This week's BA newsletter is the Half-Year Roundup — my list of the 50 best albums of January-June 2023. Read, share, subscribe:
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/half-year-roundup-2023-edition

The sun doesn't go down until almost 10 PM where I live, so I'm curious when the fireworks are going to start and how long they're going to last...

Spending the day alphabetizing and shelving a couple of thousand (probably — I've never actually counted) CDs.

Sent two new Burning Ambulance Music titles off to the printer...looking like an early autumn release for both. As always, expect the unexpected!

I don't know.

This week's BA newsletter is all about Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood, two avant-garde composers/sound artists who lived for years just down the road from where I live right now:
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/avant-garde-music-from-montana

This week’s Burning Ambulance email is about the London-based postpunk/industrial/dub duo Holy Tongue, and about the history of that sound, including the work of the late Mark Stewart. Read, share, subscribe!
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-industrial-dub-rituals-of-holy

There used to be a joke like this: Boss yells at worker, worker yells at wife, wife yells at kid, kid kicks dog, dog bites mailman, mailman returns to post office and massacres all his co-workers. Not as funny anymore as it was in the 80s...

This week's BA newsletter is all about the Swedish band Air Raid, and how moving to Montana has given me a new appreciation for power metal:
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/air-raid-make-gloriously-awesome

I've posted an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my forthcoming book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR on Substack. It's for paying subscribers only though... $5 gets you in the door.
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/in-the-brewing-luminous-chapter-2