Dec. 28, 2025 – You may have already seen my list of Pacific Northwest favorites from the other day. Here's a bunch of music I enjoyed from the rest of the world this year.

Dec. 27, 2025 – I was working on a list of my favorite recordings from 2025, but it was starting to get way out of hand. So I put all of the releases by Pacific Northwest artists in a separate post. Besides, I love to be a cheerleader for the home team.

Dec. 24, 2025 – Wrapping up the year’s listening with stuff I’ve heard and enjoyed since October.

Dec. 8, 2025 – As expected, I got a little overwhelmed by new releases in September and after, so I’m late getting this batch posted. A few of these were released earlier in the year, it just took a while for them to find me.

Sep. 30, 2025 – I think all artists have a personal pantheon – a collection of works by other artists that have made us think differently about what we do and how we do it. So here is mine.

Sep. 11, 2025 – I thought I’d make it to the end of the quarter before posting, but the third quarter releases are piling up and September looks like it will be busy, so I’m sharing my July and August favorites here before the list gets too unwieldy.

August 18, 2025 – I consider this to be my first somewhat satisfying effort at making a piece of music. Or at least, it’s the earliest one I’ll let anyone hear.

July 21, 2025 – I neglected to mention it at the time, but back in March of this year Robert Hutchison Architects here in Seattle invited me to participate in one of their pecha kucha sessions, in which artists have 6 minutes and 40 seconds to show and talk about 20 slides. Yow!

July 4, 2025 – A bunch of music released in June that I have enjoyed.

June 4, 2025 – Here are some May releases that I enjoyed and plan to spend more time with.

May 24, 2025 – If the first three months of this year seemed a bit sparse in terms of releases I was excited about, this quarter is proving to be so abundant that I am breaking it into monthly installments. This one covers April releases, with a few that I missed at the end of March.

April 27, 2025 – I recently went to a concert by the guitarist Michael Rother, someone I never expected to see in Seattle. That got me interested in revisiting German music from the 1970s. So here are some personal favorites that I still enjoy.

April 25, 2025 – Late again. These are albums I’ve enjoyed that were released in January through March of this year.

Jan. 2, 2025 – Frankly, the end of 2024 was challenging in ways that were not very pleasant, and I’m not going to miss it. However, there was some music that helped ease the pain, and I’m happy to share it with you (whoever you may be) just slightly past the deadline.

Oct. 4 2024 — A round-up of recordings I enjoyed that were released in July through September of this year. As always, names of artists who live or have lived in the Pacific Northwest appear in bold.

July 1, 2024 – A round-up of my favorite recordings released in April through June of this year. As always, names of artists who live or have lived in the Pacific Northwest appear in bold.

May 30, 2024 – I usually do a big year-end round-up of my favorite recordings, but it seems more manageable to do it on a quarterly basis. This is music I like enough that I hope to listen to it more than once, so it’s here as a reference and reminder to me as much as anyone else.

May 26, 2024 – My pal Steve Fisk is known to spin a good yarn, and in this interview he reveals many fascinating details about the making of his album 448 Deathless Days. But he refers to the song “This Vacuum” as "a Screaming Trees outtake," which is not exactly accurate. Here's the story.

Jan. 20, 2024 – I was buying some potatoes the other day, when I thought I heard something familiar emanating quietly from the depths of the produce department. It was almost subliminal, barely audible over the store’s usual muzak system. It took me a minute to realize exactly what song it was.

Dec. 26, 2023 – Most folks who know me well are aware that I spent about six years working on a musical project about my family history in the Azores islands. One of my happiest places in the islands was CASA, a tea house and cafe/bar in the town of Horta, on the island of Faial.