75 HOT LINKS (w/ Dirty Rice & Sausage Gravy)

Mmmff, this should keep us all full for awhile...

THE MUSIC FOODIES: How Jazz Became an Artisan's Movement (SALON)

How NYC's Loft Jazz Scene Inspired A New Underground Restaurant (NPR)

SON OF DETROIT: The Oral History of J. Dilla (WAX POETICS)

Which Rock Star Will Future Historians Remember? (NY TIMES MAGAZINE)

Listening to West Sumatra's Musical Megaliths (AURAL ARCHIPELAGO)

Bill Bratton's Strange, Old-School Linkage of "Thugs" with Rap

(THE ATLANTIC)

CROWD-SOURCED: The AACM Revisited (POINT OF DEPARTURE)

SIGN THE PETITION: Save The Smell, L.A.'s Flagship DIY Music Venue (iPETITION)

HEAR YOU BREATHING: Jazz's Funniest Musicians (JAZZ TIMES)

The 10 Weirdest Indie Rock-TV Crossovers of the Nineties (STEREOGUM)

HOOK LINE SINK: Revisiting John Lurie's Strange and Wonderful Fishing Show (STEREOGUM)

MUCH ADO ABOUT MUCHNESS: The Man Who Introduced China to Rock 'n' Roll (LARB)

Meet the Composer Who Made the Eiffel Tower Sing (NPR CLASSICAL)

The Dark Art of Mastering Music (PITCHFORK MEDIA)

Edward Snowden: Unlikely Techno Star (VICE MUSIC)

RANT: A Great Black Actor Makes Miles Davis Look Like A Fool (THE STRANGER)

The Rediscovered Jazz Artistry of Forrest Westbrook (OFF RAMP)

"PUSHERS OF PIRACY": An Open Letter to YouTube (MUSIC-TECH-POLICY)

This Is Congress' Chance to Be Fair to Musicians (THE NEW YORKER)

EXCERPT: Nels Cline Interviews Sean Lennon and Les Claypool (MAGNET)

Aquarius Records Release Fanzine of 50 Favorite Records Since 1996 (THE WIRE)

Armenian DJs Are Bringing Traditional Sounds into Underground Dance Music (LA WEEKLY)

QUIZ: Are You A Big Jazz Boy or a Little Jazz Boy? (CLICKHOLE)

How Living Colour, Bad Brains and Fishbone Fought Gentrification (AFROPUNK)

REBELS WITH BOWS: Why Cellists Are the Crankiest Musicians (SLATE)

The Trombone Comes Home (NY TIMES)

The Current Face of the Bass (MOSTLY MUSIC)

SLIDESHOW: Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharaoh Sanders + Kamasi Washington in A Night of Spiritual Jazz (POPMATTERS)

Recently Discovered! The Only Known Video of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio (LAMAG)

THE INFILTRATION OF BLACK RAP: The Untold Story of Hip Hop's Early Entrepreneurs (CUEPOINT)

JAZZ FOR THE THRILL OF IT: Chris Becker Interviews Grace Kelly (LARB)

The Greatest Electronic Albums of the '50s and '60s (THE VINYL FACTORY)

PHOTOLOG: Amazing Images from the San Francisco Punk Scene, 1977-82

(DANGEROUS MINDS)

An Open Letter to 17-Year-Old Boys Who Just Discovered the Doors (MCSWEENEY'S)

Read the Very First Issue of Billboard, Dated 11/1/1894 (BROWBEAT)

Why Jazz Will Always Be Relevant (THE FADER)

HOME THEATER: Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life (SEED & SPARK)

BLOOD AND ECHOES: The Story Behind Steve Reich's Civil Rights Era Masterpiece (PITCHFORK MEDIA)

ARCHIVES: Watch An Entire Black Flag Concert from 1982 (YOUTUBE)

HOW WE MADE IT: Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" (THE GUARDIAN)

Carla Bley: First Lady of the Avant-Garde (KEYBOARD)

How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop (Again) (PLAYBOY)

The One-Man Band That Almost Made Punk Uncool (Again) (NOISEY)

?uestlove on Why Prince is Hip-Hop (WAX POETICS)

KIND OF PURPLE: Jazz Musicians on Prince (ALL ABOUT JAZZ)

SCANDAL, SLEAZE + PUNK ROCK: Inside the Tropicana Motel (ANOTHERMAG)

The Ramones & Rap: A Shared History? (PRIMEMIND)

INFOGRAPHIC: The Miles Davis Universe. Visualized (THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER)

WATCH: A 2000 Documentary on David S. Ware (BLOG THE HUM)

A Guide to the Work of Diamanda Galás (RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY)

T-Bone Burnett's Stirring Speech About Music and the American Story (MEDIUM)

Kamasi Washington on the Pressures of Being Called "Jazz's Savior" (ESQUIRE)

WATCH: Wendy Carlos, Vangelis & Giorgio Moroder Do Battle as "The Lords of Synth" (ADULT SWIM)

16 Pieces of Protest Jazz for 2016 (REVIVE MUSIC)

Man Actually Tries to Find Jazz at a Jazz Fest (NEUTRAL GROUND NEWS)

ATOMIC CAFE: The Long Lost Little Punk Haven of L.A.'s Little Tokyo (OFF RAMP)

ASK A SCIENTIST: How to Pick Music for People on LSD (MOTHERBOARD)

Q&A: Ethan Iverson Interviews Wayne Shorter (DO THE MATH)

FROM THE TIME-LOCK VAULT: The Infamous "Dangers of Punk Rock" Episode of Quincy

(THE A.V. CLUB)

DOCUMENT UNDER GLASS: John Coltrane's Handwritten Outline for A Love Supreme

(OPEN CULTURE)

Meet the Innovative Jazz Drummer Praised By Stravinsky (and Ignored by Everyone Else)
(THE STRANGER)

A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON: Les Blank's Unreleased Film About Leon Russell

(UNDER THE RADAR)

A SPACE FOR MUSIC: An Interview with Rocco Somazzi (WENDTWRITINGS)

YOU DIG?: A Dive Into Jazz Slang (A BLOG SUPREME)

Communal Experimentalism in the Sixties: The Pulsa Group (NEWMUSICBOX)

THIRTEEN PRAYERS: Kamasi Washington's Favorite Albums (THE QUIETUS)

CHECKING IN: George Clinton on Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar, Prince, Jimi Hendrix & more (NUVO)

Disappointing Prince Vaults Found to Contain 37000 Hours of Billy Joel Covers (THE ONION)

"IS THE WATER WARM ENOUGH?": Cartoonist Depicts Wendy + Lisa's Contribution to Prince's Legacy (THE WIRE)

Inside Miles Davis' Prince Obsession (THE PITCH)

JAZZ HOME THEATER: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three-Sided Dream (VIMEO)

Breaking Down the Orchestration of Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" (FLYPAPER)

ARCHITECTURE + EXPLOSION: Cecil Taylor, The Composer (DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES)

NYC IS KILLING ME: Albert Ayler's Life and Death in the Jazz Capital (PITCHFORK JAZZ ISSUE)

FROGTOWN: Anthony Wilson Tackles Love, Loss and Lyrics (KPCC)