I swore off music criticism nearly 15 years ago after the drummer of a certain “transcendental black metal” band came at me for throwing shade at his also not to my taste side project, but when Jay Sanders and Olivia Shao asked me to contribute music listings to their new website I couldn’t say no. VIDE is a selective guide to art in New York City that shares monthly listings of exhibitions, performances, and events. Last month, I wrote about shows by Joanne Robertson and wetdogg, and for April I tackled the shared importance of time of day to both deep house and Hindustani classical music as it relates to the work of Max In The World & Kroba, who are playing at Public Records tomorrow night. More to come! Web link is in my bio.
This Saturday, February 28th, Bob Nickas and I will be presenting a listening session and discussion on visual artists’ audio works *live* at @e_flux , with an additional special performance by the duo of Jutta Koether and John Miller as XXX Macarena.
This will be the third installment of our ‘Art Sound & Song’ Series, which previously existed as a radio program broadcast by @montezpressradio , who will also be streaming the event.
Jutta Koether also happens to have written the liner notes to the CD version of Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation.” I certainly had no idea who she was—or who Gerhard Richter, Raymond Pettibon, or Mike Kelley were for that matter—when I read them as a teenager, but it’s fitting that this project of Bob and I’s will be reaching what feels like its culmination in collaboration with an artist whose energy was there at the moment that—unbeknownst to me—set it all off in the first place
Here I am, rocked, not by a hurricane but a vigorous mist turned downpour, while hiking in Scotland a couple weeks back with the lovely Val and Jasper. Tune in to @thelotradio today, from 5 to 6 pm, for a selection of fog sounds, womb recitations, space rock, sentimental songcraft, and perhaps some music by a Glaswegian band I thought I didn’t like and another I always did.
Really looking forward to playing dance records at @night_club_101 tomorrow night for @kitchenklubnyc , a party that started in a Brooklyn kitchen as a regular open decks, after hours get together for some friends with a shared rallying call: deep. The first time I noticed Laura @l.vbs , who asked me to play, was during a Traxx presentation in Detroit. She’s been a familiar face at the best underground dances ever since, and the Kitchen Klub crew are all likeminded friendly heads who love doing the wiggly worm, so a splendid time is surely in store for all. I’m on at midnight and the party is free!
My sister made these Rew! temp tats for her birthday last month. No Neu! in my bag, but I will be playing some beautiful music and poetry on @thelotradio today from 5 to 6 pm.
This photo was taken by the lovely @drglockenspiel at the end of August in Acadia, Maine, but I’m currently at the top of the Williamsburg Bridge on my way to my last @thelotradio show of the summer, airing from 5 to 6 pm. The autumn equinox is on September 22nd—it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
A weird pic of weird people… the wonderful @shelleyginkgo and myself at Ergot following a couple shows I organized for her band XV back in 2022. This weekend our roles reverse when I fly to Detroit to see some folks I dig and DJ at Shelley’s new shop @ginkgo_records on Sunday, August 24th from 5 to 8pm. Tune in to @thelotradio today from 5 to 6pm for a taste.
NYC feels wonderfully empty today, but my feathered friends still turned up to hear me play Joe Brainard poetry and what Alan Voss insists can only be called disco boogie on @thelotradio today, from 5 to 6pm EST.
