Random music news for Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Save the date! Manure Fest Expo is coming up! (Via Rick J). Let’s not draw any parallels with my selection of music news for November 19, 2025. BONUS: Revealed some humanoid robots last
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Ongoing History Daily: A selection of dead music storage formats
When it comes to buying music in physical form, there have been various formats. Vinyl, the 8-track, cassettes, and the CD are the successful ones, but have you heard of SA-CD? Blu-Ray Audio?
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1063: Weird tales of rock’n’roll sex
If there’s an official mission statement for the kind of music we all love, it’s “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll.” These are the three main food groups in this world. All three of these
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: I hate touring
Being in a touring rock band is fun at first but then moving from gig to gig, city to city and venue to venue can get real old real fast. You get lonely
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The riddle of Phoenix and “Lisztomania”
One of Phoenix’s biggest songs is “Lisztomania” from their 2009 album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. But what are they talking about in that song? It references Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer who was at
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Ongoing History Daily: Tori Amos invented WHAT?
Each year around the end of August, pumpkin spice latte returns. It’s everywhere, and not just in lattes. And you gotta admit, it’s pretty tasty. Who came up with the idea? There is
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Eddie Vedder makes amends for a rip-off
With so many people writing songs based on musical theory derived from the Western 12-tone scale, inevitably, people will inadvertently come up with the same idea as someone else. This happens all the
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: No more concerts at the pyramids?
One of the most spectacular places for a concert anywhere in the universe is at the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo. Over the years, it’s been the site of gigs by The Grateful
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1062: The backstage rider
Going on tour is hard. You’re away from home for months at a time. There’s little sleep, bad food, too many drugs, a surfeit of alcohol, late nights, temptations into bad behavior, crazy
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Another example of fleeting rock stardom
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have gone through many changes when it came to guitarists. The original guy was Hillel Slovak, but he died of a drug overdose in 1988. The first replacement
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The unlikely band revered by The Clash
Along with The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, The Clash form the Holy Trinity of 70s-era punk rock. They created the foundations for so much of the punk that was to come. The
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