Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label)
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All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner (and author of IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR). When in doubt, assume I'm kidding. I'll have forgotten whatever we were arguing about by tomorrow.
I listened to it for the first time when this box came out and was *stunned* by how aimless and floundering it was.
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I listened to it for the first time when this box came out and was *stunned* by how aimless and floundering it was.
Just replying to draw your attention to an album *I released* this year (on my label)...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
Mama Killa, by Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez
8 track album
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just replying to draw your attention to an album *I released* this year (on my label)...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
mendozaflukemogulperez.bandcamp.com/album/mama-k...
The best compilation of Buddy Guy’s Chess material, and my introduction to him, thanks to an uncle who also gave me Hunter Thompson’s Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The best compilation of Buddy Guy’s Chess material, and my introduction to him, thanks to an uncle who also gave me Hunter Thompson’s Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.
The secret is that no one under 40 (possibly 50) gives a fuck about Nick Cave, so he manages to evade the gimlet eye of the Youth through sheer irrelevance.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The secret is that no one under 40 (possibly 50) gives a fuck about Nick Cave, so he manages to evade the gimlet eye of the Youth through sheer irrelevance.
GREAT piece. I included it in the paying-subscribers-only section of my newsletter on Halloween.
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
GREAT piece. I included it in the paying-subscribers-only section of my newsletter on Halloween.
This festival was only about 90 minutes from me. I considered going this year, and am glad it's coming back in 2026.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This festival was only about 90 minutes from me. I considered going this year, and am glad it's coming back in 2026.
Try season 2 of The Wire. 1, 3 and 4 are facets of one big story and 5 is one of the worst examples of a show overstaying its welcome in the medium's history, but 2 is a brilliant stand-alone story about labor.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Try season 2 of The Wire. 1, 3 and 4 are facets of one big story and 5 is one of the worst examples of a show overstaying its welcome in the medium's history, but 2 is a brilliant stand-alone story about labor.