Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Ears:
  • Fred Anderson - The Missing Link
  • Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
  • Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
  • Frank Bretschneider - Curve

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Eyes:
  • Diane Williams - "I Hope You Will Be More Tip-Top", "Well, Well, Well, Well, Well", "Flower", "Doodia", "Handy-Dandy", "Aggressive Glass and Mirrors", "Eat the Deep Too!" and "Her Leg" from It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature

Ears:
  • Anthony Braxton - Quintet (Basel) 1977
  • A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
  • Fred Anderson / Steve McCall - Vintage Duets
  • Sten Sandell / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang - Disappeared

Monday, June 28, 2010

Monday, June 28, 2010

Eyes:
  • Douglas Crimp - "Sex and Sensibility, or Sense and Sexuality" and "The Boys in My Bedroom" from Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
  • Diane Williams - "Tail", "Spoon", "Tony"and "The Underwear" from Romancer Erector
  • Eileen Myles - "Iceland" from The Importance of Being Iceland
  • Diane Williams - "I Bend Down", "Just as a Joke", and "I Am in Love" from The Stupefaction

Ears:
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
  • David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dusk
  • Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
  • Tsurubami - Gekkyukekkaichi
  • The Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
  • Sightings - City of Straw
  • La Lupe - Greatest Hits
  • David Bowie - Station to Station
  • Dara Puspita - 1966-1968
  • Gal Costa - s/t
  • Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
  • Nina Simone - In Concert / I Put a Spell on You
  • Dead C - Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate
  • Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
  • Neil Diamond - The Essential

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times

Ears:
  • AC/DC -Live Wire

Friday, June 25, 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times
  • Kim Gordon - "Fossil Collections / On Rodarte" from Texte zur Kunst Vol. 20 No. 78 Fashion

Ears:
  • Bob Dylan - Planet Waves
  • Harmonia & Eno - Tracks and Traces
  • Sic Alps - Pleasures and Treasures
  • Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs
  • Sightings - Through the Panama
  • Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
  • Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers - Envy
  • Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
  • AC/DC - Live Wire

Eyes & Ears:
  • Parker - Machinima Drone Bath Spa Package: Sampler Pack
  • Peter Hoffman - Painting With Peter
  • Vince (Dick) Dermody - Invincible
  • Totimoshi
  • The Melvins

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Eyes:
  • Dot Dot Dot No. 19 The First/Last Newspaper
  • The Onion

Ears:
  • Six Organs of Admittance - Compathia
  • Melvins - The Maggot
  • Sic Alps - Pleasures and Treasures
  • Arto Lindsay - Prize

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Ears:
  • Faust - IV
  • fIREHOSE - fROMOHIO
  • Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub

Eyes & Ears:
  • You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Eyes:
  • J.M. Tyree - "The Ask by Sam Lipsyte" from The Nation June 28, 2010
  • Melissa Harrus-Lacewell - "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from The Nation June 28, 2010

Ears:
  • Joanna Newsom - Ys
  • Major Stars - Mirror/Messenger
  • Skullflower - Exquisite Fucking Boredom
  • Major Stars - Distant Effects
  • Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
  • Rehberg & Bauer - Ballt.
  • AC/DC - Live Wire
  • Faust - IV
  • Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun

Monday, June 21, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

Eyes:
  • Alain Badiou - "What is Love?" from Umbr(a) No. 1, 1996
  • The Onion

Ears:
  • Joanna Newsom - Ys
  • various - Skulls Without Borders
  • Helen Mirra - Along Below
  • The Hafler Trio - The Moment When We Blow the Flour From Our Tongues
  • Hototogisu - Floating Japanese oof! Gardens of the 21st Century
  • Minutemen - 3-Way Tie (For Last)
  • Minutemen - The Politics of Time
  • fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-On
  • Major Stars - Mirror/Messenger
  • Fela - Opposite People / Sorrow Tears and Blood

Eyes & Ears:
  • The Simpsons
  • Woman in the Dunes

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times
  • Diane Williams - "Very, Very Red", "Ecstasy or Passion", "It Is Possible to Imagine a More Perfect Thing", "An Inventory", "I Freshly Fleshly", "The Penis Had Been Plenty Decent", "The Brilliants", "Yellower", "Cake", and "Arm" from Romancer Erector
  • Diane Williams - "The Ring Stuck On", "Stronger Than a Man, Simpler Than a Woman", "Opening the Closing Mouth of the Woman", "To Squeeze Water" and "Affection" from It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature

Ears:
  • Misha Mengelberg - Solo
  • Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings
  • AC/DC - Live Wire

Eyes & Ears:
  • Breathless

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times

Ears:
  • Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
  • Fushitsusha - I saw it! That which before I could only sense...
  • Herbie Nichols -The Complete Blue Note Recordings (CD 1)

Friday, June 18, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times

Ears:
  • Franz Koglmann & Lee Konitz - We Thought About Duke
  • Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Eyes & Ears:
  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Daniel Albrigo - Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is... A Love Story
  • Angels
  • Remembering the Future

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Eyes:
  • Hamza Walker - "Report of the Education Director" from The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Annual Report
  • J.G. Ballard - "The Greatest Television Show on Earth" & "Say Goodbye to the Wind" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
  • Jan Verwoert - "Unicorn: "I Exist"" from Dot Dot Dot: The First/Last Newspaper No. 19

Ears:
  • Lichens - The Psychic Nature of Being
  • Pussy Galore - Right Now!
  • Om - God is Good
  • Tony Allen - Black Voices
  • Sic Alps - U.S. EZ
  • Marisa Monte - Rose and Charcoal
  • Brian Eno - Another Green World
  • Harmonia - Live 1974
  • Joyce - Visions of Dawn
  • John Zorn - The Gift
  • Times New Viking - Presents the Paisley Reich
  • Ray Brown - Bass Hit!

Eyes & Ears:
  • Locrian
  • Hair Police
  • Cold Cave

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Eyes:
  • J.G. Ballard - "Love in a Colder Climate" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

Ears:
  • The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
  • Beans - Tomorrow Right Now
  • Tony Allen - Black Voices
  • Pole - 3
  • Town and Country - It all has to do with it.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Eyes:
  • Andrea Fraser - "Why Does Fred Sandback's Work Make Me Cry?" from Grey Room 22

Ears:
  • Steve Lacy Sextet - The Condor
  • Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
  • Naked on the Vague - Heaps of Nothing
  • Rangda - False Flag
  • various - Harold 2009
  • Oneida - Rated O
  • Rodney Graham - Rock is Hard

Eyes & Ears:
  • Moonrises
  • Noveller
  • Man Forever

Monday, June 14, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

Eyes:
  • Marc Fischer - Architecture Estrictamente Adultos
  • Christopher Nealon - "Camp Messianism, or, the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism" from American Literature Vol. 76 No. 3
  • J.G. Ballard - "Having a Wonderful Time" & "The 60 Minute Zoom" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

Ears:
  • The Dead C - Clyma est Mort /Tentative Power
  • Skullflower - Birthdeath
  • Pussy Galore - Dial "M" for Motherfucker
  • Tyvek - s/t
  • The Skull Defekts - Skulls CM von Hausswolff & the Sons of God Descending the Silver River of the DFX
  • Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

Eyes & Ears:
  • Tony Allen

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Cecil Taylor - Garden Part I & II
  • Sun Ra - Spaceship Lullaby
  • Pussy Galore - Dial "M" for Motherfucker
  • Randy Holden - Population II
  • Pocahaunted - Chains
  • Henry Flynt - Ascent to the Sun
  • Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman
  • Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado
  • Serge Gainsbourg - No. 4
  • Jorge Ben - A Tabua de Esmeralda
  • Jack Rose - s/t
  • various - Open Strings
  • Zoo Wheel - First Born, Grand Days
  • Pillow - s/t
  • Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
  • Richard Youngs - Autumn Response

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Dirk von Lowtzow, Paulina Olowska, Stephen Prina, Adam Szymczyk with Isabelle Graw - "Please Recommend Us" from Texte zur Kunst: Artists' Artists Vol. 18 No. 71
  • Diedrich Diederichsen - "Showfreaks and Monsters" from Texte zur Kunst: Artists' Artists Vol. 18 No. 71

Ears:
  • Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
  • Beans - Now Soon Someday
  • The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
  • Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms for the Doppio Borgato

Eyes & Ears:
  • Tiger Hatchery
  • Matmos & So Percussion

Friday, June 11, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times

Ears:
  • Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
  • The Dead C - Clyma est Mort /Tentative Power
  • The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
  • Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
  • Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms for the Doppio Borgato

