Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches

I'm proud to present the fourth installment of this ongoing series. Thanks as always to Cosmo Lee at Invisible Oranges for his design/l...

I spent the first couple hours of Undead Jazzfest 2011 channel-flipping. I took advantage of the staggered set times and jumped between venu...

Last week, several top jazz writers took a minute to survey the year in recorded jazz thus far. (The Undead Jazzfest, which starts tonight— ...

In a March post, I attempted to make the point that free jazz ought to be documented in the studio from time to time. The only problem was ...

Morbid Angel, my favorite metal band, breaks an eight-year silence today. Let this post be an official welcome to Illud Divinum Insanus . I ...

Update: Saturday, 6/4/11—This post has been updated with Ted Panken's latest response, and my response to that response (and yet another...

About a month ago, I spent one and a half hours on the phone with Peter Brötzmann (from midtown Manhattan to Wuppertal, Germany). I've ...

If you haven't read (and listened to) Ethan Iverson's lengthy interview with the great Henry Threadgill , I strongly encourage you t...

[Ed.: After I wrote this post, I continued my Illud -related ranting at That's How Kids Die . I posted a lengthy comment there—also repr...

The third installment of my Heavy Metal Be-Bop series, an interview with Trevor Dunn, is finally live at Invisible Oranges. This Q&A wa...