Morning listening. Whitesnake's studio albums were always a mixed bag at best, but this live set is them at their best.

Least enticing promo email of the week so far: an album described as 'an invitation to experience love and intimacy through a progressive rock prism'. Is it possible to file a restraining order against a band?

It's the R in NPR that's the stumbling block for me. People listen to the radio? In 2024? Really?

Just went to a magazine's website and saw that their contact page contains the message 'Sorry, we do not accept subscription cancellations'. I wonder, can you subscribe for just one year, or do they auto-renew you until you die or they go out of business?

It's new BA podcast day! I talked to alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett about working with Miles Davis, Woody Shaw, and Pharoah Sanders, and much more besides.
burningambulancepodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/kenny…

I wrote the Jazz & Improv column in the new issue of The Wire Magazine, and this is one of my favorite short blurbs I've written in a while.

I interviewed Shabaka Hutchings for Stereogum:
stereogum.com/2258591/shabak…

A great essay about one of my favorite compilations. More than 30 years later and Breakdown's 'Sick People' still makes me want to shove my head through the wall.
antimatter.substack.com/p/a-time-well-…

Cans > earbuds

The studio that buys it should just go 100% troll and hate-market the thing. 'This movie has no superheroes, no musical numbers, and no CGI characters. Fuck you. Megalopolis, exclusively in theaters, this Friday.'

Life in the mountains means sunset at 8:18 PM in the spring. No partial eclipse for us; we’re out of its path, and it was cloudy.

Nothing like starting your week with three Zoom meetings in a row.
8:30 - 9:15
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
I'm going back to bed.

Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. Well, not 'the wild': downtown Kalispell, MT, pulling out of a Starbucks drive-thru. It looked silly and fake; every dimensional plane (height, length) seemed off somehow. The driver-bro smiled and waved, trying for dominance. I just nodded.

Evening listening, thanks to Red Records' newly established Bandcamp page: Joe Henderson, The Complete An Evening With... with Charlie Haden & Al Foster. Seven tracks, 80 minutes, live in 1987.

Best band photo I've seen in a long time. The band is Attic, a German metal act with a very, VERY King Diamond-ish vocalist.
attic-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Normally the answer would be 'any song by Billy Joel,' but his last album was released in 1993, just missing the cutoff for this. So I'll allow it.

When you've been a Blasters fan as long as I have, seeing Dave Alvin with long hair is fucking weird.

Today is Bandcamp Friday, and if you buy any physical CD from Burning Ambulance Music, I will add a second, surprise CD to the envelope!
burningambulancemusic.bandcamp.com

I'm hard-pressed to think of any greater reworking of a song than Les Rallizes' Dénudés turning Peggy March's 'I Will Follow Him' into a mind-destroying 12-minute psych-rock anthem.
youtube.com/watch?v=BYteF-…

Just got an email about a 'polarizing yet undeniably attention grabbing / hard to ignore indie act'.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

(Confidential to the publicist: You might have had *slightly* better odds had you spelled my name right.)