There is a book on free jazz buried in the archives of I Love Music. I started reading the 17 threads which have free jazz in the title. One longer than the other. Too much right now.

For all you lovers of Adorno's Minima Moralia hiding in the corner: The WFMU blog offers the abbreviated five song punk version by Brian Joseph Davis I mentioned a while ago. It doesn't always please the ear but the original didn't aim at enchanting the reader neither.

Short term mp3 loss has a great primer to post punk with 31 classics from one of the most exciting eras of rock music online.

The guitar sound in the beginning reminds me very much of Robert Fripp somehow. Which is then imprisoned in a loop. By the way great misspelling of algorithms by Poptones! Did they want to say algorhythms whatever that may mean?

The last album you'd like to listen to in your life

Each month (usually at new moon) the German singer/songwriter Tom Liwa offers a free mp3 here on his site. This month it is a live cover of a Dylan song: You're a Big Girl Now with Johannes Daerr on sax. Not sure if that change to explicit lyrics at one point is so great but still a charming imperfect lo-fi version with some phantastic lyrical sax lines.

otm. on the money. luv that expression. thank you ilm.

Moistworks, the supergroup of mp3 blogs with a penchant for some of the more obscure forgotten jewels of rock music had a post on 39 Clocks recently. I didn't know the band before, I swear, but when I heard the singer on the first song 78 Soldier Dead which is still online I knew that he was from Niedersachsen in the North of Germany (Hannover to be precise). His dead-pan vocal delivery with a strong German accent reminded me of Stephan Remmler somehow, the singer of Trio, the biggest of all the Neue Deutsche Welle bands. 39 Clocks have been compared to Velvet Underground and it makes sense. The beats are simple and trashy, they have the charm of a dead-end alley leading directly to the garbage bin. It was the early eighties where everything was possible. The best and the worst and the combination of the two. Which was the most exciting actually.

Two great songs (The Silver Jews' Horse Leg Swastikas and Cat Power's The Party) illustrated by paintings chez Sean.