2022

• Afrorack – The Afrorack (Hakuna Kulala)
• Authentically Plastic (Hakuna Kulala)
• Carmen Villain – Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supertown)
• Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
• Coral Club – Lost Cities (Moon Glyph)
• Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
• EXEK – Advertise Here (Castle Face)
• Flore Laurentienne – Volume II (RVNG Intl.)
• FOQL – Wehikuł (Mal)
• Francesa Heart – Eurybia (Leaving)
• Green/Blue – Offering (HoZac)
• Jamie Levinson – s/t (s/r)
• Julmud – Tuqoos (Bilna’es)
• Katarina Gryvul – Tysha (Standard Deviation)
• La Punta Bianca – Disquiet (Detriti)
• Latest Fad – LSD Spider (Fading Systems)
• Matt Evans – Soft Science (Moon Glyph)
• Mauskovic Dance Band – Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
• Meridian Brothers – Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento (Ansonia)
• Naima Bock – Giant Palm (Sub Pop)
• Non Plus Temps – Desire Choir (Post Present Medium)
• Onyon – s/t (Trouble In Mind)
• Papercuts – Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
• Pye Corner Audio – Let’s Emerge! (Sonic Cathedral)
• Salamanda – ashbalkum (Human Pitch)
• Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
• Société Etrange – Chance (Bongo Joe)
• Sofie Birch – Holotropica (Intercourse)
• The Soundcarriers – Wilds (Phosphonic)
• Sunfear – Octopus (Dark Entries)
• Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
• Yves Jarvis – The Zug (Anti-)

ALBUMS – no particular order

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (2021, Luaka Bop)

• Mid-Air Thief – Gongjoong Doduk (orig 2015, reissued 2021 on bandcamp) <from South Korea>
• neutrals – Bus Stop Nights 7″ E.P. (2022, Static Shock) <from Oakland>
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway (2021, Les Disques Bongo Joe) <from Geneva, Switzerland>
• Women – Public Strain (2010, Jagjaguwar) <from Calgary, Canada>
• Artsick – Fingers Crossed (2022, Slumberland)
• Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns (originally 1981 release on Capitol, reissued 2021 by Superior Viaduct) <a recent discovery for me, check out if you like Devo>
• Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Maroon Futures (2021, Neuma) <from Pittsburgh, PA>
• Body Double – Milk Fed (2020, Zum Audio)  <from Oakland>
• Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos (2021, Daptone) <from Havana>
• Kim Gordon – No Home Record (2019, Matador)
• Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – The Safari Years CD boxset (2020, Captain Oi!) <music from 1977-79>
• Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021, Atlantic/Aftermath) <duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak>
• Phuong Tam (Phương Tâm) – Magical Nights: Saigon Surf Twist & Soul (1964-1966) (2021, Sublime Frequencies) <another great collection from Bay Area legend Mark Gergis>
• Idles – Ultra Mono (2020, Partisan)
• Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit  (2021, Rocks In Your Head) <from Oakland>
• Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (2021, Impulse!)
• Beynelmilân – Yeraltı Oyun Havaları (2020, Korsan Plakçılık) <from Turkey>
• Whateverglades – Don’t Call Me Baby / I Watch Over Me  (2020, No Egrets Records, 7″ single)
• Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries – Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (2018, Emotional Response) <produced by Alice Bag>
• Bobby Ramone – Rocket to Kingston (2020, Guerilla Asso) <Bob Marley songs in da Ramones stylee. And the cover art…chefs kiss>
• VARIOUS ARTISTS – A Kaleidoscope Of Sounds: Psychedelic & Freakbeat Masterpieces (2018, 7×7″ boxset, Mercury/Decca/Polydor) <includes The Wimple Winch>
• VARIOUS ARTISTS – Venezuela 70 (Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s)  (2018, Soul Jazz)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS – Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 (Sublime Frequencies, 2012)

SONGS – no particular order

• TEKE::TEKE – “Yoru Ni” – Shirushi (2021, Kill Rock Stars) <from Montreal Québec>
• Seamus Fogarty – “Johnny K” – A Bag Of Eyes (202, Domino) <from London>
• Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” – American V: A Hundred Highways (2006, American) <Shocked that I hadn’t listened to this album until now. Burma, you’re fired>
• Big Thief – “Spud Infinity” – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022, 4AD)
• Model Zero – “Leather Trap” – Little Crystal b/w Leather Trap 7″ Single (2022, Third Man) <from Memphis, TN>
• Obongjayar – Message in a Hammer (2021 single, 3:38 version)  <Nigerian artist living in London>
• Lonnie Holley – “So Many Rivers (The First Time)” – National Freedom  (2020, Jagjaguwar) <from Atlanta, GA>
• Natacha Atlas – “I Put A Spell On You” – Ayeshteni (2001, Mantra) <creative interpretation of the classic>
• The Spook School – “I Want To Kiss You” – Try to be Hopeful (215, Fortuna Pop!) <from Edinburgh, Scotland>
• The Bobby Lees – “Dig Your Hips” – Hollywood Junkyard EP (2022, Ipecac)
• Fireflies – “She’s My Witch (VDCR Remix)” – The Machine Stops (2021, Bandcamp)
• Mattiel – “Count Your Blessings” – Mattiel (2017, Heavenly) <from Atlanta>
• The Donkeys – “Don’t Go” –  Don’t Go/Living Legends (1981, MCA, 7 inch single)
• The Chats – “6L GTR” – Get Fucked (2022, Bargain Bin Records)
• School Damage – “Sick Of You” – Break Up 7″ (2014, Detonic)
• Sprints – “Im In a Band” – A Modern Job EP (2022, Nice Swan)
• Medicine Singers – “Sunset” – Medicine Singers (2022, Mothland) <supergroup of Ikue Mori, Jaimie Branch, Laraaji, and members of Swans>
• Lola Flores – “A Tu Vera” – La Inimitable (1990, Perfil, Spain)
• Kelly Stoltz – “Dodged a Bullet” – Ah! (etc) (2020, Agitated)
• Algiers – “Dispossession” – There Is No Year (2020, Matador)
• Cable Ties – “Sandcastles” – Far Enough  (2020, Merge)
• NOV3L – “Untouchable” – Non-Fiction (2021, Flemish Eye) <from Vancouver, BC, Canada>
• Snooper – “Running” – Music For Spies 7″ (2020, Computer Human Records) <from Nashville>

Music without words (mostly)

• Ahmad Jamal -Emerald City Nights Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective)
• Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet –  Evergreen  (Nonesuch)
• Bitchin Bajas –  Bajascillators  (Drag City)
• Chip Wickham – Astral Traveling (Gondwana)
• Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch  –        Ravage (130701)
• Glenn Dickson – Wider Than the Sky  (S/R)
• Jeffrey Derus, Brandon Elliott: Choral Arts Initiative –  From Wilderness: A Meditation On The Pacific   Crest Trail (Navona)
• Jóhann Jóhannsson, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier & American Contemporary Music Ensemble – Jóhannsson: Drone Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Julian Lage – View With a Room (Blue Note)
• Kali Malone – Living Torch (Portraits GRM)
• Kham Meslien – Fantomes…Futurs (Heavenly Sweetness)
• Kirk Knuffke Trio – Gravity Without Airs  (Tao Forms)
• Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
• Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis/Belladonna  (Nonesuch)
• Matthew Shipp Trio – World Construct (ESP Disk)
• Myra Melford’s  Fire and Water Quartet – For The Love of Fire And Water (RogueArt)
• Oren Ambarchi  – Shebang (Drag City)
• Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin   – Ghosted (Drag City)
• Park Jiha – The Gleam  (Glitterbeat)
• Shara Nova & A Far Cry – The Blue Hour (New Amsterdam)
• Third Coast Percussion – Perspectives (Cedille)
• Vicky Chow – Jane Antonia Cornish: Sierra (Cantaloupe)
• Vikingur Olafsson – From Afar (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

