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Healing in Harmony Holiday Auction features items from Rush, Hip, Billy Talent

November 27, 2022November 26, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Billy Talent, Corey Hart, Geddy Lee, Healing in Harmony Holiday Auction, Make Music Matter, Michael Buble, Music Therapy, Royal Wood, Rush, Sum 41, The Tragically Hip

Now that American Thanksgiving is over, the mad dash to the end of the year is on — which means

Having trouble finding a name for your new band? This site may be able to help.

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aristator, Band Name Generator

Finding a name for your band is a torturous process. Consider: In the old days, everyone had to argue until

Here’s a video tour of Flea’s house courtesy of Architectural Digest

November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Architectural Digest, Flea, Red Hot Chili Peppers

For Architectural Digest to do a feature on your house, it’s gotta be pretty spectacular. Flea’s hilltop pile fits the

Jack White can name any Beatles song in one second. Can you?

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Jack White

Jack White knows his Beatles, showing that he can name any of their songs in only one second. And this

Need some scary sounds? This is a recording of the Earth’s magnetic field

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Earth, ESA, Magnetic Field, Solar Storm

I love when scientists find ways to present weird audio. In this example, boffins and musicians figured out a way

Can you make an edible record? Turns out you can.

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Biodegradble, Edible, Justin Pape, Vinyl

While we all love our vinyl, the format is notoriously environmentally unfriendly. Not only is polyvinyl chloride a fossil fuel

It’s that time of year for wild metal-themed Halloween displays

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Halloween, Magical Light Shows, Master of Puppets, Metallica, Stranger Things

There are some people who get WAY too much into Halloween–but at least the rest of us can marvel at

Someone needs to sample this sound of a meteoroid striking Mars

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments InSight, Mars, Meteor, Meteroid, NASA

I’m pretty sure you can replicate this sound with a Roland Jupiter 8, but why when you can use something

Maybe to save the bees we should be using music. Stay with me on this.

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beekeeping, Bees

For the last couple of decades, we’ve been very worried about the collapse of the bee population. Pesticide? Mites? Some

This metal band is re-releasing an album with actual weed pressed into the vinyl

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Cannabis, Dope, Dopesmoker, Third Man Records, Vinyl

Leave it to Jack White’s Third Man Records to come up with yet another interesting way to release an album.

NASA has captured the actual sound of a black hole

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Hole, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA, Perseus, Sound

Yes, yes. I know that in space no one can hear your scream. (If you don’t get the reference, you

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