Above: Éliane Radigue LOVED: Bonnie “Prince” Billy & the Marquis du Tren – Get on Jolly EP (2000) Harald Grosskopf…
Category: Monthly Listening
Above: John Lee Hooker wondering where all these guys with beards came from WAS SUPER DOWN: John Lee Hooker &…
Above: Bonnie “Prince” Billy. I was introduced to Will Oldham more than 10 years ago live at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass,…
Above: Sparks, whose unwholesome, Moroder-assisted disco masterpiece No. 1 in Heaven blew my mind this month BLEW MY MIND Sparks –…
Above: Nick Cave, whose Boatman’s Call was one of the albums I heard for the first time that I enjoyed most in…
Above: “Blue” Gene Tyranny, whose dazzlingly empathetic and spiritual Out of the Blue is the best album I heard for…
Above: Julian Lynch. LOVED Bohren & der Club of Gore – Sunset Mission (2000) Celer – Alcoves (2017) Dirty Beaches…
Above: Bunny Wailer, whose Blackheart Man is one of those albums I want the whole world to feel what I’m feeling when…
Above: Portland punk legends Team Dresch This month I mostly listened to Loren Connors, Larry Heard, and Sade. One development…
Above: Playboi Carti I didn’t listen to much music this month. What I enjoyed was mostly crude and noisy. LOVED:…
Above: Nobukazu Takemura, the Japanese composer behind two of the albums I enjoyed most this month. LOVED 2 8 1…
Above: Bruce Springsteen in Oslo, 2016. Photo by Stian Schløsser Møller. BLEW MY MIND Magma – Attahk (1977) LOVED Mike Cooper…
Pictured: William Basinski at the Empty Bottle in Chicago For several years now, I’ve been posting monthly roundups of the…
Pictured: Harry Nilsson in the 1974 musical Son of Dracula. That’s Nilsson doing the Dracula thing; to his right is Ringo…
Pictured: Mouse on Mars For several years now, I’ve been posting monthly roundups of the music I’ve been listening to…