Music with words

• Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
• Angel Olson –  Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
• Aoife Nessa Frances –  Protector  (Partisan)
• Beach House –  Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop)
• Beth Orton –  Weather Alive(Partisan)
• Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
• Bill Callahan – Reality (Drag City)
• Cat Power – Covers (Domino)
• Cate le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
• Cecile McLorin Salvant  – Ghost Song (Nonesuch)
• Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (Dee Wee)
• Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth (Phantasy Sound)
• Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
• Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek  – Dost 2 (Bongo Joe)
• Fenella – The Metallic Index (Fire Records)
• Gwenno – Tresor  (Heavenly)
• Horace Andy  – Midnight Rocker (On-U Sound)
• Jake Blount  – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Jenny Hval  – Classic Objects (4AD)
• Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve (American Recordings)
• Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
• Lucretia Dalt  – Aye! (Rvng Intl.)
• Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott (Modern Sky UK)
• Panda Bear & Sonic Youth – Reset (Domino)
• Rich Ruth – I Survived, It’s Over (Third Man Records)
• Rokia Kone & Jacknife Lee – Bamanan  (Real World Records)
• S.G. Goodman – Teethmarks  (Verve Forecast)
• Sam Prekop and John McEntire – Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)
• Sault  – Air & 11 (Forever Living Originals)
• Sessa – Estrela Acesa  (Mexican Summer)
• Spoon  – Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador)
• The Smile- A Light for Attracting Attention (XL Recordings)
• Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)
• Weyes Blood –  And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
• Wilco  –  Cruel Country (dBpm)

Comps & special collections

• Bert Jansch – Bert at the BBC (Fire Records)
• Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy –  Blind Date Party (Drag City)
• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition      (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI: Chrome Universal – A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel – Various Artists (Tompkins Square)
• Norma Tanega – I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971 (anthologyrecordings)
• Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sound -Jazz, Samba and Other Hallucinatory Grooves (1965-1976) – (WeWantSounds)
• Sarah Cahill – The Future is Female, Vol 1 & 2  (First Hand Records)
• Silberland – Vol. 1: The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986 – Various Artists (Bureau B)
• Sky Dust Drifter: private press LP’s and 45’s from 1973-1980- Various Artists (Forager Records)

 

New Stuff

• Afrorack – The Afrorack (Hakuna Kulala)
• Marisa Anderson – still,here ( Thrill Jockey)
• A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You (Dedstrange)
• Chris Bathgate – The Significance Of Peaches (Quite Scientific)
• The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark)
• Black Jesus Experience – Good Evening Black Buddha (Agogo)
• Boris – Heavy Rocks (Relapse)
• Jane Antonia Cornish – Sierra (Cantaloupe Music)
• Brian Eno – Foreverandevernomore (Opal)
• Fenella – The Metallic Index (Fire)
• Floating Points Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop)
• Goat – Oh Death (Rocket)
• Gnod – Hexen Valley (Rocket)
• Harlem Gospel Travelers – Look Up! (Colemine)
• Hawkwind – We Are looking In On You (Cherry Red)
• Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania! (Tiny Ghost)
• Latest Fad – Lsd Spider (Fading Systems)
• The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
• Mikayla Mcvey – Time Turns Everything (The Long Road Society)
• Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento – S/T (Ansonia)
• Jessica Moss – Galaxy Heart ( Constellation)
• Marissa Nadler – The Wrath of the Clouds(Sacred Bones)
• Posthuman – Echo Almaz East (The Dark Outside)
• Pye Corner Audio – Let’s Emerge! (Sonic Cathedral)
• The Soft Moon – Exister (Sacred Bones)
• Troposphere 7 – Grey Parrots (Hakuna Kulala)
• Veryan – Here//Now (S/R)
• Erie Wanda – Internal Radio (Joyful Noise)
• Johanna Warren – Lessons for Mutants (Wax Nine}
• White Hills – Mitosis( Heads On Fire Industries/White Hills)
• White Hills – The Revenge Of Heads On Fire( Heads on Fire/ White Hills)

Old Stuff

• Can – Live In Cuxhaven 1976 (Spoon)
• Coil – Musick to Play In The Dark 2 (Dais)
• Sandy Denny – Early Home Recordings (Earth)
• Minoru Fushimi – Thanatos of Funk(180G)
• Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time Th I’ll e BBC Recording 1985-1995 (Atomhenge)
• Nazz – Lost Masters & Demos (Purple Pyramid)
• Nik Turner – Space Ritual 1994(Purple Pyramid)
• V/A – Dave Brock Presents…This Was Your Future Space Rock (And Other Psychedelics) 1978-1998 (Cherry Red)
• Walter Wegmuller – Tarot (Breeze)

