jesse jarnow
@bourgwick.bsky.social
good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
all 3 make swell hanukkah (or anytime) gifts!
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
all 3 make swell hanukkah (or anytime) gifts!
bootleg LP trifecta: errors in 3 different phrases on the cover! horrendously gunky audience tape of "r. steward" & the "small faces" at the forum in LA, march '71, with covers as well as covers of covers, in "sterio." artwork variant currently unlisted in discogs (albeit i.c. records' template).
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
bootleg LP trifecta: errors in 3 different phrases on the cover! horrendously gunky audience tape of "r. steward" & the "small faces" at the forum in LA, march '71, with covers as well as covers of covers, in "sterio." artwork variant currently unlisted in discogs (albeit i.c. records' template).
Reposted by jesse jarnow
Anyway, this is a great book about people at the disregarded bottom of the racial & socioeconomic ladder who still created a rich & vibrant & long-lasting musical culture, without waiting around for some venture capitalist to do it for them.
The Beautiful Music All Around Us
www.press.uillinois.edu
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Anyway, this is a great book about people at the disregarded bottom of the racial & socioeconomic ladder who still created a rich & vibrant & long-lasting musical culture, without waiting around for some venture capitalist to do it for them.
amazing tape, recorded at the start of the small but real window when the wailers were negotiating to maybe sign with grateful dead records or round records, the dead's fully independent labels.
Soon after being booted from a Sly & the Family Stone tour (for upstaging the headliners), the Wailers recorded this heater for KSAN. An early document of the band's Americanization by Chris Blackwell (what Linton Kwezi Johnson called "international reggae"). Locked IN archive.org/details/BobM...
Bob Marley & Wailers Record Plant KSAN 1973 : KSAN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
FM broadcast of Bob Marley & The Wailers from the Record Plant in Sausalito on 10/31/73. Broadcast on KSAN-FM San Francisco CA, introduction by Tom Donahue.
archive.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
amazing tape, recorded at the start of the small but real window when the wailers were negotiating to maybe sign with grateful dead records or round records, the dead's fully independent labels.
Reposted by jesse jarnow
if Homer had just looked one ad down, he could have seen the Dead at the Capital City Stadium
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
if Homer had just looked one ad down, he could have seen the Dead at the Capital City Stadium
it's often forgotten that the proper name of the event was actually "the final fucking waltz (we promise)" and we just call it "the last waltz" for short because it's easier.
Everyone forgot that it was the last one! No more waltzing!
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
it's often forgotten that the proper name of the event was actually "the final fucking waltz (we promise)" and we just call it "the last waltz" for short because it's easier.
oh god, just realized next thanksgiving is the 50th of the l**t w***z.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
oh god, just realized next thanksgiving is the 50th of the l**t w***z.
Reposted by jesse jarnow
Unfortunately, it seems the “adversarial poetry” paper itself may have some serious issues.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’
Today’s preprint paper has the best title ever: “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”. It’s from DexAI, who sell AI testing and compliance ser…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Unfortunately, it seems the “adversarial poetry” paper itself may have some serious issues.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...
i rarely intend to buy willie nelson albums but then there they are. this is delightful & sets a sweet mood, from 1981, in the "stardust"/standards mode but more a chill & well-recorded acoustic session than jazz pop & maybe a bit looser, even.
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
i rarely intend to buy willie nelson albums but then there they are. this is delightful & sets a sweet mood, from 1981, in the "stardust"/standards mode but more a chill & well-recorded acoustic session than jazz pop & maybe a bit looser, even.
Reposted by jesse jarnow
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
wild improv benefit for @roulettenyc.bsky.social feat. 5 minute miniatures by combos of john zorn, laurie anderson, marc ribot, ikue mori, kenny wolleson, john medeski, brian chase, jim staley, simon hanes, & jorge roeder, any of which i'd happily watch for a full night. tactile sound explosions.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
wild improv benefit for @roulettenyc.bsky.social feat. 5 minute miniatures by combos of john zorn, laurie anderson, marc ribot, ikue mori, kenny wolleson, john medeski, brian chase, jim staley, simon hanes, & jorge roeder, any of which i'd happily watch for a full night. tactile sound explosions.
