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One person is dead and two injured outisde a Phish concert

September 21, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The vibes at a Phish show are always one of community and togetherness. Not this time. One Friday (Sept 19), Phish was playing one of three shows in Hampton, Virginia. Around 9:30, cops

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Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox tackles The Who

September 21, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Mystery masked guitarist Sidney Jake paid a visit to the kitchen for this edition of Sunday Lunch and Toyah is barely contained (in more ways than one; you’ll see what I mean). Robert

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Funny/Weird

Our sweetly naive opera singer heard Peter Schilling for the first time

September 21, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Training to be an opera singer as a young person is hard. You’re so immersed in the genre that you don’t have time to listen to anything else. Now Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The

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Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Comedy, Catharsis, and Black Boy Joy

September 21, 2025 Andrew Dick 0 Comments 1 min read

He got in one little fight—and reminded a generation they were allowed to feel. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wasn’t just a sitcom. It was a cultural reset. In the 1990s, Will Smith’s

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CrimeMusic News

The dead body in rapper D4vd’s Tesla is causing problems.

September 20, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

On September 8, someone in L.A. noted a very bad smell coming from a Tesla Model X that had been sitting in an impound lot for a few days. Police were called, and

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Music News

UPS lost Johnny Marr’s guitars. He wasn’t happy.

September 20, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Earlier this week, Johnny Marr took to social media in hopes of lighting a fire under UPS which seems to have lost some of his guitars. After some DMing to and fro, things

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Random music news for Saturday, September 19, 2025

September 20, 2025 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2 min read

This is cruel and dystopian. These toilet stalls won’t give out toilet paper until you watch an ad first. No such problem with getting music news for September 19, 2025. BONUS: Agree or

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ConcertsMusic News

Morrissey has canceled shows because of death threat in Ottawa

September 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Morrissey has canceled plenty of shows in the past, but this is a first. A 26-year-old man from Ottawa has now in custody after making a death threat against Mozzer on social media

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Concerts

Photos and a review of Pulp at Budweiser Stage in Toronto

September 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

[This time, Ming Wu was sent to cover the show. – AC] Britpop is having a resurgence this year, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to see one of the genre’s greats.

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ControversyMusic News

This won’t sit well. Kristi Noem has posted video of an ICE raid soundtracked by Nirvana

September 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The Director of Homeland Security and well-known puppy killer Kristi Noem (otherwise known as ICE Barbie) is proud of all those brutal immigration crackdowns going throughout the US. Today she proudly posted this

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Music News

More than 400 artists and labels have launched a cultural boycott of Israel

September 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

The issues regarding Israel are insanely polarizing. On the Palestinian/Gaza side, there’s the new No Music for Genocide, which is described as “response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza; ethnic cleansing of the Occupied

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