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Shirley Manson of Garbage shows everyone EXACTLY why the band had to cancel the rest of their tour. Prepare yourself.

August 7, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 6 min read

Fans of Garbage were disappointed when the group had to cancel the rest of their summer tour due to Shirley Manson injuring herself while on the road. This is the message we got.

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De La Soul has a pop-up donut shop in NYC

August 2, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

I love the pop-up concept for…well, just about anything. In the case of hip-hop legends De La Soul, their pop-up store in New York City is all about donuts.

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What would Rage’s “Killing in the Name” sound like if played by 1000 musicians?

July 22, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

“Killing in the Name” remains one of alt-rock greatest and most angriest songs. If the four guys in the band could make it sound that awesome, what about a thousand musicians playing it

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Ongoing History Daily: The first rock’n’roll roadie?

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

We all know about roadies, right? They’re the men and women who are responsible from moving artists from concert to concert, transporting, setting up, operating and tearing down all the gear that goes

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For some reason, NASA transmitted a Missy Elliott song to Venus

July 17, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Missy Elliott has officially gone interplanetary. This week, NASA conducted an experiment to see if they could transmit a single from Earth to Venus and back again using some radio antennas they use

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How many Spotify playlists are there? You won’t believe it.

July 10, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

One of the interesting things about Spotify is that they’re usually pretty lose about statistics and user engagement. Here are a couple of recent numbers that blew my mind. If you’re a user,

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Let’s take a tour of Maynard James Keenan’s vineyard

July 7, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan was such a fan of wine that he opened his own vineyard in Arizona. I’ve had some of what he produces and I’ve quite enjoyed them. Here’s a

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If you like drums, you MUST watch this

June 30, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Here are 350 drums participating in a call-and-response event without any rehearsal. Wild! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aric Improta (@aricimprota)

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This drummer raised money for cancer research by playing every Foo Fighters song in order

June 11, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

There are apparently 128 songs in the Foo Fighters canon and drummer Greg Parton knows them all. He decided to put that knowledge to charitable use by playing all of them nonstop in

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Cool tech: A performance simulator for musicians

June 9, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

You can practice and rehearse and practice and rehearse all you want but you have no idea how things will go down until you feature a real, live audience. How can artists better

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This choir boy is my new hero. You’ll see why.

May 24, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

In the olden days before the discovery of certain properties of helium, reaching notes like this would require gelding. Today, we have science that allows choir boys reach even higher notes than the

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