Tom of Finland wasn't as obsessed with testosterone
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
Andy Beta
@andybeta.bsky.social
Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago"I'm really try to get away from this kind of 'musical communication' sort of dialogue. I really don’t want that." @orenambarchi.bsky.social Cooked out today: andybeta.substack.com/p/oren-ambar...
Oren Ambarchi
The Australian guitarist on the solo album as a construct, getting away from predictability, and his perverse Pat Metheny fandom.
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Apparently there's also an entire other album's worth of unreleased John Coltrane-Johnny Hartman material still in the vaults. Could go for more silkiness like this: youtu.be/sgbLtG8PBv4?...
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman : Lush Life
YouTube video by Mr Kleeg
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Coltrane 100 listening rolls on. Love peak Classic Quartet but also love these dates where the band is starting to pull apart at the seams. Really hoped that these centennial reissues would finally get to albums like this one: youtu.be/7jmAC8mOwJU?...
John Coltrane - Living Space
YouTube video by Praguedive
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Next up on Coltrane 100 listening, this early masterpiece that established the Classic Quartet template, even though Jimmy Garrison was not yet in the fold: youtu.be/9Zyr0IDaRXQ?...
Equinox
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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If you're in Michigan, I'm on public radio today talking about Alice Coltrane/ Cosmic Music/ Spiritual jazz in the 3 o'clock hour.
“Coltrane actually raised this music from the secular to an area of serious, religious world music. It was like being in church.” Glad to be part of @darkforcesswing.bsky.social deep dive into how John Coltrane oddly gets left out of spiritual jazz discussions: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More.
The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.
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Looking forward to seeing Italian maestro Gigi Masin at a church in Brooklyn tonight: andybeta.substack.com/p/in-the-fri...
In the Fried Archives: Gigi Masin
From 2017, a chat with the Italian ambient maestro
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Here for Kelela on Fiery Furnaces: "I can’t explain it. It’s just so *white*. This is a time when white people were doing white shit, remember that? [Stops music.] They tore." pitchfork.com/story/the-mu...
Kelela on the Music That Made Her
The singer’s taste is just as eclectic as her own work
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Madlib: “It’s electric and acoustic, traditional and non-traditional — that’s what I’m all about.” On Woody Shaw's first two albums, finally back in print: andybeta.substack.com/p/twofer-tue...
Twofer Tuesday #18
“Now there’s a great trumpet player.”
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OUT 23 OCT 2026 BRIGITTE FONTAINE COMME A LA RADIO SPECIAL EDITION (1970) Brigitte Fontaine’s 1970 masterpiece returns with a 2nd LP of rare bonuses, 24-page booklet. with contributions by Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social , and Wadada Leo Smith and more Order 2LP/CD/Dig tinyurl.com/29dkrtcj
♍ Mafia too strong
Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · last mo.Happy Birthday, Charlie Parker! Six years ago, I wrote this piece about Bird's live recordings for @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's Do The Math as part of a Bird-at-100 packaged he engineered. This music seems more magical and mysterious to me with each passing year. ethaniverson.com/live-bird-is...
And let's not forget @orenambarchi.bsky.social jamming with the boyzz: youtu.be/X4_YJq55Tec?...
Oren Ambarchi - Park It Where The Sun Don't Shine
YouTube video by dinlo
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jesse jarnow@bourgwick.bsky.social · 2mo agodiscovered on the radio last night that if you layer @jeremyerwin.bsky.social's zz top/frank beard loop on top of the latest @steamroom.bsky.social release, it totally sounds like a late '70s LP julian cope overlooked for "krautrocksampler"
Goddamn that drum tone they got here #RIPFrankBeard: youtu.be/fVx4N8iAFz4?...
ZZ Top It's Only Love
YouTube video by Whiterabbit7406
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In China, their "American Pizza" features hot dogs stuffed in the crust 🇺🇸
Hane@hane.bsky.social · 2mo agowe went to a highly recommended pizza restaurant in Formia, Italy. the fact that the menu consisted of gorgeously made Italian pizzas with fresh local ingredients, and then also contained this monstrosity called a "pizza Americana" is S-tier trolling by the Italians
Going to be chatting with the awesome DJ Tana Yonas on KCRW this afternoon. Tune in!
Tonight! In conversation with Moor Mother, Radha Botofasina, and Alice Coltrane's longtime recording engineer Baker Bigsby at the legendary Philosophical Research Society: www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-mus...
COSMIC MUSIC: ALICE COLTRANE Book Event + ETERNITY'S PILLAR rare screening
An evening celebrating Andy Beta's book COSMIC MUSIC: THE LIFE, ART, AND TRANSCENDENCE OF ALICE COLTRANE with conversation and screening
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New book choice Tony Thompson (author of The Doors On Track) reviews “Cosmic Music” by @andybeta.bsky.social -the life of Alice Coltrane "Curiosity will be rewarded. Longtime fans will swoon over the detail. Highly recommended." @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social Full review at: www.toppermost.co.uk
Cali pals, a bunch of LA sessions this week at Blue Note LA, PRS, LAPL, Lore, Harp Center LA. Come through for cosmic music
"There are areas where you want to stay respectful to the depth of what other people have done. The white guy playing the sitar is…you never really want to be that guy." A chat with infinite guitar god/ secret 'world music' architect, Michael Brook: andybeta.substack.com/p/michael-br... @4ad.com
Michael Brook
On building the infinite guitar, the yin-yang of Jon Hassell, Cobalt Blue sinking like a stone, and unwittingly becoming the architect for "world music"
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“Reading about Detroit in these years, there is almost too much to take in, too rich a seam of history, anecdote, testimony. So many names, talents, geniuses, giants.” Ian Penman reviews Cosmic Music, Andy Beta’s new biography of Alice Coltrane.
All She Dreamed, by Ian Penman
Alice Coltrane’s dark night of the soul
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Pt 2 with Steve Tibbetts, on solitary meditation retreats and the crazy lists that result, fighting ICE in his hometown, and what a badass Chöying Drolma really is: andybeta.substack.com/p/steve-tibb...
Steve Tibbetts Pt. 2
On meditation, children, his collaboration with singing nun Chöying Drolma, and fighting ICE in the streets of Minneapolis
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"It seems that people –especially guitarists– are anxious to adopt a line of spirituality without thinking it through. It’s always the guitarists." First part of a chat about music, faith, and being in the world with one of my heroes, Steve Tibbetts: andybeta.substack.com/p/steve-tibb...
Steve Tibbetts Pt. 1
On science as faith, seven-year album cycles, seeing the Northern Lights during his first ECM session, and the "accumulation of everything."
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Philly tonight! www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/cos...
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane - Ars Nova Workshop
Please join Ars Nova Workshop to celebrate the release of journalist Andy Beta’s essential new biography, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, featuring a performance by ke...
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Philly peeps, I'll be in conversation with @natechinen.bsky.social tomorrow night at Cosmic Myth, with a special performance after by Surya Botofasina: www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/cos...
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane - Ars Nova Workshop
Please join Ars Nova Workshop to celebrate the release of journalist Andy Beta’s essential new biography, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, featuring a performance by ke...
arsnovaworkshop.org