Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox reheats some Living Colour
The kitchen is closed this week–Father’s Day, perhaps?–so Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have re-posted thsi version of “Cult of Personality” from Living Colour.
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What song does our adorably naive opera singer react to this week? The Cure? Okay…
With 2.17 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) has a nice gig reacting to rock songs she’s never heard before. Why? Because she was too busy studying
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Not music related, but this is very helpful when it comes to abbreviations used in texting and posting
Using abbreviations to save time and character count on texts and posts goes back to the days when no one thought we’d need more than 140 characters to express ourselves. The earliest have
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Spots on my UK Legends of Rock Music History Tour are filling up fast. Wanna go?
About eight years ago, I led a music tour of London with group of music fans. It was fantastic fun, and we agreed to do it again. But just as planning started, COVID
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I’m speaking at a U2 event today in Toronto. Wanna go?
There’s a place at 1245 St. Clair West in Toronto called Cat’s Cradle Sports and Spirits. Not only are they into sports and spirits, but the owners are massive fans of U2. Each
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Someone went a long way to make a stop-motion video of the Beastie Boys’ “Camouflage”
The original “Camouflage” music video, directed by Spike Jonze and illegally shot without permits on the streets of Los Angeles, is an all-time classic. Now comes this stop-motion version of the clip that
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Random music news for Saturday, June 20, 2026
Data centres will be the death of us. See? On the other hand, music news for June 20, 2026, is good for you. BONUS: Christopher Waltz and Sesame Street, together at last.
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The opening of Barack Obama’s presidential library was a star-studded affair. Look.
The best Trump could do for his Freedom 250-sponsored Great American State Fair was Vanilla Ice. And now he’s even been dumped for what will be a big MAGA rally on July 4
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The One Minute Music Book Club – Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves by Chris Dalla Riva
This is the kind of nerdy music reading I just love. With Uncharted Territory: What the Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves, Chris Dalla Riva uncovers some odd facts
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How do you discover new podcasts? For most people, it’s through YouTube
Sounds Profitable is a podcasting industry trade organization. They’ve got new research showing the methods by which people discover new podcasts. YouTube is king, followed by TikTok, and Instagram. Here’s a cool chart.
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Ongoing History: The Foo Fighters album that Dave Grohl hates
Many artists won’t go back and listen to their previous albums because all they hear are the mistakes and the things they should have done to make it better. But what’s done is
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