.com/f/help-conra...

rec of the day HONEY RADAR "reclining psych-out' (no label MLP) swell four song 12" from this brilliant philly quartet, mixing sweet pop stylings with their patented post-paisley downstrokery & an extended instrumental bliss-out. all hits, no misses. honeyradar.bandcamp.com/album/reclin...

rec of the day: CELEBRITY HANDSHAKE "counterfeit head" (eastern prawn LP) another fine slice of the noise-pop pie by this redoubtable maine trio. like a more lafms-damaged zoogz rift crossed w/ an avant-garage band's take on talking blues. just ducky! celebrityhandshake.bandcamp.com/album/counte...

SUNDAY AUG 24 4 PM FEEDING TUBE RECORDS PRESENTS CYCLES INSIDE/BELLTONE SUICIDE 221 PINE ST FLORENCE MA

SUNDAY AUG 24 4 PM FEEDING TUBE RECORDS PRESENTS CYCLES INSIDE/BELLTONE SUICIDE 221 PINE ST FLORENCE MA

rec of the day: EMERGENCY GROUP "mind screen" (big ego LP) same label as watt's great mssv brings us this not-exactly-new-but-still-fresh slab from a brooklyn quartet w/ a post-fusion, post-canterbury ramble with some prickly edges & psych gtr add-ons. emergencygroup.bandcamp.com/album/mind-s...

rec of the day MICHAEL BEACH "big black plume" (goner LP) another ace by this busy australian. guests include joe talia & mick turner. the vibe has a late period VU lilt, mixed w/ lightly outside arrangements recalling ned collette. a total winner. get some. michaelbeach.bandcamp.com/album/big-bl...

TODAY (sun aug 17) 4PM BEN HERSEY / IMPURE LUCK at feeding tube records 221 pine street #141 florence ma

rec of the day: JULIA GORTON & RICK BROWN "beat it!" collected issues of this no wave era 'zine by 2 of the heppest folks around. a great example of the width & depth of then-current fascinations, from the dictators to teenage jesus to the mumps. essential logic! www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-p...