jesse jarnow

there's a part in "silver snarling trumpet," written in 1962, where robert hunter says the scene is already over. it's always been over!

mezz mezzrow's 1946 memoir "really the blues" has some excellent chicago jazz/underworld history.

Chrontendo Episode 57 (00:40:39)

ZineMap - Drop Your Zines, Find Your People Explore a global map of the zine universe, track your zines, and discover new places to share your work.

Check out zinemap.com. This international map of zine shops, libraries and events is a stellar resource - lots of community input and some interviews too. Thanks to its creator CJ for telling me about it this morning. Happy to boost this, as it's filled with useful information.

Live Nation reaches settlement with DOJ in antitrust fight Justice Department had accused the company of building an illegal ticketing and events monopoly.

The Justice Department’s settlement would benefit Live Nation at the expense of consumers, and we cannot agree to it.

My colleagues and I have a strong case, and we will continue our lawsuit and keep fighting to protect Americans without the federal government.

Cartton band singing lyrics to Super Bird

That time Country Joe and The Fish were in an issue of Nick Fury

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #15

RIP...the great Augie Meyers, 85 years old.

Meyers on his meeting his baseball-loving pal Doug Sahm for the first time:

"For years, I used to work at my momma's grocery store. It's where I met Doug Sahm, he used to come in and buy baseball cards."

Shintaro Kago

Shintaro Kago

and if that sounds like too much, we also made "angels in flame," a condensed/curated edition. bsky.app/profile/brok...

we sorted through the utter mess of circulating "blues for allah" tapes, triangulated correct-as-possible dates, re-tracked files with proper titles (including a bunch of songs unique to the sessions & a few unidentified pieces), weeded out many duplicates, & found lots of underloved deliciousness.

Grateful Dead (and friends)
Ace's Studio, Feb-Sept 1975
The Complete Circulating Collection

FLAC or MP3 download
398 audio files, ~26 hours of material & notes PDF

By me, @bourgwick.bsky.social, @jeremyerwin.bsky.social & John H of saveyourface.posthaven.com

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Marathon week 2 w/cohost Jesse Jarnow: Techtonic with Mark Hurst Audio & playlist from March 9, 2026

excited to rage so, so hard against the machine(s) & their human operators with the heroic @markhurst.bsky.social for the next hour, raising funds for freeform noncommercial @wfmu.bsky.social! tune in! rage! donate! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

he's still got much better form than me

honestly i've seen him do it while driving

at second through 100th glances even

condom as lollipop with wrapper that reads "Lick Bush in '92."

also in '80, '88, '92, '00, '04, & whenever/wherever else one of those shitbags tries to run. (adventures in house winnowing, continued.)

Hippies roll their own at a marijuana party in Tompkins Square Park

forgot to post this yesterday: that time the daily news caught my dad rolling a number at a country joe show in tompkins square park, august 1967.

Your Time is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story—Coming this fall from Feral House. The only biography of Jerry Lewis impersonator Sammy Petrillo that you will ever need. Accept no imitations! Cover by Drew Friedman. Foreward by Scott Alexander. @feralhouse.bsky.social

if the nyt obit is to be trusted, mcdonald's (commie ass!) parents named him after country joe stalin, which is where his nickname derived, & melton pulled the fish/mao connection after that.

and since it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out: "the fish" doesn't refer to country joe's backing band, it refers to barry melton.

Country Joe and the Fish, Electric Music For The Mins and Body

way sharper, weirder, & more outwardly psychedelic (& original) than the debut LPs by the dead, airplane, quicksilver, etc. going by first albums only, country joe & the fish might've seemed like the bay area's freak champs in '67 (though, to be fair, "surrealistic pillow" came out just before).

poster for Country Joe, Led Zeppelin and Taj Mahal

Garcia, Kaukonen, Hart, Melton, Casady jam

garcia, hart, kaukonen, & casady jam at the final show by the original country joe & the fish lineup, fillmore west, january '69 (headlining over led zeppelin). more coherent than you'd expect! youtu.be/ayCupYA4DBM
@corry342.bsky.social pieces it together: hooterollin.blogspot.com/2016/01/fill...

GIMME AN F!!!

Word of Life Island Lucy Sante on country music.

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‘It was like absolutely nothing changed’: The return of Times New Viking – Matter News After nearly a decade away, the Columbus trio headlines a concert at Cafe Bourbon Street on Friday, Feb. 27.

Times New Viking are back, starting this Friday with a stacked hometown show in Columbus. I went into Columbus Alive mode and talked to Adam Elliott about it for the esteemed @matternews.bsky.social:

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.

Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Forgotten Words: The Raincoats' Three Lives | The Quietus Audrey Golden's book, Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats, reframes punk history, making space for voices excluded from the usual male-dominated narratives of rock history

"Prison letters, benefit gig flyers, and zine references become crucial evidence. Culture, the book suggests, travels sideways: hand to hand, outside the sanctioned frame of the music press."

Forgotten Words — The Raincoats’ Three Lives:

festival map

schedule including Digital Block DJs & Dr. A. Seven

full festival schedule grid

once again very intrigued by oshino dead, the annual grateful dead cover band fest in japan next weekend, this year including a one-two punch of dr. acid seven (who hung with the dead in the haight & was the 1st to bring LSD to japan, per one source) & an act called Lstones (a ned lagin tribute?!)