ginchy shit, 2025
ginchy shit, 2025
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick@heads.social / @bourgwick.bsky.social
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
double-asterisk – I’ll figure out what 2 stars means one of these years
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
newish
Ever Lovin’ Jug Band, Move That Thing (Jalopy) *
Ikue Mori, John Zorn’s Bagatelles (Tzadik)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Old Hard & Marvelous (Drag City)
David Lynch & Chrystabell, Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
Adrianne Lenker, Bright Future (4AD)
Being Dead, Eels (Bayonet)
The Submissives, Live at Value Sound Studios (Celluloid Lunch) ***
Vumbi Dekula, Congo Guitar (Hive Mind) ***
SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem) ***
Josh Johnson, Unusual Object (International Anthem)
Fuli Miziki, Mokano EP (no label) *
new
Onilu, Onilu (Eremite)
Tom Borax, Hot Starlight Loosens Upholstery (no label)
Alvarius B., That’s How I Got To Memphis (& Other Egyptian Love Songs) (Via Piragi) *
Isaiah Collier/William Parker/William Hooker, The Ancients (Eremite)
Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk’)
Ed Kuepper & Jim White, After the Flood (12XU)
Kroba, Work It Out (no label)
Domestic Drafts, Only the Singer (no label)
Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On (Matador)
The Moles, Composition Book (Splendid Research)
William Tyler, Time Indefinite (Psychic Lines) *
Daniel Bachman, Through the Light (no label) *
Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes, Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes (International Anthem) ***
v/a, Tsapiky Music From Southwest Madagascar (Sublime Frequencies)
Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Flam (Three Lobed)
Brian Eno, Aurum (Apple Music)
The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex)
Brigid Mae Power, Songs For You (Watusi) ***
Penn Bryce, Feel Free (no label) *
Panda Bear, Sinister Grift (Domino)
Dew Claw, E.L.F. (Dromedary)
Elijah Minnelli, Perpetual Musket (Breadminster County Council) ***
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, @ Constellation, May 3, 2024 (HausLive) ***
Guilherme Granado Goat Unity, Ghost Parades (Keroxen) *
Neil Young, Coastal Soundtrack [redacted mix] (Neil Young Archives)
Penza Penza, Hang Loose! I Got Dem Ol’ Surfer Bloos… (Funk Night)
Willie Nelson, Oh What A Beautiful World (Legacy)
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane’s Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa, N’Djila Wa Mudujimu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) *
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, Live In Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop) ***
Modern Nature, The Heat Warps (Bella Union) *
Peter Rowan, Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce (no label)
James Elkington, Pastel De Nada (No Quarter)
Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
Peter Stampfel, Friends, & Daughters, Song Shards (Jalopy) ***
Jonathan Richman, Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow)
Matt Valentine, Grateful (no label)
Water Damage, Live at Le Guess Who? (12XU) *
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin, Ghosted III (Drag City) *
Motherfuckers JMB & Co., Music Excitement Action Beauty (Outre National)
Dwarfs of East Agouza, Tropic of Taurus: Dwarfs of East Agouza in Shenzhen (Old Heaven Books)
Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
Page McConnell, Something Will Land (Keyed)
Johnny Richards & Dave King, The New Awkward (False Door) *
Ensemble Nist-Nah, Spilla (Black Truffle)
Dougie Poole, At Tubby’s (Wharf Cat) ***
Barry Walker Unit, At the 13th Moon Gravity Well (no label) ***
Marshall Allen, Omniverse Orki (High Two) *
Tera Tera, Tera Tera (Hyperjazz) *
Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) *
Ringo Starr, Look Up (Universal)
Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override (dBpm)
Mahlathini and The Mahotella Queens, Buya Buya: Come Back (Umsakazo) *
Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current)
Dagmar Zuniga, in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music (People’s Coalition of Tandy) *
Lagoss & Abagwagwa, Island Slang (no label)
Oren Ambarchi & Fredrik Rasten, Dragon’s Return (Black Truffle)
Michael Hurley, Broken Homes & Gardens (No Quarter)
Setting, At Public Records (no label) *
Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords, FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field (RVNG)
Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival: They Shall Take Up Serpents (Sublime Frequencies)
Discreet Charms, Delivery Model Stateholder Meeting (no label)
The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide (Constellation)
Zachary Cale, Love’s Work (no label)
Taper’s Choice, Prog Hat (no label)
The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Scree, August (Ruination Record Co.)
