only rock ‘n’ roll
Kinks, live (“Victoria,” “Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion,” “Lola,” “Holiday,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” “Waterloo Sunset,” “Village Green Preservation Society”), London, early 1970s
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passings
Charlie Watts, drummer, June 2, 1941-August 24, 2021
Greatest rock drummer ever?
Rolling Stones, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (M. Jagger, K. Richards), live
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Don Everly, singer, guitarist, songwriter, February 1, 1937-August 21, 2021
When I was a little boy, my brother and I played this record, over and over, on our basement jukebox. Music comes and goes; the earliest songs remain.
Everly Brothers, “Wake Up Little Susie” (F. Bryant, B. Bryant), 1957
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sounds of London
Shame, live (“Snow Day,” “Born in Luton,” “Human, for a Minute”), published today
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what’s new
black midi, live (studio), “John L,” “Dethroned,” “Sugar/Tzu,” “Hogwash and balderdash,” “Slow,” London, 4/6/21
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sounds of Colombia and Canada
Lido Pimienta, “Coming Thru” (L. Pimienta), published 3/9/21
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what’s new
Tune-Yards, live (studio), “Hold Yourself,” “Hypnotized,” “My Neighbor,” “Make It Right” (M. Garbus), Oakland, Calif., 2/2/21
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what’s new
Scary Pockets featuring Solomon Dorsey, “Shake It Off” (Taylor Swift cover), live, Los Angeles, published 3/22/21
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*****
reading table
who is the owner of unremembered moments
would they open their great book
if I stood
at the door
and begged?–Xiao Yue Shan, from “details escape” (Poetry, 4/21)
what’s new
Mogwai, live, Scotland (Glasgow), published 3/18/21
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Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance,
sluggish dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken
more
SOPHIE (9/17/86–1/30/21), “BIPP” (S. Xeon), 2013
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another take
Autechre remix, 1/14/21
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