Andy Zax
@andyzax.bsky.social
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Andy Zax
@andyzax.bsky.social
· Oct 30
The Game Of Jim — Andy Zax
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Honored and elated to have won a 2025 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for “Extinctophonics: The Game Of Jim” in Maggot Brain #18. Hugest gratitude to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social and Mairead Case for giving it a home.
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
MB remains analog-only, but you can read the piece here:
I’ve watched my friends at Curvebender toil over this thing for eons, and—as someone with previous form when it comes to impossible archival projects that take a decade-plus to bring to fruition—let me just say: it is among the most extraordinary works of musicology you will ever experience.
On this, the 100th birthday of Sir George Martin, we are most-pleased to announce this project:
This was begun over 10 years ago, with George at his house and archives... First-hand, never-before-seen work from his own hand.
In-depth information here:
www.curvebenderpublishing.com
This was begun over 10 years ago, with George at his house and archives... First-hand, never-before-seen work from his own hand.
In-depth information here:
www.curvebenderpublishing.com
Curvebender Publishing
Website for Curvebender Publishing, publishers of Recording The Beatles and George Martin: The Scores
www.curvebenderpublishing.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I’ve watched my friends at Curvebender toil over this thing for eons, and—as someone with previous form when it comes to impossible archival projects that take a decade-plus to bring to fruition—let me just say: it is among the most extraordinary works of musicology you will ever experience.
The perfect out-demons-out album with which to expunge the pestilential awfulness that was 2025. See you on the other side…
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The perfect out-demons-out album with which to expunge the pestilential awfulness that was 2025. See you on the other side…
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A dazzling wonderland of nightlife in Boise on New Year’s Eve 1974.
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A dazzling wonderland of nightlife in Boise on New Year’s Eve 1974.
A dazzling wonderland of nightlife in Boise on New Year’s Eve 1974.
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A dazzling wonderland of nightlife in Boise on New Year’s Eve 1974.
The Celebrity Bowling Christmas Album (1973) is the best Christmas album.
December 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Celebrity Bowling Christmas Album (1973) is the best Christmas album.
Back when James Ellroy still lived in Los Angeles, he would go into all the bookstores in our mutual neighborhood and obsessively scribble messages in every copy of his books that he could find on the shelves. Sometimes he just wrote “BLOOD”; other times he was more…effusive.
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Back when James Ellroy still lived in Los Angeles, he would go into all the bookstores in our mutual neighborhood and obsessively scribble messages in every copy of his books that he could find on the shelves. Sometimes he just wrote “BLOOD”; other times he was more…effusive.
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After lengthy negotiations with an acquaintance who prefers to remain anonymous, I have been granted permission to share this heartwarming true-life tale of holiday idiocy with the world.
The Story Of Elwood (A Christmas Anti-Miracle)
YouTube video by ayzee
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December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
After lengthy negotiations with an acquaintance who prefers to remain anonymous, I have been granted permission to share this heartwarming true-life tale of holiday idiocy with the world.
After lengthy negotiations with an acquaintance who prefers to remain anonymous, I have been granted permission to share this heartwarming true-life tale of holiday idiocy with the world.
The Story Of Elwood (A Christmas Anti-Miracle)
YouTube video by ayzee
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
After lengthy negotiations with an acquaintance who prefers to remain anonymous, I have been granted permission to share this heartwarming true-life tale of holiday idiocy with the world.
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Dynaflex vinyl sounds fine. The idea that you need 180 gram or 240 gram vinyl in order to make a good-sounding LP is audiophile snake-oil of the highest caliber. If someone said “your coffee mug that weighs six ounces is inferior because my coffee mug weighs two pounds,” you’d laugh at them.
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Dynaflex vinyl sounds fine. The idea that you need 180 gram or 240 gram vinyl in order to make a good-sounding LP is audiophile snake-oil of the highest caliber. If someone said “your coffee mug that weighs six ounces is inferior because my coffee mug weighs two pounds,” you’d laugh at them.
Listened to a new high-end vinyl reissue—original tapes, analog mastering, good pressing, etc—of a record I’m intimately familiar with. The sound was so hyper-clear and detailed that it ruined the album by stripping away ambience and grain in favor of “you can hear each click of the finger cymbals!”
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Listened to a new high-end vinyl reissue—original tapes, analog mastering, good pressing, etc—of a record I’m intimately familiar with. The sound was so hyper-clear and detailed that it ruined the album by stripping away ambience and grain in favor of “you can hear each click of the finger cymbals!”
“Quickly, everyone—into the Time Machine!”
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“Quickly, everyone—into the Time Machine!”
At the most intense part of Window Water Baby Moving--Jane Brakhage is crowning; the baby is slowly emerging--someone in the audience yelled "is there a doctor in the house?" It seemed like a dumb joke...until the film stopped and the house lights came up because an audience member had passed out.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
At the most intense part of Window Water Baby Moving--Jane Brakhage is crowning; the baby is slowly emerging--someone in the audience yelled "is there a doctor in the house?" It seemed like a dumb joke...until the film stopped and the house lights came up because an audience member had passed out.
Blood of the Beasts [Le Sang des bêtes] (Franju, 1949)
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Blood of the Beasts [Le Sang des bêtes] (Franju, 1949)
I was unprepared for the awesomeness of the newest Hawkwind deluxe edition.
