ginchy shit

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

ginchy shit, 2024

ginchy shit, 2024
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
MANAS + E.M.M., At House Unamerican (no label)
ecoegoe, ecoegoe (no label)
Urban Village, Udondolo (No Format)
Maiju Jouppi, Of Epic Proportions (Artsy)
Long Odds, Fine Threads (no label)

new
Inside C.C. (Charlie Christian At Half-Speed), (For Guitar), Noël Akchoté (no label)
Shackamaxon Concert, Elkhorn & Mike Gangloff (VHF)
Gercyz/Powers/Rolin, Activator (12XU) *
Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard, Wildernauts (Don Giovanni)
Mary Halvorson, Cloudwards (Nonesuch)
The Hypos, s/t (no label)
Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Glitterbeat)
Vague Plot, Crying In 9 (Island House)
Chris Weisman, Plum Appointments (no label)
Dave Harrington, The Pictures (no label)
Myriam Gendron, Mayday (Thrill Jockey) *
David Nance and Mowed Sound, s/t (Third Man)
Lupo Cittá, s/t (12XU)
Kim Gordon, The Collective (Matador)
Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution (Moikai)
Bob Dylan, Like the Motion of the Sea: Best of Spring 2024 (no label)
Vampire Weekend, Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) ***
Daniel Bachman, Quaker Run Wildfire (10/24/23-11/17/23) for Fiddle and Guitar (Longform Editions)
Cindy Lee, Diamond Jubilee (no label) ***
Jessica Pratt, Here In the Pitch (Drag City) ***
Drew Gardner, Cygnus A (Centripetal Force) *
Winged Wheel, Big Hotel (12XU)
Swamp Dogg, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street (Oh Boy)
Prairiewolf, Deep Time (Centripetal Force)
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin, Ghosted II (Drag City) *
Beings, There Is A Garden (No Quarter)
Laraaji + Agnes Martian + Music For Connection + Hair And Space Museum, Coincidence (Centripetal Force)
William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) ***
Mountain Movers, Walking After Dark (Trouble In Mind)
The Resonars, Electricity Plus (no label)
Chris Corsano, The Key (Became the Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away]) (Drag City)
Powers/Rolin Duo, Clearing (Astral Editions)
v/a, Dot Dash Mixtape Volume Two (Dot Dash)
Honey Radar, Ribbon Factory (no label)
Tara Jane O’Neil, The Cool Cloud of Okayness (Orindal)
Weak Signal, Fine (12XU) *
Esy Tadesse, Ahadu (FPE)
Hard Quartet, s/t (Matador)
BASIC, This Is Basic (No Quarter) *
Bill MacKay, Locust Land (Drag City)
Kenji Kariu, Rain / Water (bruit direct disques)
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Woodland (Acony) *
John Kiran Fernandes, and Friends (Cloud)
Jack White, no name (Third Man)
Osees, Sorcs 80 (Castle Face)
Six Organs of Admittance, Time Is Glass (Drag City)
Fabiano do Nascimento and Shin Sasakubo, Harmônicos (rings)
Setting, at Eulogy, Asheville, NC, June 7, 2024 (no label)
Trey Anastasio, Atriums (Rubber Jungle) ***
Jack Silverman Quintet, Prince of Shadows (Centripetal Force)
Jim White and Marissa Anderson, Swallowtail (Thrill Jockey)
Jake Xerxes Fussell, When I’m Called (Fat Possum)
Smoke Bellow. Structurally Sound (Moon Glyph)
Parsnip, Behold (Upset the Rhythm)
Shane Parish, Repertoire (Palilalia)
Peter Perrett, The Cleansing (Domino)
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, TexiCali (Yep-Roc)
Sgt. Papers, SGTP (Devil In The Woods)
Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
Bilders, Dustbin of Empathy (Sophomore Lounge)
Thurston Moore, Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library)
Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes, Breaking The Shell (Red Hook)
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, s/t (Matsuli)
Yaryu, For Damage (Centripetal Force)
Carsick Cars, Aha (Taihe Music Group)
Tashi Dorji, we will be wherever the fires are lit (Drag City)
J.R. Bohannon & Dave Shuford, Reclined In the Haze (Barchan Dune)
Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus, Barefoot in Bryophyte (Hubro)
Cornelius, Ethereal Essence (Warner Music Japan)
Willie Nelson, Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy)
Bill Orcutt, How To Rescue Things (Palilalia) ***
أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (fönstret) *
أحمد [Ahmed], Super Majnoon (OTOROKU) *
Human Error, s/t (Astral Editions)
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem/Nonesuch)

singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
“Zali” – Buzz’ Ayaz (Glitterbeat)
“Mérinos” – Maria Teriaeva feat. Vadik Korolev (no label)
“Pennies and Dimes” – Geneva Powerhouse (3 O’Clock Rock)
“Little White Box” – Will Rigby (no label) *
Meets The Space Monster EP – The Special Pillow (Zofko)
Crooked Boy EP – Ringo Starr (UMe)
Pitch & Yaw EP – Antietam (no label) *
Whirlygigs EP – The Scene Is Now (no label)
Reset Mariachi EP – Panda Bear & Sonic Boom with Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez (Domino)
“Polkamania!” – Weird Al Yankovic (no label)
“Mouse Trap”/”Fantastic Voyage” – Dew Claw (no label)
Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP – Wilco (dBpm)
“The Same Place”/”Garden of Light” – Olivia Tremor Control (Elephant 6 Recording Co.)
“Bad Advice”/”Mind Train” – Cornelius (Warner Music Japan)
“Great”/”The Evidence” – The Ex (Ex)
“Festive AF” – Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby (no label)

reissues/newish old things
Jackie-O Motherfucker, Smiles (Castel Sottera)
CAN, Live In Paris 1973 (Mute) ***
Darrell DeVore, Another Song of Civilization (Goaty Tapes/House Rules)
Gastr Del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (Drag City)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Whisky A Go Go 1968 (UMe) *
CAN, Live in Aston 1977 (Mute)
Robert Hunter, Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Rhino)
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Bare Bones: Master Takes, vols. 1-3 (Acoustic Oasis)
The Rabbits, s/t (Mesh Key) *
Television, Live at the Academy, NYC, 12.4.92 (Ohoo) *
Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse)
Les Rallizes Denudes, YaneUra, Oct. ‘80 (Temporal Drift)
Neil Young, Archives, vol. 3 (Reprise)
David Gilmour & Family, Von Trapped Family Singers (no label)
Ween, Chocolate & Cheese 30 (Rhino)
Love Child, Never Meant To Be (12XU)
Firesign Theatre, Not Insane 1980! Campaign Chronicles (no label)

misc. new-to-me
Arnold Dreyblatt & the Orchestra of Excited Strings, Live at Tonic (Dreyblatt Live Archive)
Henry Flynt & Nova’Billy, Henry Flynt & Nova’Billy (Locust) *
The Roches, Keep On Doing (Warner Bros.)
Robert Wyatt, Radio Experiment (Rai Trade)
Joseph Mazibuko, Greatest Accordion Jive Hits, Volume 3 (Go Go) ***
Fred Frith, The Technology of Tears (SST)
Kabouter Chismus, s/t (Plug)
Cluster, One Hour (Gyroscope)
Lovin’ Spoonful, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? OST (Kama Sutra)
Yura Yura Teikoku, III (MIDI, Inc.) ***
The Breeders, Fate to Fatal EP (4AD)
The Only Ones, s/t (CBS) ***
Brian Eno, My Squelchy Life (Opal)
Sadistic Mika Band. s/t (Harvest)
Hub City Movers, “The Chicken Song”/”I Can’t Know Tomorrow” (Lutazma)

live recordings
Laraaji & Vernon Reid, 19 December 1998 Tonic, NYC
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, 29 November 2023 Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
Jim O’Rourke, 16 September 2002 Aoyama Cay, JP
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, 28 January 2024 Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
Willie Nelson & Kimmie Rhodes, 18 February 1996 Studio One, KUT, Austin, TX
Television, 2 October 2004 Roseland Ballroom, NYC
Roxy Music, BBC Sessions, 1972-1973
Lovin’ Spoonful, February 1965, Night Owl Cafe, NYC
Weird Al Yankovic, 4 July 1984 Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI
Willie Nelson, 17 October 1974 LBJ Building, University of Texas, Austin, TX
BCMC, 19 October 2023 Iowa City, IA
Lou Reed, 19 February 1993 Bottom Line, NYC

live 
12 January – Marc Ribot & Mary Halvorson at Bowery Ballroom (Winter Jazz Fest)
12 January – Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons at Nublu (Winter Jazz Fest)
13 January – Laraaji at Superior Ingredients Rooftop (Winter Jazz Fest)
13 January – Natural Information Society at Union Pool (Winter Jazz Fest)
1 March – Yo La Tengo at Saxapahaw Ballroom
19 April – BASIC, Setting at Public Records
14 May – Neil Young & Crazy Horse at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
18 May – Neil Young & Crazy Horse in Bridgeport
9 June – Bitchin Bajas at Union Pool
15 June – Yo La Tengo, Sun Ra Arkestra at Sony Hall
29 June – Bob Dylan at Jones Beach
12 July – Yo La Tengo, Swamp Dogg at Sultan Room
20 July – Peter Stampfel & the Atomic Meta Pagans at Jalopy
14 September – BASIC, Oneida at Forest Park
23 September – Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts at Capitol Theatre
6 October – Vampire Weekend at Madison Square Garden
4 November – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Frost Amphitheatre
25 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
26 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
27 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
28 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
29 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
30 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
31 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom

etc.
Scavengers Reign
Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes by Evan Auerbach & Daniel Isenberg
Get Shown the Light by Michael Kaler
Statics #2 by Jeffrey Lewis
New Pets by Jesse Jacobs
RSS
The Greatest Night In Pop
Bootlegging the Airwaves by Eleanor Patterson
Unspooled by Rob Drew
Harlem World by Jonathan Mael
Record Time #1-#2
Fanzine Hemorrhage/Dynamite Hemorrhage
The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
The Shrine Thief by W.A. Mathieu
The Silver Snarling Trumpet by Robert Hunter
Eno by Gary Hustwit
1967: How I Got There & Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Jelly Roll Blues by Elijah Wald
Revelations in the Wink Of An Eye by Jeffrey Lewis

ginchy shit, 2023

ginchy shit, 2023
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick@heads.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
The Bug Club, Green Dream In F# (no label)
William Parker/Matthew Shipp/Daniel Carter/Gerald Cleaver, Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2 (577)
Smoke Bellow, Open For Business (Trouble In Mind)
Dividers, Crime of Passion (Primordial Void)
Congo Cowboys, Yoka EP (no label)

