ginchy shit, 2017
ginchy shit, 2017
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
new or newish
Shintaro Sakamoto, Love If Possible (Zelone) *
The Feelies, In Between (Bar/None) *
Weird Al Qaida, Plastic Family (Feeding Tube)
Paul Simon, Stranger to Stranger (Concord) *
Six Organs of Admittance, Burning the Threshold (Drag City)
Julie Byrne, Not Even Loneliness (Ba Da Bing)
v/a, The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne (Scissor Tail)
Man Forever, Play What They Want (Thrill Jockey) ***
The Necks, Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
Ned Lagin, Sun Cats (no label)
The Big Drops, Bloom EP (no label)
Damaged Bug, Bunker Funk (Castle Face)
Jake Xerxes Fussell, What in the Natural World? (Paradise of Bachelors)
Luka Productions, Fasokan (Sahel Sounds)
v/a, Agrim Agadez – Musique Guitare De La Republique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)
Sexmob, Cultural Capital (Rex)
Joan Shelley, Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
Banana, Live EP (Leaving)
Heather Trost, Agistri (L-M Duplication)
Mushroom, Psychedelic Soul on Wax (Little Mafia)
Ogre You Asshole, Everythingsomethingnothing (P-Vine)
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Simultonality (Eremite) ***
Chuck Johnson, Balsams (VDSQ) ***
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa, Are Euphoria (Thrill Jockey)
Oneida, Live at Secret Project Robot (Safety Meeting) ***
Worthless, Life’s A Garden (Greenway) ***
Tricot, 3 (Topshelf)
Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Tack för Kaffet (Thanks for the Coffee) (Subliminal Sounds)
Peter Rowan, My Aloha! (Omnivore) ***
Happy Valley Band, Organvm Perceptvs (Indexical)
New Pope, Meet the New Pope (Shinkoyo) *
Kikagaku Moyo, Stone Garden EP (Guruguru Brain)
Guerilla Toss, GT ULTRA (DFA) *
James Elkington, Wintres Woma (Paradise of Bachelors) *
House and Land, House and Land (Thrill Jockey)
Anthony Pasquerosa, Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ)
Cornelius, Mellow Waves (Rostrum)
Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom, v. 33 (Steamroom)
Alex Cline’s Flower Garland Orchestra, Ocean of Vows (Cryptogramophone)
Ed Askew, Woodbine Street (no label)
Ross Goldstein, Inverted Jenny (Northern Spy)
Diente de Madera, Nadadura (no label)
Chuck Berry, Chuck (Decca)
Circuit des Yeux, Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice (Matador)
Avey Tare, Eucalyptus (Domino)
Roya, Roya (Burger)
The Mountain Goats, Goths (Merge)
Jane Weaver, Modern Kosmology (Fire)
Thor & Friends, The Subversive Nature of Kindness (L-M Duplication) *
David Rawlings, Poor David’s Almanack (Acony)
Deradoorian, Eternal Recurrence (Anticon)
Mr. Smolin, The Sooterkin Library (no label)
Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-Pagans, The Cambrian Era (Don Giovanni)
Chris Forsyth, Dreaming in the Non-Dream (No Quarter)
Bob Dylan, Triplicate (Columbia)
Deerhoof, Mountain Moves (Joyful Noise)
Jon Collin, Water and Rock Music, vol. 1 (Early)
Tanzania Albinism Collective, White African Power (Six Degrees) *
Joshua Abrams, Music For Life Itself & the Interrupters (Eremite)
Juana Molina, Halo (Crammed Discs)
OCS, Memory of a Cut Off Head (Castle Face)
Martin Rev, Demolition 9 (Atlas Realisations)
Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno, Finding Shore (Dead Oceans)
Total Control, Laughing at the System (Alter)
Bjork, Utopia (One Little Indian)
Contributors, Contributors (Monofonus)
Abrada, Ajate (no label)
ensemble, et. al, The Slow Reveal (no label)
Ed Askew, Art and Life (Drag City)
Gunn/Truscinki Duo, Bay Head (Three Lobed)
Élodie, Vieux Silence (Ideologic Organ)
singles/short-form/individual performances
Lambchop, “The Hustle Unlimited” (Merge)
XL Kings, “Coney Island” 7” (no label) *
Jim O’Rourke, “Calder Walk” (Whitney Museum)
Earth Girl Helen Brown, Mars cassette (Empty Cellar)
The Fugs, “Exorcism of the White House” (no label)
Joan Shelley, The Lagniappe Sessions (Aquarium Drunkard)
“Cacerolada for Catalan Independence – September 21, 2017”, recorded by Philip Sherburne (no label) *
Brian Wilson, “Run James Run” (Rhino)
Spray Paint + Ben Mackie, “Friendly Moving Man” 7” (12XU)
Superorganism, “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” (Domino)
The Breeders, “Wait In The Car” (no label)
Cornell Chimes, “Ripple” & “Uncle John’s Band” (no label)
Kevin Shields and Brian Eno, “Only Once Away My Son” (Cartoon Network) *
Wooden Wand, “Aurora” digital single (no label) *
a few album tracks (all ***)
“Cedars,” Oneida, Live at Secret Project Robot (Safety Meeting)
“Wanted Man,” Alvarius B, With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven (Abduction)
“Wayward Son”/”You Remind Me”/”Time Beyond Reason,” Mickey Hart feat. Avey Tare, R.A.M.U. (Verve Forecast)
“This Is My Country,” Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-Pagans, The Cambrian Era (Don Giovanni)
“Bury Me Deep,” Andre Williams, Don’t Ever Give Up (Bloodshot)
“Jump For Joy,” Jake Xerxes Fussell, What in the Natural World? (Paradise of Bachelors)
“Freedom Highway,” Deerhoof, Mountain Moves (Joyful Noise)
reissues/new old things
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill, The Moomins OST (Finders Keepers)
Anna Makirere, Tiare Avatea (Little Axe) ***
