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Ongoing History Daily: Eco-friendly vinyl

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Eco-Friendly, Recycling, Vinyl

Vinyl is one of the most durable ways of storing music but it’s also not great for the environment. First,

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Ongoing History Daily: The Killers and New Order

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Iron Maiden, Killers, New Order, Paul Di'Anno

All the guys in The Killers are fans of groups from the 80s, especially those who were able to fuse

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Ongoing History Daily: Kurt’s vocal problems during the making of Nevermind

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Butch Vig, Kurt Cobain, Nevermind

Nirvana’s Nevermind album has gone down as one of the great rock albums. There were, however, challenges recording the thing.

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 972: The history of remixes

January 20, 2023January 19, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Albums, Edison Cylinders, Emile Berliner, Radio Edits, Remixes, Top 40

When humans first started making audio recordings of music, we were limited to how long those recordings could be. An

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Ongoing History Daily: The musician who returned from the dead

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Model Army, Resurrection, White Light

Justin Sullivan is the leader of a criminally under-appreciated British band called New Model Army. Despite long odds and much

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Ongoing History Daily: A Bob Hope impersonator? WTF?

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Backstage, Bing Crosby, Golf, Iggy Pop, Rider

It’s time for another look at the greatest contract riders in history. The rider is the part of the deal

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Ongoing History Daily: Killing mice with speed–and music.

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Amphetimines, Mice, Ramones

Remember the Ramones movie Rock ‘n’ Roll High School from 1979? Part of the plot included mice that exploded when

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Ongoing History Daily: Weezer’s attitude towards the music business

January 17, 2023January 16, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Business, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

Weezer has been around since the early 90s, so they’ve seen an insane amount of change and evolution in the

Ongoing History Daily: The Arctic Monkeys pop-up bar

January 16, 2023January 14, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Arctic Monkeys, Touring

Going on tour is exhausting. The travel, hotel rooms, bad food, lack of sleep—it can really take its toll. And

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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 971: Couples in music

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alan Cross, Couples in Music, Cramps, Married, New Order, Ongoing History, Sonic Youth, Sundays, Talking Heads, White Stripes

Have you ever had to work together with your significant other? I don’t mean things like housework, parenting, or anything

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Ongoing History Daily: A where-are-they-now story featuring Presidents of the United States of America

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Dave Derderer, Presidents of the United States of America, PUSA, Where Are They Now

The Presidents of the United States of America was a weird alt-rock band from Seattle who came out of nowhere

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