Keeping the hard-to-find in circulation
Years of weekly sets and a radio show, plus live recordings from bands that let you tape. The archive outlasted the bookings: world music, out-of-print reggae, and the electronic records from those nights.
Finding the thread
The same impulse keeps showing up: follow a sound back, connect what looks unrelated. Sometimes that meant programming a room. Sometimes it meant writing about why Lee Perry still matters.
Following a sound back to where it started
For years I ran a blog about lineage rather than reviews: which genres borrowed from which, across cities and decades.
Building the rooms the music played in
An event series in Atlanta, weekly and monthly, and a long stretch behind the scenes at an independent label.