ginchy shit, 2016
ginchy shit, 2016
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
new or newish
David Bowie, Blackstar (Columbia) *
Airhorn Orchestra, performances no. 4-29 (no label) *
Wand, 1000 Days (Drag City)
Tortoise, The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)
Arklight, Eternal Life in New York City (Phase!)
Glenn Jones, Fleeting (Drag City)
Billy Talbot Band, Dakota (Vapor)
Glenn Kotche/So Percussion, Drumkit Quartets (Nonesuch)
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band, The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
Guerilla Toss, Eraser Stargazer (DFA)
Cross Record, Wabi-Sabi (Ba Da Bing)
Cian Nugent, Night Fiction (Woodsist)
Rangda, The Heretic’s Bargain (Drag City)
v/a, Waywards & Meansigns: Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake Set To Music (no label)
Tristan Perich, Noise Patterns (Physical Editions)
Matmos, Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey) *
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, I Long To See You (Blue Note)
Mary Lattimore, Luciferin’ (Kit)
Skeletons, Am I Home? (Shinkoyo)
Steve Kimock, Last Danger of Frost (no label)
Chris Abrahams, Fluid to the Influence (room40)
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Manhattan (Rough Trade)
Parquet Courts, Human Performance (Rough Trade)
Cate Le Bon, Crab Day (Drag City) *
v/a, Day of the Dead (4AD)
Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni, Les Filles De Illighadad (Sahel Sounds) ***
Sarah Louise, VDSQ Solo Acoustic, v. 12 (VDSQ) ***
Owiny Sigoma Band, Nyanza (Brownswood)
Steve Gunn, Eyes on the Lines (Matador)
Praed, The Fabrication of Silver Dreams (Annihaya)
The Dwarfs of East Agoza, Bes (Nawa)
Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour, Hurtling Through (no label)
v/a, Uchronia: Field Recordings From Alternate Realities (Sahel Sounds)
v/a, Songs To Fill the Air: Avant-Ghetto 2016 WFMU Marathon Premium (no label) ***
M. Geddes Gengras, Interior Architecture (Intercoastal Artists) *
Iggy Pop, Post-Pop Depression (Loma Vista)
Jackie Lynn, Jackie Lynn (Thrill Jockey)
Psychic Temple, Plays Music For Airports (no label) *
Bob Dylan, Fallen Angels (Sony/Columbia) ***
Marisa Anderson, Into the Light (Chaos Kitchen) ***
Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool (no label) *
Odwalla88, Earth Flirt (Ooga Booga)
Hallelujah the Hills, A Band Is Something to Figure Out (Re-Vinyl)
Deakin, Sleep Cycle (no label)
Brian Eno, The Ship (Warp)
Woods, City Sun Eater in the River of Light (Woodsist)
v/a, New Songs of the Humpback Whale (Important)
v/a, Blonde on Blonde Revisited (Mojo)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Nonagon Infinity (ATO)
William Tyler, Modern Country (Merge) *
v/a, An Electrical Storm (Aetheric)
The Monkees, Good Times! (Rhino) *
Itasca, Open to Chance (Paradise of Bachelors)
The Julie Ruin, Hit Reset (Hardly Art)
Susan Alcorn, Evening Tales (Mystra) *
Ultimate Painting, Dusk (Trouble in Mind)
People of the North, The Caul (Thrill Jockey)
Wilco, Schmilco (dBpm)
Buck Curran, Immortal Light (Obsolete) *
Lambchop, FLOTUS (Merge) ***
Robert Hunter, Gravity’s Rainbow (no label) ***
Peter Stampfel and the Lower Manhattan Banjo/Mandolin Swarm, Holiday For Strings (Don Giovanni) *
Oneida and Rhys Chatham, What’s Your Sign (Northern Spy)
Ytamo, Mi Wo (Someone Good)
v/a, Golden Tears (Ruusu)
WOLF, 1-800-WOLF! (Royal Potato Family)
Horse Lords, Interventions (Northern Spy) *
Joe Westerlund, Mojave Interlude (Northern Spy)
v/a, You’re Not Invited: New Zealand’s Underground, 2010-2015, v. 1 (no label)
Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker (Columbia) ***
