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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Sad news. Mary Beth Hurt was such an interesting, spiky actress--it was always a pleasurable jolt when she showed up on screen. I would recommend Interiors, Chilly Scenes of Winter, or The World According to Garp as starting points. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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Mary Beth Hurt, Who Starred in ‘The World According to Garp,’ Dies at 79

Mary Beth Hurt, who starred in films including 'The World According to Garp' and was married to director Paul Schrader, has died.

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

RECOMMENDED: Filmmaker @carolineavenue.bsky.social following the U.S. premiere at Anthology Film Archives of her second feature REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE, a faithfully ecstatic adaptation of the shewings of 14th century mystic Julian of Norwich. More info: www.instagram.com/p/DWeRPYpjRd...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Detroit techno titan Jeff Mills returns home to demonstrate his turntable wizardry—including spinning his classic 1996 track “The Bells”—at Lincoln Factory as part of his tour commemorating 30 years since his landmark LIVE AT THE LIQUID ROOM - TOKYO album. More 📹: www.instagram.com/p/DVhBV0JCYL...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A 🔥 sextet—🎷/🪈 Alfredo Colón, 🪈 Samantha Kochis, 🥁 Buz Donald, tap dancer Melissa Almaguer, bassist Kevin Eichenberger, & 🎸 Alana Amore Colvin—deliver an inspiring interpretation of 🎷 Joe Henderson’s 1974 album THE ELEMENTS at 360 Record Shop, Red Hook. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DUyiaEMCW3...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The Tomeka Reid Quartet—🎸 @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, bassist Jason Roebke, 🥁 Tomas Fujiwara, & cellist Reid—perform music from their upcoming album DANCE! SKIP! HOP! at Baby’s All Right as part of the #nycwjf Brooklyn Marathon, Williamsburg. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DTbrqBWjVG...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

West Point, Mississippi’s gospel-funk family band Annie & the Caldwells perform their anti-Satan/pro-Gap Band anthem “I Made It” from their great Luaka Bop debut album CAN’T LOSE MY (SOUL) at Brooklyn Bowl, part of the #nycwjf Brooklyn Marathon. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DTda3dzCT-...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🎹 Vijay Iyer performs for commuters in Grand Central’s Main Concourse (as part of Brandon Stanton’s “Dear New York” installation of images from his book HUMANS OF NEW YORK). Safe travels to all those journeying to see their loved ones this week! More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DSqdsQijcD...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

During their dazzling live collaboration, jazz 🎹 @jasonmoran.bsky.social & Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills perform the late Geri Allen’s composition “Feed the Fire” on the opening night of the Detroit Jazz Festival in Hart Plaza. More 📹 clips: www.instagram.com/p/DRnUdtSiQ7...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Kraków’s Sinfonietta Cracovia performs MIca Levi’s 2025 composition “Kochajamy Sie” durung their program of Levi’s works, part of @unsoundfestival.bsky.social’s NYC edition at @lincolncenter.bsky.social’s Alice Tully Hall. More 📸 at www.instagram.com/p/DQnzEF-jWn...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

At the Fridman Gallery premiere of Mariusz Szypura’s project CHOPIN RESIDUE, a live performance by 🎸/🎹 Szypura, 🥁 John Stanier, 🎸 Lee Ranaldo, & 🎷 Zoh Amba. More 📹 clips & exhibtion info at www.instagram.com/p/DQmUXyDDRa...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

As part of his upcoming project in tribute to John Coltrane, Isaiah Collier & ensemble—🎹 Liya Grigoryan, 🎷 Ben Solomon & Collier, bassist Conway Campbell, & 🥁 Tim Regis—perform “A Love Supreme” at the Blue Note, Greenwich Village. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DQO7VFFDaQ...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

All-Star percussion trio Onilu—vibraphonist Joe Chambers (of M’Boom), 🥁 Kevin Diehl, & 🥁 Daniel Villarreal—perform songs from their Eremite Records debut ONILU, one of the year’s best jazz records, at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DPbhip8DVX...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Detroit techno producer John “Bileebob” Williams de-miserablizes the Mozz during his 🔥 live PA set during the Monday is the New Monday party at MotorCity Wine, Corktown. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DPMXRRIjVM...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Fieldwork—the trio of 🎹 @vijayiyer.bluesky.social, alto 🎷 Steve Lehman, & 🥁 Dr. Tyshawn Sorey—perform at the record release show for their new Pi Recordings album THEREUPON at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DO_WL5xjZf...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Opening suite from the dazzling collaboration between jazz 🎹 @jasonmoran.bsky.social & Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills on the first night of the Detroit Jazz Festival, Hart Plaza. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DN-5hI-jck...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

RIP actor Terence Stamp, whose brooding looks & air of quiet menace helped him carve out one of the wildest career arcs of any of his peers from the Swinging London era. Image: portrait 📸 by David Bailey, 1965. More images & posters at www.instagram.com/p/DNeA5ZzxMb...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Electrifying set by South Africa’s BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), part of @activecultures.bsky.social’s globalFEST at @lincolncenter.bsky.social’s Summer for the City, Damrosch Park. Most 🤯 concert of 2025! Much more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DM8XLfZxjC...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

RIP filmmaker Jonathan Kaplan, director of one of the very best movies about American teenagers, 1979’s OVER THE EDGE starring Michael Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, & Tom Fergus. Kaplan may be better known for directing . . . More at www.instagram.com/p/DM6tC61Nqn...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Los Angeles-based modular synthesist Jeremiah Chiu & 🎻Marta Sofia Honer perform material from their new @intlanthem.bsky.social album DIFFERENT ROOMS at the Underground at Jaffe Drive as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City Series. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMiIZ-2MTP...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The trio of Luke Stewart on bass & mbira, 🥁 Tomas Fujiwara, & 🎷 Isaiah Collier start quietly, but joined by 🎷 Isaiah Barr they gradually reach full EF5 intensity on the Enhanced Fujita scale at Heavy Florals curated by Ariella Villefranche at Sisters; more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMVfvklsyW...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Remembering Stooges 🎸 Ron Asheton, born 77 years ago in Washington, D.C. Check it out: for the encore of their benefit concert for @briccelebratebk.bsky.social, Dinosaur Jr. were joined by Detroit 🎤 John Brannon for a cover of the Stooges’ “T.V. Eye” ; more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMO91p9N-a...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

As part of Lincoln Center’s Run AMOC festival, a mesmerizing 70 minute rendition of Simeon Ten Holt’s 1976 composition CANTO OSTINATO was performed by Sandbox Percussion with 🎹 Matthew Aucoin & 🎹 Conor Hanick at the David Rubenstein Atrium. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DLaGFBlsNm...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Baltimore-raised/Sheffield-based DJ/producer @mauricefulton.bsky.social weaves together Aril Brikha’s “Groove La Chord” & Talking Heads’ “Pull Up the Roots” during his 🔥 all-night tag-team set with Brooklyn’s @musclecarsnyc.bsky.social at Good Room. More 📹 at: www.instagram.com/p/DLNOp1NMPf...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Blissful Saturday afternoon in @fortgreenepark witnessing a “battle” between Balinese gamelan ensembles Gamelan Dharma Swara (wearing white, at rear left) & Gamelan Yowana Satk (in lavender, right foreground), part of the annual Make Music NY festival. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DLOHyJIMxe...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Underground Resistance’s Mike Banks, Carl Craig, & Moodymann perform live versions of UR’s “The Final Frontier,” the Martian’s “Stardancer,” & the Aztec Mystic’s “The Jaguar” at the climax of their Movement Detroit set in Hart Plaza. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DKZn0weNnY...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Belgian-born/London-based harpist/🎹 Nala Sinephro performs music from her excellent @warprecords.bsky.social album ENDLESSNESS live with 🥁 Natcyet Wakili, 🎹 Wonky Logic, & 🎷 James Mollison as part of the C2C Festival at Knockdown Center, Maspeth. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJunITWSqT...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chicago 🎹/🎻/🎸/🎤 Macie Stewart performs music from the new @intlanthem.bsky.social album WHEN THE DISTANCE IS BLUE with 🎻 gabby fluke-mogul & cellist Tomeka Reid at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJmZNZNN__...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The Bang On a Can All-Stars with guest 🎸 Gyan Riley perform “A Rainbow in Curved Air” at the 90th birthday tribute to Terry Riley, part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 finale at Pioneer Works, Red Hook. More 📹 clips + musician info at www.instagram.com/p/DJicqzxNGH...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Chicago 🎺/🎹/🪇 Ben LaMar Gay performs with tuba player Matthew Davis, 🥁 Tommaso Moretti, & 🎸 Edinho Gerber at Public Records as part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 in advance of his new @intlanthem.bsky.social album YOWZERS. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJhAmuFt8s...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Highsmith (🎹 Craig Taborn & 💻 Ikue Mori) perform with cellist Tomeka Reid at the BRIC Ballroom as part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025, Fort Greene. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJW1CxINKZ...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Montreal-based ambient composer/🎹/💻 Tim Hecker performs live accompanied by 🎺 player & Japanese shō player Fumiya Otonashi on the opening night of Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 at Public Records, Gowanus. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJKGjuIuV9...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Brooklyn’s own Tomin Perea-Chamblee—the young 🎷/multi-instrumentalist who released my two favorite jazz albums of 2024, FLORES PARA VERENE/CANTOS PARA CARAMINA and A WILLED AND CONSCIOUS BALANCE—with his parents, following his duo performance with 🎹 Teiana Davis www.instagram.com/p/DIRWZJaOzH...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

