BEST OF 2025: JAZZ, LATIN & GLOBAL: Music from far-off realms and far-out imaginations speaks with incredible vitality on these 24 albums. Includes new reviews of Killdeer Trio, Ches Smith, Chicago Underground Duo, Untethered, and Le Diouck. anearful.substack.com/p/best-of-20... #bestof2025

Cameron Winter’s Live At Carnegie Hall, an intimate and epic live album and a musical gift from the Geese frontman, gives us this week's A Song For Friday. Also: David Crowell, more eaze, claire rousay, Beat Keller & Jorge Espinal, and Kee Avil. anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

A Song For Friday: iiisa//isabel crespo pardo’s debut defines music on their own terms. Also: Clutter, Wishy, TV Buddha, Renata Kazhan, Emily A. Sprague, Conor Nelson, and Gabriel Cabezas & Alyssa Weinberg. anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

Tomorrow is October 1st, so it's time for the 2026: Third Quarter Report! 117 Albums, including new reviews of Ken Ueno & Wukir Suryadi, Gloorp, Marcel Sletten, Art Feynman, marine eyes, sundayclub, Guiding Light, Spirit Ghost, koleżanka, lucky break, etc. anearful.substack.com/p/2026-third...

Here for it. Wet Ink Ensemble’s 28th Season Opener at the Zürcher Gallery. New works by Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, Mariel Roberts Musa, and Modney. Should be special! #livemusic

Here for it. Maisy Owen at @lucindawilliams.bsky.social’s Lower East Side honky-tonk, Lucinda’s, where a hot dog and a hurricane is known as “dinner”! #livemusic

Another beautiful Dead Gowns song - no one sings them like Geneviève Beaudoin! Listen to New Blue and prepare for Vegas, coming 10/23 on Mount Laurel Recording Co. youtu.be/41KIKBelzd8?...

Proud to be included and congratulations to Al Melchior for 250 episodes of one of my favorite #musicpodcasts, You, Me and An Album! Some great stories and suggestions here. 29 album recommendations to celebrate Episode 250 youmealbum.ghost.io/29-album-rec...

Julia Jacklin’s The Gem (@4ad.com) sparkles and gives us this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Meg Lui, Starcleaner Reunion, 7ebra, Corntuth, Jules Reidy, Zeynep Toraman, Weston Olencki with Bascaille and TAK Ensemble, Liths, Sputter Box, and Katherine Young. anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

Here for it. Talea Ensemble season opener: Synchronisms I, curated by Steve Beck (piano) and Greg Chudzik (bass) playing Davidovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, and Chudzik. David Adamcyk, sound engineer. #livemusic

I've narrowed things down by about half for the #5DebutAlbumsFinal. Interestingly, 31 of the 46 come from the 1963-1983 sheet, when more people seemed to agree that I was right about the best music! 🤣 open.spotify.com/playlist/66M...

Emma Ayzenberg’s Child Of Saturn is an involving, deeply moving debut album and includes this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Freak Slug, Nicole Atkins, Outer World, bu re_, NODO + Cecilia López, Cate Kennan, Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, Miyaxx, and Beck. anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

Here for it. Frances Chang album release show at Nightclub 101 with support from Cate Kennan and Financial Collapse. If you haven’t yet heard “been thinking bout confession” on RVNG…that’s probably why you’re not here tonight 😂 #livemusic

It's never too late for great music, so here's the Best Of 2025: Hip Hop, R&B, and Reggae. Clipse might have made the biggest noise in these realms, but there was no shortage of invention and passion, much of it from mid-career artists. #bestof2025 anearful.substack.com/p/best-of-20...

MUST. SEE. SNOOPER. MUST. SEE. SNOOPER. youtu.be/jr8m3l-Bhjk?...

Seattle band Pitschouse is reborn and better than ever on Nothing New, which gives us this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Tyshawn Sorey & Pat Thomas, James Díaz & John Popham, HUG, Tessa Rose Jackson, and Lex Walton. anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...