glad to see so much Deal appreciation. here's the Breeders' 64 Quartets piece from a while back, if interested: 64quartets.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/2...
DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST (+) Dudes to the back: The Breeders play for Snub TV while making Pod in Edinburgh, January 1990 As origin stories go, it’s a goo…
this is shaping up to be one of the all-time lousy years for me, but at least I'm seeing the Mekons tonight.
Mekons!
RIP Duane Michals www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
Excellent psychogeography here.
The Doctor regenerates as Delia Derbyshire played by Aimee Lou Wood
I think this is because people misunderstand Rollins as the questing post-bebop improviser, wringing a million variations out of a melody, while overlooking his calypso and R&B sides and failing to recognize that he was always a Riff-Based Man. Jazz's current riff champ? James Brandon Lewis.
today on Don't Rock The Inbox, a very special guest post from @willgroff.bsky.social about the Pistol Annies going viral on TikTok (?!) www.dontrocktheinbox.com/pistol-annie...
This week's Scratch is all about poetry (we haven't forgotten you, poets!). Read @latriagraham.bsky.social on ekphrastic writing, the freelance grind, and trying to make space for play when one's relationship to their work has been transactional for too long.
It's sad to see Ardent shut down. Ardent was the most important and successful studio in Memphis, beginning in the late 1960s. I spent a lot of time there and have many fine memories. I loved that the studio and my hometown were a magnet for so many artists.
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I wrote a thing about Backrooms, Us, the underground labyrinths of the Bay Area where I grew up, AI slopplegangers, and what's really lurking underneath Silicon Valley.
It's my first for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
okay let’s hear your wildest Doctor Who reboot pitches
Was talking to a saxophonist yesterday about how there are so many John Coltrane imitators (for lack of a better word), but so few for Sonny Rollins. i adore Coltrane, so this is not a slight on him, but more to say that Rollins has always been harder to replicate as he pulled in so many elements