new
Yo La Tengo, This Stupid World (Matador) ***
Danny Arakaki, Tumble In Shade (Husky Pants)
Meg Baird, Furling (Drag City)
The Necks, Travel (Northern Spy)
Joseph Allred, What Strange Flowers Grow In the Shade (Feeding Tube) ***
Tyler Mitchell Octet feat. Marshall Allen, Sun Ra’s Journey (Cellar Music)
M. Ring, War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni) *
Bill Orcutt, Jump On It (Palilalia) ***
Paper Jays, Asbestos Quote (no label)
Elkhorn, On The Whole Universe In All Directions (Centripetal Force)
Joe Westerlund, Elegies For the Drift (Psychic Hotline)
Drew Gardner, Flowers In Space (Feeding Tube) *
Powers/Pulice/Rolin, Prism (Cached Media)
Tashi Dorji, Improvisations For Nylon String Guitar Part III (no label)
Emergency Group, Crisis In Mono (Island House)
Tilo Weber, Tesserae (We Jazz)
Sleepy Doug Shaw, Sleepy at Tubby’s (no label) *
Natural Information Society, Since Time Is Gravity (Eremite) ***
Alice, L’Oiseau Magnifique (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
John Cale, Mercy (4AD)
Ryan Sawyer, Andres Renteria & John Dwyer, POSH SWAT (Castle Face)
The Bug Club, Mr. Anyway’s Holey Spirits Perform! One Foot in Bethlehem (We Are Busy Bodies)
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth, Secret Stratosphere (Merge) *
v/a, Dot Dash Mix Tape Volume One (Dot Dash)
Turbo Sonidero, Lowrider Kumbias Rebajada Por Sonido Dueñez (Discos Rolas) ***
Water Damage, 2 Songs (12XU) *
Mute Duo, Migrant Flocks (American Dreams))
Paul Simon, Seven Psalms (Owl/Legacy) *
Mark McGuire, A Pocket Full of Rain (Husky Pants)
v/a, Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro (Mr. Bongo)
Zoh Amba/Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt, The Flower School (Palalia)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (Drag City) ***
Dustin Wong, Perpetual Morphosis (Hausu Mountain)
Arnold Dreyblatt, Resolve (Drag City)
Prairiewolf, s/t (Centripetal Force)
Royal Arctic Institute, From Coma To Catharsis (no label)
jaimie branch’s Fly or Die, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem)
The Bug Club, Rare Birds: Hour of Song (no label) ***
Mary Lattimore, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International)
Rocket 808, House of Jackpots (12XU)
Taper’s Choice, History of Taper’s Choice, Vol. 1 (Taper’s Choice) (no label)
Joseph Allred, New Jerusalem (Centripetal Force)
Peter One, Come Back To Me (Verve Forecast)
Lewsberg, Out & About (12XU) *
Gunn/Truscinski/Nace, Glass Band (Three Lobed)
Black Duck, s/t (Thrill Jockey)
Daniel Bachman, When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed) ***
Dougie Poole, The Rainbow Wheel of Death (Wharf Cat) ***
Sonny & the Sunsets, Self Awareness Through Macrame (Mexican Summer)
Wreckless Eric, Leisureland (Tapete)
Bob Dylan, Shadow Kingdom (Columbia) ***
Sunwatchers, Music Is Victory Over Time (Trouble In Mind)
Melanas, Ahora (Trouble In Mind) *
MrDougDoug, SOS Forks AI REM II (Hausu Mountain)
Zea, We Are Still Each Other’s Only Hope (Makkum)
Setting, Shone A Rainbow Light On (Paradise of Bachelors) *
M. Savage, Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade)
Bob Dylan, Nothing Lasts Forever: Cover Songs 2023 (no label)
Setting, At Black Mountain College Museum (no label)
Modern Nature, No Fixed Point In Space (Bella Union)
Sundae Painters, s/t (Leather Jacket)
Tyvek, Overground (Ginkgo)

singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
Big Blood, Weird Road EP (no label)
Dane Law, Map of the Marsh EP (no label)
Married FM, Married FM EP (no label)
hogobogogo, pepsi/coke EP – An Electronic Sound Poetry Transmission (i.u.)
Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Neil, For All We Know (Jealous Butcher)
小王XIAOWANG, SSSS single (no label)
Florry, Sweet Guitars EP (Dear Life)
Richard Simons, Sounds from the Creation Room (no label)
Prairiewolf, Lagniappe Session (Aquarium Drunkard)
Rosali, “Stuck Inside A Cloud” (Merge)
Jonathan Richman, Yatasamaroun EP (Blue Arrow)
Tara Clerkin Trio, On The Turning Ground EP (World of Echo)

reissues/newish old things
Jon Hassell, The Living City (Ndeya)
Bob Dylan, Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) (Columbia) ***
Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz, Roundtrip (Transversales)
Carl Stone, Electronic Music from 1972-2022 (Unseen Worlds) ***
S.E. Rogue, Further Sounds Of S.E. Rogie (Mississippi)
v/a, Asteroid City (Original Soundtrack) (ABKCO)
v/a, If You Want to Make a Lover: Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. I (Death Is Not the End)
Malambo Jazz Masters, Down Lucky’s Way (Tapestry Works) *
v/a, River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 1 (Death Is Not the End)
Grateful Dead, Here Comes Sunshine (Rhino)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Jerusalem (Mississippi) ***
Yoruba Singers, Ojinga’s Own (Bluegrass) *
v/a, Fish & Poi: Hawaiian Independent 78rpm Discs ca. 1945-56 (Canary)

misc. new-to-me
Heldon, Live Elektronik Guerilla: Paris 1975-1976 (Captain Trips)
William Parker, Centering (No Business)
William Parker/Matthew Shipp/Daniel Carter, Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)
Tom Ardolino, Unknown Brain (Mystra)
Tom Verlaine, Warm & Cool (Rykodisc) ***
Jake Schepps, Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes (no label)
Julie Tippetts, Sunset Glow (Utopia)
Jody Harris & Robert Quine, Escape (Infidelity) ***
The Movers, Gallo African Classics (Gallo) ***
Wayne Shorter, Moto Grosso Feio (Blue Note)
Dream/Aktion Unit, Blood Shadow Rampage (Volcanic Tongue)
Nuno Canavarro, Plux Quba (Drag City)
Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland, self titled (Rounder)
Harmonia, Live 1974 (Gronland)
The Skylarks, The Very Best of The Skylarks (1956-1959) Vol. 1 (Gallo)
Ikue Mori with Robert Quine & Marc Ribot, Painted Desert (Avant)
Smoke Bellow, Isolation 3000 (Ehse)

live recordings
Can, 24 June 1972 WDR Funkhaus, Cologne, DE
William Parker’s Aquasonic Ensemble, 26 June 2018 The Stone, NYC
William Parker’s Celestial Light House, 23 September 2021 Dizzy’s Club, NYC
Staples Singers, 19 April 1968 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Abdullah Ibrahim, 1 July 2022 Jardins Du Chateau De Chantilly, Parc Du Chateau, Chantilly, FR
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Cooper Moore (Heart Trio), 22 June 2022, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan, 28 September 1998 Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ
Richard Manuel, 7 December 1985 Getaway Inn, Saugerties, NY
The Necks & corella birds, 7 March 2020 Gatehouse Tea Roons, Parramatta, NSW
Mississippi John Hurt, October 1964, WTBS, Boston, MA
Ravi Coltrane feat. Brandee Younger, 16 September 2022 Lensic PAC, Santa Fe, NM
Robert Hunter & Tom Constanten, 19 May 1990 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Garcia Peoples with Ryan Jewell, 19 August 2023 Deep In the Valley, Red Hook, NY
Garcia Peoples with Ryan Jewell, 20 August 2023 Union Pool
Zoh Amba/Chris Corsano/Trevor Dunn, 5 October 2022 Record Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Peter Rowan’s Crucial Country with Vassar Clements, 27 July 1985, Beresford Farm, Duanesberg, NY
Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana, 14 March 1974 Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana, CBS Studios, 1974, Illuminations Outtakes
Boredoms, 12 August 2001, Mount Hotaka, Matsumoto, Japan

live streamed
27 March – Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet at Roulette
23 September – Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson at Farm Aid

live 
8 January – William Parker’s Rivbea Revisited at Gene Frankel Theatre
14 January – Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Marathon, multiple venues
20 January – John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Mary Halvorson, Brandon Lopez, Wendy Eisenberg, etc., Tribute To Bill Frisell at Roulette
21 January – Danny Arakaki & co. at Union Pool
3 February – Marshall Allen & NYC All-Stars at Shift
11 February – Laraaji, Mikel Patrick Avery, & Immanuel Wilkins at the Stone
11 March – Ravi Coltrane Trio with Brandee Younger at the Blue Note
17 March – Che Chen/Chris Corsano/Patrick Holmes at Sundown Bar
18 March – Yo La Tengo at Brooklyn Steel
25 March – Millennial Territory Orchestra at The Stone
31 March – Powers/Rolin Duo, Mark Morgan, Weaker Signal at Union Pool
6 May – Marshall Allen/Chris Corsano/Dick Griffin & Ryan Sawyer/Nate Wooley/Lester St. Louis @ Union Pool
7 May – Art Ensemble of Chicago at Pioneer Works
11 May – Marta Werelis/Chris Corsano/Brandon Lopez at Shift
13 May – Prison at Ore Bar
9 June – Yo La Tengo at White Eagle Hall
2 July – Chris Corsano & Li-Chin Li at Shift 411
9 July – Sun Ra Arkestra at Pioneer Works
15 July – 75 Dollar Bill at Old American Can Factory
23 July – Steve Gunn/Ryan Sawyer & Oneida at Caracas
28 July – Zoh Amba/Chris Corsano/Wendy Eisenberg/Patrick Shiroshi at the Stone
29 July – Phish at Madison Square Garden
17 August – Bill Frisell Five at Village Vanguard
9 September – Joseph Allred at Sundownstairs
17 September – Bob Weir & Wolf Bros. + Willie Nelson at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
20 September – Natural Information Society at Pioneer Works
7 October – Fred Frith & Zeena Parkins at The Stone
7 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theatre
8 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theatre
10 November – Oneida & Weak Signal at The Broadway
15 November – Bob Dylan at Kings Theatre
7 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
8 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
9 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
10 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
11 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
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

etc.
Let’s Do It by Bob Stanley
Breaks In the Air by John Klaess
Brothers and Sisters by Alan Paul
Live Dead by John Brackett
Pledging My Time by Ray Padgett
High Bias by Marc Masters
Agents of Chaos by Sean Howe
Flowers Through Concrete by Juliane Furst
Cosmic Scholar by John Szwed
A Strange Celestial Road by Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

ginchy shit, 2022

ginchy shit, 2022
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick@heads.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
Parquet Courts, Sympathy For Life (Rough Trade)
Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band, Both Ways (no label) ***
Tom Carter & Susan Alcorn, Ajax Peak (no label)
Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté, The Ripple Effect (Rounder)
Trond Kallevåg, Fengselsfugl (Hubro)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection (YK)
Louise Bock/PG Six, All Summer Long Is Gone (no label)
William Parker/Hamid Drake/Cooper-Moore, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity) *
William Parker/Matthew Shipp/Daniel Carter/Gerald Cleaver, Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 (577) *
The Bug Club, Pure Particles (no label) ***

new
Jonathan Richman, Want To Visit My Inner House (Blue Arrow) ***
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors) ***
Curtis Godino Presents the Midnight Wishers (Shimmy-Disc)
Kendraplex, Two Rivers (no label)
Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker, Post Wook (Husky Pants)
Elvis Costello, The Boy Named If (EMI/Capitol)
Tyler Mitchell feat. Marshall Allen, Dancing Shadows (Mahakala)
75 Dollar Bill, Social Music at Troost vol.3: (Other) People’s Music (no label)
Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, Live From Colorado (Third Man)
Animal Collective, Time Skiffs (Domino)
Animal Collective, The Inspection (A24)
Organs Obsolete, Organs Obsolete (no label)
David Nance/Pearl Lovejoy Boyd/James Schroeder, Ash Wednesday (no label)
Jon Camp, Jon Camp (Centripetal Force)
Seawind of Battery, Clockwatching (Island House)
Taper’s Choice, Choice Tapes, vol. 2 (no label)
Glenn Jones, Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)
Winged Wheel, No Island (12XU)
Joan Shelley, The Spur (No Quarter)
Wet Leg, Wet Leg (Domino)
Brad Barr, The Winter Mission (Secret City)
Scott Metzger, Too Close To Reason (Royal Potato Family) *
Anteloper, Pink Dolphins (International Anthem)
Weak Signal, War & War (no label) ***
Rich Ruth, I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man)
Wilco, Cruel Country (dBpm)
Old Saw, Country Tropics (Lobby Art)
Mary Halvorson, Belladonna (Nonesuch)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri, I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon (Ghostly International) *
John Zorn, A Garden of Forking Paths (Tzadik) *
Dew Claw, Horripilation (no label) *
Kikagaku Moyo, Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain) *
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, West Kensington (Three Lobed)
Prairiewolf, Live at the Aztlan Theatre, 7/16/2022 (no label) ***
David Nance, Non-Missile (no label)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Living Sky (Omni Sound) ***
Bill Orcutt, Music For Four Guitars (Pallalia) *
v/a, Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI : Chrome Universal (Tompkins Square) *
Lambchop, The Bible (Merge) *
Oren Ambarchi, Shebang (Drag City) ***
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Reset (Domino) ***
Ralph White, It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind (Worried Songs)
Ralph White, Something About Dreaming (Worried Songs)
The A’s, Fruit (Psychic Hotline)
Jack White, Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)
Garcia Peoples, 100 Years of Solid Dudes (no label)
Wau Wau Collectif, Mariage (Sahel Sounds) *
Golden Brown, Moonrise Orb Weaver (no label)
v/a, Sounds of Lecak, vol. 1 (Guruguru Brain)
Heather Trost, Desert Flowers (Ba Da Bing!)
Jessica Ackerley and Patrick Shiroshi, Across Water (no label)
Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators (Drag City) *
v/a, Birthday Blues: 33 Artists Interpret The Music Of James Toth (Aquarium Drunkard)
Horse Lords, Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl)
Brian Eno, foreverandevernomore (Verve/UMC)
Nathan Salsburg, Landwerk No. 3 (No Quarter) *
Robyn Hitchock, Shufflemania! (Tiny Ghost)
Jake Acosta, Rehearsal Park (Husky Pants)
Marisa Anderson, Still, Here (Thrill Jockey) *
Sofia Birch & Antonina Nowacka, Languoria (Unsound) *
The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo, Kosmoksen erakko (Sahko)
Nurse & Soldier, Let’s Spend the Day Together (no label)
Mali Obomsawin, Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head)
Horsegirl, Versions of Modern Performance (Matador) *

singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
Steve Gunn, Nakama EP (Matador)
Weak Signal, Best Friend EP (no label) ***
SUSS, Heat Haze EP (Northern Spy)
Jonathan Richman, Cold Pizza & Other Hot Stuff EP (Blue Arrow)
Prairewolf, Labwerk/Lunar Deluxe (no label)

reissues/newish old things
Antonia 1975-1976 demos (no label)
Sonic Youth, In/Out/In (Three Lobed) *
Jama Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society, Father of Origin (Eremite)
Norma Tanega, I’m the Sky: Studio & Demo Recordings, 1964-1971 (Light In the Attic)
Karen Dalton, Shuckin’ Sugar (Omnivore) *
Oneida, “Don’t Clap Yet”: Live at EmmabOda (no label)
Les Rallizes Denudes, The OZ Tapes (Temporal Drift)
えろちか Erochika, Kawabata’s Demo 1986 (no label)
Travesia, Ni Un Minuto Mas de Dolor (Vampisoul) ***
John Ondolo, Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo (Mississippi)
v/a, Hurt Feelings: Goldband Records Demo Submissions (no label)
Lou Reed, Words & Music, May 1965 (Light In the Attic)
v/a, River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 1 (Death Is Not the End)
The Chieftains, The Foxhunt: San Francisco, 1973 & 1976 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
V-Effect, Stop Those Songs (no label)
Ernest Hood, Back to the Woodlands (Freedom To Spend)

misc. new-to-me
Don Everly, Sunset Towers (Ode) *
v/a, The Music Of Africa Series: Musical Instruments 7, Guitars 2 (Kaleidophone)
v/a, The Nairobi Sound: Acoustic and Electric Guitar Music of Kenya (Original Music) *
Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet feat. Charlie Christian, Memorable Sessions in Jazz (Blue Note)
Willie Nelson, Live Country Music Concert (RCA Victor) ***
Alex Chilton, My Rival (Omnivore)
Pharoah Sanders (with Don Cherry, Sun Ra Arkestra, etc.), In the Beginning (ESP-Disk’)
The Belmonts, Together Again (and More) (ABC)

live recordings
Bob Dylan, 23 September 1995 The Edge, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Bob Dylan, 26 July 1999 Tramps, NYC
Bob Dylan, 23 June 2022 Santa Cruz Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
Akron/Family, 27 September 2007 Club Metronome
Animal Collective, 26 April 2004 BBC Radio 1
King Sunny Ade, 7 September 1984 Pier 84, NYC
Chris Forsyth/Bill Nace/Ryan Jewell, 20 August 2022 Deep in the Valley, Red Hook, NY
Stephen Malkmus, 12 August 1998 Long Beach Museum
Ryley Walker/JR Bohannon/Ryan Jewell, 12 November 2022 Tubby’s, Kingston, NY
Ween, 1996 Country Tour Sampler
Bill Evans Trio, 1960 Birdland broadcasts, NYC
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach, 15 May 1953 Massey Hall
Thelonious Monk & co., Spring 1941, Minton’s, NYC
Joshua Abrams/Lisa Alvarado/Chad Taylor, 24 August 2013 Sant’anna Arresi, IT

live streamed
17 July – Natural Information Society at Pitchfork Fest
30 September – Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh, BBC3 Late Junction

live 
30 January – Jake Xerxes Fussell at Knitting Factory
16 March – Fly or Die at Baby’s All Right
2 April – Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
13 April – Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt/Che Chen at Baby’s All Right
14 April – Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt at Baby’s All Alright
22 April – Phish at Madison Square Garden
24 April – Taper’s Choice at Sultan Room Roof
11 May – Jaimie Branch/Billy Martin/Luke Stewart at IRL
4 June – Garcia Peoples in Vermont
10 June – Garcia Peoples at Weylin
16 July – Anteloper at Public Records
21 August – Gunn/Sawyer/Ismaily, Malcolm Mooney’s Dream Band at Union Pool
17 September – 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, Oneida at Forest Park
18 September – Tara Jane O’Neil/Ryan Sawyer, Natural Information Society at Union Pool
2 October – Pavement at Kings Theatre
8 October – Chuck Johnson at Ambient Church
17 October – Jonathan Richman at Opera House
22 October – Fire Over Heaven Festival
8 November – Ryley Walker/JR Bohannon/Kid Millions, Wendy Eisenberg at P.I.T.
11 November – Bill Nace/Steve Gunn/John Truscinski, Deradoorian at Union Pool
16 November – Little Black Egg at Shift
18 November – The Willies & The Feelies at White Eagle Hall
2 December – Garcia Peoples at Weylin
4 December – Bitchin Bajas at Union Pool
9 December – Ikue Mori & Chris Corsano, Catalytic Sound Festival at Shift
10 December – Marisa Anderson & Jim White at Pete’s Candy Store
16 December – Lambchop at Le Poisson Rouge
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
22 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
23 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
24 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
25 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom

etc.
Cinema Purgatorio by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
Maybe the People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
Fuff #1-#12 by Jeffrey Lewis
Future #1-#9 by Tommi Musturi
Lightning Striking by Lenny Kaye
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson ***
After All Is Said & Done by Mark Rodriguez
Andor
From Head Shops to Whole Foods by Joshua Clark Davis
Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman ***
Grateful Dead Meet Up At the Movies
Dangerous Visions & New Worlds edited by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre
The Folk by Russ Cole
Murderbot books by Martha Wells
All Gates Open by Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt
Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty
Mets Old Timers Day
Mets Regular Timers Days (mostly)
Devil House by John Darnielle ***
Mastodon ***
Live Music In America by Steve Waksman ***

ginchy shit, 2021

ginchy shit, 2021
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
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

new or newish
Astute Palate, Astute Palate (no label) *
Chris Corsano, Mezzaluna (Hot Cars Warp)
Ventla, Ventla Is In Your Extended Network (no label)
Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band, Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band (Dagoretti)
Sabir Mateen, Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel, Creation (577)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Made Out of Sound (Pallalia) ***
Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo, Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants)
Jupiter Blue, Dreams of Future Memories (no label)
Wau Wau Collectif, Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century (Red Hot Louisiana) *
Chuck Johnson, The Cinder Grove (VDSQ) *
Yasmin Williams, Urban Driftwood (Spinster Sounds) *
Joshua Abrams, Cloud Script (Rogueart) ***
Iri Di, 24 (no label)
Ryley Walker, Course in Fable (Husky Pants)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker, descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Eremite) ***
Shackleton, Tunes of Negation – Like the Stars Forever and Ever (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Koko, Koko (no label)
Matthew J. Rolin, The Dreaming Bridge (Feeding Tube)
Vapour Theories, Celestial Scuzz (Fire) *
Wet Tuna, Eau’d To A Fake Bookie, Volume 4 (Child of Microtones)
Sarah Louise, Earth Bow (no label)
Sweet Herringbone, After Ten (no label)
Marisa Anderson/William Tyler, Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey)
Rose City Band, Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey)
Animal Collective, Crestone OST (Domino)
Endlings, Human Form (Whited Sepulchre)
Lisel + Booker Stardrum, Mycelial Echo (LUMINELLE)
Rob Noyes, Arc Minutes (Feeding Tube)
Curtis Godino, Alien Nation (Feeding Tube)
DARKSIDE, Spiral (Matador)
Joseph Allred, Lute Music (no label)
Jantar, Sempronia (Feeding Tube) *
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy, Superwolves (Drag City) ***
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra, Promise (Luaka Bop) *
Mind Maintenance, Mind Maintenance (Drag City) *
Human Shower, Outtakes from yet unreleased first album (no label)
Jeffrey Alexander, Reyes (Garden Portal)
Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas, Le Plan de Paris (Staubgold)
Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Live (International Anthem) *
Toby Hay, Home Recordings, vol. 1 (no label)
Eugene Chadbourne & Jim McHugh, Bad Scene (Post Present Medium)
Tashi Dorji, Improvisations For Nylon String Guitar II (no label) *
Lambchop, Showtunes (Merge)
Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders (Arrowhawk)
Powers/Rolin Duo, Strange Fortune (Astral Edition) *
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, Lamplighter (American Dreams) *
Angel Bat Dawid, Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology (International Anthem)
Sonny & the Sunsets, New Day with New Possibilities (Rocks In Your Head)
Mountain Movers, World What World (Trouble In Mind)
Steve Gunn, Other You (Matador)
Weak Signal, Bianca (Colonel) *
Ben Chasny, The Intimate Landscape (Drag City)
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden, Dork Star (Takuroku)
No Motion, No Motion (no label)
On Fillmore, Soundtrack 1 (no label)
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi, Yamawarau (山笑う) (no label)
Boubacar “Badian” Diabate, Mande Guitar (Lion Song) *
Florry, Big Fall (12XU) *
Kroba, First of Three (no label)
Myriam Gendron, Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found (Feeding Tube) ***
Paul Leary, Born Stupid (Shimmy-Disc)
Tonstartssbandht, Petunia (Mexican Summer)
Michael Hurley, The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter) ***
Noël Akchoté & Shin Sasakubo, Auto & Beauto (no label) *
Jason Nazary, Spring Collection (We Jazz) *
Caetano Veloso, Meu Coco (Sony Music Brazil)
Grouper, Shade (Kranky) *
Bitchin Bajas, Switched On Ra (no label) ***
Valerie June, The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy)
Joseph Allred, Branches and Leaves (Feeding Tube)
Dave Easley, Byways of the Moon (Joyful Noise/Big Ego)
Patrick Shiroshi, Hidemi (American Dreams) *
Lewsberg, In Your Hands (12XU)
Ben LaMar Gay, Open Arms To Open Us (International Anthem)
Eddie Marcon, Live at UMIBE NO POLKA 20 DEC.2020 (no label)
Jeff Parker, Forfolks (International Anthem)

singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
Sarah Louise, “Sing A Song of Memory” (no label)
75 Dollar Bill, “Irons Out” (Fire Over Heaven)
Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Copper Kettle”/”Hills of Mexico” (Paradise of Bachelors) *
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg, Max Porter, Three Feral Pieces (No Quarter)
Johnnie the Bulgaria Group, “くるくるぱあ (Round & Round)/だれ (Who)” (no label) *
William Tyler & Luke Schneider, Understand (no label)
Myriam Gendron, Lagniappe Session (Aquarium Drunkard) ***
Shirley Collins, Crowlink EP (Domino)
Kim Gordon & J. Mascis, “Abstract Blues”/”Slow Boy” (Sub Pop) *
SUSS, Night Suite EP (Northern Spy)

reissues/newish old things
Sanjay Mishra & Jerry Garcia, Front Street Outtakes (Jerry Garcia Music Arts)
Tom Zé, Raridades (Warner Music Brasil)
Brij Bhushan Kabra with Zakir Hussain, The Magic of Music – Guitar & Tabla (Classics For Pleasure/EMI) *
v/a, Secret Museum of Mankind, Guitars Vol. 1: Prologue to Modern Styles (Jalopy) *
Oneida, Nobody: Rarities, 2009-2010 (no label)
Fred Neil, 38 MacDougal (Delmore Recording Society)
CAN, Live in Stuttgart 1975 (Mute)
Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Unreleased RCA Masters (Omnivore)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 13 March 2013 Plenary Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, AU (Neil Young Archives) *
Sun Ra Arkestra, Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) (Strut)
Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band, Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection) (Live Sessions) (UMe)
Don Cherry’s New Researches featuring Naná Vasconcelos, Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 (Blank Forms) *
Joseph Spence, Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing (Smithsonian Folkways) *
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family, My Ancestors (Mississippi)
Ruthann Friedman, Hurried Life: Lost Recordings, 1965-1971 (Tompkins Square)
Fireballs, Dots (Strawberry Rain)
Grateful Dead, Listen To The River: St. Louis ‘71 ‘72 ‘73 (Rhino) *
David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)
Bob Dylan, Springtime In New York (Sony/Legacy) *
Linda Smith, Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured By Tracks)
Kiko Kids Jazz, Kiko Kids Jazz (Mississippi) *
CAN, Live in Brighton 1975 (Mute)
Bola Sete, Samba In Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square) *
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse!) ***
Oneida, “Don’t Clap Yet”: Live at Emmaboda 2007 (no label)
Leo Nocentelli, Another Side (Light In The Attic) *
Aunt Sally, Aunt Sally (MESH KEY)
Neil Young, Summer Songs (Neil Young Archives) *
Lou Reed, I’m So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos (RCA)

misc. new-to-me
Obeng Ungu & Jalan Buntu with Group Uang Wayang of Palembang, 1951: Sumatran Ladies Wearing Hats as Outlawed by Government (no label)
Jefferson Airplane, Levi Strauss Salesman’s Record, Fall 1967 (Honig-Cooper & Harrington Advertising)
v/a, A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (Rounder) *
Ralph Towner/Gary Burton, Matchbook (ECM)
Fairport Convention, A Chronicle of Sorts (no label)
Stavros Xarhakos, Girls in the Sun OST (EMI Greece)
Há-Zá-Má, Under the Radioactive Fallout (Sloow Tapes)
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Garcia/Grisman Alternate Takes (Acoustic Oasis) *
Keith Jarrett, No End (ECM)

live recordings
Bill Frisell & Greg Leisz, 22 March 2009 Great Hall, Chapel Hill, NC ***
ECM All Stars, 19 January 1976 Village Gate, NYC
John Abercrombie/Jack DeJohnette/Nana Vasconcelos/Collin Walcott 18 September 1981 Woodstock Playhouse *
Bob Weir & Wolf. Bros feat. Greg Leisz, TRI Studios, San Rafael, CA, misc. tracks from 12/31/20, 2/12/21, 3/17/21
John Handy’s Rainbow, 27 July 1979 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
New Riders of the Purple Sage with David LaFlamme, 28 February 1971 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA ***
Peter Stampfel, 7 February 1999 Maxwell’s
The Soft Boys, 27 November 1978 Lady Mitchell Hall, Leicester, UK ***
Karen Dalton, 1 May 1971 Golden Rose Pop Festival, Montreux, SE ***
Bob Dylan, 11 March 1995 Palác Kultury, Prague, CZ ***
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney, 13 June 2021 Dry Gulch Ranch, Malibu, CA
The Apollo Project, 6 January 2012 World Financial Center, NYC
Sam Rivers Trio with Steven Bernstein, 29 August 2003 Jazz Festival, Saalfelden, AT

live streamed
19 January – Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas at The Lantern, Columbia University
26 February – Sun Ra Arkestra at Total Luxury Spa
8 March – Jeff Tweedy/John Stirratt/Glenn Kotche on the Tweedy Show *
26 March – Michael Hurley and the Croakers at Rosebud Cafe
1 April – Steve Gunn at Golddiggers
22 May – The Smile at Worthy Farm
21 June – Eli Winter/Sam Wagster/Tyler Damon at Constellation Chicago
19 July – Bob Dylan at Bon Bon Club Marseille ***
5 August – Jupiter Blue at Bowerbird
12 October – Robyn Hitchcock at City Winery

live 
10 April – William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake at Summit Rock
5 May – Charlie Burnham at Sunny’s
22 June – Trey Anastasio at Beacon Theater
26 June – Yonatan Gat & co. at Sultan Room
27 June – Angel Bat Dawid & Adam Zanolini at Herbert von King Park
29 June – Garcia Peoples at Judson Church
10 July – Oneida at H0l0
14 July – Mary Lattimore at Greenwood Cemetary
22 July – William Tyler & Steve Gunn & co. at Bell House
24 July – Sun Ra Arkestra, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty at SummerStage
28 July – Ravi Coltrane at Mama Tried
30 July – Sex Mob at Hometown Bar-B-Q, Industry City
3 August – Dump at Mama Tried
4 August – Chris Forsyth/Tom Malach/Doug McCombs/Ryan Jewell at Turk’s Inn
15 September – Yo La Tengo at TV Eye
23 September – Yo La Tengo at TV Eye
25-26 September – Woodsist Festival, Accord, NY
27 September – Gunn/Truscinski Duo, Natural Information Society with William Parker at LPR
10 November – Gunn/Truscinski Duo at Union Pool
17 November – Garcia Peoples, Ryan Sawyer at Sultan Room
19 November – Bob Dylan at Beacon Theater
23 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
24 November – Bob Dylan at Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
28 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
29 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
30 November – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
1 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
2 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
3 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
4 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
5 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom

etc.
Mushrooms playing modular synths
Pirates of the High Cs by Nicholas Limansky
Father Yod’s Kitchen by Byron Coley
A Sound History by Steven P. Garabedian
Bob Dylan, just in general
Always Crashing In The Same Car by Matthew Specktor
Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s by Andrew F. Jones
Grateful Dead Time Machine by Steve Eichner
Songbooks by Eric Weisbard
Christine: The Untold Story of Christine Bott by Christine Bott & Catherine Hayes
Noise Uprising by Michael Denning
Get Back by Peter Jackson
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
The Burning Shore by Erik Davis
Flagging Down the Double E’s by Ray Padgett & co.

ginchy shit, 2020

ginchy shit, 2020
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
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

new or newish
Clandestine Quartet, One for the Fossa, Two for the Wolverine (33-33) ***
Amelia Courthouse, Ruby Glass (Spinster Sounds)
Thurston Moore, Spirit Counsel (Daydream Library)
Richie & Rosie, Nowhere In Time (no label) *
Doug Wieselman, From Water (figureight) *
OOIOO, Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
Matt LaJoie, Everlasting Spring (Flower Room) *
Ztom Motoyama, Steeler’s Delight on Youtube (no label)
Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band, I Just Wasn’t Made For These Set Times (no label)
Mute Duo, Lapse In Passage (American Dreams) *
Stephen Malkmus, Traditional Techniques (Matador) ***
Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote, Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote (Universal)
Elkhorn, The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Spacefuzz, Coq (no label)
Swamp Dogg, Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise)
Lee Ranaldo and Raul Dufree, Names of North End Women (Mute)
Sarah Louise, Sally Anne Morgan, & Kryssi B, Natch 11: Earth Cult (Black Dirt)
Woods, Strange To Explain (Woodsist)
YPY, NYE/D IN DUB!!!! (birdFRIEND)
YPY, Oversmiling Dub (birdFRIEND)
Mosses, T.V. Sun (Anyways)
The Necks, Three (Northern Spy)
Jason McMahon, Odd West (Shinokyo) *
Sarah Louise, Earth & Its Contents (no label)
Joan Shelley, Live at the Bombard (no label) *
Aoife Nessa Frances, Land of No Junction (Basin Rock)
Chris Forsyth With Garcia Peoples, Peoples Motel Band (Solar Live Vol. 3: 9.14.19) (Algorithm Free) ***
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 1 (no label) *
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 2 (no label) *
Dustin Wong, Swedish American Hall, Night 3 (no label) *
Horse Lords, Common Task (Northern Spy)
The Mountain Goats, Songs for Pierre Chuvin (Merge) *
Dwarfs of East Agoza, Green Dogs of Dahshur (Akuphone)
Dirty Projectors, Windows Open EP (Domino)
Sarah Louise & Holly Juniper, I Feel Nourished By the Earth (no label)
Buck Curran, No Love Is Sorrow (Obsolete)
Will Guthrie, Nist Nah (Black Truffle)
Lewsberg, In This House (12XU)
Million Lands, The Ochre World (Ernest Jennings)
Marisa Anderson & Jim White, The Quickening (Thrill Jockey) *
Elkhorn, Southern Star (no label)
Makoto Kawabata, Richard Pinhas, Manongo Mujica, Juan Luis Pereira, Hiroshi Higashi, Alturas (Buh)
Joe Westerlund, Reveries in the Rift (no label)
Noah Wall, Alloys (no label)
Dan Romano’s Outfit, Do What (Could Have Been) “Infidels” by Bob Dylan & the Plugz (no label) ***
Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate & Kryssi Battalene, s/t (C/Site)
Golden Retriever and Chuck Johnson, Rain Shadows (Thrill Jockey)
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Noon (ATO)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut) *
Yo La Tengo, We Have Amnesia Sometimes (Matador)
Yo La Tengo, Sleepless Nights (Matador)
Julianna Barwick, Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune) *
ML Wah, Shinki Water (Flower Room) *
Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band, Flow & Heady (no label)
Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) ***
Ramble Tamble & Powers/Rolin Duo, Live at Tubby’s 8/5/19 (no label) ***
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, Beacon (Garden Portal)
Powers/Rolin Duo, self-titled (Feeding Tube) *
Alec Bathgate, Phantom Dots (no label)
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, All the Good Times (Acony) *
Sleeper and Snake, Junction and Gold (Upset the Rhythm)
75 Dollar Bill, Power Failures (no label)
75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, Live at Roulette (no label)
v/a, Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora (Syrphe)
v/a, Storehouse Presents… (Storehouse) *
Mike Polizze, Long Lost Solace Found (Paradise of Bachelors)
Baby Copperhead, We Stand Tall (no label)
Joanna Sternberg, Then I Try Some More (Team Love) *
Tara Clerkin Trio, Tara Clerkin Trio (Laura Lies In) *
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
William Tyler, New Vanitas EP (Merge) *
Lambchop, TRIP (Merge) ***
Garcia Peoples, Nightcap at Wits’ End (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Matmos, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (Thrill Jockey)
Jennifer Castle, Monarch Season (Paradise of Bachelors)
Gunn/Truscinski Duo, Soundkeeper (Three Lobed) ***
Heather Trost, Petrichor (Third Man)
Rootless, Docile Cobras (Flower Room)
The Special Pillow, World’s Finest (Zofko)
Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
Carl Stone, Stolen Car (Unseen Worlds)
Nihiloxica, Kaloli (Crammed Discs)
Deerhoof, Love-Lore (Joyful Noise)
Chris Forsyth / Dave Harrington / Ryan Jewell / Spencer Zahn, First Flight (no label) *
Jeff Tweedy, Love Is the King (dBpm)
Cyril Cyril, Yallah Mickey Mouse (Born Bad)
Wet Tuna, Eau’d To A Fake Bookie, Vol. 2 (Child of Microtones)
Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
Thurston Moore, By the Fire (Daydream Library)
North Americans, Roped In (Third Man)
Cut Worms, Nobody Lives Here Anymore (Jagjaguwar)
Prana Crafter, MorphoMystic (Cardinal Fuzz) 
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem) ***
SUSS, Promise (Northern Spy)
Sanjay Mishra & Garrett Gleason, Duets (no label)
John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez, Bent Arcana (Castle Face)
MV/EE, Cap Trips (Child of Microtones)
Gwenifer Raymond, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (Tompkins Square)
Tashi Dorji, Improvisations For Nylon String Guitar (no label) *
Post Moves, Cut Into Your Own Dimension (Noumenal Loom)
Barry Walker Jr., Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain)

