Can’t believe Andy Williams didn’t make a surprise appearance at Big Ears this year.

50 years ago tonight — this incandescent video of "Like A Hurricane" from Neil + Crazy Horse at Hammersmith Odeon in London. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SyM...

Four days of little sleep, forgetting meals, and an abundance of remarkable musical performances, here's my report on taking in as much as I could at the 2026 Big Ears Festival. reclinernotes.com/2026/03/31/2...

"The great artist must be pied-piper AND exterminator, simultaneously. His piping must be seductively lyrical; His knife must be fast and sharp." Check out John Fahey at his performing peak, live in 1974: doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8126126...

Incredible book, time for a re-read

Live music options in NYC, April 1976

added some excellent handbills/posters to the modern lovers chronology, courtesy of gary johnson of rockaway records. (labelle cancelled at my father's place, replaced by screamin' jay hawkins, which makes mildly more sense.) jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-...

The new one from Marielle V Jakobsons is a ghostly, drifting dream of a record.

The final aquarium drunkard big ears transmissions 2026 morning broadcast — Fred Thomas, @reclinernotes.bsky.social, William Tyler, Yasmin Williams. Great fun, though @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social might be banned from Knoxville for his controversial pizza takes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVpU...

Big Ears day 2 highlights (terrible pics, great tunes)

First Big Ears @aquariumdrunkard.com live Transmissions was a hoot. Thurston! Kramer! Setting! Shrunken Elvis! Grayson Currin! Jeremy Larson! m.youtube.com/watch?v=tt9L...

First night at Big Ears — as advertised, an embarrassment of riches.

Excellent episode of @aquariumdrunkard.com's Transmissions with great stories from Thurston and Kramer, even if @tylerwilcox.bsky.social was only able to say like 4 words in total, haha. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/26/t...

Two living legends … and me! Check out my conversation with Thurston Moore and Kramer on @aquariumdrunkard.com transmissions. www.talkhouse.com/transmission...

The rumors are true — Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions will be broadcasting LIVE during the Big Ears Festival this weekend. Let's get Sunspherical.

RIP Terry Cox, one of the coolest drummers ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqE...

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Join me this spring on ALL ONE SONG as we again explore the mysteries of Neil Young with some excellent musicians, artists, writers etc. (First mystery: how can one man so successfully rock a vest over a sweatshirt?) doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8119785...

This new collab from Nick Millevoi and Zach Goldstein is both tightly wound and free-flowing, interlocking pieces coming together and breaking apart, almost simultaneously.

Welcome (back) to Miami Beach, ladies & gentlemen ... All One Song season II kicks off very very soon.

50 years ago tonight — Neil Young & Crazy Horse in Paris!

This new collab from Nick Millevoi and Zach Goldstein is both tightly wound and free-flowing, interlocking pieces coming together and breaking apart, almost simultaneously.

This is lovely FYI

Fifty years ago tonight in Hamburg — the only (?) time that Crazy Horse tackled "Last Trip To Tulsa." doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1728617...

87 degrees in March in Colorado, guess I’m listening to this

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Rochester. The arrest, the mugshot, and the too-often-forgotten woman whose life was nearly derailed by it all. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

I wrote the little essay accompanying this excellent new album — Mile High City guitar adventurism at its finest via Island House.

Great music writer Jennifer Kelly is facing huge medical bills to fight cancer there is a benefit concert this saturday at Union Pool, Brooklyn starting at 3-pm featuring beautiful musicians: Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera Myriam Gendron Sunburned Hand of the Man Gift Horse dice.fm/event/7dp5o6...

The roadwork drone on my street this morning is blending surprisingly well with Fahey's "Thus Krishna on the Battlefield"

"New blooms, risen from the ashes of empire.” Pentangle, live at the Fillmore East in 1969.

Can — live in Paris, March 1976. Complete flow state, interstellar krautboogie at its finest, pure elemental groove. Or as Irmin Schmidt said, “A lot of the time in the mid-70s we felt quite funky.”

San Francisco is outrageously nice this week.

50 years ago tonight — Neil Young & Crazy Horse bring the barstool blues to West Germany. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8114288...

Diving back into the Diamond Sea with Sonic Youth in March 1996. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8113382...

A beautiful solo piano album that can be slotted alongside heavyweights like Terry Riley’s Harp of New Albion, Harold Budd’s Perhaps, and even Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8112462...

Kicking off in about a half hour on dublab — the latest Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. Sweet jams. www.dublab.com/schedule/1g2...

Still the sickest performance ever broadcast on national TV. New transfer here: www.reddit.com/r/neilyoung/...

Happy Velvet Underground Guitar Amp Tape Day to all who celebrate.

Tomorrow night, 4-6pm EST — another fabulous edition of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. Tune in! www.dublab.com/schedule/1g2...

Out today — the new @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social LP is a thing of beauty.

Seems impossible but it's been eight years since we lost the guy playing bass here in our legendary band Forces At Work. Jesse was ridiculously talented — there wasn't anything he couldn't do (and do well). And just an incredibly nice person. The world is a lesser place without him.

I’m reading this local news digest in a Very David Byrne Voice

Neil just dropped a previously unheard five-song piano demo session from early 1971 on the Archives. It's extremely nice.

This latest Wet Tuna digital transmission is very very much worth your $6. 90+ minutes of deep-fried goodness.

Yo La Tengo captured in their natural habitat — an early 1990s record store.

Terrific remembrance of a Texas legend from @jerrydaviddecicca.bsky.social.

As All One Song season two draws ever nearer, let me remind you that this is awesome. chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

Still irritated I never got a chance to see Heron Oblivion but at least this exists.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - second night at Budokan, 50 years ago tonight. Some of this came out on the Odeon/Budokan release and elsewhere, but the whole audience tape is still a delight. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1859112...

Check out a sweet FM broadcast of Lucinda Williams (AKA "the female Bob Dylan") in 1991.