Reposted by jesse jarnow
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
Reposted by jesse jarnow
grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Reposted by jesse jarnow
Was just telling a friend about what a formative experience it was to listen to KXLU as a kid in the LA area in the mid-1990s. Still tune in whenever I'm back in town, driving those infernal freeways. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Was just telling a friend about what a formative experience it was to listen to KXLU as a kid in the LA area in the mid-1990s. Still tune in whenever I'm back in town, driving those infernal freeways. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
Reposted by jesse jarnow
A fantastic piece by @cushac.bsky.social -long live Doug and the Bass VI
www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-b...
www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-b...
The Guitar-Bass Hybrid That Gives Tortoise Its Lonesome Sound
Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Douglas McCombs has made the cult-favorite Bass VI a staple of the post-rock legends’ palette.
www.hearingthings.co
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A fantastic piece by @cushac.bsky.social -long live Doug and the Bass VI
www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-b...
www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-b...
Reposted by jesse jarnow
Tony Rettman, at the Bandcamp blog, interviewed Alan and Richard Bishop about their pre-SCG band with Mo Tucker. They've got stories
Paris 1942, Short-Lived Experimental Rock Royalty
How a chance encounter with Moe Tucker led to an experimental rock pioneer supergroup of sorts.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Tony Rettman, at the Bandcamp blog, interviewed Alan and Richard Bishop about their pre-SCG band with Mo Tucker. They've got stories
whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with @negativlandland.bsky.social, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'connor (intentional, righteous)
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with @negativlandland.bsky.social, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'connor (intentional, righteous)
Reposted by jesse jarnow
"The asking price is $25 million, which might seem a startling figure for a two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot home on a snug lot. But that figure might not surprise lovers of modernist architecture who know it as Case Study House #22."
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
Iconic Stahl House, a Midcentury Modern stunner, up for sale
The Stahl House is selling for $25 million. The current owners say its tour program will continue for now.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"The asking price is $25 million, which might seem a startling figure for a two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot home on a snug lot. But that figure might not surprise lovers of modernist architecture who know it as Case Study House #22."
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
Reposted by jesse jarnow
It is dark here underground .... it is not evil or pain here .... it is black here, for reasons.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
It is dark here underground .... it is not evil or pain here .... it is black here, for reasons.
Reposted by jesse jarnow
Live jazz options in NYC, late fall 1965
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Live jazz options in NYC, late fall 1965
Reposted by jesse jarnow
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
usually i try not to hit this sunshine until deeper winter, but y'know. presumably it wasn't jimmy cliff's decision, but takes some (earned) swagger to stick 2 full length versions of the title song on here.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
usually i try not to hit this sunshine until deeper winter, but y'know. presumably it wasn't jimmy cliff's decision, but takes some (earned) swagger to stick 2 full length versions of the title song on here.
bob dylan is back to playing regional covers. last night in killarney, a gorgeous "lakes of pontchartrain," the first since 1991.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
bob dylan is back to playing regional covers. last night in killarney, a gorgeous "lakes of pontchartrain," the first since 1991.
saw jimmy cliff once, like 20 years ago, when i was on vacation with my family & he happened to be playing on the island where we were. he came on wayyyy late, maybe even after midnight, following like a half-dozen local reggae acts, & holy shit that voice was right there. so captivating & joyous.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
saw jimmy cliff once, like 20 years ago, when i was on vacation with my family & he happened to be playing on the island where we were. he came on wayyyy late, maybe even after midnight, following like a half-dozen local reggae acts, & holy shit that voice was right there. so captivating & joyous.
hanukkah night -21
fuzzy sunday grooving with a properly elixired @robynhitchcock.bsky.social at the bowery ballroom, delivering new/old surrealities, mini set with @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social & encore with lenny kaye ("and your bird can sing," "maggie's farm"), plus opening fun by hardline janglists the sharp pins.
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
hanukkah night -21