singles/short-form/individual non-album performances
Eddie Marcon, 少女, ふわふわあい 7-inch (Pong Kong)
Tara Jane O’Neil & Marissa Anderson, “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” 7-inch (no label)
“Bob Dylan,” “Hit Me One More Time” & other Speech Synthesis tracks (via YouTube)
Marisa Anderson, “The Fire This Time” (no label)
Sundae Painters, “Aversion” (no label)
Will Oldham & David Pajo, “Standin’ In My Way” (Instagram) *
Angel Bat Dawid, “Transition East” (International Anthem) *

reissues/newish old things
v/a, Demos to Spazz By (Dave the Spazz 2017 WFMU Premium) (no label)
v/a, Alien Americana (Radio Ravioli 2019 WFMU Premium) (no label)
v/a, Nicked Names (Gaylord Fields’s 2013 WFMU Premium) (no label)
Jean-Bosco Mwenda, Jean-Bosco Mwenda (1952-1962) (Mississippi)
Smokey Haangala, Aunka Ma Kwacha (Séance Centre) *
The Monkees, 33 ⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee (Zilch HQ Remaster) (no label)
v/a, Down That Country Road (Joe McGasko’s 2019 WFMU Premium) (no label)
Neil Young, Homegrown (Reprise) ***
Mike Nesmith, Cosmic Partners: The McCabe’s Tapes (7A) ***
v/a, Slow Caledonia (no label) ***
Harry Roesli Gang, Titik Api (La Munai)
Gillian Welch, Boots No. 2, Vol. 1-3: The Lost Songs (Acony) *
v/a, The Harry Smith B-Sides (Smithsonian Folkways)
Doug McKechnie, San Francisco Moog, 1968-1972 (VG+)
Miquela, Miquela (Finder Keepers)
Neil Young, Archives, Volume 2 (1972-1976) (Warner/Reprise) ***
Masters of the Edge, Somewhere Between Space & Time (no label) *
Masters of the Edge, Baked Bean Cyclops (no label) *
Grateful Dead, The Angel’s Share: Workingman’s Dead (Rhino)
Grateful Dead, The Angel’s Share: American Beauty (Rhino)
Bob Dylan, 50th Anniversary Collection: 1970 (Sony)
Sharhabil Ahmed, The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk)
v/a, If I Had A Pair of Wings: Jamaican Doo-Wop, v. 3 (Death Is Not the End)

misc. new-to-me
Japancakes, Loveless (Darla)
Mapache, Live at Mollusk (no label)
Thongsai Taptanon, no title (no label)
Glenn Phillips, Lost At Sea (40th Anniversary Edition) (Feeding Tube) ***
Town & Country, Up Above (Thrill Jockey)
Holy Modal Rounders, Punishment Bros. (no label)
Sun City Girls, Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (Cloaven)
Sun Ra, Hiroshima (Saturn) *
Big Black, Lion Walk (UNI) *
The New Sound of Numbers, Invisible Magnetic (Cloud Recordings)
Kostas Bezos & the White Birds – s/t (Olivido)
Hampton Grease Band, January 1970 demo (no label)
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Red Vest Inn, Oahu, Hawaii June 13, 1970 (Purple Pyramid)
Robyn Hitchcock with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Spooked (Yep Roc)
David Byrne, Little Creatures/True Stories Demos (no label)
Zal Yanovsky, Alive & Well in Argentina (Buddah) ***
v/a, Don’t Ever Buy Nothin’ You Don’t Dig: The Warner/Reprise Radio Spots (no label)
Mandolin Sisters, Melodies on Mandolin (no label)
Demola Adepoju, Hawaiian (Premier)

live recordings
This Is Not This Heat, 1 March 2019 EartH, London, UK
Bob Dylan, 15 November 1994 MTV Unplugged Rehearsal, NYC
Everly Brothers, 29 July 1993 Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, PA
Moondog For Gamelan, 20 October 2017 St. John’s, London, UK
Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, 6 September 2019 Piazza del Nurahe, Sant’Anna Arresi, IT
Soft Boys, 21 November 1978 Leicester University, UK
Gene Clark & the Silverados, 24 May 1975 Mother’s, Dallas, TX
Christian Marclay, 14 March 1987 Roulette, NYC
Kraftwerk, 5 May 1975 PNE Gardens, Vancouver, BC
Sun Ra Arkestra, 1 March 1995 Wetlands, NYC
Starving Braineaters, late 1972, WREK ***

live 
19 January – High Time, Elkhorn, MV & EE at Baby’s All Right
21 January – Ancient Ocean at Hifi Loft
4 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
6 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
7 February – Steve Gunn & William Tyler & Friends at Union Pool
29 February – Garcia Peoples & Sarah Louise at Magick City
1 March – Sarah Louise at Hifi Loft
5 March – Matt LaJoie at Montauk Salt Cave

live streamed
Neil Young Fireside Sessions
14 March – Sarah Louise (Instagram)
19 March – Starbirthed (YouTube)
19 March- Willie, Lukas, & Micah Nelson (Twitch)
19 March – Neil Young (NYA)
23 March – Dustin Wong (Twitch)
25 March – Saariselka (Facebook)
4 April – Chris Corsano (Experimental Sound Studio)
27 April – Joshua Abrams, Jupiter Blue (Experimental Sound Studio)
28 April – Sarah Louise (Experimental Sound Studio)
29 April – Susan Alcorn, Matmos (Experimental Sound Studio)
8 May – Chris Corsano (Drum & Percussion Madness 8)
8 May – Myriam Gendon (Feeding Tube)
18 July – Yo La Tengo (NoonChorus)
19 July – Yo La Tengo (NoonChorus)
29 August – Tony Buck (Experimental Sound Studio)
20 November – William Tyler, Marisa Anderson, Yamin Williams (Big Ears Residency)
18 December – Yo La Tengo (Greene Space)

etc.
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry by Kyle Barnett
@__koyaanisqatsi
Watchmen
Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, SWPACA, Albuquerque, NM
They Live In Me by Jesse Jacobs
Flagging Down the Double E’s newsletter by Ray Padgett
Mississippi Records newsletter
Brother Robert by Annye Anderson
Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life by Gustavus Stadler
Rescue Party (Instagram)
Experimental Sound Studio
Open Streets
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard
More Important Than The Music by Bruce Epperson
In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton
Records Ruin the Landscape by David Grubbs
Grateful Dead, Shakedown Stream
Phish, Dinner and a Movie
I’m Your Fan: Songs of Leonard Cohen by Ray Padgett
Echoes by Glenn Phillips
JerryBase
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

ginchy shit, 2019

ginchy shit, 2019
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list

single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon

new or newish
Clan Caimán, Clan Caimán (EM)
Goodrazi, Evidence of Arrival (Feeding Tube)
Ibakku, Alien Cartoon (Akwaaba Music)
Mute Duo, Mute Duo (no label)
Geir Sundstøl, Brødløs (Hubro)
Deerhunter, Double Dream of Spring (4AD)
Nate Wooley, Columbia Icefield (Northern Spy)
Barry Walker, Diaspora Urkontinent (Driftless)
Mapache, Mapache (no label) ***
Kurt Vile, Bottle It In (Matador)
Cat Power, Wanderer (Domino)
Steve Gunn, The Unseen In Between (Matador) *
William Tyler, Goes West (Merge) *
Sarah Louise, Nighttime Birds & Morning Stars (Thrill Jockey) *
Tiny Ruins, Olympic Girls (BaDaBing)
Lambchop, This (is what I wanted to tell you) (Merge) *
Worthless, The Cave (Feeding Tube)
Stephen Malkmus, Groove Denied (Matador) *
Deerhunter, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared (4AD)
The Scene Is Now, Untitled/Unreleased LP #9 (no label)
Chris Forsyth, All Time Present (No Quarter)
Meat Puppets, Dusty Notes (Megaforce)
75 Dollar Bill, I Was Real (Thin Wrist) *
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality ***
Garcia Peoples, One Step Behind (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) *
Mdou Moctar, Ilana (The Creator) (Sahel Sounds)
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan, New Rain Duets (Three Lobed) *
De Lorians, De Lorians (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Jake Xerxes Fussell, Out of Sight (Paradise of Bachelors) *
M. Geddes Gengras, I am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World (Hausu Mountain) *
House and Land, Across the Field (Thrill Jockey)
Kendra Amalie, Intuition (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
The Schramms, Omnidirectional (Bar/None)
C Joynes and the Furlong Bray, The Borametz Tree (Feeding Tube)
SPAZA, SPAZA (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
Chris Brokaw, End of the Night (VDSQ) *
Sam Cohen, The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears (30th Century)
Ted Reichman, Reeds and Oscillators (no label)
Joan Shelley, Like the River Loves the Sea (No Quarter)
Bill Orcutt, NEU BROS / OK PHONE / RURAL BEATLES (Palalia)
Luka Productions, Falaw (Sahel Sounds)
Damon Locks Ensemble, Where Future Unfolds (International Anthem)
Gong Gong Gong, Phantom Rhythm (Wharf Cat) ***
Modern Nature, How To Live (Bella Union)
Vampire Weekend, Father of the Bride (Columbia) *
Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains (Drag City) ***
Matt LaJoie, The Center and the Fringe (Flower Room) ***
Village of Spaces, Shaped By Place (Feeding Tube)
Cy Dune, Lagniappe Sessions (Aquarium Drunkard) ***
William Tyler, Lagniappe Sessions (Aquarium Drunkard) *
Thee Reps, Minimal Surface (Gold Bolus)
M. Grig, Mount Carmel (12k)
Rocket 808, Rocket 808 (12XU) *
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights, Bobbie’s A Girl (Merge)
Angel Bat Dawid, The Oracle (International Anthem)
Kim Gordon, No Home Record (Matador) *
v/a, Quilt of the Universe (Spinster Sounds)
Saariselka, The Ground Our Sky (Temporary Residence Ltd.) *
SUSS, High Line (Northern Spy)
Carl Stone, Himalaya (Unseen Worlds)
Rima Kato, Sing-Song (Flau)
Moon Duo, Stars Are the Light (Sacred Bones)
Bill Orcutt, Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilia) ***
Dump, Blown Dunks (edita la servidumbre) ***
Abstract Black, In Circles With Self (no label)

