Ezra Brooks

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

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Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop! (feat. Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara) Listen to dance! skip! hop! (feat. Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara) by Tomeka Reid.

OUT TODAY! Tomeka Reid Quartet - dance! skip! hop! with Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke, and Tomas Fujiwara is out now, limited streaming and Bandcamp options below. Enjoy!

“Their fourth and most fully realized album.” –The Wall Street Journal

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Grub, by Water Shrew Trio 3 track album

If you haven’t yet, now would be a fantastic time to pre-order the new free-improv drone epic by the Water Shrew Trio 🛫

eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grub

YouTube video by CommonVEVO Common - The Light

This wasn't the first Dilla produced track I ever heard, but it was the first one that made me sit up and notice that something new was happening. It's still one of my favorite beats of all time.

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The near & far sides of the Moon, as seen by NASA's LRO spacecraft.

China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us?

A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭

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Atmospheric hard rockers Blackwater Holylight hit the road tomorrow ♨️

Don't miss out near you

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Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive album cover. The artist's face in with some very of their time looking computer derived spiky metallic balls floating at the same level as her head. The entire image is rendered in metallic blue, black and white.

'Missy Elliott (along with Timbaland) meets The Quietus’ benchmark for genius, not necessarily via the route of producing three all time great albums in a row but as someone who changed popular music decisively, twice.'

Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive

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*Al Stewart voice*

But for now, you're gonna stay, on the...

Pretty As Ever, by Loren Connors from the album Night Through: Singles & Collected Works 1976-2004

listening to a fair bit of loren connors again recently. usually have to work myself up to it a bit because it’s such hugely emotional music, but it always hits me so hard how he does so little but expresses so much https://lorenconnorsnyc.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-as-ever

Amulet, by Cult Objects 10 track album

I'm a big fan of the new Cult Objects album. I know we've got several months ahead of us, but it's easily one of my favorite of the year: cultobjects.bandcamp.com/album/amulet

Keigo Higashino is one of my favorite contemporary mystery writers. I was delighted to come across the 2007 series "Galileo" based on his Professor Galileo character. It's a fun and charming show, and a very good adaptation all told.

A Conversation with tarotplane Kosmische influence in America and the art of resisting labels

I like giving interviews and its always a treat when someone asks me. Just did one for 3rd Eye Psych Rock about why i kinda dont like Psych Rock, if effects pedals make you pretentious, & are Boards Of Canada more psych then Kikagaku Moyo (hint...yes)

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Jah Pool, hip-hop manager and promoter - Chicago Reader A workhorse of the #NewChicago scene, Jah Pool has managed breakout star Thirteendegrees° and created the compilation New Chicago, Vol. 1.

I interviewed Jah Pool, a hip-hop tastemaker involved in the New Chicago movement—he manages rappers, books shows (including pop-ups on the back of U-Haul vans), and hosts projects

THIS RULES SO HARD

Guitars Infernal, by Roy Montgomery 9 track album

Yowza! 🎸💥

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Clear it away! A sweet FM broadcast of Tom Verlaine live in Paris 1982 (w/ the late/great bassist Fred Smith). doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8081769...

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is a Phenomenon: Will It Change the Landscape for Women? Today, Ella Langley made history - her single “Choosin’ Texas” made her the first woman to hit the Hot 100 (all genre), Hot Country and Country Airplay charts, all at the same time. To be honest, thes...

awesome piece from @marissarmoss.bsky.social on country music's first non morgan wallen hot 100 no. 1 in...quite a while !! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/ella-langley...

Beyond a blast playing with these musicians. Just gets more and more rewarding.

Here’s a little bit of the middle of ‘Central Park West’ by John Coltrane this evening.

Myself - Tenor Saxophone
Mattias Lindberg - Piano
Henrik Jäderberg - Drums
Johan Tengholm - Double Bass

I can only imagine! The interviews I've seen of her are always fascinating.

What an amazing resource to have. I will definitely check this out the next time I'm in NYC.

Ninth Street Women Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer ...

This idea is inspired by an incredible book I'm reading, "Ninth Street Women" by Mary Gabriel, which is so well researched and well written, and which focuses on a group of artists who had an immense impact, but whose stories have not yet been fully told.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mary-...

My dream project (assuming resources like funding and time) would be to make a documentary about the development of electronic music focusing on Joanna Brouk, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Anna Strom, Éliane Radigue, and Laurie Spiegel.

Honestly, even just researching this would be incredible on its own.

YouTube video by Release - Topic The Lark in the Morning

today's first song of the day is "the lark in the morning" by junior brother

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Leah Callahan - No One, by Various Artists from the album 2024 Sampler

In top 3 plays today

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A hand holds up the Smith & Taylor Classics edition of Wuthering Heights in front of leafy, bright pink flowers.

The discourse around Wuthering Heights has gotten predictably weird, so why not read the book instead with a fantastic afterword by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and yours truly, courtesy @sandtclassics.bsky.social?

Michael Naura Quartet - Call - YouTube "The new remastering is absolutely sublime. Just right for MPS, just right for 'Call'." - Ed Motta. Purchase the album here: https://MPS.lnk.to/mnq_callID

🇩🇪 People: do not sleep on German jazz!

This is one of the most beautiful albums ever recorded—in 1971, released on the legendary MPS label

Also, @brentsirota.bsky.social’s album review for @aquariumdrunkard.com is a masterpiece (aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/11/m...)

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JAZZ REVOLUTIONARY of The life& music ÉRIC DOLPHY Jonathon Grasse

Oh man, I cannot WAIT to dig in to this.

YouTube video by Clyde Johnston All Eric Dolphy Solos on Film

Here's over an hour of every Eric Dolphy solo that's been filmed. There's stuff here I'd never seen before:

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Yearning for the halcyon days of twitter when there were no celebrities or politicians, it was just people talking to each other.

In the mid-1950s, Angus Wilson called P. B. (Patricia Barnes) Abercrombie “the most interesting of our young women novelists," but when I looked at one of her early novels, Fido Couchant, back in 2018, her work had become utterly forgotten in the decades since her death.

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