Ongoing History Daily: Shirley Manson literally gives a crap (or leaves one, actually)
If there’s one person you do not want to mess with is Garbage frontperson Shirley Manson. She has never taken
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Ongoing History of New Music
Ongoing History Daily: Rivers Cuomo’s Harvard years
After Weezer released their “blue” album, Rivers Cuomo quickly got bored with doing the same thing over and over again.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 963: Musicians battling disease, part 1
The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, and chemistry along with a few bits, like
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Ongoing History Daily: A dumb U2 move
U2 didn’t become one of the richest bands in the world without managing their money. But they haven’t always been
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Ongoing History Daily: Oasis gets noticed for the first time
This is one of those unbelievable overnight success stories that somehow manage to happen in the music industry. In late
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Ongoing History Daily: Censored Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has always wanted to push things to the limits with all the videos he
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Ongoing History Daily: The Beastie Boys made the dictionary. Or did they?
One of the no-so-great rock’n’roll haircuts is the mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. But why do
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 962: The History of Distortion and Feedback
Once upon a time not that long ago, all music was expected to sound clean and clear. Pure, accurate, right
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Ongoing History Daily: Brandon loves Frank
Growing Up in Vegas, Killers singer Brandon Richard Flowers had a chance to soak up the, er, ambience of the
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Ongoing History Daily: The original record collectors, part 3
Here’s one more story about how women, not men, were the original record collectors when recorded music first became available
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Ongoing History Daily: The original record collectors, part 1
Today, the vast majority of record collectors are male. Just go to any record show and you’ll see what I
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