Random music news for Thursday, May 29, 2025
What’s Labubus? Oh, GAWD! NO! Best stick to music news for May, 29, 2025 More music news? Go here. BONUS: The beatboxing nun of Brazil.
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A Russian “doomsday” radio station broadcast some codes this week. Why?
Shortwave radio bands are filled with strange signals from mysterious transmitters in some odd parts of the world. Sometimes called “numbers stations,” they crackle to life at random times with disembodied voices reading
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, May 19, 2025
I love the May long weekend. It’s that time of year when the whole summer stretches before us, filled with opportunities and adventure. Let’s make the most of it, shall we? And we
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Ongoing History Daily: The Eiffel Tower was saved by radio
The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous landmarks on the planet. When it was completed on March 31, 1889, after almost two years of construction, it was the talk of the
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Why AM radio is still necessary
AM radio is the oldest of all broadcasting media, dating back about 125 years. It ushered in the era of commercial broadcasting in the early 1920s. Now, though, it’s under siege. Audio quality
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, May 5, 2025
RFK Jr. ordered the lab studying deadly diseases like Ebola to stop research. What could possibly go wrong? That’s too depressing to contemplate further, so let’s move to music news for May 5,
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, May 3, 2025
You know how some businesses incorporate puns into their name? Someone is now keeping track of them. As for music news for May 3, 2025… More music news? Go here.
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The second annual Dave Bookman tribute concert is coming up
Dave Bookman was a Toronto radio legend, a guy who did more for indie music than anyone else I’ve ever known. His sudden death in 2019 (it was a brain aneurysm) has left
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Prime Video has a new doc on a Winnipeg broadcaster turned bank robber
If you’re from Winnipeg, you may remember Steve Vogelsang, a sportscaster seen on the local CTV affiliate. If you took broadcasting at Red River Community College, he may have been one of your
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Not to worry you, but Russia’s “doomsday” radio station UVB076 just sent out four strange messages after four years of silence
If you have access to a shortwave radio, you can hear all kinds of strange broadcasts emanating from…somewhere. Some are known as “numbers stations” that periodically feature a voice in a foreign language
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
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