NEW WORK: I spoke to ⁦Jeff Mills⁩ for New York Times Music on the occasion of Tomorrow Comes the Harvest’s performance at Bang on a Can’s Long Play at BAM & the vinyl release of his new album THE TRIP — ENTER THE BLACK HOLE nytimes.com/2024/05/15/art…

Closest I got to seeing the Aurora Borealis in ☁️☁️☁️Brooklyn, Sunset Park 🙁 instagram.com/p/C66RO_AuTYd/…

Is there a German word for “the happiness that comes from knowing how furious your enemies are about your happiness?”

If not, I propose “Maizenfreude.”

And this is the Summer of Maizenfreude

RIP director/producer/distributor Roger Corman. Born in Detroit in 1926, his love of films was instilled going to Saturday matinees at the RKO Uptown (6 Mile/Woodward) & the Krim (Woodward/6 Mile). He moved to California as a teen, & would eventually…instagram.com/p/C633ZDeOg7C/…

Remembering Jim Stone, vocalist of Detroit punk groups Western Arrest & Story Problems; band manager (Sleep); Family Funktion house-music party promoter; & much-missed homie, born 59 years ago today. Images: Jim with Kathy Kettunen in Royal Oak, circa 1989 instagram.com/p/C60K3CtM9Vl/…

RIP Steve Albini, 🎸, producer/recorder, & infamous indie scold. Big Black were an integral part of my misspent youth; Shellac not so much; Rapeman not at all. Condolences to his family, friends, & fans. (Mark Dancey flyer for 3/14/86 Big Black show. More: instagram.com/p/C6uvTXQtGZo/…

Chicago Underground Duo—🎺/⌨️ ⁦Rob Mazurek⁩ & 🥁/mbira Chad Taylor—deliver a raucously conclusion to their excellent set in the round at Public Records public records, part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival, Gowanus. More 📹 clips at instagram.com/p/C6te9SyuzXi/…

Baltimore’s ⁦The Soft Pink Truth⁩—💻/⌨️ ⁦DREW DANIEL⁩ & 🎹 Koye Berry—perform an 🕺🏼🔥 live set at Public Records public records, part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival, Gowanus. More 📹 clips (w/ 🎤 ⁦Deradoorian⁩ & Daniel Clark) at instagram.com/p/C6qzpNKuF3d/…

From today’s announcement of the ⁦The Pulitzer Prizes⁩: “A special citation for the late writer & critic Greg Tate, whose language—cribbed from literature, academia, popular culture, & hip-hop—was as influential as the content of his ideas. . . .” instagram.com/p/C6pR5BqMLyg/…

Triumphant bow for the 20 musicians of Bang On A Can All-Stars & Friends after their blissfully transcendent performance of Steve Reich’s MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS at ⁦BAM⁩ Opera House, part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival, Fort Greene instagram.com/p/C6oeBWtOQnP/…

Tomorrow Comes the Harvest—flutist Rasheeda Ali, 🪘 @SundiataOM, 🎹 Kathleen Supové (@kathyexploding), & 🎹/🪘/⌨️ Jeff Mills following their 🔥 set at ⁦BAM⁩ Opera House as part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play, Fort Greene. instagram.com/p/C6lyCuYO4J_/…

Four 🎸🎸🎸🎸 ensemble Dither play “Drums” & other adaptations of composer ⁦Laurie Spiegel⁩’s 1980 masterpiece THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE at the Space at Irondale, part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival, Fort Greene. More clips at instagram.com/p/C6mEJmOuW9D/…

FINAL WEEKEND: Stills from Arthur Jafa’s new video installation “*****” (pronounced “REDACTED”), a recasting of TAXI DRIVER’s bloody climax with Black actors (as Paul Schrader’s script originally intended), at ⁦Gladstone Gallery⁩ til Sat 5/4, 530 W. 21st instagram.com/p/C6gpENKOwm7/…

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit, 🖥️ programmer Brendan Dawes & 🎥 editors Maya Tippett & Marley McDonald at the NYC premiere of their new Brian Eno doc ENO, which uses generative software to cull from 500 hours of footage to create a unique screening each time instagram.com/p/C6d9_W7OIcr/…

Composer Arnold Dreyblatt plays the Excited Strings Bass with 🥁 Konrad Sprenger during their 🔥 set at ⁦Artists Space⁩, Tribeca instagram.com/p/C6btEATOOEk/…

Word On The Street: Archimedes’ Parking Principle, Degraw Street, Gowanus.

🎹 Ana Ruiz & 🥁 Evry Mann of 1970s/80s Mexico City free jazz ensemble Atrás del Cosmos perform with 🎷 Daniel Carter at ⁦Blank Forms⁩ to celebrate the reissue of their 1980 cassette COLD DRINKS, HOT DREAMS on vinyl by Blank Forms Editions. More 📹: instagram.com/p/C6T3vKFux7S/…

Sun Ra interviewed by Deborah Ray-Sims in 1981 for DETROIT BLACK JOURNAL on Detroit PBS, + live footage of the Sun Ra Arkestra in Detroit from 1988, part of the six-hour Sun Ra Marathon at Roulette co-presented with ⁦ESS⁩. More 📸: instagram.com/p/C6Oe2O0u4tM/…

EXTENDED: Sylvia Plachy, “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” 1986, from ⁦Brooklyn Public Library⁩’s “It happened in New York” retrospective of the longtime Village Voice photographer, now held over til 5/25 at BPL Central Library, Grand Army Plaza. Don’t miss! instagram.com/p/C6MRIJnODh_/…

Remembering Detroit electronic music DJ/producer/educator/mentor Mike Huckaby, who died of COVID complications four years ago today. Image: Huck spinning on the Made In Detroit stage at ⁦Movement Detroit⁩, Hart Plaza, 5/25/14. instagram.com/p/C6Jzzn3uD3T/…