Caitlin Keogh
January 14, 2025

1. Plie, Lynn Stanford, 1983
   
2. If Teardrops Were Pennies, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, 1973
   
3. My Tennessee Mountain Home, Dolly Parton, 1973
   
4. Fist City, Loretta Lynn, 1968
   
5. Amigo's Guitar, Kitty Wells, 1959
   
6. Pauvre Martin, Barbara, 1969
   
7. After Laughter (Comes Tears), Wendy Rene, 1964
   
8. Salad Days, Young Marble Giants, recording released 2007
   
9. Seven Words, Weyes Blood, 2016
   
10. Solace, Myriam Gendron, 2014
    
11. Love No More - 2024 Remaster, The Durutti Column, 1989
    
12. La festa d'Imeneo: Vaghi amori, grazie amate (Ed. Sanderson), Nicola Porpora, Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, 2019
    
13. It Is What It Is, Blood Orange, 2013
    
14. Jackie, Sinéad O'Connor, 1987
    
15. The Tinderbox (of A Heart), Cocteau Twins, 1983
    
16. Only You, Yaz, 2023
    
17. Norman fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey, 2019    
    
18. Catherine, PJ Harvey, 1998
    
19. Freight train, Elizabeth Cotten, 1989
    
20. Reverence, Lynn Stanford, 1983

Caitlin Keogh (b. 1982 in Anchorage, Alaska) lives and works in New York. Her paintings were recently included in New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA. In 2021, Keogh completed a mural in the city of Holbaek, Denmark in conjunction with Holbaek Art. Keogh participated in Art Basel Parcours 2019, Basel, Switzerland, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Melas Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece; and MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. Her work has also been exhibited at Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France; MoMA Warsaw, Poland; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany; the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, NY; and The Church, Sag Harbor, NY.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; the Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.

New Year’s Eve 2024 into 2025
December 31, 2024

A holiday mixtape from host Nate Heiges in honor of New Year's Eve, including a greeting from the inimitable Guy Lombardo. HAPPY 2025!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30, TrV 176: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang),    Richard Strauss,Berliner Philharmoniker,Herbert von Karajan, 1995
2. Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney (Special Holiday Edition), The Paulette Sisters, c. 1950s
   
3. He's a Chubby Little Fellow (with The Pinafores), Gene Autry & The Pinafores, 1947
   
4. Can You Get to That, Funkadelic, 1971
   
5. Baby It's Cold Outside; Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 1949
   
6. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Billie Holiday, 1958
   
7. The Merriest, June Christy, 1961
   
8. Medley: Winter Wonderland Sleigh Ride, Dolly Parton, 1984
   
9. Blue Christmas, Elvis Presley, 2012
   
10. Another Lonely Christmas, Prince, 1993
    
11. Christmas in California, Raff Pylon & Snoop Dogg, 2020
    
12. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House, Cab Calloway, 1948
13. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holiday, Perry Como, 1959
    
14. All Alone For Christmas, Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers, 2001
    
15. Rebel Jew, Silver Jews, 1994
    
16. The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is), Gene Autry & the Cass County Boys, 1947
17. El Rorro (Mexican), Valentino Production Music, 1993
    
18. Bang a Gong (Get It On), T. Rex, 1971
    
19. Santa's Beard - 1991 Remix; The Beach Boys, Mark Linett, Sweet, 1964
    
20. Fairytale of New York, The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, 1988
    
21. Sleigh Ride, Johnny Mathis, 1958

1. 7 O'clock News/Silent Night, Simon & Garfunkel, 1966
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,  Judy Garland, 1944
3. Merry Christmas Darling, Carpenters, 1984
4. A Shitty Gay Song About You, Smoothboi Ezra, 2018
5. I'll Be Home For Christmas, Kacey Musgraves with Lana Del Rey, 2019
6. The Christmas Waltz, Peggy Lee, 1960
7. 'Deed I Do, Blossom Dearie, 1957
8. God Bless The Child, Billie Holiday, 1956
9. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Helen Forrest, 2004
10. Little Altar Boy, Glen Campbell, 1968
11. The Little Boy That Santa Forgot, Vera Lynn, 2009
12. Everything Happens To Me, Chet Baker, 1987
13. I Want To Come Home For Christmas, Marvin Gaye, 2019
14. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), Darlene Love, 1963
15. Quarantine Christmas, Aaron Taos, 2019
16. Pretty Paper, Willie Nelson, 1979
17. White Christmas; Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers, John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra; 1942
18. Snow, Harry Nilsson, 1971
19. The Virgin Mary Had One Son, The Staple Singers, 1962
20. 500 Miles - Live At UCLA, Los Angeles 1961, The Kingston Trio
21. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? Lena Horne, 2007
22. Guy Lombardo Wishes You A Very Happy New Year, Guy Lombardo    1961
23. I Wish You Love, Nancy Wilson, 1960
    
    

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Christmas!
December 17, 2024

For this Christmas special, host Nate Heiges goes deep into the past of commercial Christmases. From 1962-68 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company produced special Christmas records. Listen to this nostalgic-in-the-sixties slice of Americana featuring Julie Andrews, André Previn, the Vienna Boys Choir, Luciano Pavarotti, and many more.

