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jesse jarnow

@bourgwick.bsky.social
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good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 18h
cruise the infobahn with the frow show, 3 hours of new music & delicious sounds, from now 'til midnight ET on listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
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Erin Callahan @inthephishbowl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to announce that Bob Dylan in the 80s: A Reconsideration is now available for pre-order. This volume offers a critical re-evaluation of this oft-maligned period in Dylan’s career. Order your copy via the link below and get 40% off with the code: LSU40OFF. lsupress.org/978080718651...
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Bob Dylan in the 1980s
Twenty years into his public career, Bob Dylan entered the 1980s at a moment of transition. The late 1970s were a turbulent time for the singer-songwriter, w...
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Bogia (American) - The End of the Aqueduct (watercolor and pencil on paper, 2020)
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Henri Rousseau @hrousseau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exotic Landscape www.wikiart.org/en/henri-rousseau/e…
Exotic Landscape
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in syracuse, with a 2nd set so classic that dick latvala gave one of the jams its own name, now on “dick’s picks 4.” tapes, listening notes, photos, newspaper clips, scene reports: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
ripped ticket sub for Grateful Dead in Syracuse
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thinking about tuli kupferberg on what would've been his 103rd. youtu.be/UskDupcLM0M
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Nothing - The Fugs
YouTube video by M's Music
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
forthcoming scholarly history of new age music as visionary art, out later this year, by jacob smith. www.ucpress.edu/books/bridge...
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Bridge to an Unseen Shore by Jacob Smith - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover
As more PE firms invest in food establishments, people are bemoaning the ‘same-ification’ of NYC’s restaurant scene
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 23/09/2026
A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home. gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
gothamist.com
A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.
The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
cool close look at mike nesmith & the first national band, from 2008. more of an actual band than i realized. not a single known live tape from that period, as far as i know.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in rochester, featuring a wild 2nd set jam suite with one of the last fully opened-up versions of “slipknot!” nice soundboard tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/deck/@bourgw... #deadfreaksunite
Grateful Dead
In Concert
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Rochester War Memorial, Rochester
Tickets $6 available at: All Bay Ticket Outlets,
Shopper's Record and Tape Mart (Yonge & Bloor)
Or phone and charge: The Bay 964-5781
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Exploration Log 17: Interview with Loïg J. F. Pascual on 1970s-1980s Feminist Science Fiction Fandoms sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/09/16/e... #scifi #sciencefiction #feminism
Cover for Janus 9 1977. Woman with earrings, headdress, necklace in front of fantastic mountains.  A spaceship flies in the distance.Cover for The Witch and the Chameleon: "A Feminist View of Science Fiction." Woman's face melds with a chameleon. There's a tree in the distance.
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
John Corbett • Want List: A Novel 📕 mid-November • Soberscove Press & Pre-Echo Press shop.soberscove.com/products/wan...
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wake up babe, solo acoustic soundboard tape of jim o'rourke performing the entire "halfway to a threeway" EP just dropped
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50 years (& 2 days) ago, the grateful dead in maryland, at the edge of the beltway, now “dick’s picks 20.” toodeloo, cosmic charlie! tapes, reviews, dick latvala notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... (does this count as #marqueespotting, @queencityjamz.bsky.social?)
scoreboard reading Welcome To The Capital Centre Presenting The Grateful Dead
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50 years (& 3 days) ago, the grateful dead in virginia at william & mary, now “dave’s picks 4.” tapes, photos, newspaper reviews, dick latvala notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
Grateful Dead Return to Hall; People's Band Plays to 'Dead Head' Crowd
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
turns out being home & having a stable/predictable internet connection is just lovely
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 09/09/2026
Wholeheartedly agree. And a great profile here of NYC's Prison a few weeks back matternews.org/culture/musi... @matternews.bsky.social @andydowning33.bsky.social
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Creamo Coyl @creamocoyl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For @bandcamp.com, I wrote about No-Neck Blues Band, the legendary NYC ensemble who play their first show in well over a decade this Saturday in Brooklyn. daily.bandcamp.com/features/no-...
daily.bandcamp.com
Cicada Hum: No-Neck Blues Band Returns
Like a troupe of no-wave hippies, the New York group sowed chaos while inspiring much creativity.
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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 19/09/2026
"Shenzhen's shanzhai workshops were called pirating until reverse-engineering... produced DJI and Huawei. La fayuca, contraband, is how technology reaches the places capital refuses to serve. The machine crosses the border... lands in a barrio, and the people who buy it... decide what it's for."
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/09/2026
A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the back-to-the-landers movement alive. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
newyorker.com
What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers
A new book by David Jacob Kramer and the photographer Michael Schmelling captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the back-to-the-landers movement alive.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hurrahs for popular favorites .... the fury of roused mobs,
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Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my high quality and artist-authorized audio recording of the Powers/Rolin Duo at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee two days ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog -- freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/09/jen-...
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Jen Powers and Matthew J Rolin at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee on September 23, 2026
Jen Powers  and  Matthew J Rolin  were the only act over the last two Milwaukee Psych Fests whom I was not able to record. The reason was a ...
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Ryan H. Walsh @ryanhwalsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here in upstate NY for the Woodsist fest but they sadly just had to cancel the whole weekend cuz of the weather. If anyone hears of the bands playing last minute indoor shows (or a good show previously scheduled) LMK. Thx!
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Feelies in Chicago 40 years ago this evening. A longtime favorite tape. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1664365...
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Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
The Feelies - The West End, Chicago, Illinois, September 26, 1986 The return of Sunday re-up! We’ll cap off our New Jersey Trilogy with a set by the band that should be officially named the Garden...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
icky af, these usages obviously fall under fair use. if anyone comes across a blocked deadcast, kindly flag me!
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Dave “the Spazz” Abramson @davethespazz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll be taking my book on the road along with the debut of a newly struck 4K restoration of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla! The Brooklyn screening will be followed by a book signing/party. LA will feature a post-movie star-studded panel of Sammy aficionados. More events and details to come.
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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How long can a world go on under such a subtle god? How long can a world go on with no new word from God? See the plod of the flawed individual looking for a nod from God Trodding the sod of the visible with no new word from God
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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shocking even to us: new research finds that nearly half of Live Nation's amphitheaters are actually municipally owned; LNE is operating, often with sweetheart deals. That means state and local government is subsidizing the illegal monopoly.
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com
Evict Live Nation
In April, a jury found Live Nation liable for monopolizing the concert industry. The basic story you’ve probably heard is that Live Nation built its monopoly by buying competitors and linking its venu...
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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MOULTY! (Record Mirror, April 2, 1966)
THE BARBARIANS: Moulty: I'll Keep on Seeing You (Stateside SS 497). Definitely the strangest of the week. Talkie bits about a young man's problems. like losing a hand in an accident. and fighting back, and so on — with raving great choruses In between. A hit — or a flop.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it could happen to you: checked into hotel, totally blinkered wifi, asked the desk clerk if there was an ethernet cable i could use instead & they said, "i'm sorry, what's an ethernet cable?"
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tonight in portland! come say hullo if you make it out...
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reposting this Tom Forcade story because MS Now just did a segment on it, in relation to the current attempted free-press ban...
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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today on WFMU: On "A Brief History of WFMU," a 1968 broadcast hosted by music critics Bob Rudnick and Dennis Frawley w/members of the MC5 days after a riot at the Fillmore during a show; and an interview with the Fillmore's Kip Cohen on the eve of Woodstock (Thurs. 3 a.m. ET). www.wfmu.org/upcoming
wfmu.org
Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ralph j. gleason was way hep, but especially so for drawing a connection between john coltrane & ken kesey in 1964.
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
recently ended up tearing through @bourgwick.bsky.social’s Heads If you have any interest in many topics that are near & dear to me like consciousness exploration, the explosion and assimilation of the 60s counterculture and the dynamics of later sub and counter cultures i can’t recommend it enough
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead open their fall ’76 tour at duke, pulling out a few songs they haven’t played since before the road break. night of the ford/carter debate. grotty mono PA tape, photos, dick latvala notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #deadfreaksunite
DUKE MAJOR ATTRACTION COMMITTEE
PRESENTS
The GRATEFUL DEAD
TONIGHT 9:00
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Tickets Available $6.50 & $7.50 at

