Chris Robinson
@chris-robinson.bsky.social
Music writer, saxophonist, steel guitarist, PhD in American Studies, bylines in Downbeat, Point of Departure, Passion of the Weiss, elsewhere. Day gig: Duke University Press.
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The 10 Best Avant-Garde albums of 2025
Chris Robinson ranks the best of spiritual jazz, semi-feral cello drone, beeping collisions of man and machine, and other forward-thinking experiments from the outer galaxies of sound
By @chris-robinson.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/17/t...
Chris Robinson ranks the best of spiritual jazz, semi-feral cello drone, beeping collisions of man and machine, and other forward-thinking experiments from the outer galaxies of sound
By @chris-robinson.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/17/t...
The 10 Best Avant Garde Albums of 2025 | Passion of the Weiss
POW lists out the top 10 avant garde jazz(ish) albums of the year.
www.passionweiss.com
My year end list of favorite avant garde jazz(ish) albums is now up on @passionweiss.bsky.social Take heed, I have only seen 2, or maybe 3, of these 10 albums on anybody else's comparable list. So get weird. Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
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Ken Pomeroy's Cruel Joke
What's the best album of 2025?
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Ken Pomeroy's Cruel Joke
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
Playing my new pedal steel and it sounds so much better than my cheap lap steel and now I'm like "lap steel? What lap steel? I have a lap steel?"
December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Playing my new pedal steel and it sounds so much better than my cheap lap steel and now I'm like "lap steel? What lap steel? I have a lap steel?"
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Kind of weird that musicians get put through hell when they don't clear a sample.... But AI weirdos can sample+ scrape literally everything ever recorded+ spit it back out at us. Meanwhile I get copyright flagged posting my OWN music on Instagram or whatever. I feel like there should be a better way
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Kind of weird that musicians get put through hell when they don't clear a sample.... But AI weirdos can sample+ scrape literally everything ever recorded+ spit it back out at us. Meanwhile I get copyright flagged posting my OWN music on Instagram or whatever. I feel like there should be a better way
As Anthony Joshua said, "some people are just there to be knocked out."
Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
December 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As Anthony Joshua said, "some people are just there to be knocked out."
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Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol
Anthony Joshua was playing for keeps against fake ass "boxer" Jake Paul. This is what happens when you punch bullies and charlatans in the face: you break their jaw and send them to the hospital.
December 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Anthony Joshua was playing for keeps against fake ass "boxer" Jake Paul. This is what happens when you punch bullies and charlatans in the face: you break their jaw and send them to the hospital.
I did a foolish thing--although my wife kind of gave me the final push to do it--and bought this nice 70s vintage D10 BMI pedal steel. Can I play pedal steel? No. Do I play lap steel? Yes. Even so, this is going to be a lot of fun work learning to play this thing. It sounds so good.
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I did a foolish thing--although my wife kind of gave me the final push to do it--and bought this nice 70s vintage D10 BMI pedal steel. Can I play pedal steel? No. Do I play lap steel? Yes. Even so, this is going to be a lot of fun work learning to play this thing. It sounds so good.
I gotta think that when Grant Green called "My Favorite Things" for this session McCoy and Elvin were both like "you gotta be fuckin kidding me."
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I gotta think that when Grant Green called "My Favorite Things" for this session McCoy and Elvin were both like "you gotta be fuckin kidding me."
I can't wait for the debut album from Sloppy Redaction. Now what genre might that band play? Mid to late 90s granola jam band? Maybe it's a proto punk/garage trio?
Sloppy redactions are remarkably easy to sleuth around, have fun out there
BREAKING: Justice Department is reportedly rapidly redacting the Epstein files before release tomorrow, per CNN
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I can't wait for the debut album from Sloppy Redaction. Now what genre might that band play? Mid to late 90s granola jam band? Maybe it's a proto punk/garage trio?
Email from ChatGPT with a subject line of "Easy self-care you can start today." Get the fuck outta here. How about that for some self care?
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Email from ChatGPT with a subject line of "Easy self-care you can start today." Get the fuck outta here. How about that for some self care?
My year end list of favorite avant garde jazz(ish) albums is now up on @passionweiss.bsky.social Take heed, I have only seen 2, or maybe 3, of these 10 albums on anybody else's comparable list. So get weird. Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
The 10 Best Avant-Garde albums of 2025
Chris Robinson ranks the best of spiritual jazz, semi-feral cello drone, beeping collisions of man and machine, and other forward-thinking experiments from the outer galaxies of sound
By @chris-robinson.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/17/t...
