2026-04-06 17:38:43
at union pool, the 75 dollar bill little big band dream the eternal music, enormous drones & community pulses. rick brown's wooden crate sounded amazing through the UP speakers, like a huge resonant heartbeat. #nyc
So a judge just invalidated almost all red light tickets written to cyclists in #NYC, lol
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/tuesdays-headlines-cops…
30 years ago yesterday, surrender to the air at the academy in #nyc, a before/after moment in my musical life if ever there was one. https://youtu.be/r_r54FPveiA
1st mama tried outdoor jam of the season for me. expansive space blues by drew gardner & co., kinetic improv by time trout (plus arthur russell's "hiding your present from you"), & the scene is now, #nyc's finest 40-year-running boho-jazz-pop surrealists (never caught "yellow sarong" before!)
This is a great
@… on #NYC 311 system. @… you should give it a listen
I live near a fancy mafia family-owned private club here in #NYC and they often throw events that I find tacky and distasteful.Today is exceptional, though:
#Adobe is sponsoring a party for its AI products and they’ve paid for multiple cars with their “Adobe Firefly” (gen AI product) branding to literally drive around narrow busy streets in a circle during rush hour on a Monday.
Oh and all the cars are driven by young women with a ton of makeup.
Ugh.
the anti-dancing #nyc cabaret law might be finally dead? https://evgrieve.com/2026/05/as-2026-nears-halfway-point-new-york.html
Recently encountered an issue with fire hydrants in NYC. #NYCDOT parking rules state that vehicles cannot park closer than 15 feet to a #hydrant. DOT installed planters about 5 feet from a hydrant giving the impression that parking on the other side of the planter is legal. I am suggesting the planter be…
I just got to tell two #GraceMeng canvassers, "Sorry, I'm voting for #ChuckPark
#Queens #NYC
wild polyrhythmic overload & double-drummer extended technique pulse-out at roulette with goat, from japan. like horse lords or Zs but maybe even more ecstatic & tightly wound. opening was YPY, who i've played on my radio show, but don't think knew was goat guitarist koshiro hino. #nyc
RE: #NYC
"supertanker" by al jarnow, for 3-2-1 contact (1980) #animation #nyc
Wallpaper at Fraunces Tavern Museum in NYC depicting General Washington arriving in Boston. The full 49-foot, 32-panel, 360-color "Views of the American War of Independence" is still produced by Zuber & Cie (est. 1797) in Rixheim, France, using 2,300 (!) wood blocks carved between 1834 and 1852. It takes a full year to print and is likely the world's most expensive wallpaper ($100,000?). The blocks themselves are classified as Historic Monuments by the French Ministry of Culture. #france #history #art #nyc #newyork #museum #wallpaper #woodblock #boston #war #independence #250th
Basically we need to make transit free because our local government is too fucking dumb to figure out how to handle fares. #NYC #NY #MakePublicTransitFree
lol #NYC has ruined me. Went to a Japanese festival thing in DC and all I could think was, "I can get this stuff for 1/4 of the price at the japanese shop literally around the corner from my house"
Good afternoon #BikeNYC #BikeTooter. Gorgeous day out there, make sure you've got your official #NYC garbage bin before the June 1st deadline!
next weekend! come vibrate with us! #nyc #jazz #psychedelics https://
Duck decoys found in 1924 inside Lovelock Cave (Nevada), sealed up approximately 2400 years ago by an earthquake. The one on the right is apparently a canvasback (Aythya valisineria). Museum of the American Indian, NYC. #ducks #archaeology #hunting #cave #birds #nevada #indian #smithsonian #nyc #anatidae #museum
the timeless weird american peter stampfel leads the atomic meta-pagans through banger after banger at piano's. mostly new in the past few years, including my faves "mission statement" & "this body's just meat," some even newer topical tunes, a lost/found antonia song from '66, "euphoria" & more. #nyc
amazing piece but basically woke up in the middle of the night wondering about the unanswered question here: if book freak richard hell has been in the same wee spot since '74, what does he do when his shelves are full? does he have storage spaces like verlaine? does he deaccession at the strand? #nyc #books
the next bardo bath is coming up on saturday 4/25 at judson church in #nyc, an evening of participatory improv weirdness, including william parker (!), anne waldman (!), garcia peoples, @…, & more, with me on zones/collages/exorcisms.
matinee jams at mama tried: synth-noise blowout plus kandy-kolored melodies by dan friel; viola/violin drone-float (amid movie-like rain outside) by jessica pavone & mari bruno; & spiky alt-prog by wendy eisenberg's editrix (who, like, belong on lollapalooza '91-'92) (complimentary!!) #nyc #brooklyn
opening wednesday of william parker's weekly gig at loove annex in williamsburg. trio with violinist gabby fluke-mogul & drummer tcheser holmes, shapes coming together like wind. and the 13-piece pocketwatch doing "the chant" for an hour, clockwork pulse opening to slow funk & ecstatic blowing/themes/duos/trios. #brooklyn