singles/short-form/individual non-album performances
“steve reich clapping music but on a snare with swing” – Marc Giguere (YouTube)
“The Moonlight Sonata but the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early” – Isaac Schenkler (Soundcloud)
“Siren” – Gong Gong Gong, Siren 7” (Em)
“Outerhelios” – DADAbots
misc. vaporwave mixes – DBOM
“Not Dark Yet” – Bob Dylan, 2019 arrangement

reissues/new old things
Allman Brothers Band, Fillmore East, February 1970 (Deluxe Edition) (Owsley Stanley Foundation)
Jerry Garcia Band, Electric on the Eel (Round)
Akofa Akoussah, s/t (Mr. Bongo)
Tohru Aizawa Quartet, Tachibana, vol. 1 (BBE)
John Hartford, Backroads, Rivers & Memories (Omnivore) ***
Christy Essien Igbokwe, Give Me A Chance (Afrodesia) *
Animal Collective, Crispy Pops (Live 2009) (no label)
Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Sony/Legacy) *
Plastic Device, E Pluribus Plastic (no label)
v/a, La Contra Ola: Synth-Wave & Post-Punk from Spain, 1980-1986 (Bongo Joe)
Troupe Ecole Tudu, Oyiwane (Sahel Sounds)
v/a, Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List, Volume One (France) (Finders Keepers)
Grateful Dead, Ambient 4 – The Plateaux of MIDI (Summer ‘94) (no label) *
Bob Dylan, Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15 (Sony/Legacy)
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage (Owsley Stanley Foundation) *
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, The Soundboard Archive (no label) ***
June Tyson, Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (Modern Harmonic) ***
Lee Hazlewood, 400 Miles From LA (Light in the Attic)

misc. new-to-me
Bruce Kaphan, Slider (Hearts of Space)
Demola Adepoju, Olufe-Mi (Addlar) ***
Ofo the Rock Company, Live in Europe (PMG)
BJ Cole, New Wandering Dog (United Artists)
v/a, Township Jazz ‘n’ Jive: 18 South African Urban Swing Classics From the Jivin’ ‘50s (Nascente) ***
Bongos Ikwue, You Can’t Hurry the Sunrise (Arc)
Flying Burrito Brothers, Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Amoeba) *
Roy Loney, Artistic As Hell EP (Albertson Frost) ***

live recordings
Bob Dylan, 9 February 2002, Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA ***
Robyn Hitchcock with Benmont Tench, WIlliam Tyler, & Thayer Serrano, 30 August 2018, Largo, Los Angeles, CA ***
Mary Halvorson Octet, 4 November 2018, haus der Berliner Festpiele, Berlin, DE
Devo, 4 November 1978, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Marisa Anderson & Jim White, 21 July 2019, The Hideout, Chicago, IL
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 13 October 1991, KUT, Austin, TX ***
The Bangles, 25 August 1986 Kingswood Music Theater, Toronto, ONT
Bob Dylan, 23 July 2000 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Silver Jews, 8 September 2008 Theory of Everything, WFMU, Jersey City, NJ
Netherlands Metropole Orchestra: Brian Eno, “The Shutov Assembly,” 20 June 1999 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL

live 
11 January 2019 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society / Ben LaMar Gay at Nublu 151
1 February 2019 Steve Gunn / Mary Lattimore & Meg Baird at Bowery Ballroom
7 February 2019 Dire Wolves, Starbirthed at Union Pool
26 February 2019 Ace of Cups at Mercury Lounge
5 March 2019 Ryley Walker/Steve Gunn/Ryan Jewell at Union Pool
9 March 2019 The Mike & Micky Show at Beacon Theater
5 April 2019 Jake Xerxes Fussell, Brooklyn Folk Festival
18 April 2019 SUSS / Elkhorn at Nublu 151
10 May 2019 Dire Wolves / Sunwatchers with Eugene Chadbourne at Nublu
17 May 2019 Garcia Peoples at Magick City
21 May 2019 Chuck Johnson / SUSS at Union Pool
26 June 2019 Sarah Louise / Kikagaku Moyo at Elsewhere
20 July 2019 High Time at Union Pool
27 July 2019 Weak Signal / Dire Wolves / Garcia Peoples, Chris Forsyth at Market Hotel
4 August 2019 Condo Fucks / 75 Dollar Bill at Union Pool
4 October 2019 Steve Gunn & John Truscinski Duo / Natural Information Society at Union Pool
2 November 2019 Lambchop at Murmrr
14 November 2019 Jake Xerxes Fussell / Joan Shelley at Park Church Co-Op
15 November 2019 Kikagaku Moyo / Miniami Deutsch at Warsaw
23 November 2019 Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain at St. Peter’s Church
26 November 2019 Bob Dylan at Beacon Theater
22 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
23 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
24 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
25 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
26 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
27 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
28 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
29 December 2019 Yo La Tengo & co at Bowery Ballroom
30 December 2019 Phish at Madison Square Garden
30 December 2019 Garcia Peoples / Chris Forsyth / Ryley Walker at LPR

etc.
Greene County Ghost Music by James Adams
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened / Fyre Fraud
Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, Albuquerque, NM, 20-23 February
“40 Acres & A Shul Bequeathed Unto Me” by Jeffrey Lewis
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry
Tales From the Tour Bus, seasons 1 & 2
High Weirdness by Erik Davis
Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY
Fall (or Dodge in Hell) by Neal Stephenson
The FeMale Man by Joanna Russ
Mescaline by Mike Jay
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
Foucault in the Desert by Simeon Wade
The Lark Ascending by Richard King
Bicycle Day by Brian Blomerth
Desolation Center by Stuart Swezey
Banjo and Bread by Andrew William Smith
Burning Down the Haus by Tim Mohr
The Butterfly Kid (reprint) by Chester Anderson
Infinite Tuesday by Michael Nesmith
Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
Maggot Brain #1

ginchy shit, 2018

ginchy shit, 2018
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list

single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon

new or newish
Sunwatchers, Sunwatchers II (Trouble In Mind) *
Drunken Foreigner Band, White Guy Disease (Electric Cowbell)
Yo La Tengo, There’s a Riot Going On (Matador) ***
Rose Mercie, s/t (SDZ/Monofonus)
Josiah Steinbrick, Meeting of the Waters (Leaving)
Jon Collin, The Nature (Early Music)
v/a, You Don’t Have To Be Fashionable, v. 6 (With A Messy Head) *
v/a, Hexadic III (Drag City)
Jeffrey Lewis & the Deposit Returners, Songs By Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) (Don Giovanni) ***
v/a, Our Trip Is Short, v. 1 (Your Trip is Short)
Brigid Mae Power, The Two Worlds (Tompkins Square)
Itasca, Morning Flower (Dove Cove)
The Breeders, All Nerve (4AD) *
Charnel Ground, s/t (12XU) ***
Gwenifer Raymond, You Never Were Much of a Dancer (Tompkins Square)
Buck Curran, Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas (Obsolete) *
Benjamin LeMar Gay,  Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun (International Anthem Recording Co.)
Paul Blanding, Bedtime (no label)
Paul Blanding, Krampusnacht (Music from an Unwritten Puppet Opera) (no label)
Marisa Anderson, Cloud Corner (Thrill Jockey) *
SUSS, Ghost Box (Northern Spy)
The Ex, 27 Passports (no label) *
Tanzania Albinism Collective, White African Power (Six Degrees) *
Ted Reichman, Airs, Reels & Hornpipes (no label)
Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (no label)
Daniel Bachman, The Morning Star (Three Lobed)
Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, self-titled (no label)
Arp, ZEBRA (Mexican Summer) *
Jeremy Barnes, Summer ‘16 (L-M Duplication) *
Jeremy Barnes, Winter ‘16 (L-M Duplication) *
Jeremy Barnes, Spring ‘17: Live in Satan’s Finger (L-M Duplication)
The Special Pillow, Sleeping Weird (Zofko)
Garcia Peoples, Cosmic Cash (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Oneida, Romance (Joyful Noise)
Thumbscrew, Theirs (Cuneiform) *
Thumbscrew, Ours (Cuneiform)
Alexander, 8/15/07 (Southern Jukebox) ***
Parquet Courts, Wide Awake (Rough Trade)
Drinks, Hippo Lite (Drag City)
Mitski, Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
Träden, Träden (Subliminal Sounds)
Hamish Kilgour, Finkelstein (BaDaBing)
Snail Mail, Lush (Matador)
The Other Years, The Other Years (BaDaBing)
Sarah Louise, Deeper Woods (Thrill Jockey)
Mind Over Mirrors, Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors)
Table Sugar, Collected Acknowledgments (no label)
Elkhorn, Lionfish (Eiderdown)
Proven Recording, Dubs, volume 1 (Hoss)
Bill Frisell, Music IS (Okey/Sony Masterworks) *
Jim O’Rourke, Sleep Like It’s Winter (Newhere) *
Animal Collective, Tangerine Reef (Domino)
v/a, Freedom of the Press (Freedom of the Press)
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore, Ghost Forests (Three Lobed)
Booker Stardrum, Temporary etc. (NNA)
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Brace Up (Palilalia)
Medeski Martin and Wood & Alarm Will Sound, Omnisphere (Indirecto)
Tropical Fuck Storm, A Laughing Death in Meatspace (Mistletone/TFS) *
Jonathan Richman, SA (no label)
Hardy Fox Bobuck, Nineteen Sixty Seven (no label)
Hardy Fox Bobuck, Nachtzug (no label)
Guerilla Toss, Twisted Crystal (DFA)
Ruby Karinto, self-titled (aka Spray Bottle) (HoZac)
Oh Sees, Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
Sarathy Korwar, My East Is Your West (Gearbox)
PI Power Trio, The Walk EP (Birdwatcher)
Glenn Jones, The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar (Thrill Jockey)
David Crosby, Here If You Listen (BMG)
Yuzo Iwata, Daylight Moon (Siltbreeze)
Swamp Dogg, Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune (Joyful Noise)
The Moles, Code Word (Super Secret)
Harmony Rockets feat. Peter Walker, lachesis / clotho / atropos (Tompkins Square)
Phosphorescent, C’est La Vie (Dead Oceans)
Dustin Wong, Fluid World Building 101 With Shaman Bambu (Hausu Mountain)
Ned Collette, Old Chestnut (Feeding Tube)
Cut Worms, Hollow Ground (Jagjaguwar)
Eiko Ishibashi, The Dreams My Bones Dream (Drag City)
Mountain Man, Magic Ship (Nonesuch) *
Dire Wolves (Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band)  / Headroom split cassette (Centripetal Force)
Dire Wolves (Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band), Shootout at the Dildo Factory (Eiderdown)
Dire Wolves, Paradisical Mind (Feeding Tube)
Francesco Cavaliere, Xylomania (no label)
Zolephants, Islands of Neptune (Fuzzy Warbles)

