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Sunday, June 14th

sounds of Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson Southernaires, “With My Whole Heart,” live, Jackson, Mississippi (Jackson State University), c. 1994

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Wednesday, June 10th

Sometimes, like last night, you bump into something, unexpectedly, that makes this unrelentingly chaotic world seem, if only briefly, a bit less uninhabitable.

Prince, “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers), live, Paisley Park (outside Minneapolis), 2002 (published 1/3/26)

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Monday, June 8th

like nobody else

Laurie Anderson (voice, violin, compositions), live, Paris, 2025

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yesterday, Chicago

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Sunday, June 7th

sounds of Chicago

Fellowship Baptist Church Choir (feat. Loretta Oliver, 1933-), “He Took My Sins Away,” 1999 and 2023

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Friday, June 5th

what’s new

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, live (“The Music Never Stopped,” “You Asked, I Came,” “Midnight Marauders,” “I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But Time,” “Insane”), Washington, D.C., published 5/15/26

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Sunday, May 31st

basement jukebox

Rev. H.L. Parker and the First Baptist Choir of Pratt City, Alabama, “All I Own” (A. Bradford), 1966

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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet (Jeff Parker, electric guitar with electronics; Jay Bellerose, drums and percussion; Anna Butterss, bass; Josh Johnson, alto saxophone with electronics), live, Los Angeles, 2025 (published yesterday)