A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, April 20–26, 2026.

Claire Rousay – march + april 2026 (Bandcamp subscribers exclusive; 2026)

Tyshawn Sorey – Members… Don’t! (Pi Recordings; due May 29, 2026)

Max Roach – Members, Don’t Git Weary (Atlantic; 1968)

Klaus Lang – geschrieben in wasser – Apartment House (Another Timbre; 2026)

Kristofer Svensson, Maya Bennardo, Erik Blennow Calälv – For a Lemon Tree (Another Timbre; 2026)

James M. Creed – Tending – Standard Issue, Outline Ensemble, To Your Ear Collective (Another Timbre; 2026)

Sylvia Lim – Flare – Natasha Zielazinski, Mira Benjamin, Heather Roche, Michelle Hromin, Ben Smith, Kerry Yong, Simon Limbrick, Miyabi Duo (Another Timbre; 2026)

Punch Brothers – The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers (Nonesuch; due July 24, 2026)

Grateful Dead – Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/27/1981 (Play Dead/Nugs.net; 2026)

Jürg Frey – Clarinet Quintet – Apartment House (Another Timbre; 2026)

Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet – For the Love of Fire and Water (RogueArt; 2022)

Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet – Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt; 2023)

Myra Melford Extended Ensemble – Even the Sounds Shine (hat ART; 1995)

Myra Melford – Life Carries Me This Way (Firehouse 12; 2013)

Grateful Dead – Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA 7/15/1984 (Play Dead/Nugs.net; 2026)

Derek Bailey & John Stevens – The Duke of Wellington (Confront; 2025, recorded 1989)

Dylan Mattingly – The Wild Heart – Iarla Ó Lionáird, Contemporaneous/David Bloom (Nonesuch; due June 26, 2026)

M. Geddes Gengras – Guest List (Hausu Mountain; due June 26, 2026)

Goose – St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL 4/19/2026 (Nugs.net; 2026)

Bobby Previte – Second Arrow (self-released; 2026)

Ekko Astral – fuck this band: live at the chapel (self-released; 2026)

Marty Ehrlich – Cartographies of Flight: Lines Set Afloat Towards Hope (Corbett vs. Dempsey; 2026)

maudlin of the Well – My Fruit Psychobells… A Seed Combustible (Dark Symphonies; 1999)

maudlin of the Well – Bath (Dark Symphonies; 2001)

maudlin of the Well – Leaving Your Body Map (Dark Symphonies; 2001)

maudlin of the Well – Part the Second (self-released; 2008)

Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik; 2003)

Arena – Ośrodek Kultury “Andaluzja,” Piekary Śląskie, Poland, May 20, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

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Title key: Goose, “Burn the Witch” (Radiohead cover)