Steve Smith
@nightafternight.bsky.social
Proud papa. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social senior copywriter. New music on stage and on record: https://nightafternight.substack.com [he/him/his]
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Gratitude, 2025.
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
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Gratitude, 2025.
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
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Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
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Today's holiday treat (with thanks to @nightafternight.bsky.social):
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
Pascal Rophé dirige Berio, Mahler et Gísladóttir - Avec Stéphane Degout - Regarder le programme complet | ARTE Concert
Sous la direction de Pascal Rophé, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France interprète Sinfonia de Luciano Berio et les Fünf frühe Lieder de Mahler après nous avoir fait découvrir sea sons seasons d...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today's holiday treat (with thanks to @nightafternight.bsky.social):
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
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"[Jack DeJohnette] is a person who for around 50 years, dating from his early work with Charles Lloyd and Jackie McLean, circa 1966, up through In Movement, released in 2016, managed to sound, at every point along this timeline, deeply and restlessly contemporary, forever on the edge."
The Infinity of Jack DeJohnette
The drums are almost beside the point: It was his absolute presence in every musical situation, across a half-century, that made him one of the creative giants of our time
darkforcesswing.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"[Jack DeJohnette] is a person who for around 50 years, dating from his early work with Charles Lloyd and Jackie McLean, circa 1966, up through In Movement, released in 2016, managed to sound, at every point along this timeline, deeply and restlessly contemporary, forever on the edge."
A thread to remind me just how much I miss having Derek Bailey on this planet. Gutted that I can't be in London for the Bailey celebration starting two weeks from today… (1/5)
Spent a rainy afternoon getting stuck into the Derek Bailey biog. The trick is to skip most of the linking passages and just read DB's own lengthy and fascinating accounts of his life, particularly his early life growing up in Sheffield. Avant-garde proles. You can't beat them.
Also, been in that Huddersfield today taking advantage of alumni status at the Uni to use their splendid library to save myself a few quid and indulge in a little light reading before Christmas. Derek and Edwin.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A thread to remind me just how much I miss having Derek Bailey on this planet. Gutted that I can't be in London for the Bailey celebration starting two weeks from today… (1/5)
Thread.
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Started a new tradition yesterday: Black Metal Friday.
Playlist:
Venom - Black Metal
Bathory - Bathory
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas… (1/2)
Playlist:
Venom - Black Metal
Bathory - Bathory
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas… (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Started a new tradition yesterday: Black Metal Friday.
Playlist:
Venom - Black Metal
Bathory - Bathory
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas… (1/2)
Playlist:
Venom - Black Metal
Bathory - Bathory
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas… (1/2)
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Billy Hart was born in Washington, D.C. on this day in 1940. Jabali turns 85 today.
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Hamilton, NY, 10.21.22
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Hamilton, NY, 10.21.22
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Billy Hart was born in Washington, D.C. on this day in 1940. Jabali turns 85 today.
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Hamilton, NY, 10.21.22
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Hamilton, NY, 10.21.22
Clear Creek High School Mighty Wildcats Marching Band
Band on the Run
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
Band of Brothers
Eloy
Band on the Run
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
Band of Brothers
Eloy
Introduce yourself by just Remembering Some Bands in any order for any reason. No explanation just list some fuckin bands okay
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Clear Creek High School Mighty Wildcats Marching Band
Band on the Run
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
Band of Brothers
Eloy
Band on the Run
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
Band of Brothers
Eloy
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
I mean, I *could* have cut one of these and listed Chris Gaines, for sure…
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I mean, I *could* have cut one of these and listed Chris Gaines, for sure…
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
King Crimson (20x, 1981-2021)
Miles Davis
Leontyne Price
Astor Piazzolla
Butthole Surfers
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I guess I must be the unnamed UK person who discovered this then 😃 I don’t think they have a longer recording through which is disappointing
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I guess I must be the unnamed UK person who discovered this then 😃 I don’t think they have a longer recording through which is disappointing
I didn’t know Reg Bloor was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an important Glenn Branca archival recording with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the band until Robert Fripp (!!) shared the news on Facebook. Get yourself a piece of the action here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Release of Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 4 (Physics)
Much anticipated release of a long lost recording.
www.kickstarter.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I didn’t know Reg Bloor was running a Kickstarter campaign to fund an important Glenn Branca archival recording with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in the band until Robert Fripp (!!) shared the news on Facebook. Get yourself a piece of the action here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Don't know why, but today was the day Gong finally well and truly hit me after years of intermittent failed attempts. youtu.be/pS7Tiw4pbjM?...
Love Is How Y Make It (Remastered 2018)
YouTube video by Gong - Topic
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Don't know why, but today was the day Gong finally well and truly hit me after years of intermittent failed attempts. youtu.be/pS7Tiw4pbjM?...
Gratitude, 2025.
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
Gratitude, 2025.
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Gratitude, 2025.
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
A powerful first impression of the Powerhouse: International music series, plus recommended live new-music events for Nov. 26–Dec. 2.
Photograph: claire rousay at Powerhouse Arts
Nothing on this earth compares with a slice of quality pecan pie.
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Nothing on this earth compares with a slice of quality pecan pie.
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Happy Birthday to my dear friend Bev Bevan, pictured here along with Geezer, Ian and myself in 1983. Hope you're having a great day mate. - Tony
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Happy Birthday to my dear friend Bev Bevan, pictured here along with Geezer, Ian and myself in 1983. Hope you're having a great day mate. - Tony
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Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Just saw the news about the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo and I’m gonna need a minute. #BlueMonday
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Just saw the news about the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo and I’m gonna need a minute. #BlueMonday
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
Jeff Conklin teaches me something new practically every week. This is very beautiful. If you aren't tuned in now, you can find the album here: lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
4. Michael Malis & Zara Teicher - Realign - Retreat (Low Versions, 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Jeff Conklin teaches me something new practically every week. This is very beautiful. If you aren't tuned in now, you can find the album here: lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
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Playing free psychedelic music for you on the radio air and net waves from 10am-Noon ET. Tune in! 91.3FM or
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Playing free psychedelic music for you on the radio air and net waves from 10am-Noon ET. Tune in! 91.3FM or
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)
wvkr.org
Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
Follow thread for live playlist:
1. Natasha Pirard - La Tristesse Insoutenable - Fernande, Cecile (DEEWEE, 2025)