Tag: writing

• Top 40 Over 40.36: Carl Craig live at The Fruit in Durham

  Preface: I recommend listening to Falling Up by Theo Parrish &b Carl Craig while reading this post. My favorite track from Carl. I love how dry the percussion! This was a set I caught at Slingshot in 2022, an electronic music festival held at a former wholesale fruit warehouse near downtown Durham NC. This repurposed…

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  June 10, 2026

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, History, Music, Top 40 Over 40

  3/5 an Emcee, Andy Stott, Carl Craig, Chicago, Chrysler, Dan Georgakas, Derrick May, Desire: The Carl Craig Story, Detroit, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, family, fiction, Ford, General Motors, Haymarket Press, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, life, Marvin Surkin, Music, Outsourcing, PBS, Peter Hughes, Romaine Meffre, Secrets of the Temple, Techno, Unions, William Greider, Wise Intelligent, writing, Yves Marchand

• New album and new Substack

  An album that’s been listed on the “Upcoming Projects” page of this website for almost a decade is now finished and ready for mastering. At the suggestion of friends who have heard it, I have started a Substack where I will be writing about the historical material addressed in the songs on on the record.…

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  June 2, 2026

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, History, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Politics

  american empire, art, blog, books, Colonialism, Expressway to Yr Skull, I Saw Sonora Hypnotized, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Substack, writing

• Top 40 Over 40.35: Sylvie Courvoisier & Wada Leo Smith Live at Long Play Festival in Brooklyn

  Part of the purpose of this post is to let folks know that I have relocated from Durham NC to Brooklyn NY. While the move was a personal one motivated by the desire to remove the “Long Distance” prefix from a relationship I’ve been in for three and a half years, it comes with some…

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  May 11, 2026

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  AACM, Aaron Greenwald, Bang On a Can, Billy Hart, Brooklyn, Cecil Taylor, Claws and Wings, David Murray, Durham, Elizabeth C. Adams, Erik Friedlander, John Cage, Long Play Festival, Miles Davis, Music, new-music, Piano, reviews, Steve Lehman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Top 40 Over 40, Trumpet, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, writing