Jon Whitney

Jon began his music career at the age of 14 as a disc jockey for WMUA at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently spins at WZBC at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.  At 18 he moved to New York and interned at three major record companies.  He moved back to Boston at 19 and began working part time with one more until graduating from Northeastern University with a bachelors degree (double concentration of music and business).  Jon also currently DJs/VJs a music video night, The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow regularly in the Boston area and irregularly elsewhere.

Jon began Brainwashed.com in April of 1996 to host websites for some bands that needed some representaion on the web.  In 1998, he began the weekly magazine The Brain as a weekly digest for the staff and contributors of Brainwashed to keep tabs on each other featuring the news of the bands and labels whose Web sites are hosted at Brainwashed, to post brief reviews of music that we're listening to, release dates, and in 2003 began producing video segments for the Web site featuring exclusive interviews and live footage of some of today's most innovative independent artists.  The Brain was retired in 2005 to make way for the new Brainwashed.com which is nearly the same thing: a weekly dose of independent music and information. 

Jon's personal website is turbid.com.

2015 picks:

the full lengthers

• Sir Richard Bishop, "Tangier Sessions"
• Boduf Songs, "Stench of Exist"
• Carter Tutti Void, "f (x)"
• Celer, "How could you believe me when I said I loved you when you know I've been a liar all my life"
• Colleen, "Captain of None"
• Sarah Davachi, "Barons Court"
• Disappears, "Irreal"
• Four Tet, "Morning/Evening"
• Hox, "Duke of York"
• Kinski, "7 (or 8)
• Land, "Anoxia"
• Low, "Ones and Sixes"
• Lycia, "A Line That Connects"
• Drew McDowall, "Collapse"
• Dean McPhee, "Fatima's Hand"
• Reanimator, "Damaged Birds"
• Simon Scott, "Insomni"
• The Soft Pink Truth, "Why Pay More?"
• Thighpaulsandra, "The Golden Communion"
• Valet, "Nature"
• Christina Vantzou, "Nº3"
• Wire, "Wire"

the singles

• Colder, "Turn Your Back"
• Jay-Jay Johanson, "Moonshine"
• Loop, "Array 1"
• Marcus Marr, "Brown Sauce"
• Meat Beat Manifesto, "KASM02"
• Laetitia Sadier, "Dry Fruit"

old things

• Carter Tutti Plays Chris & Cosey
• Volcano the Bear, "Commencing"

2014 picks:

the full lengthers

• A Winged Victory for the Sullen, "Atomos"
• Caribou, "Our Love"
• Celer, "Sky Limits"
• Sarah Davachi, "August Harp"
• FKA Twigs, "LP1"
• Grouper, "Ruins"
• Carl Hultgren, "Tomorrow"
• K. Michelle, "Still No Fucks Given"
• Leyland Kirby, "We drink to forget the coming storm"
• Lamb, "Backspace Unwind"
• Klara Lewis, "Ett"
• Locust, "After the Rain"
• Loscil, "Sea Island"
• Marissa Nadler, "July"
• Tara Jane O'Neil, "Where Shine New Lights"
• Laetitia Sadier, "Something Shines"
• Swans, "To Be Kind"
• Christina Vantzou, "Nº2"
• Zola Jesus, "Taiga"

the singles

• A Winged Victory for the Sullen, "Atomos VII"
• Al Cisneros, "Toward Nazareth"
• De La Soul, "Smell The D.A.I.S.Y."
• Erasure, "Sacred"
• Mazzy Star, "I'm Less Here"
• Prince, "FallinLove2nite"
• Royksopp & Robyn, "Do It Again"
• Stars, "From the Night"
• Windy & Carl, "I Walked Alone/At Night"

old things

• Edvard Graham Lewis, "All Over" & "All Under"
• The Legendary Pink Dots, "12 Steps Off The Path"
• Songs: Ohia, "Didn't It Rain (redux)"
• Swans, "Filth"

2013 picks:

the full lengthers

• Marisa Anderson, "Mercury"
• Black Hearted Brother, "Stars Are Our Home"
• Boduf Songs, "Burnt Up On Re-Entry"
• Broadcast, "Berberian Sound Studio"
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "Push the Sky Away"
• Sarah Davachi, "The Untuning of the Sky"
• Disappears, "Era"
• Foetus, "Soak"
• Four Tet, "Beautiful Rewind"
• Robert Haigh, "Darkling Streams"
• Jesu, "Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came"
• Lisa Germano, "No Elephants"
• Glenn Jones, "My Garden State"
• The Legendary Pink Dots, "The Gethsemane Option" & "Taos Hum"
• Low, "The Invisible Way"
• Mazzy Star, "Seasons of Your Day"
• OMD, "English Electric"
• The Stranger, "Watching Dead Empires In Decay"
• Throwing Muses, "Purgatory/Paradise"
• [V/A], "SMM: Opiate"

the singles

• A$AP Rocky, "Fuckin' Problems"
• Chvrches, "The Mother We Share"
• FKA Twigs, "EP2"
• Om, "Addis Dubplate" & "Gethsemane Dubplate"
• OMD, "Dresden"
• Pale Sketcher, "Warm Sunday"
• Prince, "Groovy Potential"
• Windy & Carl, "Calliope/Carnivale"

old things

• Cabaret Voltaire "#8385 Collected Works"
• Ladytron, "Gravity the Seducer Remixes" (much better than the album!)
• Natural Snow Buildings / Isengrind / Twinsistermoon, "The Snowbringer Cult"
• Songs: Ohia, "Hecla & Griper" and "The Magnolia Electric Co"

