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• Post #4356066

  these should be absolutely banned from #nyc & any other town/city with sidewalks & pedestrians. another fromt in the war on cars. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117031243158587006

• Post #4192417

  somehow not *not* a beach book: made a game of trying to spot the proto-heads among the communards in chris jennings' brilliant, oddly fun, & wonderfully written "paradise now," a history of 19th century american utopians & socialist forerunners. #books

• Post #4192416

  the new killed by junk shop glam zine by @scottythered is stacked with weird music history & grotty fuzzy summer jams. maybe my fave discovery is the danish country pop single "boom boom" by mabel. much fun!

• Post #4192415

  recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

• Post #4192414

  3 very different & nearly equally surprising new books about the grateful dead & surrounding universe in the 1980s, a mini-thread... #books

• Post #4192413

  transmitting from my headscape to yours via the frow show, 3 hours of new music & perfumed sounds from now 'til midnight on @WFMU. get in tune: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260728 #music #radio

• Post #3745419

  40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30+ dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

• Post #3457959

  graffiti cover-up as shitty rothko. #nyc

• Post #2855818

  safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

• Post #2379152

  the digital church bells in our neighborhood are sounding especially lo-fi this morning. #nyc #brooklyn

• Post #2323819

  i just realized it's possible to search the elvis setlist database by jumpsuit & that there were so many jumpsuits cataloged that they can't fit into 4 screenshots. bowing to the king freaks! https://www.elvisconcerts.com/concerts/dbsearch.php

• Post #2143366

  evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i

• Post #2127559

  40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead open 2 shows in #sacramento at the very chill (& at this show, chilly) cal expo. spring ’86, show #20 soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-05-03.sbd.miller.81516.flac16 audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd86-05-03.beyer.cronk.9626.sbeok.shnf @gratefulseconds covers it: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2020/08/michael-and-juliet-go-to-sacramento-for.html [1/7]

• Post #2120999

  holy wow, just realized my book "heads: a biography of psychedelic america" came out 10 years ago this week. available from da capo press through fine independent purveyors of paper, electronic, & audio books! what a baffling time-dilated trip it's been? https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/jesse-jarnow/heads/9780306921988/ #books #psychedelics

• Post #2120993

  the good ol’ grateful deadcast is back! we open season 13 with part 1 of our bobby weir tribute, with lots of archival audio, teen letters to john perry barlow, water balloons, the mccoy tyner influence, firing tape & glorious redemption arc. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-part-1 #gratefulDead #podcast #music

• Post #2015764

  surprise! i'm on @WFMU from now 'til 6pm ET, filling in for scott williams & feeding new music to live human brains! joiiiiiiin us. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260504 #music #radio

• Post #1881818

  60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settl...

• Post #1881811

  i compiled my tape-by-tape grateful dead listening notes for 1985 & have now covered every dead tape, 1965-1985. https://jessejarnow.com/2025/12/deadfreaksunite-1985/ #deadfreaksunite

• Post #1768324

  satellite #radio heads: i'll be co-hosting tales from the golden road this afternoon with the eminent @dgans from 4-6pm ET on the grateful dead channel. rich mahan will be stopping by, too. #GratefulDead

• Post #1635900

  PSA: there's a (paid benefit) livestream tonight by bill frisell + ron carter + vijay iyer, early & late sets. tickets were a bit pricey for me but will definitely be availing myself of one of these sets. #jazz https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/carter-frisell-iyer-apr10-2026

• Post #1633275

  when i think about #research as being fun & rewarding & something that can't be automated, it's that 2 am giggle fit as much as it is finding the image itself, getting to the realization that a batshit anecdote was at least partially true (& requires even further research). https://heads.social/@bourgwick/116448956521354273

• Post #1633274

  40 years ago tonight, the last full grateful dead gig at the berkeley community theater, though almost all the band members will return for other benefits. pretty boss 2nd set jam. spring ’86, show #19. soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-04-22.sbd.miller.34767.flac16 oade bros’ audience tape: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-04-22.140245.fob.schoeps.cmc4.mk41.oade.wise.miller.clugston.flac1644 [1/3]

• Post #1633273

  60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at a non-prankster trips festival knockoff at san francisco’s longshoreman’s hall, their 1st gig since returning from LA. 23 minutes worth from a nice-sounding owsley tape, tracks 4 & 5: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-XX.sbd.GEMS.81254.flac16 [1/2]

• Post #1633271

  glad i snagged a spot with a view at public records to see/hear gregory uhlmann make loops/delays/ambience at close range with his extra stars dream #jazz trio feat. sublingual beats by SML bandmate booker stardrum & will miller on wistful EVI. slightly more human than the album, equally aglow. #brooklyn

• Post #1633269

  thursday folk-out at the jalopy gala honoring the legend peter stampfel, capped by stampfel, stephanie coleman, & yo la tengo, including "griselda," "everything must go," m. hurley's "tea song," the rutles' "ouch!," the kinks' "waterloo sunset," the escorts' "the one to cry," & other crossover hits.

• Post #1584608

  happy to see fanzine hemmorhage out of retirement & even happier to see them covering freak out, usa #1, published in fall 1967. https://fanzinehemorrhage.com/2026/04/16/freakout-usa-1/

• Post #1529508

  last night, i resumed picking through an interviewee's slightly muddled anecdote, searched a bunch of ancillary terms, & at 2 am finally landed on this absurd long-lost 1975 image that gave me a solid, sustained giggle: grateful dead hustler-in-chief ron rakow lurking behind jack nicholson.

• Post #1134168

  recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

• Post #1134167

  spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @andybeta.substack.com's epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even deeper inside the music. heady important history.

• Post #1066754

  adventures in attic spelunking: confirming blurry childhood memory that our first family VCR did, in fact, resemble a mondrian painting.