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ANESTHESIA (CLOSING TABS) (Open On My Phone Right Now, 52 Pick-Up Edition)

  1. Cliff Burton “Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth).” Always and forever, and here’s a version recorded right here in Chicago:

  2. John Cage “String Quartet in Four Parts.” Follow-along-at-home sheet music version (and click here for previous...

16 days ago
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RECENT LISTENING #50 (Special 50th Issue! Several No-Prizes Within!)

FIELD KITCHEN An Active Rendering of Being Vol. 1-7 (NO LABEL) If you’ve read my Chicago Show Report on the Detroit group Spite of Darkness playing at the Catalytic Sound Festival back in February 2026, and by god I hope you have, you’re al...

a month ago
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STUFFS & THINGS & THINGS & STUFF (STTS-033)

IF (A.) I(.) ONLY HAD A BRAIN DEPT.: Apparently Google now thinks No New York is a “compilation album by E.T. and James Chance.” Screen grab above (with red E.T. finger-pointers added by me to guide you to the ridiculousness). Seriously, at...

a month ago
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(A RANDOM SAMPLING OF) THE FALL

Primal Fall, photographed in 1977. L-R: Tony Friel (bass), Karl Burns (drums), Mark E. Smith (vocals), Unidentified (purrs), Martin Bramah (guitar), Una Baines (keyboards).

Had to do one of these for The Fall eventually, otherwise be stuck...

2 months ago
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SOMEBODY ELSE'S IDEA OF SOMEBODY ELSE'S WORLD (IS NOT MY IDEA OF THINGS AS THEY ARE)

Quick one this week to tell you that one of the greatest songs of all time, “Somebody Else’s Idea” by Sun Ra (and sung by June Tyson), has been covered beautifully by the one and only Excepter. They laid this down on Mother’s Day 2026, and...

2 months ago
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