Monday February 13 2023
Here’s the latest installment of our radio show, Busytown. My co-host is Mina Tavakoli and if you don’t know her work, start with this new one in The Paris...
Monday January 23 2023
UK garage, Janet Malcolm, the 2022 playlist, worst diner in the U.S., and more
Wednesday January 11 2023
I’ve been crabby as hell but the following sequence of music has lifted me towards agreeableness. Mohi Bahauddin Dagar’s Ahir Bhairav is his version of a...
writing about 2022
This is our annual reflection post, and by annual I mean that we have done it twice before: in 2021 and 2020. The idea remains constant: talk about the year...
Tuesday December 20 2022
2022 in music, part two
Monday December 19 2022
2022 in music, part one
Monday December 5 2022
You probably know that the new Number One film in the once-a-decade Sight and Sound poll is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080...
Monday November 21 2022
So much yak and so much anxiety around where we should yak. With all this agitation afoot, it’s good to know that there is a spreadsheet of every single wint...
Monday November 14 2022
I spent two years talking to people (108 of them) in order to write this essay on loudspeakers and how we listen to music for Harper’s Magazine. Enjoy. Last...
Monday November 7 2022
Some thoughts on scale, moths, and rust.
Monday October 31 2022
I keep returning to an eleven-minute (sort of) jazz-funk reworking of “Sister Ray” from 1976. Lou Reed — with Marty Fogel on sax, Bruce Yaw on bass, and...
Monday October 24 2022
We lost a real one—poet and critic Peter Schjeldahl died on Friday at the age of 80. His last two published New Yorker columns, on Wolfgang Tillmans and Piet...
Irmin Schmidt
I interviewed keyboardist and composer Irmin Schmidt in the process of writing this guide to Can for Shfl. (If you like the band, I recommend Rob Young’s All...
Monday October 3 2022
Three-hour ambient mix, Joe Bussard R.I.P., Killing Joke’s “In Dub,” Rosalía at Radio City Music Hall, the slippery hill of life, axial edits, Oren Ambarchi, sad girl swag
Tuesday September 20 2022
Mike Cooper’s Forbidden Delta Planet Blues is a rosy halo of guitar dust. This is what I tweeted when Jean-Luc Godard died. I made a short movie in 1986...
Monday September 5 2022
You remember Civilistjävel!, who we interviewed a few months ago? He has a new mix up at Bleep. I would call it “field-step anthems played by a swamp monster...
Monday August 22 2022
Here is a report on documenta fifteen from correspondent Annabel Thompson:Though livwutang’s social feed, I found this set from zi! aka ziry. It moves...
Monday August 15 2022
Today, Numero Group begins the process of reissuing the Ui recordings: here is “Drive Until He Sleeps.” Our catalog will be doled out in small pieces over...
Monday August 8 2022
Livwutang’s Cav Empt Cassette came out on (duh) as a tape in January and now it’s up on SoundCloud. It is tricky, to create a mix that both works as a...
Monday August 1 2022
Start the day with Raphael Rogiński and his solo guitar set from the Festival of Endless Gratitude. I saw him at Unsound in 2015 and was converted. Kind of...