rode with neil young & crazy horse again in #bridgeport & so happy i did. got tons of songs i didn't catch tuesday ("barstool blues"! "down by the river"! "dangerbird"! "fuckin' up"!), tour debuts ("when you dance"! "big time"!), & what felt like even deeper #jams ("powderfinger"! "love & only love"!). molina & talbot have always had their own special pocket & it's so rare/cool to hear a rhythm section age with their singer into something even heavier, if less nimble. also, a j. mascis sighting.
Hope that NYC's Emergency Group picks up more press on their short tour — caught them on Sunday and it's just totally exciting and venturesome work. Not smart enough to articulate what's happening exactly — see liners by @bourgwick for that — but we picked up wafts of the usual suspects (Miles' Big Fun, Get Up with It comps, specifically) but there are definitely post-punk undercurrents too? Anyways, it's great https://chicagoreader.com/music/concert-preview/emergency-group-sleeping-village/#music#jazz#jams#emergencygroup#nyc
Tonight: one of best things going. Tim Berne most Thursdays at Lowlands in Gowanus. As cozy as wild-eyed free jazz can get. With Tom Rainey and Gregg Belisle-Chi.
And then late, The James Buckley Trio (+2) at Barbes. Let me tell you, there's some holyshit! jams going down in Park Slope at the moment. Wake the kids and bring em down. ElectricMiles brand jamming, absolutely killer.
#NowPlaying - a soundtrack entry in sonic youth's glorious instrumental SYR series & the last SY album, really. atmospheric slivers & silvery nighttime moods & noise & more-than-#jams-less-than-songs, including a few with uncharacteristic piano. wish all of it was longer -- the tracks, the SYR series, SY collectively. https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/syr-9-simon-werner@vinylrecords