Agenda.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

For the Record: Nov. 14, 2025. Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions. Photograph: Bobby Previte by Kate Previte

Best stumbled-upon so far this month is Utopian Daymare, a Mongolian prog-rock band indebted to King Crimson, Pink Floyd, maybe Magma. The new live album, 'Wind Blows, Sun Burns,' runs deep, heavy, and spacy. Wish I had the lyrics, but the music's convincing. badhead1.bandcamp.com/album/--24 #FTZWT

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

In florescence. An eminent young composer weighs in on the condition of mass-media arts criticism, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 12–18. Photograph: Poiesis Quartet by Eden Davis

Mario Pavone was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on this day in 1940. First saw him play downstairs at CBGB in December 2003. i was in awe of his power & concentration. That show helped secure my decision to move to NYC, which i did 6 months later. 📸 Jack Vartoogian, Knitting Factory, NYC, 1994

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, NY on this day in 1939. He turns 86 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Knoxville, TN, 4.1.23

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

This week's Night After Night playlist of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears last week includes selections by the Telegraph String Quartet, Dizgo, Pat Thomas, Rosalía (OF COURSE), Mayhem, and plenty plenty more. nightafternight.com/2025/11/10/p...

Tonight at Artspace RVA 60th anniversary celebration of the AACM with Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong. www.aacmchicago.org

Long, but stick with it: this is a brilliant, inspiring story and it moves on multiple levels.

One small correction: Aralee Dorough reminded Principal Oboist Jonathan Fischer during his post-concert onstage tribute that she and her husband, second oboist Colin Gatwood. still have one series of performances remaining in their Houston Symphony tenure: 'Elf in Concert,' Dec. 19–21.

Savoring the fabulous Aralee Dorough in her final performance as longtime Principal Flutist of the Houston Symphony via ticketed livestream… and how absolutely appropriate that the program’s begun with Claude Debussy’s ‘Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.’

Agenda: Ivalas Quartet playing compositions by Derrick Skye, Alban Berg, and Claude Debussy, presented by Peoples’ Symphony Concerts at High School of Fashion Industries.

Agenda. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social

For the Record: Nov. 7, 2025. The eloquent, inventive pianist Pat Thomas is ready for his close-up, plus more new arrivals and coming attractions. Photograph: Pat Thomas by Dawid Laskowski

Risk and reward. An opportunity for artists in Greenwich Village, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 6–11. Photograph: Phil Edelstein, courtesy EMF Foundation

Some opera news (as we used to say): Conductor James Gaffigan has been named as the next music director for Houston Grand Opera. He succeeds Patrick Summers for the 27-28 season. Excited to see what he’ll bring back to the post. www.primoartists.com/news/james-g...

Gutted to learn Gilson Lavis has left the material world. Squeeze has been such a formative influence & inspiration on me since I was a teenager, and it was a privilege to have seen him play with them live so many times (and with Jools Holland solo, where I took this). An incredible drummer. RIP 🙏🥁

Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...

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A positively blessed night to come back on Bluesky, especially while listening to Donna Jean singing with Dead & Co. at the one that got away: Fenway Park, July 15, 2016. #NeededAMiracle

Today's evidence for my increasingly undeniable "the best string chamber music playing in the history of the world has all happened in the last decade" thesis: this 2020 recording by the Armida Quartett. Has early Mozart ever sounded this good?

For the Record: Oct. 17, 2025. Lea Bertucci, Carrie Frey, Clarice Jensen, Lei Liang, Travis Laplante, Sachiko M, and more new arrivals and coming attractions. Photograph: Lea Bertucci, courtesy of the artist.

TIL… youtu.be/sIfNssEio6o?...

Haven't had any luck yet tracking down my April 2008 Time Out New York interview with Ace Frehley, but did find my old blog post *about* that interview… unsurprisingly a lot more about me than about him. nightafternight.com/2008/04/06/r...

No exaggeration to say Kiss is responsible for my entire career. Feeling gutted now like I always knew I would be when the first of them moved on. And Ace was the only one I ever got to interview… still kinda don't believe it really happened. Thank you, and safe travels among the stars. #RIPitOut

PSA: I snapped back into journalist mode recently for an episode of the podcast Big Ears: Conversations About Music, chatting up composer/performer Lisa Bielawa ahead of premiere performances of 'Knoxville Broadcast' this Friday and Saturday in Knoxville. Here's where to find it: pod.link/1795714457

Yes. And now I just want to binge/watch all four Brosnan Bond films.

Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland," one of comics' greatest graphic masterpieces, first appeared on October 15, 1905. Here's the debut, and as majestic as it is, it only hinted at the wonders to come.

RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.

I had it coming because I preordered it at my favorite local bookstore and now @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is here to make me sad and angry and not alone.

Anything could happen. Reflections on recent encounters, and recommended live new-music events for Oct. 14–21. Photograph: Yuhan Su (via Bandcamp)

In honor of my previous profession: “We’re pivoting to video.”

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Tonight’s agenda-in-progress.

For the Record: Oct. 10, 2025. Therapeutic sounds from The Necks, Sarah Davachi, Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show, and more new arrivals and coming attractions. Photograph: The Necks, by Dawid Laskowski

Incredible scene, sharp thread.

Robert Wilson's 'Moby Dick'! The National Theatre's 'Hamlet'! A 50th anniversary return for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, celebrating 100 years of Rauschenberg! All that and mooooore in the @bambrooklyn.bsky.social Winter/Spring 2026 season, newly announced TODAY. Dig: www.bam.org/winter-spring

There was no better time of year to work at the old Time Out New York offices on Tenth Ave. at 36th St. than during NYCC, when the streets around Javits swarmed with amazing characters and cosplayers.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Big congrats to @norachipaumire, just named a Tate Modern Infinities Commission artist for 2026! 🎉 Meet the mind behind the brilliance: catch her in person at BAM for an intimate artist talk with the Dambudzo team, Fri Oct 10, 6PM. 🎟️ https://tr.ee/xHy2r0

A different look for @roulettenyc.bsky.social tonight as @bambrooklyn.bsky.social is in the house with ‘Dambudzo’ by nora chipaumire to open this year’s Next Wave festival. #NextWave2025

Running to stand still A William Kentridge opera at a new culture and arts festival in Brooklyn, and more recommended live new-music events for Oct. 7–14. Photograph: Sibyl, by William Kentridge, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, and Kyle Shepherd; photography by Stella Olivier

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

Pinch me. variety.com/2025/music/n...