2012 picks:

the full lengthers

• Jessica Bailiff, "At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky"
• Mark Eitzel, "Don't Be a Stranger"
• Fontanelle, "Vitamin F"
• Four Tet, "Pink"
• Neil Halsted, "Palindrome Hunches"
• Vikki Jackman, "A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring"
• Dean McPhee, "Son of the Black Peace"
• Bob Mould, "Silver Age"
• Laetitia Saider, "Silencio"
• Landing, "Landing"
• Om, "Adviatic Songs"
• Simon Scott, "Below Sea Level"
• Swans, "The Seer"
• Troller, "Troller"
• Windy & Carl, "We Will Always Be"
• X-TG, "Desertshore/The Final Report"
• Zoviet France, "7.10.12"

the singles

• A Place To Bury Strangers, "Onwards to the Wall"
• The Big Pink, 'Hit the Ground (Superman)"
• FK Twigs, "EP1"
• Hot Chip, "Let Me Be Him"
• Jesu, "Duchess/Veiled"
• Marcus Marr, "The Music"
• Matmos, "The Ganzfeld EP"
• Sandro Perri, "Changes/Love & Light"
• Retribution Gospel Choir, "The Revolution"
• Sandoz, "Holding On"
• Stars, "Hold On When You Get Love"
• Telefon Tel Aviv, "The Birds"

old things

• Daphni, "Jiaolong"
• Eleh, "Radiant Intervals"
• Grouper, "A 1 A"
• David Lynch & Alan Splet, "Eraserhead" soundtrack
• Bob Mould & Sugar reissues
• Scientist, "The Greatest Dub Album in the World" & "In the Kingdom of Dub"

2011 picks:

the full lengthers

• A Winged Victory for the Sullen
• Andrew Chalk, "Violin By Night"
• Belong, "Common Era"
• The Caretaker, "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World"
• Charalambides, "Exile"
• Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, "Dreadcade"
• Robert Haigh, "Strange and Secret Things"
• Fovea Hex, "Here Is Where We Used To Sing"
• Jesu, "Ascension"
• Jim O'Rourke & Christoph Heemann, "Plastic Palace People" 1 & 2
• Kate Bush, "50 Words for Snow" & "Director's Cut"
• Lamb, "5"
• Leyland Kirby, "Eager to Tear Apart the Stars"
• Manorexia, "Dinoflagellate Blooms"
• Marissa Nadler, "Marissa Nadler" & "Covers 2"
• Rivulets, "We're Fucked"
• Six Organs of Admittance, "Asleep on the Floodplain"
• This Will Destroy You, "Tunnel Blanket"
• Tim Hecker, "Ravedeath, 1972" & "Dropped Pianos"
• Wire, "Red Barked Tree"
• Zola Jesus, "Conatus"

the singles

• Antony & The Johnsons, "Swanlights EP"
• James Blackshaw, "Holly EP"
• Ceremony, "Extended Play" & "Not Tonight"
• Marissa Nadler, "Rain Arrangement"
• Mazzy Star, "Lay Myself/Common Burn"
• Pale Sketcher, "Seventh Heaven"
• The Primitives, "Never Kill a Secret"
• The Sea and Cake, "The Moonlight Butterfly"

old things

• This Mortal Coil box

2010 picks:

full lengthers worth keeping

• ANBB, "Mimikry"
• Andrew Chalk, "Ghost of Nakhodka"
• Boduf Songs, "This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything"
• Bomb the Bass, "Back to Light"
• Brian McBride, "The Effective Disconnect"
• Caribou, "Swim"
• Ceremony, "Rocket Fire" (duh)
• Current 93,"Baalstorm Sing Omega"
• Death In June, "Peaceful Snow"
• Eleh, "Location Momentum"
• The Fall, "Your Future, Our Clutter"
• Film School, "Fission"
• Foetus, "Hide"
• Four Tet, "There Is Love In You"
• Gil Scott-Heron, "I'm New Here"
• Jack Rose, "Luck in the Valley"
• JG Thirlwell, "Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters"
• Kristin Hersh, "Crooked"
• The Legendary Pink Dots, "Seconds Late for the Brighton Line"
• Meat Beat Manife