Shem Tupe, Justo Osala, & Enos Okola, Country Music of Western Kenya: 45s From the Archive of Shem Tupe (Olvido)
Grateful Dead, May 1977: Get Shown the Light (Rhino) ***
Beach Boys, Sunshine Tomorrow (Capitol) *
The Turtles, All the Singles (FloEdCo) *
v/a, Jon Savage’s 1967: The Year Pop Divided (Ace)
Can, The Singles (Mute/Spoon)
Grateful Dead/William Tyler, “Stealies in Earthquake Country” feedback mix (via Soundcloud)
Esther Suarez, La Bolognesina (Little Axe) ***
Santo & Johnny/Adrian Lerma, 1-hour “Sleepwalk” loop (no label)
Neil Young, Hitchhiker (Reprise) ***
Bob Dylan, Trouble No More (1979-1981) (Sony/Legacy) *
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Spooking the Horse, 1996-1997 (no label)
Gillian Welch, Treasures, 1996-2007 (no label)
Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Mix CDRs (no label) *
misc. new-to-me
Yannick Dauby, Songs of the Frogs of Taiwan (Kalerne)
Sun City Girls, “C.I.A. Man”
Worthless, All My Friends Are Stone (no label)
The Weavers, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Omega Classics) ***
The Bangles, Ladies & Gentlemen… (DownKiddie!) *
v/a, Bahamas 1935: Chanteys & Anthems from Andros & Cat (Rounder)
v/a, Songs For Political Action (Bear Family)
Michael Hurley, Armchair Boogie (Mississippi)
Elizabeth Cotten, Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar (Smithsonian Folkways) ***
live recordings
29 October 1983 The Feelies at Peppermint Lounge, NYC
16 September 2002 Jim O’Rourke, Japan
16 December 2016 Marisa Anderson at Beat Lounge, Chicago, IL
18 March 1967 Don Cherry/Jacques Thollot/Karl Berger, Maison de la Radio, Paris, FR
30 March 2017 Mary Lattimore at Monty Hall, Jersey City, NJ
24 June 2017 Sunwatchers at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
18 August 2017 Susan Alcorn/Ingrid Laubrock/Leila Bordreuil, I-Beam, Brooklyn, NY
8 September 2017 Chuck Johnson at King’s, Raleigh, NC (Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch) ***
23 October 2017 Geologist at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Neil Young & Crazy Horse bootlegs
15 November 1976 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL
22 November 1976 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Music Hall, Boston, MA
17 October 1986 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Met Center, Bloomington, MN
13 November 1990 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
20 January 2001 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Rock in Rio, BR
live
20 January – Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Rick Brown/Sue Garner/Georgia Hubley, Meg Baird at Black Cat, Washington, DC
21 January – Bread & Puppet, Women’s March, Washington, DC ***
22 January – Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo at Park Church Co-Op
25 January – Dump, Twigs of Sister Tomorrow at Union Pool
5 February – Alan Bishop at Union Pool
25 February – The Necks at Issue Project Room ***
28 February – Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo at Rough Trade ***
1 March – Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
19 March – Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia at Monty Hall, Jersey City, NJ
22 March – The Big Drops at the Meatlocker, Montclair, NJ
23 March – Yo La Tengo & guests at Town Hall
25 March – Mary Halvorson & Zeena Parkins at IBeam Gallery
30 March – Lambchop at Bowery Ballroom ***
1 April – Lambchop at U Street Music Wall, Washington, DC
5 April – XL Kings at Piano’s
12 April – Michael Hurley at Union Pool
16 April – Will Rigby & the Rogues of Rhythm at Union Pool
14 July – Oneida at Secret Project Robot
16 July – Sue Garner, House & Land at Union Pool front room
25 July – Phish at Madison Square Garden
2 August – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings at Beacon Theater
12 September – Sun Ra Arkestra at Ukrainian National Home ***
21 November – Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples at Beacon Theater
12 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
13 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
14 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
15 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
16 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
17 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
18 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
19 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom ***
Etc.
Women’s March, Washington DC, 1/21 ***
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory & Media Fandom by Abigail De Kosnik
automated voice transcription by Trint & others ***
MoPOP Conference, Seattle, WA, 4/20-4/23
Minneapolis Mayday Parade, 5/7 ***
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties by Fred Turner
Long Strange Trip directed by Amir Bar-Lev ***
Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald
Twin Peaks: The Return directed by David Lynch ***
Nobel Prize acceptance speech by Bob Dylan, 4 June 2017
Scott Warmuth & co. on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize acceptance, 6/17
Egersund Festival, Egersund, Norway, 7/17
Stranger Things, season 2
Roots, Radicals, & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
Defense Against Squares by Byron Coley
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
