Album of the Week

Here’s my pick for Audiophile Record of the Year.

Jaimie Branch’s FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise was originally released in the fall of 2019, a follow up to her stellar debut FLY or DIE released the year prior. Here we have a brand new reissue from International Anthem’s 11th Anniversary Editions.

I find myself in 2024, again.

I’ve reached all the way back to May 31, 2024 to resurrect this sweet stunner.

Among the influences Hilary Woods references for her latest album Night CUIÚ we find “the joy in dance, the immediacy of sound.” References that mirror my own when it comes to talking about prime movers and motivators when it comes to listening to music on […]

With music, familiarity can breed endearment.

There may be some danger in naming albums as numbered sequels due to the well known fact that movies that do the same typically get worse the higher the number.

Six acoustic guitars and two pianos composed and conducted by Pulitzer Prize laureate Henry Threadgill.

We’re leaving this very morning for a short vacation, our first in 4 years.

I initially sidled up to Joanne Robertson and her work with Dean Blunt on Backstage Raver.

Have you ever seen John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, the series that ran on the BBC in 1972 where Berger talked about, well, ways of seeing. . .art?

Anyone who follows my weekly album picks knows I have a thing for guitar and its players in all manner of styles from Jeff Parker to Mary Halvorson to Jimi Hendrix, Joe Pass, John Fahey, James Blackshaw, Skip James,  Mississippi John Hurt,  Marc Ribot, Mississippi […]

Ora Cogan is represented by NYC’s Sacred Bones label which means something to me. More often than not, it means I’m going to like what I hear.

There are a number of artists whose new works I wait for. Impatiently.

These days I wake up most mornings dreading the news that occurred overnight.