Daniel Lanois, Goodbye To Language (Anti-)
MV & EE, Root/Void (Woodsist)
Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
Neil Young, EARTH (Reprise)
Neil Young, Peace Trail (Reprise)
Eric Copeland, Black Bubblegum (no label)
Zomba Prison Project, I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees) ***
Ryley Walker, Golden Songs That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans) *
The Special Pillow, At the Earth’s Core (Zokfko)
Yo La Tengo, Murder in the Second Degree (Egon)
Tom Carter & Loren Connors, untitled (Family Vineyard)
Thor and Friends, Thor and Friends (LM Dupli-Cation)
Ignatz, The Drain (Feeding Tube)
G.W. Sok, Listen to the Painters (Tractor No-Town)
Ali Baletic, Legends of These Lands Left to Live (Lightning)
Tim Presley, The Wink (Drag City)
Hush Arbors, Albion Way EP (no label)
Dieterich & Barnes, The Coral Casino (LM Dupli-Cation)
Tobokegao, Picnic (Cheapbeats)
Shirley Collins, Lodestar (Domino) *
Tyvek, Origin of What (In the Red)
Chris Forsyth, Soft Paranoid Solar Rundown (Lightning)
Foodman, Ez Minzoku (Orange Mllk)
Ted Byrnes & William Hutston, 01 (no label)
singles/short-form/individual performances
“Mahaganapathim,” The Mandolin Sisters (via YouTube)
“Rainbow Hut,” (¯`·._.· KEIJUT ·._.·´¯) (via Soundcloud)
“Back in the U.S.S.R.,” The Beatles/The White Album x 1000, Rutherford Chang (via Soundcloud)
“Murdered-Out,” Kim Gordon (Matador, via Soundcloud)
“In A Cloud” 7-inch, Nighttime Sunshine (no label)
“Sac & Fox Prayer Song,” Mark McGuire (via Soundcloud) *
“Queen Victoria,” Myriam Gendron (via YouTube) *
“Payapaya,” Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa (Singles Club)
“Monty Python’s Argument Sketch performed with two vintage speech synthesizers,” Per Kristian Risvik (via YouTube)
“Coming Home Again,” Kracky (Numero Group, via Soundcloud) ***
misc. Soundcloud tracks, djwwww
“Only Dogs Know,” Reorder Narcotic (no label) ***
a few album tracks
“If I Had the World to Give,” Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie, on Day of the Dead (4AD) ***
“I’m Set Free,” Brian Eno, on The Ship (Warp) ***
“Me & Magdalena,” The Monkees, on Good Times! (Rhino) ***
“Yonder Blue,” Tortoise feat. Georgia Hubley, on The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey) ***
“I Don’t Know,” Dog Chocolate, on Snack Fans (Upset the Rhythm) ***
“In Care of 8675309,” Lambchop, on FLOTUS (Merge) ***
“You Want It Darker,” Leonard Cohen, on You Want It Darker (Columbia) ***
reissues/new old things
v/a, Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music (Numero Group) *
Allen Ginsberg, Last Word on First Blues (Omnivore)
The Beach Boys, Party! Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) ***
Sonic Youth, The Spinhead Sessions (Goofin’)
v/a, Imaginational Anthem, v. 8: The Private Press (Tompkins Square) *
v/a, Sky Girl (Efficient Space) *
v/a, Sharon Signs to Cherry Red: Independent Women, 1978-1985 (RPM) ***
Chris Knox, KnoxTraxFine (Thokei Tapes) ***
Gillian Welch, Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony)
Hart Valley Drifters, Folk Time (ATO) *
v/a, Small Town Country, v. 1 (Light in the Attic) ***
Washington Phillips, Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-to-Digital)
v/a, Outside Llewyn: Folk Music Before the ‘Revival’ (Shrunken Planet WFMU Marathon Premium 2016) (no label)
Mistress Mary, Housewife (Companion)
The Clean, Getaway (Merge)
v/a, Afterschool Special: The ABCS of Kid-Soul (Numero Group)
Grateful Dead, Dave’s Picks, v. 18: 17 July 1976 Orpheum Theatre (Grateful Dead) ***
v/a, Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions, 1964-1971 (Ace)
v/a, Sing California: Buddy Emmons in Los Angeles, 1968-1974 (Aquarium Drunkard) *
Hampton Grease Band, 5 July 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival (no label)
John Bender, I Don’t Remember Now/I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Superior Viaduct)
Julius Eastman, Femenine (Frozen Reeds) *
Grateful Dead, “Wandering Man,” undated 1966 demo (no label) *
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester, Farewell Aldebaran (Omnivore)
misc. new-to-me
v/a, Harafin So: Bollywood Inspired Film Music from Hausa Nigeria (Sahel Sounds) *
Marshall Allen & John Medeski, 18 July 2000, Tonic, NYC (no label)
Eddy Detroit, Immortal Gods (Pan)
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez, “A Pirate Looks at 40,” 6 June 1982, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA *
Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band, 15 February 2011, Shea Stadium (no label) *
Jerry Garcia Band, “I Want To Tell You > Brothers and Sisters,” 6 March 1976 Moore Theater, Seattle, WA *
The Electronic Hole, The Electronic Hole (Radish)
Moe Tucker & Doug Yule, “Rock & Roll,” 18 October 1969 End of Cole Avenue
David Bowie, “America,” 20 October 2001 Madison Square Garden (no label) ***
TV Girl, “Benny and the Jetts,” on Our First Two EPs (no label) ***
live recordings
4 August 2015 – Jim O’Rourke at NHK Fureai Hall, Tokyo
21 November 2015 – New Pope at Trans Pecos
1 April – Yo La Tengo & Lambchop at Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, TN (Big Ears Festival) *
12 May – Klaus John Grobe at Shea Stadium
30 May – Itasca – live on Avant Ghetto, WFMU ***
7 August – Mary Halvorson & Susan Alcorn at the Stone ***
8 September – Lambchop at Fletcher Opera House, Raleigh, NC (Hopscotch Festival) ***
30 November – The Necks at Bimhaus, Amsterdam, NL *
live (# / also live recording available)
16 January – Guerilla Toss at Shea Stadium
3 February – William Tyler at Union Pool
5 February – Dave Mies & Mary Lattimore at Trans Pecos * #
17 February – Yo La Tengo & Alvin Lucier at Kaufmann Center *
11 March – Oneida at Shea Stadium * #
17 March – Trimbin Band at Kaufmann Center
19 March – Chris Forsyth at Trans Pecos #
24 March – The Necks at Whitney Museum ***
9 April – Yo La Tengo at Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre, Jersey City, NJ * #
14 April – Ween at Terminal 5
17 April – Anthony Pasquarosa/Laura Baird/Glenn Jones at Union Pool
14 May – New York Guitar Festival at the Cloisters
30 July – Oneida at Secret Project Robot #
7 August – Woods, 75 Dollar Bill, Cian Nugent at Baby’s Alright *
10 August – Chris Forsyth & Loren Connors at Secret Project Robot * #
14 September – Lambchop & Yo La Tengo at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, PA ***
23 September – Myriam Gendron at The Sump ***
3 November – Ryley Walker at Villain *** #
12 November – Oneida & Rhys Chatham at Park Church Co-Op
30 December – Phish at Madison Square Garden #
etc.
Dark Star: Abstraction & Chaos at Planthouse, 7 April-10 May
The Sunshine Makers directed by Cosmo Feilding
The World Series
The New York Mets
Grateful Dead night at Clem’s, Brooklyn, NY
Horizons Conference, NYC
Workingman’s Dead by Buzz Poole
Hippie Modernism edited by Andrew Blauvelt
Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith
The Rose of Paracelsus by Leonard Pickard
Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr
Judas! From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall by Clinton Heylin
Original Rockers by Richard King
Slade House by David Mitchell
Punk Ethnography: Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies edited by Michael E. Veal & E. Tammy Kim
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