New Ting Gig Tonight, RVA

 

Gig tonight! We'll be playing with Walter Wright on electronics... Headliner is Bark Culture, from Philly... don't know much about them, but I hear good things...

Playlist, Week of 2025-08-24

 

Driving music...

Playlist 2025-08-25:

*Alexisonfire: Dogs Blood
*Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
*George Clinton: Computer Games
*Coheed and Cambria: The Second Stage Turbine Blade
*Daft Punk: Discovery
*D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah
*Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa
*Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite
*Gorillaz: Plastic Beach
*Led Zeppelin: Coda
*Mars Volta: Amputechture
*Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath
*Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: High Visceral (Part One)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra: Holiday for Soul Dance
*Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Bad and Beautiful
*Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
*Tool: Ænima

Reading List, Week of 2025-08-24

Reading List 2025-08-25:

*Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children (started)
*Cortázar, Julio. Cronopios and Famas (transl. Paul Blackburn) (finished)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/in progress)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/in progress)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Lear (Arden 2nd series, ed. Kenneth Muir) (reread/in progress)
 

Playlist, Week of 2025-08-17

 "Salt Lake City"!....

Playlist 2025-08-18:

*B-52s: The B-52s
*B-52s: Wild Planet
*Beach Boys: All Summer Long
*Beach Boys: Today! 
*Beach Boys: Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)
*Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
*Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun
*Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
*Charles Mingus and His Jazz Groups: Mingus Dynasty
*Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
*Perfect Circle: Mer de Noms
*Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step
*Puscifer: Conditions of My Parole
*Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
*Queens of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
*Royal Blood: Royal Blood
*Wayne Shorter: Juju
*X: Los Angeles
*X: More Fun in the New World 

Reading List, Week of 2025-08-17

Reading List 2025-08-18:

*Cortázar, Julio. Cronopios and Famas (transl. Paul Blackburn) (started)
*Hawkes, John. The Lime Twig (finished)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/in progress)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/in progress)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Lear (Arden 2nd series, ed. Kenneth Muir) (reread/in progress
 

Playlist, Week of 2025-08-10

Getting caught up... I prefer the Miles quintet version of "Footprints" to the earlier-recorded Wayne Shorter version on Adam's Apple... 

Playlist 2025-08-11:

*Marshall Allen/Sam Byrd/Tim Harding/Elliott Levin/Thomas Stanley: 2007-12-13 Richmond VA (CDR) track 5
*Antarctic: Antarctic
*Beatles: Anthology 1 (disc 2)
*Beatles: Revolver (Super Deluxe 4 LP Edition 2022) (sides 3, 4, 5, 6)
*Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (disc 6)
*Death Grips: The Money Store
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E45 "Trains"
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Symphonic Ellington
*Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
*Good Tiger: A Head Full of Moonlight
*Grateful Dead: 1970-04-24 Denver (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1970-05-08 Delhi, NY (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1970-05-15 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Julius Hemphill: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (disc 4)
*Kyuss: …And the Circus Leaves Town
*Muffins: Baker's Dozen (disc 12)
*New Ting: 2024-08-04 "Merely a Rather Uninteresting Symbol" (wav)
*Prince: Blast from the Past 1.0 (excerpts)
*Prince: Blast from the Past 2.0 (excerpts)
*Queens of the Stone Age: Villains
*Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman
*Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple
*Sparks: MAD! (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Astro Black "The Cosmo-Fire"
*Sun Ra: Exotica (side 1)
*Sun Ra: Apple Purchases (CDR compilation) (disc 2)
*Sun Ra Arkestra under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon (disc 2)
*Cecil Taylor Big Band: 1995-07-03 NYC (CDR) (disc 3) Track 2

Reading List, Week of 2025-08-10

 

Reading List 2025-08-11:

*Hawkes, John. The Lime Twig (started)
*Christgau, Robert, and John Piccarella. "Portrait of the Artist as a Rock & Roll Star," in The Ballad of John and Yoko, ed. Rolling Stone (started/finished)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/in progress)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/in progress)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/in progress)
*Shakespeare, William. King Lear (Arden 2nd series, ed. Kenneth Muir) (reread/in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2025-08-03

 

 

More of same... and yet so different!

 

Playlist 2025-08-04:

*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1978-10-14 Philadelphia (CDR) (disc 2)
*Derek Bailey: Aida
*Beatles: With the Beatles (2009 stereo remaster) (sides 1, 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Anthony Braxton: 4 Compositions (Ulrichsberg) 2005 Phonomanie VIII (disc 4)
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (selections)
*Ornette Coleman: 1966-02-18 Paris (CDR)
*Lol Coxhill: Digswell Duets
*Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (UltraDisc One-Step) (sides 3, 4)
*Bob Dylan/Various artists: Theme Time Radio Hour S01 E44 "Texas"
*Duke Ellington: The Indispensable Duke Ellington and the Small Groups (Volumes 9/10) 1940-1946 (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: His Piano and His Orchestra at the Bal Masque (side 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Festival Session (side 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Girls' Suite/The Perfume Suite
*Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa
*Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington: The Symphonic Ellington
*Grateful Dead: 1969-06-05 Fillmore West, SF (Enjoying the Ride, disc 1)
*Grateful Dead: 1970-02-14 Fillmore East, NYC (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1970-03-24 Dania FL (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Jimi Hendrix: At the Beeb
*Muffins: Baker's Dozen (discs 10, 11)
*Sam Rivers: Contours
*Santana: Moonflower (disc 2)
*Horace Silver Quintet: The Cape Verdean Blues
*Small Faces: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
*Steely Dan: Aja
*Sun Ra: Exotica (side 6)
*Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (side 3)
*Sun Ra: 1977-07-08 WKCR-FM, NYC (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble: Melancholy "Sphere No. 2"
*John Zorn: The Interpretation of Dreams

Reading List, Week of 2025-08-03

Reading List 2025-08-04:

*Shakespeare, William. King Lear (Arden 2nd series, ed. Kenneth Muir) (reread/started)
*Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or, the Whale (reread/finished)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (reread/in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/in progress)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/in progress)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/in progress)