One of the better albums of 2025 came courtesy of @modernnature.bsky.social. And now they perform two Beatles cuts for @aquariumdrunkard.com’s Lagniappe Sessions. ✨ ✨

A biography of Alice Coltrane, by Andy Beta? Yes please. (Coming from Hachette in March.) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-...

New Jana Horn incoming.

Excellent vibes contained herein.

Happy Veterans Day to all who celebrate. 🫡

When @aimeemann.bsky.social covers ‘Rainy Days and Mondays’ for Tim Robinson’s ‘The Chair Company’ = 👌🏻

New Bill Callahan incoming. billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/my-day...

This neophyte just bought the Tone Poet reissue (on Blue Note) of this, based on @andrewmale.bsky.social's review in the new issue of MOJO. Any other melancholy autumnal recommendations? Only the Lonely? Watertown?

This just turned up in my inbox. Can’t say I’m not intrigued. 🤔

Alright, one more then… if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Tempted.

Joan and Nathan are heading to Europe (again). Tickets are on sale. 🎟️

Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery… Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.

Malcolm Gladwell takes “a signed book is a sold book” to extremes.

When KLM cancels your flight from Dublin to Amsterdam and offers to reroute you via… Minneapolis! 🤯

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings were phenomenal in Dublin tonight. London, Glasgow, Manchester… you are in for a long-awaited treat.

My show of the year so far.

My mood tonight and random web searches have led me to discover the perfect soundtrack, @andrewmale.bsky.social’s ‘Flow My Tears’ playlist.

DJs of the world, thank me later. 🫳🏻 🎤

Run. Don’t walk. And be sure to bring plenty of 💵

I can wholeheartedly recommend this candid and far-reaching interview on @philipsherburne.bsky.social’s Futurism Restated. If you don’t subscribe yet, this alone is an excellent reason!

Fewer, Zuckerberg. Fewer! 😡

I'm in. @aquariumdrunkard.com re-ups two sought-after mixes from 2006. "A faded aural imprint of the canyons, beaches, wildfires, neighborhoods, late-nights and early mornings of a bygone L.A. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows rolled down [...]."

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Happy ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’ Day to all who celebrate.

I just signed up for another year (!) with these fine folks, dear reader, and so can you! @backlisted.bsky.social has fundamentally changed the way I read and appreciate books.

Every time I take this train, I am reminded of Gallic electronica of the late 90s.

Is it time to break out @theclientele.bsky.social albums yet? 🍂

"This is a combo led by the spirit of the songs themselves." @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social on @modernnature.bsky.social's lovely new album, 'The Heat Warps' (via @aquariumdrunkard.com).

@philipsherburne.bsky.social reassesses Susumu Yokota’s output on his Skintone label (part 1 of 2).

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Greg Iles RIP

"guaranteed"

Smoke on the Skyline: Bohren & der Club of Gore’s Sunset Mission and the Art of Doom Jazz aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/19/s... ...there’s a European lineage here, from the melancholy of Tomasz Stańko’s Polish jazz to the urban fog of Miles Davis’ Ascenseur pour l’échafaud soundtrack.

Mal Waldron is some of my earliest formative jazz listening (with Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot) and my most obsessive recent listening (What It Is and Moods esp), a sound as steady as rocks rolling in the back of a truck: andybeta.substack.com/p/twofer-tue...

Wrote up 800 words or so on Bohren & der Club of Gore's 2000 album 'Sunset Mission' for @aquariumdrunkard.com. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/08/19/s...

My Source News Opinion World Erm… not sure about this rebrand. MSNBC. 💩

Felt good to write about music again this morning. It's been too long.

Where I’m calling from.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Flaco Jiménez RIP 🇲🇽 🪗 I used to host a small-time roots show on local radio here in the Netherlands. It was called Get Rhythm, and this version was its theme song.

No more tears. 🦇

Unpopular opinion: I am not a fan of summer. But… listening to deep, fat, languid dub helps at the end of another scorching day – and when it’s been compiled by @brentsirota.bsky.social for @aquariumdrunkard.com, vibes are definitely more Zion than Babylon. 🇯🇲 🔈

Is this quite possibly the most unsuitable cover for this particular novel, @backlisted.bsky.social?

A bit of a wild stab at things here, but first-time visit to the South-East of England planned next month, based in Rye. Any book-, record-, food-, and other-related tips for the area, to include St Leonards, Hastings, Lewes, etc.?

RIP Mr. Blonde

The Velvet Underground and Ann-Margret

A somewhat neglected novel set in the waning days of the 60s in a “post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles,” you say? And it comes recommended by @specktor.bsky.social? I, for one, can’t wait to dive in.