Three complete live shows from early ‘74 are the primary attractions here—even more kosmiche and krunchy than Space Ritual—and the 2025 mixes do them justice. Inspirational Verse: “Timothy Leary is not dead, Moody Blues.”
Three complete live shows from early ‘74 are the primary attractions here—even more kosmiche and krunchy than Space Ritual—and the 2025 mixes do them justice. Inspirational Verse: “Timothy Leary is not dead, Moody Blues.”
![Hawkwind, Hall Of The Mountain Grill [Deluxe Edition] (Atomhenge, 2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:daj27owxvu6dr5mklwcenwmu/bafkreih7t6zd44egnswocidkxdidyu273i3qgzjgfqixqi6yicpgeqrp7a@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was unprepared for the awesomeness of the newest Hawkwind deluxe edition.
Three complete live shows from early ‘74 are the primary attractions here—even more kosmiche and krunchy than Space Ritual—and the 2025 mixes do them justice. Inspirational Verse: “Timothy Leary is not dead, Moody Blues.”
Three complete live shows from early ‘74 are the primary attractions here—even more kosmiche and krunchy than Space Ritual—and the 2025 mixes do them justice. Inspirational Verse: “Timothy Leary is not dead, Moody Blues.”
Father Cannot Yell, I’ll Meet You Halfway, Gloria, Maggot Brain, Watch That Man.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Father Cannot Yell, I’ll Meet You Halfway, Gloria, Maggot Brain, Watch That Man.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
![The Moon, Without Earth [mono mix] (Imperial, 1968)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:daj27owxvu6dr5mklwcenwmu/bafkreiekrhr4tf5rxsak5cares7f52wt2lvlhj42bfpkgelxywzbgcu7di@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Last month, a few of us had a Kaleb Horton tribute lunch at the David Lynch Bob’s Big Boy. Food and service were a C-/D+, but I’m having a good time imagining Kaleb cackling at me from the grave because I’ve ended up on the Bob’s Big Boy email list and am now receiving stupid fucking shit like this:
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Last month, a few of us had a Kaleb Horton tribute lunch at the David Lynch Bob’s Big Boy. Food and service were a C-/D+, but I’m having a good time imagining Kaleb cackling at me from the grave because I’ve ended up on the Bob’s Big Boy email list and am now receiving stupid fucking shit like this:
Tepid 1976 yacht-funk with a spoken bridge section intoned by Ned Flanders soundalike: “Yes, man has learned to move, lift, push, pull, divide, to fasten things together in a truly extra-ordinary display of understood technology.”
A total banger, obviously.
A total banger, obviously.
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Tepid 1976 yacht-funk with a spoken bridge section intoned by Ned Flanders soundalike: “Yes, man has learned to move, lift, push, pull, divide, to fasten things together in a truly extra-ordinary display of understood technology.”
A total banger, obviously.
A total banger, obviously.
I am immensely grateful to late-20th-century record distributors, whose speed and efficiency allowed me to acquire an import copy of this album in upstate New York only 48 hours after its release in the UK.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am immensely grateful to late-20th-century record distributors, whose speed and efficiency allowed me to acquire an import copy of this album in upstate New York only 48 hours after its release in the UK.
Top 5 movie genres:
—Bleak road trip with no score or non-diegetic music.
—Dead character actors yell at one other in obsolete New York/New Jersey accents.
—Famous historical figures: they’re just like us!
—Only ___ minutes remain to stop the terrible thing.
—“We almost got away with it.”
—Bleak road trip with no score or non-diegetic music.
—Dead character actors yell at one other in obsolete New York/New Jersey accents.
—Famous historical figures: they’re just like us!
—Only ___ minutes remain to stop the terrible thing.
—“We almost got away with it.”
Top 5 movie genres:
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
Top 5 movie genres:
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
- Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does)
- Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway
- I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake.
- You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you
- Being a detective is miserable but hot
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
—Bleak road trip with no score or non-diegetic music.
—Dead character actors yell at one other in obsolete New York/New Jersey accents.
—Famous historical figures: they’re just like us!
—Only ___ minutes remain to stop the terrible thing.
—“We almost got away with it.”
—Bleak road trip with no score or non-diegetic music.
—Dead character actors yell at one other in obsolete New York/New Jersey accents.
—Famous historical figures: they’re just like us!
—Only ___ minutes remain to stop the terrible thing.
—“We almost got away with it.”
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Likky is alive. Wow.
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What REALLY happened to troubled wildchild Licorice McKechnie?
Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Likky is alive. Wow.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass at the Dolby Theatre: an unexpectedly emotional celebration of some of the 20th Century’s most popular pop music. The setlist went deep into the TJB’s ‘60s catalog: all the era-defining hits, tons of deep cuts, and a Lani Hall tribute to Sergio Mendes. Olé!
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass at the Dolby Theatre: an unexpectedly emotional celebration of some of the 20th Century’s most popular pop music. The setlist went deep into the TJB’s ‘60s catalog: all the era-defining hits, tons of deep cuts, and a Lani Hall tribute to Sergio Mendes. Olé!
“Calling All Girls” is one of the most brilliantly over-caffeinated singles of all time. If you’ve never experienced it before, you really should:
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Calling All Girls” is one of the most brilliantly over-caffeinated singles of all time. If you’ve never experienced it before, you really should: