New music from the past quarter-year Spring/summer 2026 playlistsBuy Music ClubDeezerSpotify Right now I’m listening to the new Fire-Toolz album inside a CD listening booth at a record store that no longer exists. The booth is a small room,…
Back in 2022, for the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, I started a time machine project over on Twitter called “From Ziggy to Aladdin.” I described it as “a real-time trip acro…
A quarter of the way in, my favorite albums of 2026 so far. Music from the year so far:Buy Music ClubDeezerSpotify In October I had a life-changing music experience at a Chipotle in San Antonio. A month before, my father went to an ER with
Looking back, for me this was a year about creating limits. I was overwhelmed (a shared sentiment these days), and the result was a harsh imbalance. Too much going in, not enough going out. Applying this to music and how I got to the list o…
Four new albums, surprise comedy, a vintage mix, 2025 playlist updates Every March is the Tournament of Books, which means every March is a total wash for me, but there are some records I have to talk about, so I’ll stop talking here and ta…
Also, new albums from Klein and Ocean Moon + a gauzy mix Most every day I’m listening to new music, but only sometimes does it feel like there’s something to say about it. And just because I’m not going to dance about this particular archit…
The Eno documentary, January albums, a pretty much perfect mix Between midday Friday and Saturday morning I watched the new Brian Eno documentary four and a half times. This was during 24 Hours of Eno, the streaming premiere of Gary Hustwit…
Songs from the list:SpotifyApple Music I never got around to putting together a best of 2024 list. As the year would down I nodded along to all the other lists, thought well yes, some of those are my favorites too. Yes to Astrid Sonne, yes
Recent music from ML Buch, the Serfs, Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom, and more This week’s new music:SpotifyApple Music I have a vague sense of holiday-ness around this playlist. This isn’t holiday music, not exactly, but it feels like it, or…
Recent music from Foresteppe, Proc Fiskal, Mark Trecka, and more This week’s new* music:SpotifyApple Music *OK so things happened, and as a result this thing didn’t happen for a while. Right after I sent my last newsletter in mid-September,…
Taking stock near the halfway mark Full albums: Spotify / Apple Music Song picks: Spotify / Apple Music With the year a little more than half done (or half undone, etc. etc.), I wanted to take a moment to look back at my favorite releases f…
50 years of “Discreet Music” + new albums from BAKUDI SCREAM and Alarm Will Sound, Milkweed, and more + an absolutely humid dub techno mix New music from an enmossed compilation + Hinode Tapes, Hiroki Chiba, Heith, Lorenzo Senni, and more N…