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Jeff Conklin
@thetrailhead.bsky.social
Community Radio / High Fidelity Stereo Advocacy / Music Discovery

Ambient Audiophile: https://open.substack.com/pub/ambientaudiophile?r=u1bi5&utm_medium=ios

The Trailhead: https://www.mixcloud.com/jeff-conklin/
These fellas take Bird Song for some beautiful astral travelling before landing on some bluesy choogle that drives into free form freakout before resolving. Great stuff sqwerv.bandcamp.com/album/live-s...
Live Sqwerv: 2/7/2026 | The Holding Company | San Diego, CA, by Sqwerv
16 track album
sqwerv.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
More jam bands covering Depeche Mode please spaffordmusic.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
Live at Antone's Nightclub | 01-23-26 | Austin, TX, by Spafford
13 track album
spaffordmusic.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
They really are trying to make the Mandalorian movie look as unappealing as possible aren’t they?
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
We're live!

Follow along for the playlist, updated in real time

#nowplaying:

1. From Overseas - For Ourselves We Grieve - Thinking Like a Mountain (Past Inside the Present, 2025)
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Back live on the air and net waves with the world’s (only?) top-rated ambient, experimental, jammy jazz fusion radio program. Listen live from 10am-Noon ET via the links below (or 91.3FM in the Hudson Valley)

Direct: wvkr.org

Apple: music.apple.com/us/station/w...
WVKR 91.3 FM – Independent Radio
wvkr.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Mistaken for Jeff Tweedy at the Jazz Mandolin Project show
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
After several years of uselessness I’ve made my first success COT purchase. See you in the pit, motherfuckers
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I don’t leave any minty psych rock LPS behind in the dollar bin.
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I don’t leave any minty psych rock LPS behind in the dollar bin.
February 6, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Jeff Conklin
New record! It's been five years since I recorded Music for Four Guitars and it's time for a new jam — proud to present the latest four guitars LP, "Music in Continuous Motion," up for preorder today and shipping next month.

billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
February 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Great jam
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I’ll take the lack of engagement as tacit agreement or ignorance. If the latter, play this recent show loud: sqwerv.bandcamp.com/album/live-s...
February 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Can’t get enough Sqwerv. These guys rule.
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
My 3yo son, who’s never watched anything on a screen, just now as he plays with some markers

“And these stormtroopers are going for quesadillas”
February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
We had Marco Benevento pop in to our Bobby celebration yesterday. What a nice and humble dude. I didn’t get it on video but he dropped some tasty 2001 teases in Scarlet.
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The Conch played loudly.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I’m never gonna listen to the new Springsteen track but I’m glad he made it
January 31, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Jeff Conklin
I CANNOT believe this is happening, overwhelmed with feelings.
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Earth has sucked for 20 years and he gave fans a gift showing what an asshole genXer he is
January 30, 2026 at 3:25 PM
If last night was the worst show Phish has played in years I’m glad it happened in Mexico in front of the rich folk
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Al Di Meola out there fighting fascism. You love to see it.
January 28, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Sent out a new newsletter this afternoon with a link to my Bobby radio tribute, some choice Ralph Towner pieces and two new psych bands you need to hear: open.substack.com/pub/ambienta...
#73: Sure Don't Know What I'm Going For
Bob Weir, Ralph Towner, Houseplant, Sqwerv
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Reposted by Jeff Conklin
To be clear, this is a victory, which was won by ordinary people putting their lives on the line in the streets of Minneapolis while almost all their elected leaders kept quiet or made only muted criticism.
January 27, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Putting on my first live event since 2018(!?!) this Sunday in beautiful Gardiner in the foothills of the Shawangunks. I’ll be DJing, we got a band, firepits, and plenty of fun stuff for kids. Also, food and coffee. Choogle up/down/out and please share with your heady friends.
January 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Four hours into snowmagedon and my kids and partner have used every cup, plate, bowl and utensil we have.
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM