Music of 2020
words and links and mixes
writing about 2020
Forty-one reflections on 2020
Friday, December 18 2020
This 1978 Swedish TV documentary about Don Cherry is pure flow. Don and his wife Moki lark about with their kids (Neneh and Eagle Eye) in Tågarp, Sweden,...
Friday, December 4 2020
One true blessing this year was starting a band with three diamonds: Greg Fox, Melvin Gibbs, and Grey McMurray. Their integrity and kindness are matched only...
Monday, November 30 2020
I spent November in the past, finishing a memoir. I’ve been having a little trouble coming back. My stop-over island between Now and Then is a documentary...
good luck
I’ll stay out of your hair this week but I wanted you to leave you with a resource that’s done me right for the last four years. A brilliant couple named...
Friday, October 30 2020
I’m guessing you don’t want something “squished” but Jon Hassell squishes music and I love that he does. (Read along to this Hassell playlist.) He’s been...
Discussion: What's up with lists?
Welcome to the first S/FJ thread. Pitch in, be civil, give it your all, do it for your comrades. Which lists have inspired or vexed you? Are there lists that...
perfection + lists
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troublemakers + support
Troublemakers was a double LP that cost three bucks. I bought the compilation when it came out in 1980. I was thirteen. I read the liner notes over and...
Autechre + Sign
the buddies have a new album and I talked to them
Monday, October 5 2020
I want there to be a thousand movies like Lovers Rock, a thousand people recording the world with their eight-year-old eyes, asking their aunts and uncles...
Sleaford Mods + Billy Nomates were at the 100 Club and we weren't but yet we were
(Photos by Thomas Jackson of TyneSight Photographic for Sleaford Mods. Thanks to Talia Miller of Rough Trade.)The past two months have been brutal for the...
NRFU vs. CASAC-T
How I almost worked for the U.S. Census Bureau
Restoration Hardware
Hua Hsu takes us back
Phil Collins and Daevid Allen
How does time map against itself? What stays put and what moves? What is it like for two teens hearing “In The Air Tonight” for the first time? What is it...
Monday, August 3 2020
A note on process: When a post is untitled beyond its date, that is a fridge list. Keep it close to hand because everything in that list will nourish you. No...
The Empty Seventies
The Empty Seventies begin on October 17, 1968, when Bullitt is released. The phrase refers to a body of movies and recordings, though other texts fill out...
Sunday, June 28 2020
“In collaboration with 12 other art institutions across the United States and Europe, The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Studio Screen will proudly present a...
the other barbers have fancy Plexiglass
Start here, with Anthony Almojera. My friend Carla is getting a puppy in a month. She asked me to give her some potential names. We’d been talking about...