Archive - Beta’s Substack

Twofer Tuesday #9

Tribute to two guitar albums for summer mornings by Michael Bierylo and Vini Reilly

Aug 12 •

The Lot for August

Seedling --> Timber b/w Picasso's Blue-Red Shift

Aug 12 •

Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill

An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay

Aug 7 •

Twofer Tuesday #9

Two albums positing Lee "Scratch" Perry as an outsider artist exhaling a puff of smoke in the spacetime

Aug 5 •

July 2025

Twofer Tuesday #8: Nobukazu Takemura

Takemura's mature works of childhood whimsy

Jul 29 •

Twofer Tuesday #7

New Directions not taken back in 1987: Brazilian legend Helcio Milito + the weird long life of Startled Insects

Jul 22 •

Twofer Tuesday #6

Twofer Tommy Flanagan, the great Detroit pianist

Jul 15 •

The Lot for July

The Lot Re-Opens!

Jul 14 •

Twofer Tuesday #5

Two recent albums of collaborations with Tim Barnes that recall a lost NYC topography and the potential and power behind every musical gesture.

Jul 8 •

June 2025

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