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Contributor to Aquarium Drunkard and Asheville Stages
Contributor to Aquarium Drunkard and Asheville Stages
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That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here:
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I saw Geese on Sunday night and wrote about it for Asheville Stages. Check out my review:
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I saw Geese on Sunday night and wrote about it for Asheville Stages. Check out my review:
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
I saw Geese on Sunday night and wrote about it for Asheville Stages. Check out my review:
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I saw Geese on Sunday night and wrote about it for Asheville Stages. Check out my review:
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
ashevillestages.com/music/review...
Happy 80th birthday, Neil! I've written thousands of words on your work and probably have a few thousand more to come over the next 80 years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy 80th birthday, Neil! I've written thousands of words on your work and probably have a few thousand more to come over the next 80 years.
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In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
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Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard
What does it mean to be a season ticket holder for the music of bass player Anna Butterss? Reserved, front row seats to diverse and experimental music, whether as a founding member of improvisational ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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anna butterss rules
In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard
What does it mean to be a season ticket holder for the music of bass player Anna Butterss? Reserved, front row seats to diverse and experimental music, whether as a founding member of improvisational ...
aquariumdrunkard.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
anna butterss rules
In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard
What does it mean to be a season ticket holder for the music of bass player Anna Butterss? Reserved, front row seats to diverse and experimental music, whether as a founding member of improvisational ...
aquariumdrunkard.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In the run-up to the release of SML's excellent new album How You Been, I interviewed the extraordinary Anna Butterss for @aquariumdrunkard.com, discussing their “foundational” role as a bass player, SML’s creative process, being a bandleader, and much more.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/11/a...
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All day, the hub-bub around all things related to that boat has been pinging something in my brain and I finally realized it's because the Edmund Fitzgerald weaves about a bit in Station Eleven.
We remember damage.
We remember damage.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
All day, the hub-bub around all things related to that boat has been pinging something in my brain and I finally realized it's because the Edmund Fitzgerald weaves about a bit in Station Eleven.
We remember damage.
We remember damage.
I saw Geese last night. Rock bands are fun!
Review coming in a few days.
Review coming in a few days.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I saw Geese last night. Rock bands are fun!
Review coming in a few days.
Review coming in a few days.
Check out my review of this mesmerizing listening experience!
Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider :: A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams
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Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider :: A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams - Aquarium Drunkard
With A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the first collaboration as a duo from Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider, the pair embrace the "psychedelic" label. At first consideration, a retro-soul si...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Check out my review of this mesmerizing listening experience!
In these videos l, Cindy Lee sounds like a one-person version of the entire The Velvet Underground & Nico album.
Last night in Chicago, Cindy Lee returned to the stage for the first time since abruptly ending last year's tour. There were new songs on the setlist.
Check out footage of audio of the full performance:
Check out footage of audio of the full performance:
Cindy Lee Makes Live Return With New Songs
We weren’t sure if Cindy Lee would keep going. Pat Flegel’s musical project and drag persona had an off-the-grid underground smash with last year’s double album Diamond Jubilee, then abruptly cut shor...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In these videos l, Cindy Lee sounds like a one-person version of the entire The Velvet Underground & Nico album.
For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the new collaboration between Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider. It's a unique, remarkable, and intentionally psychedelic musical experience.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/06/j...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/06/j...
Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider :: A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams - Aquarium Drunkard
With A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the first collaboration as a duo from Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider, the pair embrace the "psychedelic" label. At first consideration, a retro-soul si...
aquariumdrunkard.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams, the new collaboration between Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider. It's a unique, remarkable, and intentionally psychedelic musical experience.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/06/j...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/06/j...
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That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here:
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here:
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
"A better life with bubblegum and driftwood."
What a legend.
What a legend.
Live snippet from Ryan Davis and The Roadhouse Band last nite at Larimer Lounge.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"A better life with bubblegum and driftwood."
