Random music news for Thursday, April 17, 2025
Oh, so that’s why there are suddenly dolls everywhere. I get it now. Music news for April 17, 2025, looks like this. More music news? Go here. BONUS: Need some BS New Age
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Ongoing History of New Music
Ongoing History Daily: The weirdest hidden track…EVER!
It was once very common for an artist to hide a song on a CD. Maybe it was an unlisted track. Maybe it was buried deep in the silence after you think the
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: How many women are there in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Er…
It’s an understatement to say that rock has been dominated by dudes since its birth in the early 1950s. Consequently, most of the inductees in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Whatever happened to the MiniDisc?
Even after the CD took off in the 1990s, the music and electronics industries were looking for the next format. Sony thought they had a solution with the MiniDisc, a portable digital music
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1047: The rise and fall of the MP3
In 1994, a former fibre optic technician named Ricky Adar was given a presentation of some new technology. Adar, who is British, had recently turned his attention toward the music industry. He’d become
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Crazy Norwegian Black Metal Kids
Black metal is the Satanic and anti-Christian offshoot of speed metal. Members of these bands often find themselves in trouble with the law. Take the case of Illvastar, the bass player for a
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Tracking down real-world Red Hot Chili Peppers landmarks
It’s always interesting when you find that something from a favourite song on an album has an analogue in the real world. Let’s look at the Red Hot Chili Peppers. What bridge is
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The health hazards of being in Nine Inch Nails
In the early days of Nine Inch Nails, anything in the band needed hazard pay and an excellent health care plan. Gigs were so rough and violent that injuries were common. And I’m
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The Canadian bootleg caper
Before digital music piracy, there were physical bootlegs. Unauthorized recordings first started showing up on vinyl in the late 1960s and increased in popularity throughout the 70s and 80s. Cops were often busy
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: How radio changed the home.
With all our technology, it’s easy to ignore and forget that we’re only about a hundred years deep into having music and audio information delivered directly to us. Radios started to come into
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Remembering Sinead O’Connor
[Still off on a spring speaking tour. New shows start up again next week. – AC] When the news broke of Sinead O’Connor’s death on July 26, 2023, there were a couple of different reactions.
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