Top 10 A-Z

• Charlotte Adigéry/Bolis Pupil – Topical Dancer (Dee Wee)
• Florist – S/T (Double Double Whammy)
• Halcyon – The will to nurture (GERYON)
• Immanuel Wilkins – The 7th Hand (Blue Note)
• Jemima Coulter – Grace After a Party (Hand In Hive)
• LEYA – Eyeline (NNA Tapes)
• Nora Brown – Long Time To Be Gone (Jalopy)
• Sarah Davachi – Two Sisters (Late Music)
• Valentina Magaletti – A Queer Anthology of Drums (bié)
• 700 Bliss – Nothing To Declare (Hyperdub)

Other Favorites A-Z

• Becca Stevens/Attacca Quartet – Becca Stevens | Attacca Quartet (GroundUP)
• Dialect – Advanced Myth (Warm Winters)
• Ellen Arkbro/Johan Graden – I get along without you very well (Thrill Jockey)
• Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter (Daughters of Cain)
• Gwenno – Tresor (Heavenly)
• How Strange It Is – S/T (Bud Tapes)
• Huerco S. – Plonk (Incienso)
• Hurray For The Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH (Nonesuch)
• Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
• Little Simz – NO THANK YOU (Forever Living Originals)
• Loshh – akọle (Don’t Sleep)
• Lowswimmer – Glasshouse 2 (Lowswimmer)
• Mabe Fratti – Se Ve Desde Aquí (Unheard of Hope)
• Marina Allen – Centrifics (Fire)
• Mono Moon – Boundary (S/R)
• Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (ANTI-)
• MUNA – S/T (Dead Oceans)
• Naima Bock – Giant Palm (Sub Pop)
• Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (ATO)
• Odie Leigh – How Did It Seem To You? (S/R)
• Parannoul/Asian Glow – Paraglow (POCLANOS)
• Scarcity – Aveilut (The Flenser)
• Shannen Moser – The Sun Still Seems to Move (Lame-O)
• Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
• Tanya Tagaq – Tongues (Six Shooter)
• Wildlife Freeway – Sunny (Community Music)
• Yumi Zouma – Present Tense (Polyvinyl)
• Zguba – Znój (LOŻA Oficyna)

• January 29 –  Ivy Room – The Young Barons
• February 12 – Ivy Room – Generacion Suicida
• March 12  –  Fox Theatre – Judas Priest
• April 16, and October 6 – UC Theatre – The CHATS
• April 19 – Independent SF – Viagra Boys
• May 17, SF Masonic – The Damned(original line-up except for Captain Sensible) , Blondie
• May 22, SF Masonic – Bauhaus
• May 28, Eli’s Mile High Club – BongFather, Rosie Plaza
• June 4th, Ivy Room – Year of The Fist, The Vulturas, Throw Rag
• June 16 – Ivy Room – Las Sucias, Fred Frith Trio
• June 17 – Great American Music Hall – Healing Magic, Cephalic Carnage, Calavera Brothers
• July 2,3  – Mosswood Meltdown – Twompsax, The Dirtbombs, Podium, The Carbonas, The Fevers, The Vaxxines (cover of Bondage Up Yours!)
• July 4 – Backyard of house a few doors down from Stay Gold – Poison Ruïn
• July 8, – Bottom of the Hill – Electric Machine Gun Tits, Top Secret Robot Alliance
• July 16 – SF Independent – Bombino
• August 13 – Bargain Rock Showcase – Durty Whyte Boots, Boars, Phantom Surfers
• August 27 – The Fillmore – Mdou Moctar
• September 9 – Shoreline – George Thorogood
• September 23 – Fox Theatre – Grace Jones
• September 25 – The Last Dirtbag Challenge – Hot Laundry
• September 27 – Concord Pavilion – Iron Maiden
• October 2, – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass – Amythyst Kiah
• October 5, The Chapel – King Khan & The BBQ Show
• October 7,9 – Thee Stork Club – The Mummies
• October 8,9 – Halloween Meltdown –  Amyl & The Sniffers, The Spits, Sheer Mag, Body Double, The Bugs.
• October 13 – Great American Music Hall – Brujeria, Napalm Death
• October 29 – Masonic SF – The B-52’s
• October 31, A Driveway in Oakland – Driveway Follies Puppet Show. Founded by Larry Schmidt…
• November 5 –  Downtown Oakland –  Penury, Cancer Christ, DeathgraVe, Necrot, **Possessed**
• December 11 – Regency SF –  The BellRays, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes