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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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