Chairman Mao

my recording of the overpowering noise rock of Minibeast -- Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma and Volcano Suns -- at MKeUltra in Milwaukee on Sunday is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/mini...

Chairman Mao just woke up from a nap #cats

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

As much @modernnature.bsky.social video as Bluesky will allow me to post, from Chicago in January

with @modernnature.bsky.social at Constellation in Chicago in January

with Russ Johnson at the Jazz Estate in Milwaukee in August 2025

with Caroline Davis at the Jazz Estate in Milwaukee in December 2025

Chairman Mao is silently judging you #cats

At Holy Hill in Hubertus, WI in November 2025

with Minibeast (Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma) at MKE-Ultra in Milwaukee a few nights back

my recording of the thundering 20-minute jam that Garcia Peoples and guitarist Mike Bones performed at the Bur Oak in Madison, Wisconsin in October 2021 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/garc...

with sarod maestro Tejendra Majumdar in Milwaukee three years ago today

“Physician’s Lounge” certainly sounds like a pretty glamorous section of the hospital, doesn’t it. Well it is

Tried to buy it but 24,797 people were in front of me in line

Checking out possible band names

Friends in group chat flexing their concert photos —

my recording of Bitter Wish (members of Bardo Pond, Kohoutek, and Heavy Lidders) at the 2024 Milwaukee Psych Fest is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/bitt...

Chairman Mao being adorable in the dark kitchen #cats

Almost a minute of Minibeast last night in Milwaukee

my recording of saxophonist Keefe Jackson, bassist Jakob Heinemann, and drummer Adam Shead at Bar Centro in Milwaukee last August is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available as either mp3 or lossless FLAC files: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/jack...

Peter Prescott of Mini Beast (and Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, etc) grabs a drink at the bar in the middle of moving his keyboards into the green room at MKEUltra in Milwaukee last night

Mini Beast altar outside MKEUltra in Milwaukee last night

with Kuzu (Tashi Dorji, Dave Rempis, and Tyler Damon) in the back room at the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee in March 2020

with Mini Beast at MKEULTRA in Milwaukee earlier tonight

with Primitive Broadcast Service at MKEULTRA in Milwaukee earlier tonight

Here’s another thing folks might not know, a truck does about 10,000 times the damage to a road than a car does. blog.ucs.org/dave-cooke/t...

with Primitive Broadcast Service at MKEULTRA in Milwaukee right now

Things are about to get started here at MKEULTRA in Milwaukee

Welcome

Following my vegan daughter in Chongqing, China in February.

Big night for the loud and chaotic rock and roll in a small room tonight, my favorite for taping. Milwaukeeans are on notice. One former member of Mission of Burma was in town a few weeks ago, now we get another —

Good news! My ego has finally arrived from Sublime Frequencies in Portland

with Chicago saxophonist Keefe Jackson along with bassist Jakob Heinemann and percussionist Adam Shead at Bar Centro in Milwaukee in August 2025

My recording of Tashi Dorji and Tyler Damon at Acme Records in Milwaukee in April 2017 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and convenient mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/tash...

“Graphic design is my passion”

HBD to Dennis Hopper, shown here in Vietnam in the late 1960s indulging his passion for photography

my recording of experimental pop guitarist Alisa Rodriguez performing as Apollo Vermouth at the 2023 Milwaukee Psych Fest is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and lossy mp3 file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/apol...

my recording of the Garcia Peoples at Judson and Moore in Chicago in April 2023 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and lossy mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/garc...

I'm thinking of going through all my books, records and CDs and sorting out the ones I want to keep and the ones I may not want to keep and then, of course, keeping all of them.

walking around at night

I went on tour with Frank Hurricane, a legend of DIY music and great American storyteller, who built a devoted fanbase show-by-show, without a manager or publicist. And the funniest dude I know. My profile, w guest spots from Ryan Davis and Guerilla Toss: www.hearingthings.co/the-last-fol...

with @chrisforsyth.bsky.social, Tom Malach (Garcia Peoples), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, etc), and Ryan Jewell (Ryley Walker Band, etc) jamming at Judson and Moore Distillery in Chicago in April 2023. Sorry about the shaky zoom.

Birthplace of PG Wodehouse in Guildford, England. Mr Wodehouse and his novels comforted me quite a bit when I was living abroad in otherwise sometimes stressful circumstances for two years in the early 1990s, and I will always be grateful for the cheerful world he created.

my recording of @tatsongs.bsky.social at MKE-Ultra in Milwaukee last Sunday is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and lossy mp3 file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/tat-...

with the Garcia Peoples at Judson and Moore Distillery in Chicago in April 2023

Got some sublimely frequent DVDs from Sublime Frequencies today. They were having a closeout on DVDs on their Bandcamp page

The Chairman is guarding his big brother while he naps #cats #beagles

It’s a hot day for #beagles