singles/short-form/individual performances
misc. tracks, Mike Nezmeme (via YouTube)
“Highway to Hell but with every other beat missing” & other tracks, Adam Emond (via YouTube)
“Albatross (Keith Fullerton Whitman blend),”  Fleetwood Mac (no label) ***
“Deep Sea Diver Blues,” Gwenifer Raymond (Tompkins Square)
“American Woman (David Lynch Remix),” Muddy Magnolias, Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack (Rhino)
“Digital Billboards,” Rocket 808 (12XU)
“I Don’t Want To Do This Again,” Ye Nuns (State)

a few album tracks (all ***)
“The Tonsure Twist,” Borzoi, A Prayer For War (12XU)
“New Moons,” Brian Eno, Music For Installations (Universal/Opal)
“Soon All Cities,” The Ex, 27 Passports (no label)
“Music Machine,” Gabriella Cohen, Pink is the Colour of Unconditional Love (Captured Tracks)
“Sea Salt Nap,” Gris Velasquez, Denim EP (no label)

reissues/new old things
translated Cambodian artist/title (Sayonara Sound Productions)
Jerry Garcia, isolated guitar track, 12 November 1972 (no label)
Troupe Ecole Tudu, Vol. 1 (HASADA)
Bob Dylan, Once Upon A Time (Live 2017) (no label)
v/a, Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 (Light in the Attic)
Holger Czukay, Cinema (Grönland)
Ali Farka Touré, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Mahmoudou Maiga)
Ned Lagin, Seastones (no label) ***
v/a, 1984 – Freedom Is Jazz: Music From/For A Dark Era (Destination: Out 2017 WFMU Marathon Premium) (no label)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra, Of Abstract Dreams (Strut/Art Yard)
Shirley Ellis, Three Six Nine! The Best of Shirley Ellis (Ace) ***
Jess Sah Bi & Peter One, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (Awesome Tapes From Africa) ***
Jerry Garcia, Before the Dead (Round) *
Brian Eno, Music For Installations (Universal/Opal)
Gene Clark, Gene Clark Sings For You (Omnivore) ***
Michael Hurley, 40 Years (no label) ***
Troupe Ecole Tudu, Oyiwane (Sahel Sounds)
Van Morrison, Live in Boston 1968 (Sony Legacy UK) *
Geoff & Maria Muldaur, Pottery Pie (Omnivore)
Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (Rhino) *
Bob Dylan, More Blood, More Tracks (Sony Legacy) *
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 (Free Dirt)
Neil Young, Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live (Reprise) *
Neil Young, Songs For Judy (Shakey/Reprise) ***
The Beach Boys, Wake the World: The Friends Sessions (UMG/Capitol)
The Beach Boys, I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions (UMG/Capitol)
Good Old Boys, Drink Up & Go Home (Rockbeat)
Grateful Dead, Dead is Jazz, 1993-1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, Music For Scareports: October 1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, Music For Spaceports: March 1994 (no label) ***
Grateful Dead, The Last Jam: July 9, 1995 (no label) ***
Doc & Merle Watson, Never The Same Way Once: Boarding House, October 1974 (Owsley Stanley Foundation)

misc. new-to-me
György Ligeti, “Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes” (unknown performer, 20:05) ***
Fred Hellerman, Caught in the Act (no label)
Seith Freiberg’s dad, San Francisco Bay Fog Horns, 29 August 1987 ***
Goat (jp), Rhythm and Sound (HEADZ)
Van Morrison, Gypsy Soul Demos, 1968-1971 (no label) ***
Joshua Abrams, Mangeticopetion (Eremite) *
Exploding Star Orchestra, Stars Have Shapes (Delmark) *
Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue, O’ Clouds Unfold (Hook or Crook)
Kasvot Växt, i rokk (Elektrisk Tung)
Odetta, Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA Victor) ***
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Before Time Began (Relix)

live recordings
April 1966 Velvet Underground, The Dom, NYC (Jonas Mekas’s Walden OST)
22 November 2016 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, The Hideout, Chicago, IL
6 January 2018 Drunken Foreigner Band, Transpacific Sound Paradise, WFMU, NJ
16 April 2018 Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Surface Noise, WFMU, NJ
14 May 2018 Sachiko Kanenobu, Surface Noise, WFMU, NJ
29 July 1986 Steve Wever & Dave Reisch, Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
March 1984 Bob Dylan & The Plugz, rehearsals in Bob’s garage, Malibu, CA
1 May 2018 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Warnors Theater, Fresno, CA
5 July 2018 Marisa Anderson, PhilMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
22 October 2018 Bob Dylan, Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT

live 
24 February – People of the North at Trans-Pecos
27 February – Yo La Tengo at National Sawdust
28 February – Alexander at Wonders of Nature
2 March – Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
3 March – Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall
6 April – Yo La Tengo at Brooklyn Steel
12 April – Chuck Johnson at Union Pool
13 April – Brandon Lopez/Sam Yulsman/Chris Corsano at Areté
14 April – War Bubble at Wonders of Nature
9 May – Che Chen at Roulette
20 May – Peter Stampfel, Shelley Hirsch, & co. at Sidewalk Cafe
6 June – Willie Klein with Two Mule Team, and Elkhorn at Wonders of Nature
28 June – Yo La Tengo on Rocks Off boat cruise
8 July – Marisa Anderson at Union Pool
10 July – Radiohead at Madison Square Garden
18 August – Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay at Union Pool
19 August – Daniel Bachman at Trans Pecos
12 September – Yo La Tengo at Kingston BPI
15 September – Willie Klein with Two Mule Team at Wonders of Nature
23 September – 75 Dollar Bill at Troost
25 September – 75 Dollar Bill with Ira Kaplan at Troost
26 September – Neil Young & Promise of the Real at Capitol Theater
27 September – Neil Young & Promise of the Real at Capitol Theater
31 October – Phish at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
30 November – Bob Dylan at Beacon Theater
2 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
3 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
4 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
5 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
6 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
7 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
8 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
9 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
14 December – Ryley Walker at Baby’s All Right
30 December – Phish at Madison Square Garden

etc.
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Astral Weeks by Ryan Walsh
Wormwood directed by Errol Morris
Phantom Thread written/directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler
Fog Window Liberation News #1 by Gary Panter
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
@ominouswhoosh
@KeithHernandez
Neil Young Archives Times-Contrarian
Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Sessions
Bop Apocalypse by Martin Torgoff
Oak Leaf Park: bluegrass feuds, family, and festivals, Luray, Virginia – 7/4/61 by James Adams
Crawl Space by Jesse Jacobs
Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
Downtown Pop Underground by Kembrew McLeod
@ArtyBots

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

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

ginchy shit, 2015

ginchy shit, 2015
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
a running list

new or newish
K-Twin 96.3 femmebot countdown (no label)
Zs, Xe (Northern-Spy)
75 Dollar Bill, Wooden Bag (Other Music)
Sonny & the Sunsets, Talent Night at the Ashram (Polyvinyl)
Moon Duo, Shadow of the Sun (Sacred Bones)
Panda Bear, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
Myriam Gendron, Not So Deep As A Well (Feeding Tube) ***
Mind Brains, Mind Brains (Orange Twin)
Fallopian Disco Force, Black Larvenroller (Ill Yacumama)
Kassé Mady Diabaté, Kiriké (Six Degrees)
Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual (Aum Fidelity)
Aphex Twin, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2 EP (Warp) ***
Zsanett Szirmay and Bálint Tárkány-Kovác, Sound Weaving (no label)
Jessica Pratt, On Your Own Love Again (Drag City)
Steve Gunn & the Black Twig Pickers, Seasonal Hire (Thrill Jockey)
Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night (Columbia) ***
Noveller, Fantastic Planet (Fire)
Jeff Bridges, Sleeping Tapes (no label) *
various artists, Zomba Prison Project (Six Degrees) ***
Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom, v. 17 (no label)
Geddes Gengras, Systems 1 (no label)
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works III (beta), mix by Marc Weidenbaum (no label)
Africa Express, In C (Transgressive) ***
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma, FRKWAYS Vol. 12 (RVNG) *
Sam Cohen, Cool It (Easy Life)
Horse Lords, Hidden Cities (NNA Tapes)
Jeff Milano, Kambang Adzan (Eiderdown) *
Trash Kit, Confidence (Upset the Rhythm)
Brian Godchaux & Sandy Rothman, The Red Fiddle & The Silver Banjo (ToneBar)
Eartheater, Metalepsis (Hausu Mountain)
Tristan Perich, Parallels (Physical Editions)
Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk!) *
Pops Staples, Don’t Lose This (Anti-) *
Jim O’Rourke, Simple Songs (Thrill Jockey) *
Wilco, Star Wars (dBpm)
Earthly, Days (Noumenal Loom)
Michael Morley, The Burning House (no label)
David Goren, Fourth of July 2015–Brooklyn Pirate Radio Bandscan (no label) *
Yo La Tengo, Stuff Like That There (Matador) ***
Daymé Arocena, Nueva Era (Brownswood)
Dick Diver, Melbourne, Florida (Trouble In Mind)
Dave Rawlings Machine, Nashville Obsolete (Acony) ***
Dengue Fever, The Deepest Lake (TUK)
The Necks, Vertigo (Northern-Spy) *
Highlife, Come Smoke EP (no label) *
Highlife, Glass Key EP (no label) *
various artists, Parallelograms (Three Lobed) ***
Mbongwana Star, From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
Tsembla, Terror & Healing (New Image)
Tom Carter, Long Time Underground (Three Lobed) *
White Out with Nels Cline, Accidental Sky (Northern-Spy)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Quarters (Castle Face)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Paper Måiché Dream Balloon (ATO) *
The Sandwitches, Our Toast (Cellar Door) *
Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (no label)
75 Dollar Bill, Southeaster b/w Like Like Laundry cassette (no label)
Jim Price, One Minute Melodies: 2015 WFMU Marathon Premium (no label)
Deradoorian, The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
Oneida, Positions (Rocket)
Grimes, Art Angels (4AD)
Tigue, Peaks (New Amsterdam) *
Abba Gargando, Abba Gargando (Sahel Sounds) *
Six Organs of Admittance, Hexadic II (Drag City) *
Pete Nolan, Easy (no label)
DJ Sandji, 100% Balani Show (Sahel Sounds) *
Butch Waller, Waltz Collection (Big Chicken)
Erik Griswold, Pain Avoidance Machine (Room40)
Ryan Sawyer, Your Heart Will Be Your Skin (Figure Eight)
Noah Wall, An Early Death (no label)
Goncalo F. Cardoso and Ruben Pater, A Study into 21st Century Drone Acoustics (Discrepant) *

