Random music news for Monday, November 7, 2022
Don’t worry. Contrary to a previous story, research says that picking your nose WON’T cause Alzheimer’s. A relief, no? Now let’s try some music news for November 7, 2022. And there’s a lot.
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Random music news for Saturday, July 30, 2022
Looking for some summer reading? Apparently werewolf erotica is hot. Skipping across that to music news for July 30, 2022… Dua Lipa is sorry for those fireworks that were set off during her
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Random music news for Friday, April 8, 2022
I’m going to be hosting an online music trivia contest for charity in a couple of weeks. Wanna play? Get tickets here. Think about it as you run through music news for April
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Random music news for Tuesday, March 1, 2022
I just read that the question mark is derived from a cat’s tail–as the cat is walking away. Is that true? I can’t unsee that–and now neither can you. Best distract yourself with
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Weird music video alert: This man covers A-ha’s “Take on Me” by slapping himself in the face.
I could write some commentary here, but I think the video speaks for itself.
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Aha’s “Take On Me” + The Simpsons’ steamed hams = This
Nice work, Internet. Read more at Mashable.
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Random music news for Wednesday, March 11, 2020
This infamous orgy club–i.e. a place where people gather to have sex with strangers–doesn’t seem worried about the coronavirus. Ew. Let’s see how everyone feels five days after that last encounter. Hey, even
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Random music news for Tuesday, February 25, 2020
If you’re having a bad Tuesday, then just think of this guy. I know, right? Moving on to music new for February 25, 2020… Samsung closed a South Korea factory because of a
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35 years after the original shook things up, A-ha has released a new 4K version of “Take On Me”
When A-ha’s “Take on Me” appeared in 1985, jaws dropped. No one had seen this sort of mix of live action and film. The technique is known as “rotoscoping,” a very time-consuming process
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a-ha’s “Take On Me” video is still so popular that there’s a three-part YouTube doc on it
When a-ha released the video for “Take on Me” in 1985, its mixed-media approach was considered wondrous and magical. It had a long life on conventional video channels but has been resurrected to
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Weezer has released a video for their cover of a-ha’s “Take on Me”–and it’s pretty retro.
Let’s go back to the bedroom of a young Rivers Cuomo in 1985 when… And yes, that is Finn Wolfhard, the Canadian kids from Stranger Things in the video. For reference, here’s the
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