Start your spooky season with a banger. RIYL: Dark Magus, Maggot Brain, huffing paint

60 years ago today, john coltrane recorded "om" in seattle while (according to several biographers) tripping on LSD. the next night, he performed "a love supreme" in its entirety for one of the only known times. idk seems significant?

Well, that was fast — there's a great SBD/AUD matrix of Prairiewolf's set in Denver this past Monday up now on the Archive. A Disco Stew production! archive.org/details/Prai...

Yo pham, are y’all good with this dude now or…?

Tasty live snippet from Prairiewolf at Cervantes. Folks were fleeing the Broncos game in the neighborhood bars to check out the Cool Rocky Mountain Kosmiche sounds filtering thru the air in Five Points last nite.

Denver tonight at Cervantes, Boulder tomorrow at Fox Theater! Both w/ Pairiewolf, and lights by Cosmic Dommy! We’ll have these hand dyed shirts by Thunder Shout. Tix and info here: thrilljockey.com/artists/rose...

Tune in to @brokensymmetry.art for levity from America’s latest “war zone” and stick around for regular dispatches of cool shit.

Extraordinary skronk solo from Sonny Sharrock on this live jam from Yankee Stadium. I feel a Herbie Mann phase coming on!

New Golden Brown album Patterner is up for preorder today on @innerislands.bsky.social. Patterner is set of songs inspired by the Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin. These books have affected my life and my music in ways no other works have and I hope to reflect some of that magic in these songs.

The 3rd and final tape of our East Coast no-repeats romp with Sloppy Heads has arrived. The triptych is complete!

Maximum Colorado morning up here with fresh snow on the peaks and Caribou Ranch in the foreground. The barn at left is the hallowed space where Rick Derringer recorded "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" in 1973.

The hype is real. This might be AD’s best Lagniappe yet. 🌖

JFC enough already!

Return me to earth. Stereo or bust!

This one sounds as though you’re listening to an 8-piece band while lying under the stage. Completely disorienting and begging to be played loud!

Pharoah’s got a lotta juice here but Elvin + Ali send it into space. Lord almighty!

Straight, unassuming 🔥 Bless this cover art.

[Rapturing intensifies]

Strictly Coltrane today. Let’s ride!

I’m also fairly sure I was seated next to a CIA agent. He drank only water, never left his post and stood stock still for nearly 4 hrs. 🕵🏻‍♂️

Johnny Blue Skies delivered the goods, but goddamn, a 40-song 3hr 45min gig is a hearty meal.

Trottin’ on up to Red Rocks for this Sturgill Simpson tour finale.

Luke Schneider - Neighbor Fort Collins Matrix https://archive.org/details/lukeschneider09-12-2025-matrix

Great deal to be had over on Reverb if you’re in the market for a lavishly personalized Mellotron.

The parade of Prairiewolf live tapes continues — here's our set last Friday up in Fort Collins, featuring some heady modular clarinet from our pal Matt Loewen. Thanks to Disco Stew! archive.org/details/Prai...

And when the smoke cleared, there was Prairiewolf... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

The Meander might be my fave Prairiewolf tune. It's gorgeous, slinky vibe always hits the spot. This is from last nite's GLOB set.

If you’re not familiar with it, the Millard tape included in the new Wish You Were Here box is a killer. You get embryonic, synth-heavy Animals jams, a complete WYWE months before anyone heard it, Dark Side of the Moon in full, plus an Echoes encore. LORD! #thankataper youtu.be/4clpGEnZz0o?...

TFW you add a harmonizer to your signal chain and you feel like Alan Holdsworth.

Wolf bros made our broadcast debut this afternoon and if you look real close you can see the panic in our eyes. Live radio is terrifying!

The Colorado taper strikes again: props to Lance Stack/Flat Response for this real sweet AUD + SBD matrix from Kingston!

I was right in the splash zone for this one. Dig in!

I’m stoked to play these gigs though just slightly more excited to watch Luke do his thing over a couple nights. His new record is essentially Frippertronics/sound-on-sound for pedal steel and goddamn it’s amazing. Go see him wherever you are!

50 years ago today, Miles performed the final date of his electric era - a late summer festival date at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Despite a sizable audience, extensive photos from David Gahn, and a somewhat clueless recap from the Times, aural evidence of the evening has never surfaced. ...

Bleak times call for bleak tomes.

Jazzed to have some fresh Transmissions in the podcast rotation! Slightly mind blown to hear Prairiewolf used as this season’s theme music. Thanks JW and AD!

You know you’ve got a smokin’ LP when the labels go this hard.

Hats off to one of the core gigs of the electric era. Half a million+ humans taken on a terrifying jazz odyssey. Imagine the hellstorm this coulda been if Corea and Jarret hadn’t been hamstrung by quirky borrowed keyboards. And hey, happy release day to @modernnature.bsky.social 😉

A brief return to Austin has led me to Doug Sahm Hill, one of the best returns on your tourist buck ($0) where you can stand on the site of the former Austin Coliseum (outlined in green), glimpse the top of the building whose parking lot once held the Armadillo World Headquarters (purple) …

I’ve taken up fly fishing this summer and every time I catch a fish I give it a little compliment before tossing it back. “Wow, you’re fancy’” “Great spots, lil buddy” “Look at how sleek you are!” Everybody does this, right?

Great demo of how perfectly executed Teo Macero’s echo effects were in the original Bitches Brew mix vs how the 1998 remix mucked it up.

2 things to love about this tape: the BQE humming like a 4th band member, and the fact that the sound guy cranked Stefan’s guitar.

[raspy Miles voice] when did I solicit all these motherfuckin’ opinions?

The reviews are in: Bitches Brew sucks ☠️🎺

The greatest album of all time began taking shape 56 years ago today at Columbia Studio B in midtown Manhattan. Immerse yourself in 2 hours of fly-on-the-wall sessions reels over at AD.

On the first 21 minutes of these outtakes you can hear the various parts of 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄 taking shape, including one long take that makes clear the relationship between 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄 and 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗻.

Back in the thin air after a few days out east with the best of company. No repeats, heady times and multiple tapers at every show. Pinch me.

What a wild sensation to wake up on a mountain and end the day playing music under the BQE. Thanks to all who turned up and said hey On to Tubby’s!

We’re gonna have so much oxygen down there at sea level these shows are bound to be ragers.