Record Bar and at the oor

Don’t miss The Dead's only N.C. appearancel
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
big love to @wfmu.bsky.social's own @davethespazz.bsky.social on a debut book i didn't know i needed: a biography of professional jerry lewis imitator sammy petrillo that's also a bowtie-spinning history of the seedy showbiz/comedy/burlesque underground. feralhouse.com/product/your...
book: Your Time Is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story by Dave Abramson
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
last night's frow zones today!
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Phonic Underground @phonicunderground.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy 100th John Coltrane
A jukebox single of John Coltrane’s “Ascension”
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Matt Valentine @childofmicrotones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
RIP mike beigel 🎛️ 🖤 (INVENTOR extraordinaire of the mutron III, bi-phase, octave divider & a myriad of other pedals, devices, synths…) thx for everything 💚✌️💫💚 we love u
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
King Sunny Adé was born in Ondo, Nigeria on this day in 1946. The king of jùjú music turns 80 today. 📸 Rafael Macia/Redferns/Getty Images, NYC, 1983
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Live music options in NYC, early fall 1976
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
join me in the sky, beaming out new music & other delights on the frow show, from now 'til midnight ET on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
a pixelated lady's face sliced into four with text between: the frow show, tuesday 9pm-12am ET, wfmu.org/91.1 nj/91.9 nj
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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
👀🛒📚📚 Looks like the print edition of the THE MODEM WORLD is on sale right now for readers in the US + Canada. Use code YUP25 to get 25% off yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97803002481… #history #bbs #socialmedia #internet #mediastudies #books
Cover of THE MODEM WORLD: A Prehistory of Social Media by Kevin Driscoll. Beneath the title is a row of dancing ASCII art people (and one doggie)
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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Happy 80th Birthday King Sunny Ade www.youtube.com/shorts/Kip4uRsRQFw
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
music to spook yourself by late at night. homemade string instruments, glossolalia vocals, electronic mutations.
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