Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

This pianist’s music wasn’t just a bag of peanuts

+ Chit-Chat Check-In #78: Dolly

+ Heroes "Single Version" (David Bowie cover)

I wrote today

Thinking of her words on her birthday

Sanctuary

Every dazzling moment of every broken and beautiful day.

My longest running bandmate, Jon Rauhouse, has been told he is no longer terminal with cancer.

AN EXHAUSTED PROJECT REVEAL PARTY

Hello, from the other side

By Sara!

A takeaway from the DNC

An incomplete list

I listened to all 27 discs and pulled out the highlights

Plus his later stints on the road with Dylan in the '80s and '90s

let them make their mistakes

epistolary influencer personality disorders

a.k.a. Having spent 2023 doubling down on the ridiculousness of 2022, the genre currently sits in a rather uninspiring place.

a.k.a. Putting a lid on 2024, plus a round-up of the latest electronic music news and a fresh slate of new track recommendations

Why I can't let go of "Into The Wild", and why perhaps you can't, either.

All subscribers welcome

Happy One Year of the Lizard Review!

A look at this past year on TLR and the choices we made, a conversation on Eras ending, and some deeply introspective thoughts on time as sand going through your fingers. Just some light stuff....😏

It’s official. We are in the studio

With THREE demos outlining the journey of this song

Behind Every Successful Woman are Two Men... Enough Said.

a court recording from December 2, 2024

I am posting this because people have asked me to. Emily Rose Marcus was born on December 10, 1969, in Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. It was a forceps delivery, and she came out with bruises on her face, yet she lived her life as a woman who prized beauty—in fashion, her own sense of style, furniture, art. Following her beloved uncle Dr. William E. Bernstein, she chose a death with dignity, and died on January 31, 2023, in her apartment in Oakland, where she had lived since 2007, after more than two years fighting against a terminal diagnosis of appendiceal cancer she had received in September 2020. Our hearts are broken.

I saw this clip on the internet of Timothée Chalamet being given a copy Bob Dylan’s Chronicles to sign, and Chalamet appeared to be laughing it off.

Listen to Roger Nichols's long-awaited "Second Arrangement" cassette

The Nightfly digs into the crates during a UK radio appearance in 1983.

26 February, 2021.

"It was OK to look a little freaky, and in fact, we needed to look a little freaky."

Good morning.

Today we’re listening to Yara Asmar, a Lebanese composer based in Beirut.

Following a rigorous survey (of my own bookshelf), a definitive canon

The Year in Jazz: Tuesday, Dec. 17

On Weathervanes, death, love and listening like a mother

Bad year for humans, good year for country music, so it goes

Thoughts on forgetting, plus new albums by Not Not Fun, Kevin Richard Martin, and K. Freund

New releases from Moin, Niagara, Jas Shaw, and more

so far it doesn't hurt

November 20th, 1985

An algorithm

"Jagged"

Six hours of hand-picked instrumental Christmas music.

Thirty-nine Christmas songs for all my old souls out there.

S/O to DeWhatitdo for the ask.

Enjoy.