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Cover by Harvey Eisenberg.
Walt Disney's Chip'n'Dale #12 (1957). On the cover, Chip and Dale have just exchanged Christmas presents and opened the boxes to see that they each got the other an acorn.
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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things can indeed be effortless and light, because magicians walk among us youtu.be/uQDwt4MOZdY?...
Yo La Tengo (with Norah Jones) - Encores - 2025-12-18 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
YouTube video by Chad Sclove
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December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Gasoline Alley by Frank King from December 18, 1921.
Walt is telling baby Skeezix a bedtime story in front of the fireplace when suddenly they float away to Santa's home. He greets them excitedly and gives them a tour. He shows them the toys and the reindeer and then introduces them to Jack Frost, who is going to take them home on Santa's sleigh. In the final panel, Walt is sitting with Skeezix at the fireplace telling him that's the end of the story and it's time for bed.
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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tylerwilcox.bsky.social
An hour's worth of SML searching for the magic of the moment in Brooklyn earlier this year.
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
SML - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, January 11, 2025 The LA-based jazz/improv/electronic collective SML put out their second LP earlier this year — How You Been. And lo, it was good. But it's....
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December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh discusses her album 'Strange Heavens,' a chordless trio recording with Ambrose Akinmusire and Tyshawn Sorey that explores anxiety, release, and the human tendency to choose comfort over unknown possibility.

Surfin' Bass — Linda May Han Oh Rides an Uncertain Wave:
Linda May Han Oh's 'Strange Heavens' | The Tonearm
The bassist discusses her album 'Strange Heavens,' a chordless trio recording with Ambrose Akinmusire and Tyshawn Sorey that explores anxiety, release, and the human tendency to choose familiar comfort over unknown possibility.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, & London Vocal Project • Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler)

February 20 • Edition Records

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December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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From UK hardcore to Uruguayan future-ancient complexity, from Texan dancehall poetry to utopian Uzbek electro, French ambient house bliss to politicized Colombian arena-techno punk I GOT YOU.... Again, abundance, abundance, afuckingbundance, let's go.
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
Our guide to the year’s crucial electronic LPs.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Michael Ullman on the previously unheard live recording "Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank" (Resonance Records). Ragged through and through, this varied set is nonetheless a vigorous delight.

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Jazz Album Review: Sun Ra and his Arkestra Live at The Left Bank - Cosmic Swing and Ragged Glory - The Arts Fuse
Sun Ra was often deliberately far out, as we used to say, and also joyously entertaining.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Jon Garelick reviews new albums from Billy Hart, Phil Haynes & Free Country, Pat Thomas, Kalia Vandever, and the Webber/Morris Big Band.

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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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These are the best contemporary classical albums of 2025.
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
Our guide to the year’s crucial contemporary classical releases.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Excellent news for SML heads.
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Booker Stardrum • Close-up On The Outside

feat. Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Chris Williams, Lester St. Louis, Logan Hone, Michael Coleman

February 27 • We Jazz Records

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December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
be-ar-s.bsky.social
Favorite Music of 2025
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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carlzoilus.bsky.social
My Slate music-year-in-review is up! Tried to celebrate the humanity of music makers vs. AI slop, those who value autonomy in a time of corporate concentration, & those who speak up about the state of the world in a time of suppression, brutality, and enshittification. slate.com/culture/2025...
The 10 Best Albums of 2025—Plus the 20 Songs That Met the Moment
The top albums, singles, and protest anthems of the year.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Here are my TOP TEN ALBUMS of 2025

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Column | The top 10 albums of 2025
The year’s best albums include ambitious pop from Rosalía and Addison Rae, inventive rap from Playboi Carti and Bruiser Wolf, and more.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The 10 best jazz albums of 2025
The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
So… what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar ...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The 50 best albums of 2025
The 50 best albums of 2025
From prog cabaret and joyful jangle-pop to a rapper who rhymed ‘bonkers’ with ‘chompers’, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 30 Guardian music writers
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December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025

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Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Lil Wayne's ‘Tha Carter II’ dropped 20 years ago today. 💿

A look back: stereogum.com/2480834/lil-...
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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04 Dec 2025
Jimmy the frog magestically rides through Heathcliff's snowy backyard on the back of a musk ox as Heathcliff cheers. The Nutmeg family watches from their back window, and Iggy says "Jimmy is riding a musk ox again."
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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2025 jazz top 10:

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Best Jazz Albums of 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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realheathcliffs.bsky.social
03 Dec 2025
Heathcliff plays guitar between two large amps on an ice floe in the Arctic. A group of narwhals poke their heads out of the ocean to watch the performance. Two penguins look on, and one of them says "Narwhals love to see him shred."
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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always be there
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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slate.com
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The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The top two are both by the same artist.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2025

The future of jazz lies in places where it's less insular and more artistically adventurous. These records are outstanding examples of that impulse.

READ: tinyurl.com/BestJazz25
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM