How many times have you heard Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” this year? A thousand? Ten thousand? Eleventy billion? While it may not reach the #1 spot on the
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Taylor Swift has generally been doing a good job staying away from politics, not wanting to divide her fanbase into Reds and Blues. Not overtly, anyway. But right wing MAGA wingnuts see something
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Back in the spring, Dr. Jagadeesh Pillai of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, set out to create the world’s “longest officially released song.” With a running time of 138 hours, 41 minutes and 20
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Are you an addicted TikToker? If you are, thanks for taking some time away from scrolling through videos for these important study results. A new study that surveyed 1,004 Americans tried to uncover
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Back in the aughts when Cage the Elephant was just starting to see success with their first album and songs like “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” they did what a lot of
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Off on vacation until the 18th, but that doesn’t excuse me from doing music news whilst I’m away. Here’s what’s happening for December 7, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Looking for
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[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions by a growing group of companies which are
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The Ongoing History of New Music debuted as a one-hour radio music documentary show on February 28, 1993. On the weekend of December 16-17, the 1000th episode of the program will run on
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In the spring of summer of 1973, Led Zeppelin was the biggest live act in the world. On May 4, they started a two-leg, 34-date tour of North America, their ninth time on
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After some big investments and a rare quarterly profit, Spotify is trimming about 1700 employees from its global workforce, citing strong financial headwinds. So why is the world’s biggest streaming music service struggling?
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[A report from Elisa FG. – AC] Five minutes doesn’t sound like much but according to data research, that’s the amount of usage time social media users have shaved off. As of October
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