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s (Eat Your Own Ears)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka, Hiraeth (Unsound)
The Modern Folk, MF (no label)
Geese, Getting Killed (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
Bonnie Dobson & the Hanging Stars, Dreams (Loose)
Joe Westerlund, Curiosities From the Shift (Psychic Hotline) *
Jantar, Acqua Vergine (no label)
Sonny & the Sunsets, The Diving Kind (no label) *
Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Live at Tubby’s (Eiderdown)
Shrunken Elvis, Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl)
Nobukazu Takemura, knot of meanings (Thrill Jockey) *
Walter Willy, Cinturões de Van Halen (Chupa Manga) *
Golden Brown, Patterner (Inner Islands)
Juana Molina, DOGA (Sonamos)
Steve Gunn, Daylight Daylight (No Quarter)
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Different Rooms (International Anthem)
Tortoise, Touch (International Anthem)
أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama’a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
Bill Orcutt, Another Perfect Day (Palilia)
Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum, in lichem fol beloften (Makkum)
Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Wiretaps For Oral (Disciples)
Willie Nelson, Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy)
SML, How You Been (International Anthem) ***
Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
Sharp Pins, Balloon Balloon Balloon (K/Perennial)
Wreckless Eric, England Screaming (Tapete)
Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Rebuilding (Fat Possum)
Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba, kwaNTU (Mushroom Hour Half Hour/New Soil)
Thor & Friends, Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise)
Meat Puppets, Up on the Sun 2022 MegaMix (no label)
singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
SUSS, “This Land Is Your Land” (Northern-Spy)
“It’s Gonna Rain Through Adobe Speech Enhance”/”I Am Sitting In A Room Through Adobe Speech Enhance,” Chromosaturation Interior (no label)
Rock Candy, “Swimming In” (Carbon)
Marisa Anderson & Luke Schneider, “First Bounce Fly Fly Fly” (Across the Horizon)
Utena Kobayashi & Motion Graphics, “Glossolalia”/”Sanka” (Domino)
BASIC, Dream City EP (No Quarter)
Julian Mark, “Bob Dylan’s Entire Discography But It’s Just the Word…” (no label)
Brigid Mae Power, Silver Strand Tapes (no label)
Will Rigby, Coincidence +3 (no label)
Coca Leaves & Pearls, All One Song (no label)
Evan Shornstein & Booker Stardrum, Rafting / Tall Grass (Extravagant Frequencies)
Wet Tuna, Sound Dimension: FMB (Child of Microtones)
reissues/newish old things
Cranberry Lifecycle, Cranberry Mixdown (no label)
Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition) (Nonesuch)
v/a, The Original Sound of Mali, v. 2 (Mr. Bongo)
v/a, Zulu Guitar Blues – Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (Matsuli) ***
W. Cullen Hart & Andrew Rieger, Leap Through Poisoned Air (Orange Twin)
Woody Guthrie, At Home, v. 1 & 2 (Shamus) *
Alick Nkhata, Radio Lusaka (Mississippi) *
Grupo Amigos, Paloma Mensajera (Munster) *
Ween, Shinola 1.5 (no label)
Jim O’Rourke, An Absolute Drag (no label)
v/a, Peripheral Vision: Bands Of Loisaida (Zoar)
v/a, Mr. Baxter EP + All Rarities From Lost Haledon (no label)
Les Rallizes Dénudés, Jittoku ‘76 (Temporal Drift)
Paris 1942, Paris 1942 (Superior Viaduct)
misc. new-to-me
Garth Hudson, Music For Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Buscador EGH)
Robert Wyatt, Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Artisan Acetate (no label)
The Only Ones, Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Holger Czukay, Movies (Electrola)
Bantou Mentale, Bantou Mentale (Glitterbeat)
Rico Rodriguez, Waireeka Dub (Ghetto Rockers)
True Believers, Accept It! EP (New Age)
Peter Laughner, Fat City Jive (Smog Veil)
Michael Karoli & Polly Eltes, Deluge (Spoon)
v/a, Cool Cats Invasion (Highlife, Juju & Palm-wine) (Moochin’ About)
Robert Fripp, God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners (E.G.)