What a legend.
What a legend.
That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here:
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
That's it for my series on Stephen Malkmus, truly a singular songwriter, singer, guitar player, bandleader, and interviewee. If you missed any of the posts analyzing one song from each of Malkmus's nine solo albums, the entire series is collected here:
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
reclinernotes.com/stephen-malk...
Remarkable
Dylan's setlist isn't changing this fall, but the arrangements are. "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" was grooving full-band one night in Brussels, then serene near-solo-piano the very next show in Paris.
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Remarkable
"Old friend of mine / Don't be denied"
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"Old friend of mine / Don't be denied"
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"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line.
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Stephen Malkmus Series: “Xian Man”
From the perspective of hindsight, March 6, 2020 turned out to be a bad time for Stephen Malkmus to release an album. Within weeks of the record’s release date, Malkmus’s beloved NBA suspended thei…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line.
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"all five members dug into the tapes here, frequently stunning each other with the bits of sound they could twist into new shapes. In three years, SML has become a dazzling studio jazz band that’s never actually been in a studio, using live recordings as the raw material for radical postproduction."
How Does SML Make Experimental Jazz Albums? Very Unconventionally.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"all five members dug into the tapes here, frequently stunning each other with the bits of sound they could twist into new shapes. In three years, SML has become a dazzling studio jazz band that’s never actually been in a studio, using live recordings as the raw material for radical postproduction."
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great piece about my favorite post-pavement malkmus song, the part about christian/xian i didn't know
"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line.
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
Stephen Malkmus Series: “Xian Man”
From the perspective of hindsight, March 6, 2020 turned out to be a bad time for Stephen Malkmus to release an album. Within weeks of the record’s release date, Malkmus’s beloved NBA suspended thei…
reclinernotes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
great piece about my favorite post-pavement malkmus song, the part about christian/xian i didn't know
"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line.
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
Stephen Malkmus Series: “Xian Man”
From the perspective of hindsight, March 6, 2020 turned out to be a bad time for Stephen Malkmus to release an album. Within weeks of the record’s release date, Malkmus’s beloved NBA suspended thei…
reclinernotes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Xian Man" - the last post in Recliner Notes' Stephen Malkmus Series - looks at the con man talk of the song's wannabe guru narrator as well as the "afro-desert riff" by Matt Sweeney that serves as the track's musical through-line.
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
reclinernotes.com/2025/11/02/s...
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He was laid to rest in a damp paper towel
Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2363023/duane-roberts-inventor-of-the-frozen-burrito-dead-at-88/
Duane Roberts Billionaire Who Invented Frozen Burrito Dead at 88 Published November 2, 2025 9:51 AM PST Duane Roberts — the billionaire …
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Duane Roberts Billionaire Who Invented Frozen Burrito Dead at 88 Published November 2, 2025 9:51 AM PST Duane Roberts — the billionaire …
Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88 - Dining and Cooking
Duane Roberts -- the billionaire businessman credited with inventing the frozen burrito -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
He was laid to rest in a damp paper towel
I hate that they interview the managers while the game is going on. LET THEM DO THEIR JOB
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I hate that they interview the managers while the game is going on. LET THEM DO THEIR JOB
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my recording of Setting (Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund) at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee a year ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and high quality mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/10/sett...
Setting at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee on November 2, 2024
Setting is a trio composed of Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on banjo, keyboards, and percussion, Jaime Fenneley (Mind Over Mirr...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
my recording of Setting (Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and Joe Westerlund) at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee a year ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and high quality mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/10/sett...
"Hashish. Interesting, interesting word. Arabic. It’s the source of the word assassin.”
David Ferrie in Don DeLillo' Libra
David Ferrie in Don DeLillo' Libra
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Hashish. Interesting, interesting word. Arabic. It’s the source of the word assassin.”
David Ferrie in Don DeLillo' Libra
David Ferrie in Don DeLillo' Libra