New(ish) Releases:
- Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
- Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.)
- Girlpool – Forgiveness (Girlpool Music)
- Chalk Talk – Sometimes I Call You (S/R)
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
- Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop Records)
- FKA Twigs – Caprisongs (Atlantic Recording)
Old Releases:
- Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (UMG Recordings)
- Amy Winehouse – Frank (Universal Island Records)
- Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly (Capitol Records)
- The Meters – Rejuvenation (Atlantic Recording Corp.)
- Marvin Gaye – I Want You (UMG Recording)
- Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, And Delivered (UMG Recording)
- Pretty Sick – Angel Landing (Dirty Hit)
- Cymande – Promised Heights (Partisan Records)
- Minnie Ripperton – Come to My Garden (Capitol Records)
- Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – I Learned The Hard Way (Daptone Records)
- Donny Hathaway – Live (Atco Records)
- Funkadelic – America Eats Its Young (Westbound Records)
- Parliment – Mothership Connection (The Island Def Jam Music Group)
Reissues & Compilations
- Branko Mataja – Over Fields And Mountains (Numero Group)
- Coco Lagos y sus Orates – Descargas (Vampi Soul)
- Groupo La Droga – s/t (Vampi Soul)
- Hydroplane – s/t (Efficient Space)
- Iceblink – Carpet Cocoon (Moon Glyph)
- Los Kintos – s/t (Vampi Soul)
- Travesía – Ni Un Minuto Más De Dolor (Little Butterfly)
- V/A – The Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 3 (Vampi Soul)
- V/A – Color de Trópico Vol 3 (El Palmas)
- V/A – Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
- V/A – Saturno 2000 – La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-1983 (Analog Africa)
- V/A – Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music 1980-1990 (Soundway)
22 favourite live shows (in chronological order)
- Senyawa, 1 March, The Lab, SF
- Kali Malone, 10 April, Grace Cathedral, SF
- Dean Santomieri / Tom Nunn, 15 April, Mosswood Chapel, Oakland
- Jake Blount, 19 April, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Cheryl E. Leonard, 22 April, Mosswood Chapel, Oakland
- Grouper, 29 May, The Castro, SF
- Emily Wells, 10 June, Starline Social Club, Oakland
- Grale, 22 July, Mosswood Chapel, Oakland
- Steve Von Till / Helen Money, 9 Aug, Starline Social Club, Oakland
- Emily Jane White, 11 August, The Chapel, SF
- Lia Kohl, 12 August, Mosswood Chapel, Oakland
- Circuit Des Yeux, 17 August, The Lab, SF
- Marissa Nadler / Jessica Way / Serpentent, 24 August, Golden Bull, Oakland
- Sarah Davachi, 10 September, Grace Cathedral, SF
- Melt-Banana, 1 October, Great American Music Hall, SF
- Fierce as Death: Queer at the Song of Songs, Jewlia Eisenberg memorial, 2 October, CJM SF
- Dire Wolves, 2 October, The Knockout, SF
- Luxury Skin, 25 October, Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC
- Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant plus four, 27 October, Solar Myth, Philadelphia
- Edward Schocker / Keith Evans, 13 November, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland
- Old Million Eye, 17 November, Beauty Supply, Oakland
- Kristin Hersh, 28 November, Bottom of the Hill, SF
Some favourite reissues into physical form of previously digital-only items (in alphabetical order)
Kate Carr – Making Do Vol. 1 (Tool Use)
Dark Leaves – Laid Under Leaf, Under Branches (Ramble Records)
Clara Engel – The Cicada Session & In The Fog (Ramble Records)
Mekons – Exquisite (Glitterbeat)
Some favourite plain ol’ reissues (in alphabetical order)
Human Greed – Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star (Was Ist Das?)
Nurse With Wound – The Ladies Home Tickler (United Dirter)
Nurse With Wound – Salt Marie Celeste – Salt (United Dirter)
11 favourite digital-only releases (in alphabetical order)
Eszter Balint – I Hate Memory (S/R)
Jesse Olsen Bay – weather/weight (S/R)
Cinder Well & Jim Ghedi – I Am A Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble (S/R)
Circuit Des Yeux – Sunset Poem, reimagined by Claire Rousay (Matador)
Clipping – Remxng series (Sub Pop)
irr. app. (ext.) – “Attention Dear” 2022 Digital Monthly Single series (errata in excelsis)
Lime Rickey International – The Train (S/R)
Carol Anne McGowan – re:versions (S/R)
Rabbit Rabbit – Rabbit Rabbit Radio Volume 5: Love Is Code (S/R)
Songs Of The New Erotics – There Walked Slowly From Time To Black Rosettes, Golden Eye Breathing It In, And They To Spring (Disembraining Songs)
Various – For Ukraine vols. 1-3 (Headphone Commute)