jesse jarnow
bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy
jesse jarnow
@bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy
writer / WFMU DJ / good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / working on a history of music told through grey area recordings (hachette, 2025ish) / "big day coming" […]

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whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with negativland, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'conner (intentional, righteous) https://social.lol/@thetonearm/115582032021779581
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 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. @vinylrecords
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 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.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
fuzzy sunday grooving with a properly elixired robyn hitchcock at the bowery ballroom, delivering new/old surrealities, mini set with emma swift & encore with lenny kaye ("and your bird can sing," "maggie's farm"), plus opening fun by hardline janglists the […]

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November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
50 years ago tonight, the keith & donna band (with billy kreutzmann) in boston: https://archive.org/details/kdb1975-11-23.111168.ecm99.rolfe.miller.flac1644
11/23/75 boston: even with limited repertoire, band mixing up set. promoter intros band over groove to […]

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November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in boulder, garcia’s last road gig of the year (& the last out-of-town show for the nicky hopkins iteration of the band). audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-23.028367.jgb.aud.unknown.t-flac16 [1/2]
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
pals, i'm going to be on tales from the golden road on the siriusXM grateful dead channel this very afternoon at 4ish ET, yapping about the deadcast's "blues for allah" season finale with @dgans & gary lambert. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/115583447560824248
today, rich & i present an overstuffed deadcast season finale, a triple episode, feat. new musical scales, saudi acidhead regicide, connections between the dead & the gay rights movement, crickets, the quieting of ned lagin's biomusic & more […]

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November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
coming home last night, i saw a goddamn party bus parked in a bus stop, which is funny on several levels, & should be grounds for both immediate requisition of the bus & making all of its passengers take public transportation home. #nyc
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
40 years ago tonight, the #gratefuldead in #oakland, concluding their fall gigging with the last of 3 nights at the kaiser auditorium. fall ’85, show #18. excellent soundboard, now on “enjoying the ride” […]

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November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
the scene is now (always was, always will be) tucked into vibey corner stage at the francis kite club, keeping the far east side bountiful in boho folk-jazz, including my languid fave, "marigold" #nyc
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
50 years ago tonight, the final seastones show, in encinitas, & ned lagin’s last public appearance as a musician. also the only lagin/lesh duo set recorded outside a dead show. audience tape of the early show only […]

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November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
constantly re-astounded by alan bishop's post sun city girls projects. 2013 album of weird/menacing tightly-written psych-pop with a band he formed in cairo with egyptian musicians, 2nd LP is same songs with arabic vocal tracks […]

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November 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
this billboard riffing on WINS radio's news slogan sounds like a threat.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
40 years ago tonight, the #gratefuldead in #oakland, continuing their wild turkey thanksgiving shows. a fun night with a bunch of warlocks-y rarities, now on “enjoying the ride.” fall ’85, show #17
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November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
jefferson starship, thattaway. #nyc
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
late period wetlands (& latest period CBGB) reunion at the sultan room for RANA, still sounding pretty epic in their between-the-cracks jam/rock shoulda-been-yuge canyon. #nyc
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
was trying to decide if i was gonna get a slice before or after the show, but the flash mob dance party at the pizza place answered that swiftly. #nyc
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in chicago, opening a 3-night weekender. back to mushy audience tapes for a bit. https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-21.142000.jgb.aud.unknown.t-flac16 [1/2]
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?! (i don't think this was a previously known/rumored VU date?)
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM