Last week, I headed up to Lincoln Center for what turned out to be a pretty astonishing WFMU-sponsored bill. There’s a good writeup on 17 Dots that I pretty much agree with. Said writeup doesn’t go into the pretty stunning set played by The Ex and Gétatchèw Mèkurya. Essentially, it was nine musicians completely in sync with one another, moving from jazz that perfectly swung to jarring, gloriously dissonant feedback — and making it all work perfectly. (Brooklyn Vegan has some good photos as well.)

Which is, I suppose, as good a way as any to segue into linking my Experience Music Project Pop Conference presentation (“I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press”) from earlier this year, in which The Ex, along with AK Press, Political Asylum, and others, are discussed.