It's still kind of mind-blowing that Bernard Purdie AND Chuck Rainey played on Larry Coryell's killer jazz-rock opus, Fairyland. Talk about a power trio... www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4wm...

Real writers know that it's a badge of honor to have trolls. Those mofos are your most dedicated readers.

Let me be clear: This POS is not related to me.

Morton Feldman LP on colored vinyl? Never thought I'd live to see the day.

The foreboding dread and precise beat science of Low End Activist's Airdrop II and III remind me of '90s Photek, and I'm all for it.

there is actually a story in this revolting Nuzzi piece if you sandblast away the lies about a hot young woman being "in love" with a guy old enough to be her grandfather who looks like a catcher's mitt and sounds like an evil muppet

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation This is the most anodyne headline for a truly horrific set of facts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Wait, who are these sociopaths who don't listen to music every day???

Somehow the Steve Gunn/Natural Information Society collabs on the former's Nakama (2022) slipped by me. It's like, what if ECM commissioned a singer-songwriter record? So good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFey...

I forgot how great @rosecityband.bsky.social's "Fear Song" is. A minimalist mantric masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKX4...

If you told me that “Restless Wave” by the late Jack DeJohnette's overlooked band Compost was a Groundhogs outtake, I'd believe you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Vu...

I guess we know why Trump, Bondi, Patel and Mike Johnson have been covering up the Epstein files. I’m sure there is a whole lot more and a whole lot worse.

Q: Who's the Democratic party's favorite rock group? A: Cave In. Please, hold your applause.

The legendary On-U Sound producer Adrian Sherwood discusses 'The Collapse of Everything,' his first solo album in thirteen years, and why treating the mixing desk as a live instrument remains his most radical act. Everything is Everything — Adrian Sherwood's Resistance in Dub:

Seemed like my dentist was trying to shame me with accusations of bruxism. Guilty! Who are these preternaturally calm people who don't grind their teeth?

Ed Kuepper of the gd Saints, last night at Seattle's Neptune Theatre.

I've probably said this before, but if you're a band about to play a show, you should make sure not to have any Can tracks playing beforehand, as they will make your own seem anticlimactic.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

Proper stage attire sported by L'Eclair's synthesist.

Reviewed new albums by Swedish orchestral-funk genius Sven Wunder and newish Seattle psych-kraut group Packaging for @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/music/2025/1....

I have a hunch that some haters would burst into flames upon hearing Steely Dead.

Whoever conceived the idea of Daylight Savings Time should've been kicked where the sun don't shine.

Somebody needs to reissue Dieter Reith's Knock Out. www.discogs.com/release/2105...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

I hope somebody's compiling ALL of the alarmist bullshit responses to Madmani's win. Shove the receipts down their throats when their hyperbolically dire predictions fail to materialize.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Apropos of nothing except for ICYM, here's a review I wrote 4 years ago of Seesselberg's analog-synth masterpiece, Synthetik 1. It's as if Kraftwerk swerved away from streamlining operations post-Ralf & Florian and got WAY deeper into abstraction & crazy tones. jivetimerecords.com/2021/07/sees...

@davesegal.bsky.social has a list of must see performances at this weekend's Freakout Fest

If you're a Democratic politician who's praised prolific war criminal Dick Cheney, you need to exit public life and hang your head in shame forever.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

“Mamdani is going to institute Sharia law!!1!1” is the new “Obummer's gonna take our gunsssss!!!!”

Hooteroll? on cassette?! Well, I never...

As we're remembering that Dick Cheney killed a million Iraqis, remember that the death toll from cutting USAID funding will be still larger than that. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

a send-off: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

RIP, Joe Byrd, mastermind behind two mind-bending classics: The United States Of America (1968) + Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies' The American Metaphysical Circus (1969). Get 'em both in all formats. He was true one-off, loved by Broadcast, Portishead, & many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAk...

What that 60 Minutes “interview” showed is Trump is out of his mind and CBS News is now in the Fox “News” business. Which is to say that “interview” had nothing to do with news. What a sad, disgrace 60 Minutes has become. Also, note: Not a single question about Epstein files coverup, Maxwell.

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

RIP, Brazilian guitarist/singer/songwriter Lô Borges. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gpq...

Bloodrock's “D.O.A.” has been stuck in my head for days, and tbh, it's not really ameliorating the sense of doom I'm feeling about the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzY5...

FOR SALE Scott Walker: 30 Century Man [2006, Oscilloscope Pictures/Missing In Action Films DVD] VG+/VG+; $15 shipped.

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE PERMANENTLY BLOCKS EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING VOTERS TO SUBMIT PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP - COURT RULING

"This next song is called 'Threnody For All The Great Albums That Didn't Make My Year-end-best List Because I Only Heard Them After October, When I Had To Turn In Said List.' Hit it!"

Mamdani didn't recognize a Billy Joel song? I thought I couldn't love him any more... Oh, how wrong I was.

Take a drink every time Pete Kegsbreath says “lethal kinetic strikes,” and your liver will soon look like his.

I've been listening to Miles Davis' On The Corner for, I dunno, 45 years, and I'm still hearing new things in it. Damn, my headphones are good...

Honored and elated to have won a 2025 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for “Extinctophonics: The Game Of Jim” in Maggot Brain #18. Hugest gratitude to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social and Mairead Case for giving it a home. MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:

I'm fortunate to live in a city that has a DJ night devoted to progressive music. Hugh Hopper got the soft machines moving, Supersister got the nerds chattering.

DJ tip: Throbbing Gristle's “20 Jazz Funk Greats” >>> Magma's “Soleil D'Ork”