Miles away from “Destroy the Law Machine”, but worth your time nonetheless, I think.
Music
Marshall Allen, from the Sun Ra Arkestra. You’ll recognize his style. Pretty great stuff.
Crucial Ultimate Painting LP placement.
This is some pretty cool old live footage of ESG. The dancing kiddo is quite good. This video was posted with a couple other videos here. This quote from that post cracked me up:
I only saw them live once, myself — in 1990 or so at a weird hippie warehouse space in Manhattan called Wetlands.
I worked at Wetlands in the mid-1990s so know it pretty well. Mainly though, “weird hippie warehouse space” is a fairly accurate description.
Woods has always been a bit hit-or-miss for me, but this live version of “With Light and Love” from last year’s Pickathon sure does hit hard, especially around the 4:30 mark.
I’m a wimp about the cold. But I suppose, if you’re band is called Rural Alberta Advantage, you should be expected to play outside at the north pole. Or at least in a cold park in Germany.
Inventions features members of Explosions in the Sky and Eluvium, and sounds pretty much just like you’d expect it to, considering the contributors. As “Springworlds” demonstrates, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Now this is just plain cool (via Bronx Banter). Full Talking Heads concert from 1980.
It’s pretty absurd that a song this ear-shatteringly loud can settle into such an effortless groove.
Thurston Moore has a new album coming out with John Moloney. I like the percussion emphasis and the slow heavy thing here. It’s a bit of a shift from a lot of what Thurston has done of late. I really, really like it.