#1214: ERROL DUNKLEY - O.K. FRED (1979) i’m increasingly of the mind that the body politic really is in need of a phrase that’s close to but not exactly “ok, boomer,” though that specif...
#1213: TRISTON PALMER - ENTERTAINMENT (AT ACES INTERNATIONAL HI-FI, 1982) there was a lot of pressure on for the last few months: what should the twelve hundred thirteenth video be? when i hear...
Back in 2009, during the glorious early days of the Super Groovy Music Video Extravaganza, and the early days of Tumblr, I posted a terrific black and white photo of Stevie Wonder from the 1970s....
#1212: TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY - ACCUMULATION (2016) just about the best thing i did this year was go with liza to see the trisha brown dance company perform across about a mile of the shore...
#1211: DAVID BYRNE - THE HOUSE OF LIFE (ILE AIYE) (1989) this winter, i had the serious pleasure of meeting the singer and photographer and filmmaker and drawer and bicycle rider and diarist an...
#1210: PRINCE JAMMY - CROWNING OF PRINCE JAMMY (JAILLHOUSE VERSION) (1982) one of history’s best music lists – better than pitchfork ’s , rolling stone ’s , or elvis costello’s – w...
#1209: GRATEFUL DEAD - SCARLET BEGONIAS > FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (1977) in early 2009, a 52-year-old grandfather began leaving comments on the internet archive’s grateful dead collection, whe...
#1208: MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE `PRINCE’ BILLY - RESIST THE URGE (2021, DIR. KEVIN “SPANKY” LONG AND ATIBA JEFFERSON) such a rare example of a music video that’s incredibly sweet in both s...
#1207: JOHNNY CASH - I GOT STRIPES (ON A MONDAY) (1959) every ounce of the world’s amphetamines seem to zap into johnny cash’s left leg and shoulders when he says “wooh!” after a minute...
#1206: MADVILLAIN - STRANGE WAYS (2011) whose face was made of metal and muscle? how did he write in cold blood with a toothpick ? where did he bake delicious rap snitch knishes ? which grimy ...
#1205: ALPHONSE “BOIS SEC” ARDOIN AND CANRAY FONTENOT - BONSOIR MOREAU (1966, NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, DIR. ALAN LOMAX) if you’re going to watch heartbreaking and electrifying footage fro...
#1204: ALPHONSE “BOIS SEC” ARDOIN AND CANRAY FONTENOT - EUNICE TWO STEP (NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, 1966) alphonse ardoin was born around 1914, back when archduke franz ferdinand was getting h...
#1203: GLENN GOULD - BACH’S PARTITA NO. 2 (1958) celebrate the end of 2020 by tuning your radio dials to wkcr’s bach fest , which will play nonstop until we ring in the new year. spin your...
so completely honored to have made the absolutely unofficial poster for bach fest 2020 on the one and only wkcr.
thank you to my very talented cousin aleksander garin for this beautiful bach fest poster, a companion to mine – and an improvement that gets the radio station right!
#1201: DOLLY PARTON - EARLY MORNING BREEZE (C. 1971) if i had my act together, i would collect my thoughts and write about what it was like to watch 9 to 5 for the first time, ten months into ...
#1200: DUKE ELLINGTON - SOLO PIANO CONCERT (C. 1971) these are dark days and difficult times, so i’ve decided, here at the twelfth hundredth video, to pull out the stops. this is duke ellingt...
#1199: THE RAMONES - I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP (1995, DIR. DANIEL CLOWES) happy 25th birthday to this video for an extremely good cover of an extremely good song by tom waits. it was made by da...
#1198: THE STAPLE SINGERS - SIT DOWN, SERVANT (C. 1961) one of the precious few things that a global pandemic is good for is making mixes: there’s so much time to do it, and too much time to ...
#1197: STEELY DAN - DO IT AGAIN (1973, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL) one positive thing about the pandemic is how much i’ve been listening to the sweet sounds of the dan. “they didn’t want me to sla...