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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The greatest autumn crewneck sweatshirt of all time is now mine. 🎃🍂⚾️

Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m writing a column for the bookstore which employs me & the first volume is out now: I READ A STRANGE BOOK, in which I evangelize backlist titles. Strange is always complimentary but otherwise wide-ranging. First up: DAN by Joanna Ruocco.

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The Book Beat

A new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Such a pleasure to see my favorite Detroit saxophonist (Marcus Elliot) play one of my favorite John Coltrane albums (Africa/Brass) with a terrific ensemble at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NowPlaying I went nuts for Mali Obomsawin's solo debut in 2022. Her 2nd full-length is coming out next month & I am again going nuts for the way she blends free jazz, experimental folk, & repatriated ethnological language recordings from her Odanak community of Abenaki Nation.

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For today's John Coltrane centennial, I wrote 2,000 words re: the new archival release The Tiberi Tapes. Here are 19 to whet your appetite: "When I finally heard Tiberi’s tapes, the first words that leapt to mind were “revelatory,” “electrifying,” and “holy shit!” www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

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Coltrane's Shadow - Tablet Magazine

The legendary ‘Tiberi Tapes’ reveal new sides of the master, even to his biggest fans

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The John Coltrane Centennial is here today. He only lived for 40 of those years. The world’s heaviest spirit, left behind a monumental legacy that we’re lucky to be able to continue sifting through, maybe even for eternity. God bless Trane. ❤️‍🔥 Dedication from LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s Black Music.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowPlaying Catching up on 2026 releases and I am ADORING Marisa Anderson's The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, on which she reinterprets compositions from Southeast Asia, the USSR, Arabic & Islamic regions... parts of the world that the US has been in conflict w/since 1970.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baby's finally got a monthly music column ⚡ I'll be sharing five excellent recent albums by women or non-binary musicians for Audiofemme & the first one is out now, feat. ambient folk, avant-garde jazz, electronic art-pop, and experimental choral music. 🪏 Dig: audiofemme.substack.com/p/the-monthl...

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The Monthly Five: Vol. 1

New ambient, avant-Garde, art Pop, etc. albums by women and non-binary musicians.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve been waiting for this reissue for a long time!!!!!

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone in New York or thereabouts want two tickets to see Carla dal Forno on Sept. 17? The show is not sold out but I can’t make it so I will let the tickets go for as little as zero dollars to an Internet homie in need, or like $30 total if you have the means. (I paid $66.04.)

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Wewantsounds @wewantsounds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great 9/10 review of The Third World Underground LP by Ana Gavrilovska @motherslug.bsky.social in the new @uncutmagazine.bsky.social 🔥♥️🔥 "A marvelous album" #dollarbrand #doncherry #carlosward

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Mavoy Music @mavoyofficial.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

fantastic news! cc: @motherslug.bsky.social of course :)

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Every morning I spend twenty minutes in the sun, reading. It’s the best part of my day.

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pulp.aadl.org @pulp.aadl.org · 22/07/2026

Kenji Lee’s new Fortune Teller Trio LP is powered by a reverence for the mystical. We spoke to the University of Michigan grad about "Tokyo (Live)" ahead of Lee's gig at Blue LLama on July 23. He's also hosting a Sunday jam session at Ann Arbor Funhouse throughout August. pulp.aadl.org/node/673198

Kenji Lee’s Fortune Teller Trio—Lee (sax), Andy Peck (bass), Jonathan Barahal—performing in Japan last year.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For @pulp.aadl.org, I wrote about the new live album from Kenji Lee’s Fortune Teller Trio, an Ypsilanti/Detroit-area jazz trio that simultaneously channels the fearsomeness of Peter Brötzmann and the atonal expressionism of the Second Viennese School. pulp.aadl.org/node/673198

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Pulp | Arts Around Ann Arbor

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I went to the Detroit Festival of Books and found a book for $2 that was on my running list of books I want to buy, I got two music books I wanted at a deep discount, & finally met @motherslug.bsky.social in person. For a day I didn’t want to leave the house this is a win

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"It's such a gamble when you get a face."

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Recorded 65 years ago today in NYC, July 16, 1961. Essential. This was a short-lived quintet as Booker Little died less than 3 months later.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m gonna need Joanna Newsom to write a song called “Spare Needles and Pins, Plummets, Pencils, Scrap-paper, and Jeweler's Putty for the Compass.” (Text is page 241 of our boy Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, of course.)

