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A Fun-Filled Ska-Punk Night

May 20, 2025 Nerhys 0 Comments 7 min read

Concert Review: The Planet Smashers at The Opera House with Faintest Idea, Big D and the Kids Table, and Mustard Plug If there are two genres of music that I enjoy probably way

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Classifying music

May 20, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Being creatures who crave organization, humans like to put things into nice, neat piles. That includes music, of course. Who doesn’t distinguish between sounds by using words like “rock,” “hip hop,” “pop” and

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New Music from the Inbox Tuesday Edition (May 20, 2025): Illuminati Hotties, Ballsy, The Happy Fits, & More!

May 20, 2025 Nerhys 0 Comments 1 min read

Illuminati Hotties Song: “Wreck My Life” (ft. PUP)Album: SingleRelease Date: April 17, 2025Location: Los Angeles, CaliforniaWhy I Like It: A gritty, punk-fueled, catchy song in under 2 minutes.Listen: Ballsy Song: “Easy”Album: SingleRelease Date:

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Random music news for Tuesday, May 20, 2025

May 20, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Remember when all subscribed to Netflix for $7.99 a month to get lots of on-demand content and no commercials? Well, how much are we paying now? Uh-huh. But at least there are no

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The Diddy trial enters its second week

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The trial of Sean “Diddy” comes will become its second week tomorrow. The first five days was filled grueling, disturbing testimony brought forth by the prosecution. This included four days of testimony by

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Here’s our first look at Apple CarPlay Ultra

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re an iPhone user, you’re probably like me: You won’t have any vehicle if it doesn’t support CarPlay. For the most part, CarPlay works very well (depending, of course, on the vehicle’s

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Thom Yorke wants fans to dig for buried treasure around the world. Seriously

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

You have to give Thom Yorke credit for coming up with off-beat ways of creating fan engagement. His latest thing to turn Willy Wonka with a treasure hunt for fans. On Friday, he

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Monday is National Roadie Day in the US

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

Monday is Victoria Day, which gives us a nice long weekend to kick off the summer season. In the US, May 19 has been officially recognized as National Roadie Day, which is a

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Modern 8-track tapes

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember a dead recorded music format called the 8-track tape. Officially, they went out of production in the 80s as everyone moved to cassettes and then CDs. But

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Random music news for Monday, May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

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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Music News

And the winner of Eurovision 2025 is…

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Eurovision, the nuttiest campiest, bash*t crazy musical competition in this section of the galaxy, wrapped up in Basel, Switzerland, yesterday. If you stuck it out through the sensory overload of the production and

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