my father had the best idea for a funeral that i think about now that dick cheney is dead; “stick a bone up my ass and let a dog drag me into the woods.” sometimes my dad is a classy guy

#ResistanceRoots Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1

Bounding through the cold, wet, dark streets of Brussels I shouted “show me all your bagpipes!!” These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.

Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam

Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest

now traveling in Europe

Headed your way Europe to hive some shows based on None of Us Know the Words Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton) theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/ Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam occii.org/events/forgo...

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week. theatticmag.com/features/248...

Bucharest next weekend at the Teatru Național (sala micǎ) Program: theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/

Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico. I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.” I like you.

if ya read one damn critical essay this week, make it this one.

Good new book autonomedia.org/product/unre...

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week. theatticmag.com/features/248...

If you’re going n DC and can make it, I highly recommend it.

really hoping for some better news to follow. Rat is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the the american underground so start singing loud enough to wake him. (fuck) www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...

In 1912, some workers in MA received a paycheck that was shorted by *2 hours* due to their boss's malicious compliance with a new state law. "Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them. This is how Bread and Roses began.

In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina

Now get Jeremy Allen White to play Richard Thompson 1980-83. Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83. Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84. Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92. Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring. youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...

Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)

FREE zoom talk Tuesday 7PM EST www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...

Oswalt’s daughter is 5 years younger than mine. My daughter’s music was nearly identical as a teenager. (She’s still heavy into Fiona Apple I think.) I’m not gonna send her this photo cause who wants to think about being 16 when you’re 21? The similarities are amazing. The jumping off points.

some uileann pipes on a 1921 silvertone disc Medley of Irish Reels Tom Ferris www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_1...

Norway's Solvberget library had me as one of their Plateprat (Record Talk) interviewees this week. A zillion "what's your favorite..." kinds of questions answered by email during two fits of insomnia. Thanks to Olav for asking me. www.solvberget.no/anbefalinger...

Oct 28 I'll talk online about American Folklore; how it lead to the Chuck Berry-Elvis-Little Richard-Dylan-Beatles-Stones cataclysm of 1955-65; how immigrants & natives were left behind; & what, if anything, we can do about it now FREE! Register here www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

Cancel Spotify www.nme.com/news/music/s...

Back in Amsterdam on Nov. 16 at the wonderful OCCII. occii.org/events/forgo...

movie review haiku Baltimorons folks never once ventured into the Black Butterfly

fascinating and well-told story of one of the biggest independent labels in US history youtu.be/i2joV4DtXaI?...

Oct 28 I'll talk online about American Folklore; how it lead to the Chuck Berry-Elvis-Little Richard-Dylan-Beatles-Stones cataclysm of 1955-65; how immigrants & natives were left behind; & what, if anything, we can do about it now FREE! Register here www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...

Do the frog - Bo Diddley youtu.be/yPNdeY0PeSI

RIP Ken Jacobs, a titan of experimental film and one of the 5 or 6 most important filmmakers in my lifetime. Must revisit this epic.

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...

It turns out I've been talking about Ann Everton and Darsombra a lot this year, telling friends about how much I admired her work in general and her collaboration with Brian Daniloski specifically

The street gangs that overran Baltimore in the 1850s were used by the nativist politicians to cause election day riots to keep the Germans and Irish from voting. Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes. The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.

Bandcamp Friday Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161. Please baby please baby baby baby baby please canary-records.bandcamp.com

"Loaded" by Ricky Martin stops on the word stop, into the list it goes docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bucharest Nov 14-15

Moses Araktingi Cohen (b. Aleppo ca. 1892-3), immigrated 1908 and worked initially with his brother in the jewelry business before going into business for himself selling lace curtains from a storefront at 121 Canal St. He lived on the Lower East Side and and recorded 3 discs for Columbia…

Acoma musicians Philip Sanchez and Wilbert Hunt. 1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

RIP Danny Thompson, one of the best to do it www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DO...

Whoa. Shadow Ring. foeg.dk

Trump administration fires more immigration judges www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

fucking outrageous

Israeli Conductor Calls on International Community: Do All You Can to Stop Gaza War - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Zekia Agob (b. Damascus, Syria 1886; d. Brooklyn NY 1950) was the first Arab-American woman to make commercial discs - 6 of them from ca. Aug 1917-Jan 1918. I believe they were privately funded. I added a quick restoration of this rough copy here: canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/yalwat...

Many thanks to Oliver Nießen who contacted me that he had a Dec. 1925 disc by Nick Prince Nazaroff (b. 1891; d. 1961) from Poltava, Ukraine to add to the EP Canary released last year. This side featuring Nazaroff's whistling is jewel: canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/zapria...

Bandcamp Friday this week thank god Couple heavy setbacks lately. I’m hoping Friday helps I made Canary’s Full Discography (196 titles; $1,000+ value) $161 until Saturday You could make it your full-time job for a month to listen to all of it. Or buy it for a friend canary-records.bandcamp.com