The same impulse keeps showing up: find the thread, follow it back, connect what looks unrelated. Sometimes that meant programming a room. Sometimes it meant writing about why Lee Perry matters seventy years in. The format changed; the instinct didn't.
Selection and preservation across formats.
A weekly residency, a radio show, regular bookings across the East Coast, live recordings from taper-friendly artists, and a digital archive spanning world music, out-of-print reggae, and electronic music. Different formats, same work: finding what matters and making sure it survives.
Tracing the lines between genres, scenes, and decades.
A blog that spent years connecting genres most people filed separately. Less interested in reviews than in lineage.
The infrastructure behind the music.
A recurring event series in Atlanta, weekly and monthly, and a long stretch behind the scenes of an independent label. Two sides of the same problem: getting the right music in front of the right room.