live recordings
Magic Tuber String Band, 10 August 2024, Deep in the Valley, Red Hook, NY
Dickey Betts & the Great American Music Show, 14 December 1974 Winterland, San Francisco, CA
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, 25 July 2024 Headliners Music Hall, Louisville, KY
Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller, 19 November 2024 Tubby’s, Kingston, NY
Neil Young & the Friends & Relatives, 12 August 2000 Great Woods, Mansfield, MA
Kafka’s Ibiki, 8 February 2025 Sala dei Giganti, Padova, IT
Prairiewolf, 3 May 2025 Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Boulder, CO
Raphael Rogiński feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė & Shahzad Ismaily, 9 November 2024 Le Guess Who at Pieterskerk Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Elkhorn, 26 April 2025 Thawed Out Fest, Chicago, IL
Flower-Corsano Duo, 12 July 2025 Curious Ear, Manchester, UK
SML, 29 March 2025 The Standard, Knoxville, TN
Booker Stardrum Trio, 3 March 2020 Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
Yo La Tengo with Jon Graboff, 3 May 2025 Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM
Jeremiah Chiu/Alexander DePlume/Gregory Uhlmann, 29 March 2025 Boyd’s Jig & Reel, Knoxville, TN
Phish, 26 July 2025 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sex Pistols, 19 September 1977 Club Zebra, Kristinehamn, SE
Nico feat. John Gilmore, 26 September 1980 Squat Theatre, NYC
Loose Fur, 6 December 2002 St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
Bob Dylan, 1 August 2025 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY ***
Bob Dylan, 16 November 2025 SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Scotland
Bob Dylan, 17 November 2025 SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Scotland
Oneida, 21 June 2008 Terrastock 7, Louisville, KY
live
1 January – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
15 January – Taper’s Choice & Friends & Casual Acquaintances at Brooklyn Bowl
20 January – anti-inaugural reading of “The Descent of Alette” at St. Marks on the Bowery
26 January – Dave’s Waves at Sunview Luncheonette
8 February – Bill Frisell’s In My Dreams at Roulette
14 February – 75 Dollar Bill at Property Is Theft
17 February – Beck at Bowery Ballroom
1 March – Natural Information Society feat. Patricia Brennan at the Kitchen at Westbeth
5 March – William Parker & Marc Ribot at Nublu Classic
25 March – أحمد [Ahmed] at Roulette
7 May – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings at Carnegie Hall
14 May – Sleepy Doug Shaw, Prison at Union Pool
5 June – TAKAAT at TV Eye
11 June – Marc Ribot & Shahzad Ismaily at Roulette
20 July – Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Emergency Group at Mama Tried
27 July – William Parker/Daniel Carter/Cooper-Moore at Sultan Room
1 August – Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Wilco at Jones Beach
8 August – Bonnie Prince Billy at Pioneer Works
9 August – Johnson/Uhlmann/Wilkes at Public Records
10 August – Elkorn, Kerlin/Cordero Group at Valentino Pier
23 August – Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts at Jones Beach
12 September – The Feelies at Music Hall of Williamsburg
13 September – Oneida at Sueffert Bandshell
13 September – Chicago Underground Duo at Public Records
23 September – Sir Richard Bishop, Ryley Walker & Scott Colberg at Union Pool
13 October – Natural Information Society at Roulette
17 October – Brian Chase/Lee Ranaldo/David Watson at Roulette
22 October – Duets With the BQE (Little Black Egg, Geologist, Peter Kerlin, Sandy Ewen) at Mama Tried
24 October – John Medeski & Ikue Mori at The Stone
12 November – Wolf on Drugs at Mama Tried
23 November – Sharp Pins, Robyn Hitchcock at Bowery Ballroom
25 November – improv at Roulette
1 December – Patricia Brennan at Roulette
5 December – 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band at P.I.T.
12 December – SML at Sultan Room
13 December – SML at Sultan Room
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
20 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
21 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
30 December – Phish at Madison Square Garden
etc.
Hundreds of Beavers
The Life, Death, & Afterlife of the Record Store edited by Gina Arnold, John Dougan, Christine Feldman-Barrett, & Matthew Worley
Radio Dies Screaming
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Beat It! by Rick Brown & Julia Gorton
The Last Great Dream by Dennis McNally
Chaos by Errol Morris
The Pirate Book edited by Nicholas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska
Loud and Clear by Brian Anderson
Severance
Kneecap
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
Andor
Pee-wee As Himself
LCD #28-#29
Fugs Film!
A Book With No Title by Rick Harris
Willie Nelson & Family
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St. John
Other Networks: A Radical Sourcebook by Lori Emerson
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
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