100-years-young @sunrauniverse.bsky.social bandleader 🎷 Marshall Allen & new group the New Dawn perform “Boma” from debut album NEW DAWN to close their premiere show at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, co-presented by Boom Collective, Boerum Hill. More 📹 & musician info: www.instagram.com/p/DIMSkVbO-0...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ambient dub duo HxH (💻/🎺 Chris Williams & 💻/cellist Lester St. Louis) perform at the record release event for their debut album STARK PHENOMENA at Pioneer Works, Red Hook. For concert 📹 clips go to www.instagram.com/p/DH_bU-JORW...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Word On The Street: Inflection Point, 9th Street, Park Slope www.instagram.com/p/DH_DxfjusA...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Los Angeles-based synthesist Jeremiah Chiu performs in the round as part of the @intlanthem.bsky.social + @qobuz.bsky.social series at Public Records, Gowanus. For 📹 clips of the show go to www.instagram.com/p/DH8whgbu9x...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Remembering poet/author/musician Gil Scott-Heron, born 76 years ago today in Chicago. Images: Motor City house titan Moodymann performs GSH’s “We Almost Lost Detroit” live with Louie Vega & Elements of Life at Blue Note New York. More performance 📹 & musician info: www.instagram.com/p/DH6t-QzSA2...

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UR-091 @nomadico323.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In memory of Detroit's Bridgette Annette Banks of Submerge and Somewhere in Detroit! #submergedetroit #undergroundresistance #detroittechno submerge.com/bridgette-an...

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Bridgette Annette Banks – Submerge

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

German experimental 🎸/💻 Michael Rother performs the music of his 1970s groups Neu! and Harmonia—including “Neuschnee”—during the final set of the Outline Festival at Knockdown Center, Maspeth. More 📹 & musician info at www.instagram.com/p/DH6VOHuuFS...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

London-based jazz quartet أحمد [Ahmed]—🎹 Pat Thomas, bassist Joel Grip, 🥁 Antonin Gerbal, & 🎷 Seymour Wright—pay tribute to bassist/oudist Ahmed Abdul-Malik by interpreting his composition “El Haris (Anxious)” during their 🔥 set at Roulette, Boerum Hill. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DH1c8y3SvO...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Japanese 🎷/🎹 Yasuaki Shimizu performs a stirring set at National Sawdust on his first-ever US tour, presented by Palto Flats Records (which reissued 1982’s KAKASHI, 1983’s UTAKATA NO HIBI w/ his group Mariah, & 1984’s previously unreleased KIREN). More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DHyjd7aOvc...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

At the conclusion of “Monumental Concerns” at MoMA, a gathering of artists convened by Carrie Mae Weems, 🎹 @vijayiyer.bsky.social & 🎺 Wadada Leo Smith perform music from their new ECM Records album DEFIANT LIFE, Midtown. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DHm4AP-teI...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

After the release of 80,000 pages of classified documents on the JFK assassination, I’ve decided to unlock my own secret archives & make public my Dec 1993 Voice Literary Supplement investigation into the conspiracy. Unseen for over three decades, now available at: www.instagram.com/p/DHZFEMWRka...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Detroit’s Scott Zacharias segues the Sex Tags Mania NYC Mix of Tim Love Lee’s “The Tortoise” into Can’s “Deadly Doris” & then mixes into Traxx’s “Body Control” during his 🔥 DJ set at Public Records, Gowanus. www.instagram.com/p/DHNdTasM-j...

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Seth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Lamar was knocked out of both the men's and women's Southland Conference Tournaments today, meaning we won't get a Drake vs Lamar basketball game this year. At least American played Lafayette last week.

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Happy 313 Day to all who celebrate! Grateful for my mothership connection to the Motor City. Image: 📸 by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) on NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite, spring 2001. www.instagram.com/p/DHJYHhnuDz...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Artist Lisa Alvarado with two of her dazzling acrylic-painted canvases at her exhibition “Shape of Artifact Time,” on view through 4/12 at the Kitchen at Westbeth, 163B Bank Street, 4th floor loft, West Village. More 📸 at www.instagram.com/p/DHBRuDwOto...

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Mike Rubin @rubinbooty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Errol Morris’ fascinating new documentary CHAOS: THE MANSON MURDERS begins streaming today on @netflix.com For my own take on Charlie’s counterculture legacy, you can revisit my National Magazine Award-nominated 1994 SPIN cover story “Summer of ‘69” here: www.spin.com/2015/09/char...

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