Chris Robinson ranks the best of spiritual jazz, semi-feral cello drone, beeping collisions of man and machine, and other forward-thinking experiments from the outer galaxies of sound
By @chris-robinson.bsky.social
www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/17/t...
The 10 Best Avant Garde Albums of 2025 | Passion of the Weiss
POW lists out the top 10 avant garde jazz(ish) albums of the year.
www.passionweiss.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My year end list of favorite avant garde jazz(ish) albums is now up on @passionweiss.bsky.social Take heed, I have only seen 2, or maybe 3, of these 10 albums on anybody else's comparable list. So get weird. Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
Reposted by Chris Robinson
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🚨author alterations in proofs🚨
should I write a thread about why this is a no-no?
should I write a thread about why this is a no-no?
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨author alterations in proofs🚨
should I write a thread about why this is a no-no?
should I write a thread about why this is a no-no?
Somebody set the odds for me buying a pedal steel guitar on Friday. Have only seen it on Facebook marketplace and it's 3.5 hours away one way. Luckily if I buy it I already own a pair of Justin boots and a Montana Silversmiths belt buckle, so it might get honky tonk real fast on Saturday.
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Somebody set the odds for me buying a pedal steel guitar on Friday. Have only seen it on Facebook marketplace and it's 3.5 hours away one way. Luckily if I buy it I already own a pair of Justin boots and a Montana Silversmiths belt buckle, so it might get honky tonk real fast on Saturday.
Am thinking of an older Earl Sweatshirt lyric: "all I want is my time and my mind intact/once they gone you can't buy em back."
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Am thinking of an older Earl Sweatshirt lyric: "all I want is my time and my mind intact/once they gone you can't buy em back."
My favorite Sinatra record without a doubt. The charts on this are just perfection.
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My favorite Sinatra record without a doubt. The charts on this are just perfection.
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also, just because your book hasn't gone into copyediting doesn't mean we aren't working on the book in other ways—marketing and publicity, copy and metadata, etc. a lot goes into publishing a book!
Put differently: projects “sitting” doesn’t mean time lost/wasted. We spend weeks scheduling projects for publication in a specific month. Not hearing anything for a few weeks while your ms is one of 20 being prepped for production doesn’t mean it will appear in the world any later.
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
also, just because your book hasn't gone into copyediting doesn't mean we aren't working on the book in other ways—marketing and publicity, copy and metadata, etc. a lot goes into publishing a book!
Cut to a worker in a warehouse somewhere with a marker, putting a little dot or line on the page edges of this nugget, just before boxing them up and shipping them to an Ollie's remainder bin near you.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Cut to a worker in a warehouse somewhere with a marker, putting a little dot or line on the page edges of this nugget, just before boxing them up and shipping them to an Ollie's remainder bin near you.
For a 1945 recording session for RCA that yielded 6 sides, Leonard Feather, as leader and producer, paid himself $180. Duke only got $90. Billy Strayhorn got $80. Johnny Hodges, $150. Red Norvo a paltry $50. Louis Armstrong did OK though: $300. Archival research is fun. Tax documents are great.
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
For a 1945 recording session for RCA that yielded 6 sides, Leonard Feather, as leader and producer, paid himself $180. Duke only got $90. Billy Strayhorn got $80. Johnny Hodges, $150. Red Norvo a paltry $50. Louis Armstrong did OK though: $300. Archival research is fun. Tax documents are great.
Yo authors, the more images you have in your academic monograph, the harder it is going to be to license translations of it, especially if they are not analyzed in the text/fair use. Signed, your helping friendly international rights manager
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Yo authors, the more images you have in your academic monograph, the harder it is going to be to license translations of it, especially if they are not analyzed in the text/fair use. Signed, your helping friendly international rights manager
I never liked Calibri anyway. Signed, a Georgia stan
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I never liked Calibri anyway. Signed, a Georgia stan
If there are going to be UFC cage matches on the south lawn of the White House then I'm all for it. If we are going to do Bread and Circus we best not fuck around. We need to get it right.
December 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If there are going to be UFC cage matches on the south lawn of the White House then I'm all for it. If we are going to do Bread and Circus we best not fuck around. We need to get it right.
How is it that the stupidest fucking people on the planet are the ones shaping the conditions of everyday life?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
How is it that the stupidest fucking people on the planet are the ones shaping the conditions of everyday life?