This week's packed Nowhere Street newsletter gets into Bill Orcutt/ Ethan Miller / Steve Shelley, Judith Berkson, Kaja Draksler, Karen Ng, and Oker. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
screenshot from spotify newsletter: "Books have always moved with us, whether tucked in our bags or humming in our headphones. With audiobooks, Spotify is building new ways to bring our favorite stories along for the ride."
can someone tell Spotify's head of audiobooks (no background in books, has worked in product there for 15 years) that a book being carried around in a bag is not actually being read? reading starts once you sit down, open the book & direct your attention to the page w/o distractions. hope this helps
This week's Nowhere Street newsletter checks in on Margareth Kammerer, Christian Wallumrød & Jan Martin Gismervik, and Maria Bertel. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Nowhere Street newsletter digs into new Norwegian sounds from Håvard Wiik & Cimota and Karoline Wallace, post-ICP goodness via These Things Happen, bass-electronics collisions from Antti Virtaranta, and a fresh Berlin visit from John Butcher. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter discusses new work by Melissa Aldana, Egil Kalman, and Hz of Gold, a trio with Devin Gray, Andrea Parkins, and Frank Gratkowski. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Inside The Wire 506: Mariá Portugal
Since moving to Germany, the Brazilian percussionist has become a valued player on the free improv scene, while her art-pop songs pay homage to the creativity of her homeland's Vanguarda Paulista movement.
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This week's Nowhere Street digs into sounds from Zosha Warpeha, Jana Horn, and Joan Shelley. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
This month's edition of the contemporary music column at Bandcamp Daily includes music from Rytis Mažulis, Ryan Scott, Anzû Quartet, Riot Ensemble, Mariel Roberts, Andrew Greenwald, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Arnold Dreyblatt, Miroslav Beinhauer, and Jack Dettling. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
This week's Nowhere Street includes thoughts on the superb debut album from Craig Taborn's trio with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith, as well as shows by Diatribes & Clara Levy, and the trio of Otomo Yoshihide/Tom Malmendier/Emilie Škrijelj. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
This week's edition of Nowhere Street previews Berlin concerts by Seamus Cater & Fredrik Rasten, and Amalie Dahl's trio with Henrik Sandstad Dalen and Jomar Jeppsson Søvik. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
If it clarifies what was lost this week:
Philip Kennicott and Monica Hesse remain as arts critics at The Washington Post
Eliminated:
art critic
arts editor
arts/film editor
classical critic
pop critic
television critic
theater critic
all editors/reporters in Book World including two book critics
ffirst contemporary music column of 2026 over Bandcamp Daily. Music from Jack Sheen, JACK Quartet & Morton Feldman & GBSR duo, Emily Manzo, Devin Maxwell, Cergio Prudencio, Peter Beyls, Quatuor Mémoire, Ensemble neoN & Benedicte Maurseth, and Tyshawn Sorey. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Finally cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription.
Thanks much to Bill Meyer and the @chicagoreader.com for this typically thoughtful preview of the 10th edition of Frequency Festival, which runs from February 24-March to in Chicago! chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
This week's edition of Nowhere Street check out recent music from the Dan Weiss Quartet and sprawling homemade charm of Sholto Dobie. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
A packed edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter with thoughts on Tortoise, Bill Frisell, Philipp Gropper, Achim Kaufmann/Yorgos Dimitriadis/Michael Thieke, and Nicolas Collins & Birgit Ulher. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
This week's Nowhere Street looks at some ancient instruments that will sound at this year's CTM Festival from Ellen Arkbro and Lukas De Clerck. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Which is not to make light of this fuckery.
The time is ripe for the Boots Randolph revival.
This week's Nowhere Street newsletter observes Berlin getting back into action, with previews of performances by Ricardo Dias Gomes, Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang, and Johannes Fink's Fink Floyd. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Inside The Wire 503/504: Anna Högberg
An exciting future for her group Attack was shelved when caring responsibilities and psychological burnout took hold. Now the Swedish saxophonist is setting out for new horizons with her epic composition Ensamseglaren
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Today's special edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter is part two of my rundown of my 40 favorite albums from 2025. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Today's special edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter is part one of my rundown of my 40 favorite albums from 2025. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
The first Nowhere Street newsletter in 2026 looks at Roland Keijser & Christer Bothén, with a preview of Stop Over featuring Brandon Lopez & Fred Moten, Yuhan Su, Kaja Draksler & Irena Z. Tomazin, and Lorenzo Soules with Apparat. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
The final missive from Nowhere Street in 2025 lends an ear to Sophie Agnel, Saviet/Houston Duo, Schnell (w/ Pierre Borel, Christian Lillinger, and Antonio Borghini), and the Christian Marien Quartett). It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
Tonight at 7 PM EST (and 1 AM in Berlin!) I’m part of a roundtable hosted by Nate Chinen with Ayana Contreras and Martin Johnson. It’s the annual Year in Jazz discussion that Nate has long organized. It’s free but you need to register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...?
I’ve already corrected my erroneous labeling of Serbian pianist Marina Džukljev as Slovenian to you adroit fact-checkers! Apologies to Marina.
