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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...

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CHICAGO ART REPORT: Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the MCA Chicago, October 18th, 2025-February 22, 2026

YOKO ONO Add Colour (Refugee Boat) at the MCA Chicago, February 22, 2026. Photo by the author.

If Chicago is the Second City, then the Art Institute of Chicago is our Met, which makes the MCA Chicago our MOMA and then some, always with gre...

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EVANSTON SHOW REPORT: Mind Music (works by John Cage and Yoko Ono, performed by Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble at Galvin Recital Hall, February 13th, 2026)

It’s Friday the 13th, February 2026. Maybe unlucky for some, but I feel right at home every Friday the 13th, a veritable intermittent rolling Blastitude holiday of reverse psychological bliss. And what’s more, like Halloween falling on a we...

a month ago
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RECENT LISTENING #49

ZACH ROWDEN When the Gloss is Removed LP (GERTRUDE TAPES) Pretty hardcore solo experimental release from 2022. Entire credits are “double bass, tapes.” No immediate reason to believe it isn’t performed and recorded live. Side one sounds mor...

2 months ago
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THAT SOUND IN BETWEEN (TSIB-002)

Miles Davis to Arsenio Hall as Sigourney Weaver listens: “I like Bobby Brown, but all the drummers I get, I tell ‘em it must be a beat in between the beat. You know. Prince says get up on the one. It’s gotta be a beat in between. Bobby [Bro...

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