[Spring break! A new show next week. -AC] There is no question that the vast majority of rock history is centred around dudes. It has been a very, very male thing. Not always,
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[It’s both spring break and Women’s History Month, so let’s revisit a couple of relevant shows. New episodes start up the last weekend of March. -AC] Many years ago when I was just
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A boy cannot become a man in the Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazon rain forget until he can stand being stung by a swarm of bullet ants. They’re called that because it’s said
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The biggest tech story of recent years has been the rise of artificial intelligence. The subject of AI is everywhere. The Wikipedia article on ChatGPT, the company that got things rolling in this
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Once upon a time, I was deep into collecting bootleg recordings of my favourite bands. This obsession came from a really good place. At least I thought so. I’d already bought all the
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On December 24, 1877, Thomas Edison filed a patent for an invention he referred to as a “talking machine.” For the first time ever, audio could be captured, played back, stored, shared, and
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We would not be sitting here talking about rock music if it weren’t for people of African descent. If you start in the present and begin to trace things backward to important innovations
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I really, really want to believe. There are trillions of galaxies in the observable universe, each containing billions of stars. There’s gotta be something out there. We can’t be alone, can we? Wait:
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Decades ago, I was the best man for my buddy Charlie and placed in charge of driving the bridal car from the church to the reception. The happy couple was in the back
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A year ago, I began what will unfortunately be a regular series of these programs from now on. It’s an annual look back on the musicians we lost in the previous year. Rock
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I’m not gonna lie: I’m addicted to listicles. Not the click-baity ones that have sub-headlines like “And You Won’t Believe #6!” I’m only interested in the ones that offer interesting or weird facts.
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