Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

Playlists

  • Playlist (The path where no one goes).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 21–27, 2025. Phish – Folsom Field, Boulder, CO, July 3, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025) Fieldwork – Thereupon (Pi Recordings; due Sept. 5, 2025) Phish – Folsom Field, Boulder, CO, July 4, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025) Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance; 2025,

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  • Playlist (Burn me in the fires of wild heaven).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 14–20, 2025. Marillion – Sala Bikini, Barcelona, Spain, December 12, 2000 (Front Row Club; 2003) James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt; 2025) Myra Melford – Splash (Intakt; 2025) Blurry & The Blur Girls – The Lot Radio, July 10,

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  • Playlist (Tear it up and never stop again).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, July 7–13, 2025. Marillion – Academy, Manchester, England, November 18, 1999 (Front Row Club; 2002) Marillion – Salle des fêtes Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 19, 1991 (Front Row Club; 2002) Vines – I’ll be here (Vines Music; due July 18, 2025) Celer –

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  • Playlist (Some things we’ll keep).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, June 30–July 6, 2025. Goose – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, June 28, 2025 (self-released; 2025) Organs Obsolete – Sense (self-released; 2024) Sloppy Heads – Sometimes Just One Second (self-released; 2023) Prairiewolf – Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force; 2023) Organs Obsolete – RRH1 (Daksina;

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  • Playlist (The last impression I leave behind).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, June 23–29, 2025. IQ – Dominion (Giant Electric Pea; 2025) Gintė Preisaitė – Octesonance (self-released; 2025) Treen (Amalie Dahl, Gintė Preisaitė, Jan Philipp) – Baob_ (self-released; 2024) Baraboro (Gintė Preisaitė) – Coatlicue’s dreams (self-released; 2021) Ginteflokk (Gintė Preisaitė, Ekkoflok) – At Koncertkirken, Vinterjazz

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  • Playlist (Silhouettes in the window).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, June 16–22, 2025. Dickie Landry – Fifteen Saxophones (Northern Light/Unseen Worlds; 1977/2011) Toshimaru Nakamura/Gintė Preisaitė – Live at Ftarri (Ftarri; 2025) Leilehua Lanzilotti – beyond the accident of time (Lōʻihi; due June 27, 2025) Tangerine Dream – Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK, March 16,

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  • Playlist (This memory will run its course).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, June 9–15, 2025. Goose – Fiddler’s Green, Greenwood Village, CO, June 7, 2025 (self-released; 2025) Xordox – Terraform (Ectopic Ents; 2025) Tangerine Dream – EAST (the missing encores) – Edition J (self-released; 2022) Houser : Weathers : Wyche – Stone Mineral Metal Memory

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  • Playlist (A song that’s born to soar the sky).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, June 2–8, 2025. Goose – Outlaw Field, Boise, ID, June 1, 2025 (self-released; 2025) Roscoe Mitchell – Nine to Get Ready (ECM; 1999) 40 Watt Sun – Little Weight (Cappio; 2024) Dirk Serries/Mark Wastell – Dual Activity (Confront; 2025) Oceans of Silver and

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  • Stuck in my ears: June 2, 2025.

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 26–June 1, 2025. Goose – Chateau Sessions Pt III (self-released; 2025) Pop Music Fever Dream – Songs for Emotion (Godless America; 2024) Weak Signal – Fine (12XU; 2024) TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (20th Anniversary Edition) (Touch

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  • Stuck in my ears: May 26, 2025.

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 19–25, 2025. Heather Stebbins – On Separation (Outside Time; due May 30, 2025) Bob Dylan – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Phoenix, AZ, May 13, 2025 (ROIO; 2025) Ivo Perelman + Matthew Shipp String Trio – Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms; due June 20,

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  • Stuck in my ears: May 19, 2025.

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 12–18, 2025. Vidna Obmana – Twilight of Perception Redux, Volume One: 1990-1998 (Zoharum; 2024) Ash Fure – ANIMAL (Smalltown Supersound; 2025) Joshua Fried – phse 4 (phse; 2025) Vidna Obmana – Twilight of Perception Redux, Volume Two: 1995-2002 (Zoharum; 2025) Marcus Gilmore

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  • Playlist (Globally altered and dishevelled).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Houser : Weathers : Wyche – Stone Mineral Metal Memory Metaphor (Aural Canyon; due May 16, 2025) Prairiewolf – The Electric Room, Louisville, KY, April 25, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025) Maria Gajraj – exhale. – compositions by Maria Gajraj, Robyn Jacob and George Rahi,

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  • Playlist (Facts all come with points of view).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Phish – Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, WA, April 18, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025) Marillion – Early Stages: Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987 (EMI; 2008) Big Big Train – A Flare on the Lens (InsideOut; 2024) Big Big Train – Goodbye to the Age of

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  • Playlist (The debris and the metaphors).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation – Images of Time (Sunnyside; due May 30, 2025) John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D; Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E-flat – Leila Josefowicz, Houston Symphony/Dalia Stasevska

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  • Playlist (Every stolen interlude).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Walt McClements – On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl; 2025) Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer; 2025) Wang Fan – Five Primary Elements (Badhead; 2024) Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition) (Deutsche Grammophon; 2004) Max Richter – In A

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  • Playlist (Secret histories and lost abilities).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… King Crimson – Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, Sept. 15, 2014 (Nugs.net; 2024) Raven Chacon – Voiceless Mass – Present Music (New World; due Apr. 18. 2025) Ensemble Ex Materia – A/B (Arpaviva; due Apr. 25, 2025) IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Feb.

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  • Playlist (Hauling on yesterday).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Dante Boon, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen – 3x distance(s) – Paul Beaudoin (kvieto; 2025) IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025) Marillion – Early Stages: Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987 (EMI; 2008) [Ahmed] – Giant Beauty (fönstret; 2024) Johann Sebastian Bach

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  • Playlist (Bouncing gently ’round the room).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Günter Schlienz – Zeitmaschine (Grisaille; 2025) [Ahmed] – New Jazz Imagination (Umlaut; 2017) [Ahmed] – Super Majnoon (Otoroku; 2023) [Ahmed] – [Ahmed] (A Cheeseboard Production; 2022) [Ahmed] – Nights on Saturn (communication) (Astral Spirits; 2022) [Ahmed] – Wood Blues (Astral Spirits; 2024) Phish

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  • Playlist (A warning in between the memories).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Noor Zehra Kazim – The Sound of Sagar Veena (Old Heaven Books; 2025) Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz – Hemispheres (Woodford Halse; 2025) Jürg Frey – String Quartets – Quatuor Bozzini (Edition Wandelweiser/Collection QB; 2006/2025) Jürg Frey – String Quartet No. 3; Unhörbare Zeit –

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  • Playlist (The dawn of an ending).

    A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

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