An Egg in the Cosmic Crack

Another review up at PopMatters, this time on the latest in the Patrick Cowley reissue frenzy, Muscle Up, a sequel of sorts to his other collection of porno soundtracks, School Daze, a clip of which is below:

Cowley is (rightfully) turning into something of an Arthur Russell figure.  But while Russell kind of knocked around on the sidelines and the fringes of various scenes for a decade or so, Cowley had some mild mainstream success and kept a basement of insanely good unheard tracks recorded during a relatively short period of time.

Also a couple briefs on

Irmin Schmidt and Bruno Spoerri

Ariana Grande

Will Butler