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 13/07/2026

You Make The Choice :: On 30 years of Dusk at Cubist Castle aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/13/y... 30 years on, Dusk at Cubist Castle still feels like a transmission from a vanished world. We asked friends from the AD orbit to reflect on the LP—and the regional music culture that made it possible.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Very pleased to contribute to @aquariumdrunkard.com's retrospective on the 30th anniversary of the Olivia Tremor Control's avant-garde psychedelic pop gem Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/13/y...

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You Make The Choice :: On 30 years of Dusk at Cubist Castle - Aquarium Drunkard

Dusk at Cubist Castle at 30: Aquarium Drunkard gathers musicians, writers and artists to revisit The Olivia Tremor Control's psychedelic masterpiece.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Added my selections to the Staff Picks shelf yesterday, coincidentally bookending DeLillo to Pynchon.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You will never read anything like Moravagine.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Got a part-time job at my favorite bookstore. 😎

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Looks so good in print 🥹

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Playing catch-up with this year’s archival jazz releases, from reissues to newly released music from the past. Hit me with your recommendations, Heads 🎷

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#NowPlaying Bill Orcutt plays four guitars and it’s fucking magnificent. Big recommend from me. billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

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Music in Continuous Motion, by Bill Orcutt

12 track album

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm playing serious catch-up with a bunch of this year's new jazz releases and I'm having a great fucking time. Here are 4 standouts so far (links for all in the comments): • Sharada Shashidhar, A Foot On The Ground • Micah Thomas, Lucid • Phillip Golub, Partisan Ship • DoYeon Kim, Wellspring

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Transcendental set from new Detroit band Field Kitchen, with special guest Ken Vandermark.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Re: coming back to life, I put in notice at the soul-sucking corporate job that has been slowly destroying my psyche for the past five of the 12 years I've worked there. I spontaneously took time off today and tomorrow but I’m still losing 20 days of PTO. Friday is my last fucking day. BYE!

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Listening to Ascension, which I am currently writing about, and in this I feel myself coming back to life. I want to scream like everyone in the studio that day as Marion Brown remembers it; the dissection, overhauling, and reassembly of one’s nervous system, per A. B. Spellman.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Michelle Coltrane casually dropping a story about her mother Alice picking up a random hitchhiker in the '70s with the kids in the car, and the kids being shocked when he said, "Thank you, Mrs. Coltrane" upon exiting because they're thinking, how did he know you??? Adorable.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I do not have additional information, but it has come to my attention that Maggot Brain has ceased production. I was very involved in the first few issues & less so later on, tho I did get a few more stories published. I am VERY sad about this & will write more about it later.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Had the pleasure of chatting with Roger McGuinn this afternoon, and let me tell you how much I was NOT expecting him to bust out his Rickenbacker and play the “Eight Miles High” riff for me. I will never recover!

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of my favorite contemporary jazz labels! If you dig my taste and don’t yet know them, change that immediately.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

One of my favorite emails to get is from an @aquariumdrunkard.com contributor compiling a roundtable about some piece of media or culture that *of course* we're all connected to in some deep and passionate way.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

89 years strong, baby. He’s got another one or two or even three in him, I just know it.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#NowPlaying Jonathan Richman is a national treasure. 🥹

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#NowPlaying Contemplating desert island art is largely a hyperbolic way of expressing our favorites but if I truly and really could only listen to one album for the rest of my life, it’s remarkably easy to choose JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#NowPlaying Herbie Nichols Trio, 1956. Satisfying straight-ahead piano trio, w/the great Max Roach on drums! This is pianist Herbie's show though, and it's delightful. He co-wrote Billie Holiday's "Lady Sings the Blues" and there's a great version here but her voice is missed.

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sometimes a song is described in a way that sounds too intriguing to be true and when you hear it, it actually sounds like an exact replica of the description in a way that strips the music of nearly ALL its juice, and the degree to which it was almost excellent is impossibly small!

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Recent spins: Ut, In Gut's House (1987, Blast First/Mute [mine is a reissue], hard-edged radical no wave-drenched experimental rock) & Mute Duo, Lapse In Passage (2020, American Dreams, searing pastoral melancholic ambient drone-Americana).

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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If you're in Connecticut, tune in to the Colin McEnroe Show on CT Public Radio for a live panel on Pynchon, including a brief appearance from yours truly! It'll be shared as a podcast afterwards so I'll send that out when it's available.

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Dmitri Akers @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Obligatory read. To reckon with the fascist toilet we find ourselves in, we only need to look at Tommy Ruggles Pynchon Jr.

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