This is normal and good

Michelle Coltrane casually dropping a story about her mother Alice picking up a random hitchhiker in the '70s with the kids in the car, and the kids being shocked when he said, "Thank you, Mrs. Coltrane" upon exiting because they're thinking, how did he know you??? Adorable.

"According to biographer Matthew Polly, Bruce Lee was constantly toying with expectations, dressing more Western in the East and as someone who defied easy definitions in the West" www.ssense.com/en-us/editor...

can everyone on linkedin calm down

Philadelphia! June 25!

Tonight, live at Union Pool in Brooklyn link.dice.fm/Rd220657d9e1...

Perfect youtu.be/tLHMEf6Ab7o?...

The Helen Frankenthaler show in NYC that opened in April “features more than twenty of her largest, most ambitious works,” and I’m telling you that it takes your breath away gagosian.com/exhibitions/...

Original interior, ca. 1948, of the last remaining "bubble house"—one of a number of experimental homes designed by Southern California architect Wallace Neff to address postwar housing shortages www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/r... 📸: Maynard L. Parker

Shades of "vaccine skeptic" in there

Sleepy Doug Shaw | The Old Country Waltz - 360 record shop, Red Hook, Brooklyn 3/8/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgWl2dAUZ0

“Renaissance man(dl)” @dmandl.bsky.social is a DJ, musician, writer, editor, and photographer (!), and he launches his new photo book today at the mighty Record Grouch in Brooklyn—glad to call him a friend, and we’re excited to hear about his great new project

Mikie Sherrill has been governor for four months and it's already time to resign. If you are a Democratic governor and this takes place at your direction, then there should be no place for you in the party.

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My thoughts are with Doug Shaw tonight. For those that know you know but I wish more ppl knew his amazing music. I always pressed him to get in the studio more as he had hundreds of tunes. Here’s a live tape of a pretty definitive Sleepy Doug gig. 💫 highlifehighlife.bandcamp.com/album/sleepy...

and if you've never heard doug shaw's version of "it hurts me, too," well... highlifehighlife.bandcamp.com/track/it-hur...

omg, doug shaw is gone. fuck. fuckfuck. pure awfulness. love to anybody/everybody. ...and life is brief.

That America 250 state fair lineup is going to be all photos of Mike Love in like a week.

Ah yes, the "failing New York Times" where "digital-only subscription revenue grew to $389 million" in the first quarter www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/b...

Recommending a quick stop at Martos Gallery in NYC’s Chinatown neighborhood, where you’ll see the art that Keith Haring created on a Commodore computer in 1987, shown “for the first time at the scale Haring envisioned” www.martosgallery.com/exhibitions/...

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

“Addressing students, Chieng scoffed at using AI for reading and answering emails. ‘You know who else can do that? Me,’ he said, drawing laughter from the audience. ‘If you can’t do that, how useless are you?’”

Looking forward to Marcus J. Moore on North Carolina rapper Phonte—The Foreign Exchange’s Connected was a regular listen for me some 20 years ago! (I interviewed Dutch producer Nicolay back then—they worked via email etc and didn’t meet IRL until the LP was done) open.substack.com/pub/activeli...

The point of Wawa isn’t to be great; it’s to be consistent and available

vordul mega popped up at a gig at park slope venue young ethel's in july 2025 and since then, has appeared as a solo artist on several bills for @hearingthingsco.bsky.social i interviewed him and many others about his life, influence, and unexpected return

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 Untitled, (Blue, Orange, Red), 1961 oil on canvas, 90¼ x 81 V16 in. (229.3 × 205.9 cm) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

so did this one (somehow recorded the same year) pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Steve Schapiro's midcentury photos of legendary jazz musicians are beautiful. In recent months, the late saxophonist Sonny Rollins had a look at Schapiro's archive and wrote about the images for @vanityfair.com —feat. Dorothy Ashby (!), Lee Morgan, and more www.vanityfair.com/culture/phot... #jazz

Gave 'Miles in the Sky' a spin yesterday after digging into this deep 2023 essay from Robert Gilbert on the LP and on Miles Davis "embracing the merging of #jazz with rock" (and thanks to Robert for sharing my piece on Coltrane + the Dead) www.listeningsessions.ca/p/miles-davi...

It was his time, but this is a profound loss to jazz and to America: Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95 www.npr.org/2026/05/25/5...

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Backed by a then-20-year-old drummer Lenny White, who’d recently contributed to Miles Davis’s jazz-rock opus Bitches Brew www.dominicumile.com/blog/freddie...

It's a shark.

The Zombies’ bassist Chris White was absolutely not messing around/“mucking about” on the songwriting front in 1967: Seven of Odessey’s 12 songs are his (This Will be Our Year, Beechwood Park, Brief Candles, more) youtu.be/-FWi8KVR4-Y?...

Speaking of non-fiction filmmakers who came out *swinging,* Doug Pray made two of the best music documentaries of all time (both of which are free on YouTube)

Loved @natechinen.bsky.social on ‘60s-era Miles Davis, which leads w/ Downbeat’s Barbara Gardner, a legendary ad exec and “one of the few Black women empowered to cover jazz” back then (at Vee-Jay she secured a distro contract w/ The Beatles prior to Capitol LP) open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...

Writer @matoswk.bsky.social's newest "Five Mixes" installment is diverse as always and includes a recent NTS "Guide to: Madlib’s Beat Konducta" production work substack.com/home/post/p-...

Horrific that while the Black Angels marked 20 years of Passover live in Brooklyn, an update of protest song "Fighting In Iraq," a nod to Jimmy Cliff's "Vietnam," came in the form of occasionally changing mentions of Iraq to Iran (hope you catch this tour) blackangels.bandcamp.com/album/passover

way honored to have written liner notes for the upcoming LP/CD of the grateful dead at the fillmore auditorium, july 3rd, 1966, taped by owsley, now the earliest full-show dead release. forgotten tunes & lost futures! new art by the ace darryl norsen. store.dead.net/search?q=fil... #deadfreaksunite

always absolutely baffling when someone launches into an oscars speech on linkedin to *thank* a faceless tech company that laid them off hours previous "for the chance to [x,y,z]," but ppl thanking Meta after being laid off *more than once* by Meta (just saw this), mind-blowing

College grads are shaming brain-wormed A.I. hucksters at ceremonies because they know better—"by now, they’ve been bludgeoned nonstop with A.I. promotions across social media, TV, and their own academic departments" slate.com/technology/2... good work from @nitishpahwa.com via @slate.com

just had a chance to read this, thank you for the very sweet close listen/reading! crosby also had a pretty amazing tale of seeing coltrane, which i won't spoil, if you've not heard/read: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KekS...

This is what I'm doing tonight. Click on the link and justify my paycheck.

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

Mainstream's "300 Series jazz albums were generally live takes featuring authentic, in-the-moment musical interaction and layers of improvisation from the entire band" (only have a couple of these & there's more than one here that you just never see in the wild) theshfl.com/collection/B... #jazz

If you haven’t already gotten your daily run in today and you live in NYC or anywhere with punishing heat, I am giving you permission to skip it

Richie Unterberger's 800+ page bio of the Velvet Underground is up for pre-order indiepubs.com/products/do-...