You could do a lot worse this weekend than to listen to Bill Evans' Portrait in Jazz. It was recorded in NYC on Dec. 28, 1959, so just tell your family it's holiday music. There's an affordable (not analog) 2011 OJC reissue that sounds rich and full if you're not too picky youtu.be/ik6LNd9KZwU?...

honored to have contributed to POW's end-of-year lists once again, this time with a lil blurb about BabyChiefDoIt's "WENT WEST." albums list out tomorrow; tap in!

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Been here 19 years. Dont know if I've heard anyone who lives here ever call it the Big Apple

This was one of the most incredible live shows I have ever attended — archive.org/details/low1...

i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Merry Christmas! This is the earliest recorded DJ set I know of. open.substack.com/pub/michaela...

"Exactly how long they played is unclear. According to Garcia, it was only five minutes. They weren’t obligated to perform if they didn’t want to. But others remember the band going for hours" | @thebanderson.bsky.social on the Acid Test that launched the Dead www.altaonline.com/culture/musi...

Season’s greetings to 2025’s rappers and producers who had my ear: Clipse Rome Streetz Conductor Williams Alchemist Larry June Ransom Mobb Deep DJ Premier Westside Gunn Freddie Gibbs Nowaah the Flood Your Old Droog Daringer Raekwon 7xvethegenius Daniel Son Boldy James Estee Nack Crimeapple V Don

Very reasonable holiday music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7w...

“'I didn’t know if that was a real thing,' Duwaji says when I tell her that women are asking their hairstylists for 'the Rama'" www.thecut.com/article/rama...

Read @soleilho.com's interview with Gina Cargas, a librarian at SFUSD who is collecting vinyl records to create a 'listening station' for her middle school students. "Libraries have shifted a lot in the last 10 years...It's not a silent space. Which I think is, in many ways, for the best."

i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com

So deeply real. "We’re all piecing together income however we can, showing up where steady work exists. We have responsibilities and ambition. We’re trying and adapting" www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/3...

Look, the Beatles were HUGE for me as a kid, and I still love them as much as, if not more than, the next #BeatlesGuy. But I’m BEGGING someone to put this kind of energy into the KINKS, for the love of god

"You cannot say ‘this song’s gonna to be timeless’ because you don’t know. With Fairytale of New York, I think we did make timeless art"—Life of the Record on the Pogues' holiday classic lifeoftherecord.com#/the-pogues/ @lifeoftherecord.bsky.social #drunktank

Love Sonny Rollins’s East Broadway Run Down—thrilling and free-ish (but not off the wall). Session pairs Rollins w/ Freddie Hubbard and Coltrane all-stars Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Dig Jones’s superb work on a lively go at “We Kiss in a Shadow” (Club Ed., late '60s reish? early 70s?) #jazz #np

Feel terrible for anyone trying to use the L or the G shuttle today in order to go anywhere in Brooklyn

Summer Pierre's comics and zines are absolutely consistently great summer-pierre.com bsky.app/profile/summ...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

Only to be surpassed by "and you're surprised?"

The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

"Take a break with a LinkedIn puzzle game"

Looking forward to this

Now on view at MoMA, Helen Frankenthaler's "Jacob's Ladder" is exemplary of the lush, seductive abstract work for which she is best known but "hints at her interests beyond Modernism" news.artnet.com/art-world/he...

congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Inmates in an Australian prison set up an in-house radio station in 1956 and, for years, played donated LPs for its prisoners. The 1,600 albums were recently rediscovered in storage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/a...

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Please stop trying to sell me on Geese. Not happening

My photo book "Elevated Landscapes" is now available for preorder. The book (pvblished by ROMAN NVMERALS) will be out by late January. It has an attractive die-cut cover, and the first 100 copies will include a signed, limited print. Details/order here: roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol...

Imagine living in a place that already has the “gold standard” on gun control and an under a sensible government wanting to strengthen it. Imagine not living among gun-worshipping people or legislators who worship gun lobbyist money

Go peep that “50 Years of PUNK” show in NYC. Gorgeous original photography by Roberta Bayley, David Godlis, and more. Killer comics work from PUNK Magazine cofounder John Holmstrom, R. Crumb, and others. Eye-poppin’ contact sheet from a legendary Ramones shoot www.kismithgallery.com?page=2 #art

Cool art book I saw last night but didn't buy. Probably should have? A collection of gorgeously reproduced jazz posters, album covers, gig flyers, and more spanning a range of years and styles. Compiled by DJ/producer/Grand Gallery label owner Yasushi Ide librairiesanstitre.com/products/978...

I love that there is always new music, even when it’s rediscovered old recordings

One of NYC’s “largest private owners of commercial property” is coming after the only reasonable bar for many, many miles in wretched Midtown Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Out today, Bremen 1965, the first official release of a Thelonious Monk stop in Europe that year, represents "a band at the peak of its powers" (don't know this but have the great Palo Alto LP mentioned here—same band) burningambulance.substack.com/p/thelonious... @burningambulance.bsky.social

I wrote about this collection here—cover and EC art as reliably bewitching as ever. As far as a comics reading experience? Not ideal www.dominicumile.com/blog/ray-bra...

"Backstage after their set, the viola player was seen apologizing profusely...for scaring away half the audience" bsky.app/profile/bour...

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. rob norris’s classic “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) suggests the VU had just been fired by cafe wha?, so maybe an earlier gig? great local coverage, too!

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

I had the VHS tapes in my youth. Let's celebrate by scooping some tuna balls and stuffing them into the glove compartment of your nemesis

The Walkmen's/Jonathan Fire*Eater's Walter Martin spends an hour hyping different types of organs and, although its appeal will be limited to a certain type of person, man is it great (H/T my partner who is wisely not on here) waltermartin.substack.com/p/episode-48...

Great @wired.com piece on Sam Altman's marketing push on Fallon—it wasn't just a socially awkward tech bro peddling "new parent" jokes. Altman in fact differs little from any sideshow huckster. He's working to dupe consumers into believing his product is essential www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

Dust & Grooves talks to radio DJ, collector, creative, and Mochilla alum Rocio “Wyldeflower” Contreras about records and being an “artist advocate” dustandgrooves.com/ro-wyldeflow...

Love my twenty dollar Condé Nast “zines,” DIY forever pitchfork.com/news/dijon-p...

This whole episode is gold

Generations of a family dynasty culminating in this glorious moment.

But the Atlantic said he was really big and strong