How can my two weeks of guest boinging be over already? I was just starting to get my blog on, and now it's time to bail. Thanks to Rob, and… Read the rest of the article: The Year Before The Flood: The Ponderosa Stomp

I beg your pardon for missing my post yesterday. I was struggling to get the first Postmamboism T-shirt manufactured, celebrating the publication of "Principles of Postmamboism." Looks like I'll have… Read the rest of the article: Photos from "The Year Before the Flood"

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is a writer, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter who lives in New York City.) Excerpt from The Year Before The Flood To hear me reading this… Read the rest of the article: The Year Before the Flood: Idelber's Accident

Postmamboism is a portable theory that places music at the center of understanding and uses music to interrogate other fields of study. While the premises and methods of Postmamboism are… Read the rest of the article: Principles of Postmamboism

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is a writer, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter based in New York.) I heard some good records this year, but one stands out for the way… Read the rest of the article: They Came as Explorers: Listening to Omar Sosa's "Across the Divide"

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is a writer, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter based in New York.) This week and next I'm presenting excerpts from my new book, The Year Before… Read the rest of the article: The Year Before The Flood: "Getting to town"

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is a writer, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter based in New York. His latest book: The Year Before The Flood.) "Singer/songwriter/guitarist, musical anthropologist, and one of… Read the rest of the article: Rhythmic Truth to Power: RIP Luis "Terror" Días, 1952-2009

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is a writer, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter based in New York. Embedded audio in this post: Ned reads an excerpt from chapter one of his… Read the rest of the article: The Year Before The Flood: Chapter One excerpt (text and audio)

(Boing Boing guestblogger Ned Sublette is an author, historian, photographer, and singer-songwriter who lives in New York City. His most recent book is "The Year Before The Flood." Photo above:… Read the rest of the article: Chano Domínguez at the Jazz Standard in New York (photo-essay)