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My Common Tones with Alan Licht: A Personal Essay
A few weeks ago, I read the announcement that the guitarist and writer Alan Licht is releasing a solo album on VDSQ this fall, titled Havens. My excitement nearly took […]
July 19, 2024
“A Couple of Reams of Paper”: Black Arts and The Revolutionary Written Words of ‘The Cricket’
I always find myself very fascinated by musicians that put pen to paper and discuss music and its cultural implications in prose (see: my post on Vivien Goldman from last […]
July 11, 2024
Private Press, Master Wilburn Burchette, and the Allure of the Enigmatic
For a while now, I’ve wanted to ruminate on why private press records have such an allure in this day and age. There are obvious charms to private press records […]
June 19, 2024
“Defiant Jazz”: Corporate Culture, Irony, and Joe McPhee
As per usual, I start off planning my blog posts with one concept or topic in mind, and about halfway through the process, I stumble across something that causes me […]
May 16, 2024
Heavenly Highways: A Conversation with Worried Songs
I’m excited to bring another Q&A style interview to the blog, as I realize it’s been a long time since I’ve posted one here. This time around, I had the […]
May 3, 2024
“That Magical Empathy”: Atrás del Cosmos and Free Improvisation in Mexico
In Tamar Barzel’s chapter for Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America on Atrás del Cosmos, a group often considered the first free jazz ensemble in Mexico, she aptly […]
April 9, 2024
The Lo-Fi Spirit of Linda Smith
A couple weeks ago, I deeply enjoyed reading the profile Claire Biddles wrote in the March issue of The Wire about Linda Smith, the beloved nineties home recording songstress. While […]
March 28, 2024
The Lone Composer and Technology as Collaborator
For this blog, I set out to write a little profile on Osmo Lindeman, the Finnish electronic composer who was at the forefront of digital electronic music in the late […]
March 4, 2024
The Art Ensemble of Chicago — Columbus, OH, February 3, 2024
On Saturday night, I was able to go to a concert I hadn’t thought I’d ever get to hear. The long-running, immensely influential Art Ensemble of Chicago performed at the […]