Scott McDowell

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Fairport Convention - The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, April 24, 1989 Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Did I know on that fateful day back in March....

Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Let's celebrate with something radically irrelevant.

Image Designed by Adrian Shaughnessy, who designed (uncredited) the original Sun Ra Nuclear War 12" (Y Records 1982 UK).

“We’re Trying to Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988)

🚨FIVE HOURS OF NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR WAR!🚨

Sat, Feb 28, 7-Midnight (ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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Loose memory popped into my head today. I remember when a dude in my poetry seminar in college submitted lyrics to Common's "I Used to Love H. E. R." as his own poem and the whole class workshopped it for two hours.

I know! I couldn’t resist.

New substack waxing about one of my favorite recordings in all of history. open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...

Good Ol' Marble Sheep Plus, a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams.

New post: Good Ol' Marble Sheep + a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams. jazzrealities.substack.com/p/good-ol-ma...

Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh

blown out cell phone photo of person walking in overlit urban canyon of christmas trees

i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Just watched Licorice Pizza for the first time. What a wonderful flick.

I don’t know that I would categorize Sun Bear as such, but wonderful music.

Need a miracle? In this economy?

Absolutely love a good James rant.

I loved his reply! And he told me you're probably sick of hearing him go on and on about adjacent jazz topics 😅 😂

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML "That granola and Birkenstock aura."

Thank you @longrally.bsky.social for landing on the SML descriptor my brain has been struggling to find: "gorp jazz"

😱 amazing, never knew there was a private press version

Yeah @amnazz.bsky.social 🔥

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML "That granola and Birkenstock aura."

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML + A Gorp Jazz Primer jazzrealities.substack.com/p/gorp-jazz-...

Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #5 Arguably the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Wayne Shorter (in our opinion, like), Scott McDowell brings you an hour of jamfoolery from across the stylistic spectrum with a unifying thread ...

Jazz Realities No. 5 on NQRA @nqra.bsky.social : f/ Brother Wallace, Agnes Martian, Good Flying Birds, Sharp Pins, Neil Young, Harry Christelis, TLDR & Peter Knight, Yusef Mumin, SML, The Early, Things of this Nature, Kalia Vandever, Mark Fell & Pat Thomas. Listen: www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

It’s kind of impossible to keep up. So much music!

I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand those people who “prioritize sleep.”

full page story from Sounds

dub: a step by step guide, by dennis matumbi/bovell, december '77, via this wonderful stack of '70s reggae/dub coverage posted by @simonreynolds.bsky.social: musicpresspantheon.blogspot.com/2025/09/soun...

Hot damn!

Jeez, you just lodged a forgotten memory. They had a real cool band for a hot minute called Orleans Gunn with @hanschew.bsky.social and Dave Lerner @trummors.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhh...

Very sweet. He was a real one for sure. Damn...

YouTube video by The Midnight Special I See The Light - Hot Tuna | The Midnight Special

It's Hot Tuna Thursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlwY...

Wow, cool. Long time ago! Sadly: RIP Marc Orleans and RIP Michael Evans, two true originals and both stellar musicians. Unreal. Tom Carter still kicking! Sesh is available here @wfmu.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and here freemusicarchive.org/music/Eleven...

article titled, I Found The Demon ...or Did I?

important jazz lore research by @longrally.bsky.social in the newest issue of @wfmu.bsky.social's LCD. who was the infamous jam interrupter known as The Demon? free jazz pioneer or just a shitty sax player?

Thank YOU. Incredible jams...

Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #4 Scott McDowell—probably the slickest listener in the whole of New Jersey, if not on the entire East Coast—is deeper in the zone than most of us will ever be. Have you signed up to his Jazz Realities n...

JAZZ REALITIES No. 4: Music from LA Woodwind Skill Share, Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Green Cosmos, Susan Christie, Razen, Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders, Descending Pharoahs, Mark Fell, Tom Skinner, Niklas Persson Trio + more. www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

Donna Jean Godchaux (Grateful Dead) obituary by Mike Newman for NQRA NQRA DJ Mike Newman pays his respects to Donna Jean Godchaux of The Grateful Dead, who died on October 2nd 2025 in this personal obituary.

Wrote a lil tribute to our late, great Donna Jean Godchaux, may she rest in peace... 🌹💀⚡️
nqra.live/donna-jean-g...
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