Yesterday's show wound up being mostly jazz: Satchidananda at 55 into some Pharoah, a block of heat from the Cohran family, new Chad Taylor Quintet, full Perseverance Flow from NIS, and a few tracks from the new Gold Bolus comp. www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

3dec25 show now on mixcloud. New heat from: Cunningham/Cooper, Fussell/Elkington, Michael Beach, Church Car, The Early (ft P Shiroishi), Winged Wheel, Jessica Moss, Natural Info Society, Animal Surrender!, and [ahmed]. Plus a grip of tunes from Sahel and covers of David Allan Coe & the Minutemen.

26nov25 now on mixcloud. New heat from Chad Taylor Quintet, Underground Spiritual Game, and Asher Gamedze. A block of Chad Taylor drum work to open, a grip.of Akron/Family to close and all sorts goodness in between - including a brass band cover of Moondog. www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

5nov25 show now on mixcloud. Feat new and new-ish from: Gwenifer Raymond, Sir Richard Bishop, Wilde Vier, Jeff Tobias, Verity Den, & Winged Wheel. Plus 15mins on Sharrock bliss in support of Herbie Mann & Wyatt's take on The Internationale for the NYC mayor-elect. www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

22oct25 show is up on mixcloud. A bit truncated due to the day job. New tracks from Melvin Gibbs, Jeff Tobias and the West Virginia Snake Handler Revival recording in Sublime Frequencies. A live banger from Broadcast. A Floyd cover from Libya. Etc www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

8oct25 now is up on mixcloud. New tunes from Sun Ra, Chad Taylor Quintet, Jeff Tobias, Dave Ruder, Stereolab, Tortoise, Underground Spiritual Game, and Mulatu Astatke. Tracks from Neneh & Don but, alas, no eagle eye....

17sep25 up on mixcloud. Featuring new heat from Underground Spiritual Game, Mulatu Astatke, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Dave Ruder, Jeff Tobias, Animal Surrender!, Zachary Cale, and Modern Nature. No show next Wednesday as I'll book out on the water for work

I'm out of town for work this week, so there'll sadly be no zig zag wanderer tomorrow morning. If I were on air, though, I'd definitely spin some [crime jazz music]

27aug25 up on mixcloud. Birthday props for Coltrane and Sharrock. A block featuring the late Jim Kimball (RIP). New tunes from Chris Cochrane, Motherfuckers JMB & Co, Michael Beach, Jim White, Winged Wheel, and Prolapse. Etc etc www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

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13aug25 up on mixcloud. Tons of new heat on this one from the likes of Tim Barnes, Chris Cochrane, Thee Reps, Jeff Tobias, Zachary Cale, Wolfgang Perez, Sir Richard Bishop, Editrix, Wombo, Chad Taylor, and Melvin Gibbs. And that's just the brand new stuff.... www.mixcloud.com/Zig_Zag_Wand...

All about it youtu.be/kAap4MCq6WY?...

23jul25 now up on mixcloud. New tracks from The Sorcerers, Sir Richard Bishop, Gwenifer Raymond, Steve Gunn, Eli Winter, Thee Reps, and Prymek/Fuchs/Rose. An obligatory Ozzy tune (RIP). The best 'Me & Mrs Jones' cover. Bonus shot of the longest my hair has been in nearly 2 decades

Frank Miller’s The Hamburglar

I'd like to invite you to set aside 7:22 of your day to listen to "Life Mask" by Thee Reps. Sam Morrison wrote it. Like much of Sam's music, it operates according to a very personal and odd geometrical logic. When the violin comes in you will know what I mean. theereps.bandcamp.com/track/life-m...

9jul25 now up on mixcloud (link/bio). Featuring new heat from Tim Barnes, Sir Richard Bishop, Gwenifer Raymond, ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH, Hearts & Minds, and Cheer-Accident. Plus:

#nowplaying sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/magica...

jul25 is up on mixcloud. Featuring new ish from Orcutt Shelly Miller, Tim Barnes, Stereolab, Cheer-Accident, Savak, Activity, Wombo, Modern Nature, and Thee Reps.

Missed last week cuz my mom was visiting and I took her to our property deep in the woods north of Talkeetna for a few days. 18Jun25 show is up on mixcloud though, featuring new tracks from Spiritual Jazz 18, The Sorcerers, Stereolab, Nightshift. Wombo, and Gwenifer Raymond. Plus...

11:30 pm in the land of the midnight sun

New single from Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, recorded in São Paulo 🇧🇷 from the album ‘Holy Mountains’ coming June 27 tratore.ffm.to/exploding

RIP big dog

No show this morning as my car's in the shop. Think I'm gonna drop down into a 90s underground boxset hole for the rest of the day...

#NowSpinning RIP

In five days Vox Union's contract expires. If Vox can't get this done we need to boycott every single Vox property - The Verge, New York Mag, Vox dot com, Thrillist, Curbed, Grub Street, etc. Unsubscribe from pods too. Support their strike.

Also a Pavement opener for me: Dirty Three in '94. I had no idea who they were, and they completely blew me away. I was a changed man after that set

4jun25 now up on mixcloud. Featuring new tracks from Cosmic Ear, Heat On, Ty Segall, Thee Reps, Modern Nature, Wombo, and Tropical Fuck Storm. Two of my favorite trumpeters sing covers of Jim Pepper and Meat Puppets tunes. Etc, etc

“Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting”, Mingus’s famous Live at Antibes version with Dolphy, Ervin, Curson and Richmond, including footage, uploaded to YT by none other than Weasel Walter. (I may have posted this on the bad place a few years ago, but well worth a repost). youtu.be/vFpuizHSkjY?...

28may now up on the ol' zzw mixcloud. New heat from Cosmic Ear, Tim Barnes, Thee Reps, Stereolab, Wombo, and Shannon Wright. Also featuring World of Pooh & TFUL282 reissues via Bulbous Monocle. Not featured: roughly 2 mins of dead air I edited out.

#NowSpinning - Warfaring Strangers : Darkscorch Chronicles. Killer collection of underground fantasy-leaning hard rock from the 70s courtesy of @numerogroup.bsky.social

that's how you can tell it's not a real DJ

7may25 up in mixcloud. Featuring new ish from Natural Information Society/Bitchin Bajas, Eli Winter, Bill Orcutt Guitar IV, Los Pirañas, Billy Mohler, and Jolie Laide. Plus, some Fahey love from Medeles & Raymond, some live Gospel of Mars, etc etc

#nowspinning this underrated gem from Dragon or Emporer on Pickled Egg. I'd played a track after my David Thomas block on Wed because Brackley's vox always gave off Crocus vibes. Been a minute since I've listened to the full album but it definitely holds up.

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Flying the "Pere Ubu Pirate Flag" for the 30apr show. Feat. about an hour of tunes scattered across various projex* from the inimitable David Thomas. New heat from The Ex, Bunnies, Deerhoof, and Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet. A block of vibes. Etc etc

David Thomas, such a character in so many ways. For those who have time/curiosity, I highly recommend roaming through the Ubu/etc website(s) he carefully constructed over the last two decades. Facts, humor, manifestoes, pathos, wit. Charming, exhausting. www.ubuprojex.com/index.html

23apr25 up on mixcloud. New heat from Water Damage, Chris Cochrane Collapsible Big Band, Alvarius B, Los Pirañas, Stereolab, and Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas. A killer Homeward Bound reworked for the current era by the inimitable Eugene Chadbourne. Etc etc

What a bass player, damn. youtu.be/I_QJwR6D9d4?...

2apr25 is now up. Feat. new tracks from Macie Stewart, Ed Kuepper & Jim White, Chris Cochrane/Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, Los Pirañas, and Hearts & Minds. Plus, a dip into late 60s Cambodia, a small block of bass clarinet, etc etc

26mar25 us up on mixcloud (link/bio). New heat from Los Pirañas, Takaat, Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie, Willie Lane, and Ofir Ganon. A block dopeness from ATA Records. Etc etc

A note for the music fans of Bluesky: [Ahmed] live at @roulettenyc.bsky.social begins streaming for free at 8:00 PM www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl4v...

The debut single from Takaat—aka Mdou Moctar's backing band—sounds like they set up a few microphones in a practice space and just ripped a live take, with guitars pushing into the red and drums snapping as if they were being thwacked right across from you

19Mar25 up on mixcloud. With new juice from Billy Mohler, Los Piranas, Tropical Fuck Storm, Flowers Destroy, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Chris Cochrane/Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, and BASIC; covers of Free and R&L Thompson; etc etc

New one from Los Pirañas is getting all the spins today. Don't sleep on this one!

Been a while, friends! New show w/ new heat from Natural Info Society & Bitchin Bajas, Hearts & Minds. Billy Mohler, FACS, Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, Alvarius B., Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie, Ofir Ganon, and Gunn-Trucinski.

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