"In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you."

Latest from me: on Listening Position's reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran's 1993 album African Skies, one of the deepest post-1970s spiritual jazz records. Features two double basses, two harps, lots of percussion, cornet, voice and the Frankiphone, an electrified kalimba that Cohran built himself.

That Doug cover! Are they officially done? Seems like about time for another record/tour.

Augie Meyers, Founding Member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, Dies - Best Classic Bands Augie Meyers, a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet who later re-teamed with that band's leader Doug Sahm to form the Tejano supergroup Texas Tornados, died on March 7, 2026.

Farewell to the great Augie Meyers, founding member and keyboardist for both the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornadoes and a genuine Lone Star legend.

Country Joe McDonald 1942-2026

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

We've Got A File On You: Bill Callahan We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, e...

Had the privilege of interviewing Bill Callahan about another masterful album and a whole lot more

Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Update thus far: we have raised nearly $2,500, which is being distributed to the National Immigrant Justice Center & the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

@centripetalforce.bsky.social ♥️

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One of my favorite LPs of the past few years

A party scene from Mash featuring a character holding an Alice Coltrane album

Alice Coltrane's PTAH, THE EL DAOUD (Impulse, 1970) in an episode of M*A*S*H

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Jennifer Kelly (@aquariumdrunkard.com, Dusted) needs our help. Underground music heads, please join me in chipping in.

Cecil Taylor and Andre Cyrille at Fondation Maeght in 1969. Photograph by Guy Kopelowicz.

Marion Brown at his New York City home in 1965. Photograph by Guy Kopelowicz.

Been remiss posting this bc I don’t have a ton of reach here...

To commemorate his passing in October, Point of Departure published the full transcript of my 2005 interview with photographer Guy Kopelowicz re the 60s avant-garde jazz scenes in NYC and Paris pointofdeparture.org/PoD93/PoD93K...

I feel like The Killing gets screened in town about every year and I try to make it. Hope that happens again soon!

2016: Toni Erdmann
2006: Children of Men
1996: Fargo
1986: Down By Law
1976: Harlan County USA
1966: Andrei Rublov
1956: The Killing
1946: Panique
1936: Las Bas-Fonds
1926: The General

Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’ Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night. The bandit Santas later released a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling cost of living crisis that has pushed basic necessities increasingly out of reach for ordinary Canadians. Continue reading...

Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

tweet from bng capital about someone buying options related to the westinghouse nuclear deal

The DOJ is investigating unusual NBA prop betting, but it seems to me that insider trading coming out of the White House is a much much bigger problem.

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Written in collaboration with Barry Walker, Rob Smith, and Jason Willmon. Listen to Quiessence, Leaving Lower Big Basin, and A Trip Into Town now, and check out a physical copy on Opaque Red LP or CD!

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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

MYRiAM GENDRON iN PARiS YouTube video by EAR FiLM

Un américain à Paris, Cole Mitchek, a créé cette belle vidéo de Myriam Gendron lors de son dernier passage là-bas. Un moment hors du temps.
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An american in Paris, Cole Mitchek, created this beautiful video of Myriam last time she was there. An out-of-time moment.
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Yes! More brunch gigs, especially for the moms and dads.

I hadn’t thought about Fellini, the cafe bar next to Satyricon, for along time before reading this article. I remember Jackie-O Motherfucker playing weekly brunch sessions for a while there in the early 2000s. What a place.

Woody, from a letter to his son.

1970s black and white photo of Robert Redford leaning against a brick wall wearing sunglasses and reading High Country News magazine.

RIP GOAT

Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

I subconsciously chose to listen to this last weekend while cleaning up the mess my dead garage fridge left and it was perfect.

That one’s on the designer. W is the key to toggle between the column grid and preview mode in InDesign. Generally you wouldn’t be in the text box, but if you are…!

Pretty sure I remember reading they were roommates