Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Ears:

• Miles Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1963

Monday, December 29, 2025

Ears:

• Kevin Drumm - Tannenbaum

Eyes & Ears:

• Museum of Modern Art
• Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa-Less Is Morbid
• Odili Donald Odita - Songs from Life 
• Sasha Stiles - A Living Poem 
• Helen Frankenthaler - A Grand Sweep 
• Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination 
• Wilfredo Lam - When I Don't Sleep, I Dream 
• Ruth Asawa - A Retrospective 
• New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging 
• PS1
• Vaginal Davis - Magnificent Product 
• Four Dilations 
• Gabrielle Goliath - Personal Accounts 
• Inuuteq Storch - Soon Summer Will Be Over 
• La Escuela___ - Education as Resistance 
• Guggenheim Museum 
• Rashid Johnson - A Poem for Deep Thinkers
• Robert Rauschenberg - Life Can't Be Stopped 
• Gabriele Münter - Contours of a World 
• My Barbarian - Cat Suit 

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Eyes:

• Sunday New York Times

Ears:

• Moodymann - Black Mahogani II
• Moodymann - Black Mahogani 
• Yara Asmar - Everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much
• JK Flesh - Sewer Bait 

Eyes & Ears:

• Ditta Baron Hoeber - Deadeye
• David Dempewolf - ghost signals I-IV

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Ears:

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus Passion (Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Toshiya Tsunoda - Extract from Field Recording Archive

Friday, December 26, 2025

Ears:

• Joe McPhee - I'm Just Sayin'
• Mark Fell & Pat Thomas - Reality Is Not a Theory 
• The Bug vs. Ghost Dubs - Implosion 
• Bill Orcutt - Another Perfect Day 
• John Coltrane - Offering: Live at Temple University 
• Kevin Drumm - Inexplicable Hours 

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Ears:

• John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
• Paul Abbott - SLIP

Eyes & Ears:

• The Godfather 
• The Godfather Part II 

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Eyes:

• Antelo Devereux - Good Day 2025

Ears:

• Glenn Gould - Solitude Trilogy

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Eyes:

• Hilton Als - After Dark Volume Three Issue Six

Ears:

• Raven Chacon - Voiceless Mass 
• Jonathan Kane - The Little Drummer Boy
• John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas 
• Chris Watson - Outside the Circle of Fire 

Monday, December 22, 2025

Ears:

• Low - Christmas
• The Dead C - Deux nuits à Paris
• Miles Davis - Pangaea
• Arsenio Rodriguez - Arsenio Dice 
• James Brown - James Brown's Funky Christmas
• John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
• Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi No Koe
• Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette 

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Eyes:

• Sharon Kivland - Envois / The Complete Correspondence 
• Sunday New York Times 

Ears:

• Bill Orcutt - Another Perfect Day 
• Mark Fell & Pat Thomas - Reality Is Not a Theory 
• Luc Ferrari - Interrupteur / Tautologos 3
• Richard Chartier - Decisive Forms
• David Bowie - Low 
• Caetano Veloso e Jorge Mautner - Eu Não Peço Desculpa
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Sings 'Agnes, Queen of Sorrow'
• Madonna - Don't Tell Me
• Marisa Monte - Rose and Charcoal 
• Marhaug | Asheim - Grand Mutation 

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Eyes:

• Studio Fall/Winter 2025 

Ears:

• Robert Morris - The Music of Robert Morris (Fang-Tzu Liu, Gythfeldt, Kampmeier)
• Mark Fell & Pat Thomas - Reality Is Not a Theory 
• Selfhaters Orchestra - The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same 
• Kevin Drumm - Tannenbaum 

 

Friday, December 19, 2025

Ears:

• Yara Asmar - Everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much
• Raven Chacon -  Voiceless Mass

Eyes & Ears:

• The Studio Museum in Harlem
• To Be a Place
• From the Studio: Fifty-eight Years of Artists in Residence
• From Now: A Collection in Context 
• Tom Lloyd 
• Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community
• Christopher Myers - Harlem Is a Myth 
• Béatrice Côté and Lola Lefrançois - Evergreen
• Eric N. Mack - Fishers of Men
• Diane Simpson - Formal Wear
• Sam Contis - Phases
• Rhea Dillon - Heads
• Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling
• Faith Ringgold - Artist, Storyteller, Activist
• 2025 Student Exhibition 

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Ears:

• Charlemagne Palestine - Alloy
• Sunn O))) - Oracle
• [Ahmed] - Giant Beauty 

Eyes & Ears:

• Henri Rousseau - A Painter's Secrets

 

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Eyes:

• Fanny Howe - Holy Smoke

Ears:

• Kevin Richard Martin - Frequencies for Leaving Earth Vol.1
• Charlemagne Palestine - Four Manifestations on Six Elements 
• Ikue Mori - Garden 
• Bruce Russell - Howling and Instability at High Volume Settings
• Jlinn - Dark Lotus 

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Eyes:

• Sharon Kivland - These are Addressed to You

Ears:

• Yara Asmar - Everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much 
• Luc Ferrari - Didascalies
• Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware 
• Low - Hey What 
• Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime 
• The Cat & Bells Club - s/t 
• The Bug vs Ghost Dubs - Implosion 

Monday, December 15, 2025

Eyes:

• Susan Hiller - Working Through Objects

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Chansons pour le corps; Et si tout entiére maintenant
• Schlippenbach Trio - Winterreise
• Charlemagne Palestine - In Mid-Air
• [Ahmed] - Sama'a (Audition)
• Nino Rota - Fellini's Roma 
• John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album 
• Lovens / Lytton - Was It Me? 
• Sun Ra - Celestial Love 
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy 

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Eyes:

• Alex Da Corte - The Tomb 

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Interrupteur /Tautologos 3
• Kevin Drumm - Tannenbaum 

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Eyes:

• Kevin Killian - Selected Amazon Reviews: The 'Christmas' Edition 

Eyes & Ears:

• Jana Euler - The Center Does Not Fold
• Monika Baer - Scweine Steine Scherben
• Milton Avery - The Figure
• Louise Bourgeois - Gathering Wool
• Jennifer Packer - Dead Letter
• Alex Da Corte - Parade
• Alberto Pitta & Elian Almeida - Carnival, Struggle and Other Brazilian Stories 
• Alex Katz
• Hans-Peter Feldmann 
• Joan Mitchell - To Define a Feeling: 1960-1965 
• Ming Fay - Midnite Porridge 
• Franz Gertsch - Presence 
• Nancy Shaver - Bus Stop
• Nathlie Provosty - Threshold Speech
• Into the Changed Air
• Eamon Ore-Giron - Conversations with Snakes, Birds, and Stars 
• Through Dusk
• Phoebe Helander - Paintings from the Orange Room 
• Pam Lins & Roger White - Laterness
• Made In Philly
• Matthew Cerletty - End of the Line
• Joe Overstreet - To the North Star 

Friday, December 12, 2025

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Et tournent les sons (Ensemble Laborintus & eRikm)
• Conga de los Hoyos - Carnival Music of Eastern Cuba
• Charlemagne Palestine - Continuous Sound Forms
• Phew - Voice Hardcore 
• Art Ensemble of Chicago - Naked 
• Boredoms - Super Æ 

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Eyes:

• Bomb Issue 174 / Winter 2026

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Madame de Shanghai; Après presque rien; Visage 2 
• The Fred Anderson Trio - Live at the Village Lounge 
• Mauricio Kagel - Der Tribun; ... nach einer Lektüre von Orwell 
• Evan Parker Transatlantic Art Ensemble - Boustrophedon 

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Eyes:

• Portable Gray Vol.8 No.1 / Spring 2025 "Pope.L: The Chicago Years"

Ears:

• CM von Hausswolff - Rays of Beauty
• Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - On the Beach 
• Caetano Veloso - Circuladô
• Paul Abbott - SLIP 

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Eyes:

• Jonathan González - Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars

Ears:

• The Fred Anderson Trio - Live at the Velvet Lounge
• Luc Ferrari - Piano & Percussion Works (Satoko Inoue, Toshiyuki Matsukura) 
• Carl Michael von Hausswolff - To Make Things Happen in the Bunker via the Micro Way 
• Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra - Atlantis 
• The Bug vs Ghost Dubs - Implosion 
• Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 

Monday, December 8, 2025

Ears:

• CM von Hausswolff - Basic
• Sunn O))) - The GrimmRobe Demos
• Hieroglyphic Being - The Fourth Dimension of a Nubian Mystic
• Magas -  Explanatory Denial
• Pat Thomas -  Hikmah
• Frank Ocean - Endless 
• Brian Eno  with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (Expanded Edition)

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Eyes:

• Sunday New York Times

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Archives Sauvées des Eaux
• Judith Hamann - Music for Cello and Humming
• Jorge Ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda
• Jack Rose - Kensington Blues 
• King Midas Sound - Waiting for You 

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Ears:

• Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos - River Falling Love
• George Lewis - Sequel (For Lester Bowie)
• Luc Ferrari - Piano & Percussion Works (Satoko Inoue, Toshiyuki Matsukura)
• Josh Abrams - Cipher 
• Éliane Radigue - Triptych
• Tony Allen - Black Voices
• Susie Ibarra - Folklorico
• Joyce - Visions of Dawn
• Sun Ra - Languidity 

 

 

Friday, December 5, 2025

Ears:

• Luc Ferrari - Patajaslocha; L'escalier des aveugles (Le Banquet) 
• Chris Marker, Trevor Duncan - La Jetée
• [Ahmed] -  Sama'a (Audition)
• Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release
• Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
• Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation
• Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Eyes:

• Asuna - "Crescentmoon Leaves" from Fullmoon Maple 

Ears:

• John Cage - The Text Pieces I - The Artist Pieces
• David Behrman / Paul DeMarinis / Fern Friedman / Terri Hanlon / Anne Klingensmith - She's More Wild... 
• Kendrick Lamar -  good kid, m.A.A.d city
• Luc Ferrari - Son Mémorisé 
• Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - When Angels Speak of Love
• The New Blockaders + Thurston Moore - The Voluptulist
• Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun 
• Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (Private Parts): The Bar 

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Ears

• Joélle Léandre / George Lewis - Transatlantic Voices 
• Alice Coltrane with Strings - World Galaxy 
• Coil - The Ape of Naples 
• Aldous Harding - Designer 
• 90° Degrees of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds from the Caribbean 

Eyes & Ears:

• Friends & Neighbors with Isaiah Collier

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Eyes:

• Public Collectors - Morning Walks (Totally Wired, Neighborhood Post-Minimalism, Delivery Directions, Garbage Numbers, Down and Out) 

Ears:

• Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (Extended Edition)
• Michelle Mercure - Beside Herself
• Mazarin - We're Already There 
• Theo Parrish -  DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward

Eyes & Ears:

• BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions 

Monday, December 1, 2025

Eyes:

• Public Collectors - Johnnie Anderson's Botany & Zoology Drawings
• Public Collectors - Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago
• Public Collectors - Another Century of Chemical Warfare
• Marc Fischer - Public Publishing Diary / WSPUF? 

Ears:

• Terminal 4 - s/t
• Maggi Payne - Crystal 
• Circuit des Yeux - -io 
• Pocahaunted - Make It Real 
• Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun 
• Yara Asmar - everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much 

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Eyes:

• Sunday New York Times

Ears:

• Terminal 4 - When I'm Falling
• Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley & Steve Swallow - Emphasis & Flight, 1961
• Text of Light - Metal Box 
• Yara Asmar - everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much 
• Chris Watson - Outside the Circle of Fire