singles/short-form/individual performances
Lea Bertucci, Light Silence, Dark Speech 7-inch (I Dischi Del Barone)
Vukazithathe, “Lyahlonishwa Indoda” (via Soundcloud)
Sly Stone & George Clinton, “If I Didn’t Love You” on First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate by Funkadelic (The C Kunspyruhzy)
Guerilla Toss, 367 Equalizer 12-inch (Feeding Tube) *
Guerilla Toss, Flood Dosed EP (DFA) *
P-Square, “Taste the Money (Testimony)” (Square) *
Lime Crush, Graveyard 7-inch (Fettkakao)
Sousaphone dude, “KKK Marchers Going to Rally” (no label)
Manggarai boys singing spontaneously on the way to Tengu Lese Waterfall, Indonesia, June 2015, recorded by Matthew Van Brink (no label)
Animal Collective, “Michael Remember” (no label)
Facesvases, “Hand on My Bassline” (no label)
Myriam Gendron, misc. tracks, If you got ears: radio residency of Myriam Gendron & Benoit Chaput (no label) *
Esther Konkara, “I Was Waiting” (no label)
Holly Waxwing, Peach Winks EP (Noumenal Loom)

reissues/new old things
Alan Watts, This is IT (Numero Group)
Jeff Cowell, Lucky Stripes and Liquid Gold (Numero Group) *
Else Marie Pade, Electronic Works, 1958-1995 (Important)
Wreckless Eric, The Donovan of Trash (Fire)
various artists, Ork: The Complete Singles (Numero Group) ***
Dennis Young, Reel to Real (Staubgold) *
various artists, Moar of the Monkees (no label, mix by Scotty Carlson) ***
various artists, All Roads Lead to Red (no label, mix by Max Dawson) ***
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Live in San Francisco 1971 (Sundazed)
The Ex, The Ex at Bimhuis, 1991-2015 (Ex)
Bob Dylan, The Cutting Edge (Sony/Legacy) *
Velvet Underground, The Complete Matrix Tapes (Universal) ***
v/a, Science Fiction Dancehall Classics (On-u Sound)
Meat Puppets, 1980 Home Studios Demos (no label)
Loren Connors, Blues: The “Dark Paintings” of Mark Rothko (Family Vineyard) ***
The 8th Likely Faces, Sparkling Eyes (Bronco)

misc. not-new
Wake Ooloo, 4 October 1992, WFMU (no label)
Red Rhodes, Velvet Hammer in a Cowboy Band (Countryside) ***
Paul Siebel, Woodsmoke & Oranges (Elektra)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard with Bill Monroe & co., 20 June 1966, Tex Logan’s House, Madison, NJ (no label)
Grateful Dead with Ned Lagin & David Crosby, March 1975, Ace’s Studio, misc. performances (no label) ***
Oregon, ?? March 1974, Binghamton, NY (no label)
Kemialliset Ystavat,  17 June 2008, WFMU (no label) *
Hector Zazou/Bony Bikaye/CY1, 5 May 1984 VPRO, Netherlands (no label)
Little Howlin’ Wolf, Singles vol. 1 & 2 (Heresee) *
GHQ, Crystal Healing (Three Lobed)
Ace of Cups, It’s Bad For You But Buy It! (Big Beat) *

live
(on book deadline for much of the year, so didn’t get out as much as I’d’ve liked)
5 May M. Geddes Gengras at Elvis Guesthouse
22 May The Condo Fucks at Cake Shop
28 June Little Black Egg Big Band at Pioneer Works
21 July Neil Young at Jones Beach
5 August Tall Firs at Union Pool
13 August Oneida with Lee Ranaldo at Secret Project Robot
21-23 August Phish at Magnaball
10 October Yo La Tengo feat. Dave Schramm at Kings Theater
22 October The Ex at Bell House
23 October The Ex at Monty Hall
11 November Dave Rawlings Machine at the Beacon Theater
21 November Oneida at Secret Project Robot
11 December Yoshimio & Robert AA Lowe at Trans Pecos
12 December Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band at Trans Pecos
30-31 December Phish at Madison Square Garden

etc.
Bull Tongue Review edited by Byron Coley
Inherent Vice directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
100 Wild Styles by James McNew
The New York Mets
The People’s Republic of Rock by Michael Kramer
Acid Hype by Stephen Siff
So Many Roads by David Browne
live footage of The Shaggs at Fremont Town Hall, early 1970s
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red In It) directed by Christopher Kirkley
Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi Despecialized Editions
The Peripheral by William Gibson
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

ginchy shit, 2013

ginchy shit, 2013
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick
in vague order of occurrence 

new or newish
Lonnie Holley, Just Before Music (Dust-To-Digital) ***
Yo La Tengo, Fade (Matador) ***
William Tyler, Impossible Truth (Merge)
Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant, Beyond All Defects (Chodpa Media)
XL Kings, Petite Large (no label)
Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold (Dull Tools)
Arklight, The Beginners (Teflon Beast)
Cornelius, NHK Design Ah (Warner Music Japan)
Harappian Night Recordings, Shama/Parawana cassette (Singing Knives)
Rutherford Chang, Side 1 x 100 (no label)
Akron/Family, Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
Invisible Hands, Invisible Hands (Abduction)
Caitlin Rose, The Stand-In (ATO)
Devendra Banhart, Mala (Nonesuch)
Dump, The Silent Treatment (Grapefruit Record Club) ***
v/a, Ghana Gold (Afropop Worldwide) ***
v/a, Ethnic Minority Music of Southeastern China (Sublime Frequencies)
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, A Working Museum (Southern Domestic)
The Knife, Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
Steve Gunn, Time Off (Paradise of Bachelors)
Shugo Tokumaru, In Focus (Polyvinyl)
Glenn Jones, My Garden State (Thrill Jockey)
The Ex & Brass Unbound, Enormous Door (In the Fishtank)
Dustin Wong, Meditations of Ecstatic Energy (Thrill Jockey)
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City (XL) ***
Caetano Veloso, Abraçaço (Universal Portugal)
Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun, Appalachian Excitation (Northern-Spy)
The Offset: Spectacles, The Offset: Spectacles (Rose Mansion Analog)
Sonny & the Sunsets, Antenna to the Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
John Zorn, Dreamachines (Tzadik)
Omar Souleyman, Wenu Wenu (Ribbon Music)
The Nath Family, Sounds of the Indian Snake Charmer, v. 2 (Hanson)
Flaming Lips, The Terror (Warner Bros.)
Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom v. 4: Another Slow Night (no label)
Kurt Vile, Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bonnie “Prince” Billy (no label) ***
The Julie Ruin, Run Fast (Dischord/TJR) ***
Lee Ranaldo and the Dust, Last Night on Earth (Matador) ***
of Montreal, Lousy With Sylvanbriar (Polyvinyl)
John Wizards, John Wizards (Planet Mu)
Deerhunter, Monomania (4AD)
Tim Hecker, Virgins (Kranky)
$75 Bill, $75 Bill (no label)
Dump, 4 October 2013, Glasslands (NYCTaper.com stream, no label) ***
Tricot, THE (Boundee Japan)
misc. YouTube videos of OOIOO plus gamelan
Ed Askew, Orange (no label) ***

singles/short-form/individual performances
“Husbands” 7”, Savages (Pop Noire) ***
“Banana Bike” CD-R, Dot Wiggin Band (no label)
“Spy” 12”, I Jahbar (Duppy Gun)
“Multiply” 12”, Dayone (Duppy Gun)
“That Girl Thing,” Prince (no label)
Gene Ween, Gener’s Gone EP (no label)
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band – Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band EP (no label)
“Pale Blue Eyes,” Paul Simon, 16 December 2013, Apollo Theater (no label)
“Changes”/”Reason To Believe”/”Early Morning Rain,” Neil Young, Farm Aid (no label) ***

reissues/new old things
Watts Little Angel Band, “New Orleans/Land of 1000 Dances” 7” (Em)
Lou Reed, “Heroin” (take 2), 11 May 1965 Pickwick Studios (no label)
Peter Stampfel, Live (Mystra)
Gene Clark, Here Tonight: White Light Demos (Omnivore) ***
Terry Riley/Don Cherry, Live Kohn 1975 (no label)
Grateful Dead, Sunshine Daydream (Rhino) ***
Alex Chilton, Electricity By Candlelight (Bar/None)
Honey, Ltd., The Complete LHI Recordings (Light in the Attic)
Bob Dylan, Another Self Portrait (Sony)
Bob Dylan & The Band, August 31, 1969 Isle of Wight (Sony)
David Kilgour, Here Come the Cars (De Stijl)
Old & In The Way, October 1 & 8, 1973 Boarding House (Acoustic Oasis)
Dino Valente, Dino Valente (Tompkins Square)
Velvet Underground, Matrix Sampler (no label, yuuuuuuuurgh)

misc. not-new
Michael Nesmith & Tony Crow, 4 May 2012, Great American Music Hall (no label) ***
Kahimi Karie, It’s Here (J-Box Ent Korea)
Dustin Wong, Seasons (Wildfire Wildfire)
Tomoko Sauvage, Ombrophilia (either/OAR)
v/a, A-De-Pon-Dem (no label) ***
v/a, Keep On Fighting (no label) ***
Ned Lagin & Phil Lesh, 22 November 1975, La Paloma Theater, Encinitas, CA (no label)
Willie Nelson, Just Plain Willie, volumes 1-3 (CBS Special Products)
Roky Erickson, Never Say Goodbye (Emperor Jones)
Trash Kit, Trash Kit (Upset! The Rhythm)
Norma Tanega, Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog (New Voice) ***
Paul Westerberg, 17 October 1982, First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN (no label)
Art Garfunkel, Breakway (Columbia)
“Sail On, Sailor,” Ray Charles and the Beach Boys, 12 December 1986, Waikiki Beach, HI (no label)
“Sister Ray,” Velvet Underground, 3 August 1969 Hilltop Festival (no label)
Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations (A Talking Book) (Sound Photosynthesis)
misc. live covers, Meat Puppets, via Meat Puppets Live Repository (no label)

shows/things that happened
Corsano/Wooley/Flaten, January 15th, Silent Barn
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, February 4th, Silent Barn
Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, SWTX PCA/ACA, Albuquerque, February 13th-16th
Lonnie Holley, March 22nd, Blues For Smoke, Whitney Museum
Yo La Tengo & Sam Green, April 10th, The Lovesong of R. Buckminster Fuller, The Kitchen
Akron/Family + M. Geddes Gengras, April 24th, Bowery Ballroom
Corsano/Carter at JACK, April 30th ***
Akron/Family + M. Geddes Gengras, May 29th, The Independent, San Francisco
The Clock, SF MoMA ***
Swans, June 13th, Warsaw
Yo La Tengo/Condo Fucks, June 15th, Maxwell’s ***
Lambchop with James McNew, June 16th, Europa ***
State Senate Gallery, June 25th, Austin, TX ***
People of the North, July 30th, Death By Audio
Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band, September 15th, Bowery Ballroom
Dump + Oneida, October 4th, Glasslands ***
Neutral Milk Hotel, October 11th, 2640, Baltimore
Yo La Tengo, December 16th, Bell House