Nicholas Sullivan
December 3, 2024

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

Sculptor Nicholas Sullivan joins me to share a surprisingly sensitive punk/hardcore set in honor of his great exhibition Chrysler at Clearing Gallery in New York City, on view through January 11, 2025.

Sullivan studied at both UMass Amherst and MassArt in Boston, and after graduating with an MFA, he taught at MassArt for 6 years. In his introductory sculpture class, “Form Study”, he encouraged his students to really get to know a material by slowly and continually changing and working it until the object finds itself, or manifests its own specificity. He was delighted and amazed by the strange and beautiful objects his beginner students would come up with, and this process of sequentially manipulating material into form is how he works now. Sullivan describes how a series of material experimentations led him to the form of the wood stove, a recurring motif in his artwork. He also discusses how important it is to have art mentors—people whose work forges an inspirational path of exploration of form, meaning, and process.

His current exhibition features several stove-based sculptures, and Sullivan takes us through a sequence of different formal and conceptual moves in the show. Some of the works incorporate collage, others utilize a high-gloss auto body finish; some pieces are black boxes to the viewer, some have peep holes, and others have perforated skins allowing us to peer inside. Nicholas unpacks how these different forms and ways of making relate to history and meaning in a really beautiful way.

He also helps Nate understand the history and differences between Punk and Hardcore, and we talk about the different scenes, movements, and ideologies that find their homes in this genre of music. We go from classic English punk to Swedish d-beat, queercore, Japanese hardcore, and powerviolence. We discuss what it means to rock out in the studio vs. the transcendence of being in a collective experience at a live punk show. We also identify particular tracks that garner perhaps Sullivan’s highest compliment: “It makes you want to put your head through a wall!”

1. In My Eyes ,   Minor Threat    1981
2. SQRM,   I Cant Find My Knife  
   
3. Hittinpunchinstabbinshooting ,   Driller Killer    1994
   
4. Want Us Dead,    Limp Wrist    2016
   
5. My Rules,    Void    1982
   
6. Smash Divisions,   disrupt    1994
   
7. Crudo Soy,    Los Crudos    2016
   
8. Privilegio Blanco,    Abism    2023
   
9. Cockroaches,    Nailbomb    1994
   
10. All White,    Die Kreuzen    1984
    
11. I Got Your Number,    Cock Sparrer    1982
    
12. Charity Hilarity,    Flux of Pink Indians    1982
    
13. Warsystem,    The Shitlickers    1982
    
14. G.L.O.S.S. (We're from the Future),    G.L.O.S.S.    2016
    
15. Q: And Children A: And Children,    Discharge    2003
    
16. Youth of Today,    Youth Of Today    1986
    
17. Failed,    Cult Ritual    2009
    
18. World Peace,    Cro-Mags    2000
    
19. Black-Site,    Tower 7   2021
    
20. Abuse Excuse,    Mind Eraser    2006
    
21. Endless Blockade for Pussyfooter,    Gis(m)    1997
    
22. Fuck the Border,    Propagandhi    2001
    
23. Dead Town,    The Vicious    2008
    
24. Wolfpack,    D.Y.S.    1983
    
25. Glue,    Enemy  
    
26. The Roll Call,    Firewalker    2019
    
27. Drop Dead,    Siege    2015
    
28. Hardcore for Hardcore,    The Rival Mob    2010
29. Sanctuary,    Amebix    2011
30. Animal Liberation,    Mob 47    1984
31. Los Angeles,    Hoax    2013
32. Force Of Habit,    Crossed Out    1991
33. Upsidedown Cross,    Upsidedown Cross    1991
34. No Moderation,    Government Warning    2006
35. Blank Stare,    White Hell   
36. Spudboy,    Spazz    2016
37. Paid In Blood,    XweaponX    2023
38. Can't Tell No One,   Negative Approach    1981
39. Grim Reaper,    Siege    2015
40. Paranoid,    Masshysteri    2013
41. Horrible Person,    Rat Henry    2024

Nicholas Sullivan (b. 1987) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Sullivan earned his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, and his B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. Recent exhibitions include; Chrysler, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY; Spitting Image, Underdonk, Brooklyn; NY Everblue, International Waters, New York, NY; Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, MX;  Make Hay in the Sun, HG, Chicago, IL; NY; Domino, Shoot The Lobster, New York, NY; Comfort Animal, A-L Gallery, Seoul SK; Neu, No Place Gallery, Columbus OH, ; The World Without Us, Brennan & Griffin, New York NY; Gist & Gesture, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL; Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.