Archive - LANDLINE by Jay Babcock

[Landline special] Communal joy in our time

New Yorkers show us what is still possible

Jun 14 • Jay Babcock

May 2026

[Landline] Strong determination

Ketty Lester, Ira Cohen's majoun visions, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom sign off, a capella Beach Boys, Brian Johnson walks with Robert Plant, halupedia

May 18 • Jay Babcock

April 2026

[Landline] Bitterness -> despair -> defiance, Part 2

Radical poet Diane di Prima and April's fools

Apr 28 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Video Parade 7

Featuring Spike Milligan, BCMC (Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain), Peter Greenaway, Uum Kulthum, Cosmic Slop tv show, Jon Lord/Ozzy/Ian Hunter, and the…

Apr 18 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Springtime in a garden of stones

An astonishing 40-minute Iranian documentary from 2004.

Apr 12 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Bitterness -> despair -> defiance, Part 1

A bit about Emmett Grogan of the San Francisco Diggers, and the problem of aging as a cultural outsider

Apr 6 • Jay Babcock

March 2026

[Landline] Born on the Death Star

Plus: Joe Stummer & Bob Weir's all-nighter, Harlem Renaissance-era rent parties, Fred Dibnah as demolitionist/restorer, and what those discarnate…

Mar 27 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Scatology

A doctor's excuse plus Devendra, Chuck Norris, Joshua Homme & Norah Jones and sweet Gene Vincent

Mar 21 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Baraka time

Éliane Radigue, Dr. John, Malcolm McLaren, Alex Trocchi, Popcorn Sutton, Richard Pryor, Iasos, Bunny Roger, Bob Palmer, Far East Family Band

Mar 9 • Jay Babcock

February 2026

[Landline] The years of ludicrous idealism

ArthurBall, 20 years later; plus Helen Adam, Éliane Radigue and a word from our first sponsor

Feb 27 • Jay Babcock

[Landline] Feast and resist

Get a whistle before they're illegal

Feb 20 • Jay Babcock

December 2025

[Landline] Rites of ear passage

Cottage cheese, dead fish and a disintegrating pigeon: the ten loudest rock bands of all time, as of 2000

Dec 1, 2025 • Jay Babcock