It happens around once a year. I pack things up and take my Ongoing History of New Music/Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry Act on the road. This tour will be
Read MoreAccording to Luminate, the watcher of all things involving music consumption, has news for us. Every single day, 150,000 songs are uploaded to the streaming music services every day. Extrapolating things, that’s 1.050,000
Read MoreFor 29 seasons, South Park‘s theme song–written and performed by Primus–has been altered several times. They’ve done it again for this year. They to, since Trey Parker and Matt Stone are trolling Trump
Read MoreUp until now, the English grindcore band Napalm Death held the record for the shortest song committed to record. “You Suffer,” released in 1987 runs exactly 1.316 seconds and appears on the album
Read MoreAs of 2026, there are something like 250 million songs available to the streaming music services. How do we even begin to wrap our heads around a number like that? Well, the first
Read MoreIn January 1996, Bono and his family were on vacation as guests of fellow musician Jimmy Buffett. Buffett had been extolling the awesomeness of genuine Jamaican jerk chicken, so the decision was made
Read MoreThe Merriam-Webster dictionary has official added “trash bandit.” Toronto people know what this means. As for music news for September 18, 2026… BONUS: Tilly Norwood is an AI “actor” and is doing interviews.
Read MoreLuminate has the latest numbers for CD and vinyl sales. Streaming numbers:
Read MoreWhen i was a fledgling teenage drummer in the late 70s, I looked up to two people: Rush’s Neil Peart and Gary McCracken of Max Webster. In fact, my second-ever concert was Rush
Read MoreIt took Ed Sheeran decades to build this career. A lot of it has cratered since Macklemore was dropped from the Loops tour for expressing his views on Palestine and Israel. Here’s a
Read MoreThe early days of punk were anything-goes times. The idea was to do virtually everything differently, especially you could be extra strange and provocative. Enter The Cramps, a New York-based band that was
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