Gonna stop posting anything work related on this account, it hasn’t worked so well to try and have a personal/ work account. Will set up a work account for anyone interested in research updates!

I am happy to see some good news!

Wowee what a stellar album! The vibes are like Ambrose Akinmusire meets Carlos Niño and I love it. Really unique debut album as a leader (I think) from Aaron Shaw aaronshaw.bandcamp.com/album/and-so...

My Fly or Die shirt prompted a couple conversations about jaimie branch today at the rock gym. Hopefully a couple new listeners to the fly or die universe. Thanks @intlanthem.bsky.social for making sure her legacy lives on! The shirt has been helping me educate the world every time I wear it.

I scooped up both these for Bandcamp Friday (along with this uurydon tape: uurydon.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-...)

Today’s soundtrack for boxing up Christmas decorations. Things got more and more free as the day went on

It makes me sad that I’ll soon have to take down this epic holiday light display that we made out of a dead tree stump. I’m tempted to keep the dead tree in place for next year…

The final bundle of the IA11 reissue series just touched down and it’s a doozy. 2 of my favorite albums (Fly or Die II and Universal Beings) and a Deplume I hadn’t yet heard but now love. Universal Beings was my introduction to @intlanthem.bsky.social. Excellent choice for the 11th and final album.

Since joining Bluesky I haven’t seen any #pizza discourse. I kinda miss the random food arguments at the other place, honestly… So I’m gonna try to kick it off posting my family’s go-to pizza order. We’re traditionalists. So we stick to the main toppings of pepperoni, green chile, and pineapple

Incredible review of one of my favorite albums of the year, How You Been by SML (via @intlanthem.bsky.social). “By synthesizing all manner of history, theory, and experience, [SML] create complex, brand-new, brain-teasing compositions” By @gardenerjams.bsky.social pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

My pepper plants do not look well but they gave up another harvest. Probably their last. We have not had a frost here yet. It’s rare to be this deep in November and not have a frost.

Incredible release day

Next up, jaimie branch’s Fly or Die Live. Jaimie was an incredible innovator and improviser. It really shines on this album. BTW, International Anthem just announced a special reissue of Fly or Die II. Very excited for that

I’m holed up sick, but music is the healing force of the universe, so I’m spinning lots of music to get better. First up, Ruler Rebel by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The first in the centennial trilogy. Taking the next step in his stretch music philosophy.

New Tortoise arriving just in time for the mood boost I really needed! The blue ‘seamount axial’ vinyl is even better than it looked online. Another gem from Tortoise and IARC

Travels took me through Phoenix, so I stopped at @stinkweeds.com and the In Groove, two of my fave record shops in the country. Picked up some gems from Low, Charles Tolliver, Angel Bat Dawid, Marc Johnson, and Morton Subotnick. @intlanthem.bsky.social has their own section at Stinkweeds now!

Shoutout @gardenerjams.bsky.social for this excellent review and for clueing me into this beautiful album by Flur, the London trio that “fuses composition and improvisation in a vaporous, polyrhythmic style somewhere between astral jazz and cosmic minimalism”. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Seeing all these semi trucks jamming up the road, burning a bunch of fuel makes me wonder if there’s a better way to transport cargo? Like maybe a single truck could pull a bunch of the cargo containers? And since there’s so many of them, maybe give them their own road.

To celebrate the announcement of Mercy — the new collaborative album from Armand Hammer and the Alchemist — I am spinning my pride and joy. My deluxe edition of Haram with an alternate cover (thankfully)

New arrival: Hyperglyph, the excellent new album from Chicago Underground Duo. Via @intlanthem.bsky.social, the label that doesn’t miss

Here’s how summer 2025 has gone in New Mexico. In Albuquerque, the Rio Grande is entirely dry in spots. In the Sandia Mtns, the east slope — the side that gets the most rain — has acres of dry, dead/ dying pine trees. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but this doesn’t seem good.

THIS FRIDAY - Join Rob Mazurek & Chad Taylor --aka Chicago Underground Duo-- in the chat along with the IARC crew as we listen to their new LP, Hyperglyph, in its entirety ⚡⚡ RSVP: tinyurl.com/8k48xnpj

I am sooo happy with how the Flow soundtrack vinyl turned out. Well worth the 5 month wait. The wax is beautiful. The styling on the sleeves is cleverly done (you can change the cat eyes by rotating the inner sleeves). Nice touches all around. This is epitomizes the appeal of vinyl. Via Mondo.

@danielbachman.bsky.social does it again. Each new release is as exciting or more so than the last danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/untitl...

Beautiful night for some baseball

Amazing album! The obi strip description is perfect and says it better than I can. “Tellurian psychedelic fantasia of old familiar folklore and avant-garde blues seduces and inoculates with the irreverence and joy of free music”.

The only thing better than coming home from work travel is coming home to a stack of new LPs and getting to hear the new Ben LaMar Gay and Defcee/ Parallel Thought albums before their release dates. It is gonna be an @intlanthem.bsky.social summer. Horizons and Yowzers are perfect summer albums

ASMS has an exhibit on Dragonfly, the planned mission to Titan. A cool example of using mass spectrometry to interrogate other worlds, hopefully shedding light on origins of life +. Dragonfly will be one of the coolest things to happen in my lifetime. cc @planetdr.bsky.social made me think of you!

I am in Baltimore for the ASMS conference, so of course I had to stop in for an Orioles game! Beautiful ballpark

New arrival: Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette It’s up there with his best work ever (Labor Days, Impossible Kid) and the limited edition vinyl is crazy. I don’t think I’ll have the nerve to break open the door on the cover for a few years, tho…

Wildfire smoke is decimating our otherwise immaculate air quality here in New Mexico. On the left is a typical view of the mountains from my home. On the right is the view from a few minutes ago. And it’s actually improved since this morning! This used to be rare, but it happens a lot now.

Swans - Birthing This may be the best Swans yet. There isn’t a single song that reaches the highs of, say, Apostate or Bring the Sun/ Toussaint L’Ouverture, but the entire album is so consistently exceptional in a way no other Swans is. There is no low point here.

New & Notable: The chemistry between Defcee & Parallel Thought is impeccable, the perfect combo of twinkling production and soul-searching rhymes.

Just arrived: No School by @gregdavismusic.bsky.social aka Asterisk. Incredible producer album featuring some of my favorite indie emcees. Nice touch to the physical is the * and ** to indicates sides 1 & 2. Little touches like that are why I collect physical records.

Peak living. Two days up in the mountains, no cell service.

i had some expansive chats with billy woods about his incredible new album, horror and sci-fi as literary devices, the rightward shift of world governments, and mf doom up now at @bandcamp.com

Listening to Moor Mother this Mother’s Day morning. This is a collaboration with metal band sumac. Spectacular. My wife and I’s favorite of shared-like albums this year. (I’m surprised Moor Mother didn’t migrate to Bluesky)

2 hours 19 minutes

Diving in to the ultimate 5/4 experience

The world doesn’t deserve two Daniel Bachman projects in two months, but it’s what the world needs. Incredible project. It was the soundtrack to my day. I knocked out some of my best work in a while.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

The vinyl presentation for the amazing Did You Enjoy Your Time Here? is as beautiful as the music. I love the color scheme. Everything about this project is perfect. It even matches the artwork in my office (which is covering a hole in the shed my home office is in…) Thanks @premrock.bsky.social

Counting down: two weeks until GOLLIWOG!!!

*announcing* IARC0097 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐌𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐲 - 𝐘𝐨𝐰𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 LP/CD out June 6th, 2025 BLG is back! The Chicago-born composer, improviser, instrumentalist & all-around inspiration presents his latest recorded work – 𝐘𝐨𝐰𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 – a joyfully irreverent psychedelic fantasia of folklore, free jazz, and avant-garde Blues.

Is there any other pro sports franchise that so quickly went from one of the best to one of the worst logos as the Grizzlies did? Their current logo isn’t terrible in that it looks bad, but it’s so uninteresting and unremarkable that it has to be considered one of the worst

Getting this spring Sunday kicked off right with some Paul Winter. Common Ground, one of the og modern “new age”/ world albums. Fusing nature sounds with jazz, folk, and orchestral arrangements.

I recently hit a career milestone, so to pat myself on the back I splurged on the colored vinyl of one of my all-time favorite albums. jaimie branch - Fly or Die Live Recorded Jan 2020 in Switzerland. Stunning piece of improvisational brilliance from a beautiful soul

Spring is in full swing here in the US southwest. Hard to believe it was just snowing this past weekend. Amazingly, one of my kale plants survived the winter despite a couple nights where it got down to 3 F (-16 C).

Snow day! Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

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