Eyes & Ears:
  • A Grin Without a Cat

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Eyes:
  • Time Out Chicago

Ears:
  • Sven-Ake Johansson / Rudiger Carl / Joe Williamson - Hudson Riv
  • various - The World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From the Congo, 1954-55
  • The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
  • Prince and the Revolution - Around the World In a Day
  • Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West
  • Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
  • Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms for the Doppio Borgato

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ears:
  • various - The World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From the Congo 1954-55
  • The Red Krayola - God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Ears:
  • Johan Berthling / Fredrik Ljungkvist / Sten Sandell - untitled
  • Moon Duo - Catch As Catch Can b/w Set It On Fire
  • various - The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 6
  • The Fall - Dragnet
  • Skullflower / White Medal - split 7 inch
  • Culver - Cherry Blossom Girls
  • Mirag - Black Temple Carved in Smoke
  • Expo 70 - Psychosis
  • White Medal - s/t
  • Skullflower - White Fang #2 b/w Glassy Essence
  • Skullflower - Total
  • Tsurubami - Gekkyukekkaichi
  • Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre - Gad Gad Vazo Gadati, Voicing Through Saussure
  • David Shrigley - Ding-Dong
  • Cat Power - The Covers Record
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker - The Blood of Life
  • Mount Carmel - s/t
  • Nat King Cole - The Unforgettable Nat King Cole

Eyes & Ears:
  • The Bob Newhart Show

Monday, June 7, 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

Eyes:
  • Immanuel Kant - "First peculiarity of the judgement of taste", "Second peculiarity of the judgement of taste", "Of the communicability of a sensation" and "Of taste as a kind of sensus communis" from Critique of Judgement
  • Francis Picabia - "Yes No Yes No Yes No" from I Am a Beautiful Monster
  • Gary Indiana - "I've been meaning...." from Christopher Wool
  • Juan Munoz, Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood, Andrea Schlieker "A conversation, July 1990" from Juan Munoz: Monologues & Dialogues
  • Juan Munoz, James Lingwood - "A conversation January 1995" from Juan Munoz: Monologues & Dialogues

Ears:
  • Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
  • Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory - The Bad Guys
  • Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra - The Owner of the River Bank
  • various - New Music, New York 1979 (From the Kitchen Archives)
  • Koes Bersaudara - 1967
  • Naked on the Vague - Heaps of Nothing
  • Gordon Mumma - Live-Electronic Music
  • Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

Eyes & Ears:
  • The Bob Newhart Show

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times
  • Sam Lipsyte - The Ask

Ears:
  • Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
  • Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
  • J Spaceman and Matthew Shipp - SpaceShipp
  • Sunn O))) - The GrimmRobe demos
  • Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory - The Bad Guys
  • Jack Rose - Kensington Blues

Eyes & Ears:
  • Police Squad! The Complete Series

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • New Icon exhibition brochure

Ears:
  • Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
  • Anti-Pop Consortium - Shopping Carts Crashing
  • Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
  • Naked on the Vague - Heaps of Nothing
  • Mount Carmel - s/t
  • Rangda - False Flag
  • Pelt - A Stone for Angus Maclise

Friday, June 4, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

Eyes:
  • The Onion

Ears:
  • Psychedelic Horseshit - Golden Oldies
  • Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned
  • Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
  • Eliades Ochoa - Sublime Ilusion
  • Sven-Ake Johansson/Rudiger Carl/Joe Williamson - Hudson Riv
  • Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra - The Owner of the River Bank
  • Jack Rose - Kensington Blues

Eyes & Ears:
  • New Icon
  • Eric Fleischauer - POST-CURSOR

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Eyes:
  • Time Out Chicago

Ears:
  • Guillermo Gregorio/Mats Gustafsson/Kjell Nordeson - Background Music
  • Psychedelic Horseshit - Golden Oldies
  • Jack Rose - Kensington Blues

Eyes & Ears:
  • George Grosz

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Ears:
  • Sun Ra - Super-Sonic Jazz
  • Chris Watson - Weather Report
  • Roxy Music - The Greatest
  • Koes Bersaudara - 1967
  • Tyvek - s/t
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy & the Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
  • Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington
  • Jack Rose - Kensington Blues

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Eyes:
  • Samuel Moyn - "Mind the Enlightenment" from The Nation May 31, 2010
  • Patricia J. Williams - "She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures" from The Nation June 7, 2010

Ears:
  • Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964
  • Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
  • J Spaceman and Matthew Shipp - SpaceShipp