Random music news for Tuesday, July 8, 2025
I want one of these: An actual laser defense system for mosquitoes. I want this. You’ll probably want music news for July, 8, 2025, too. More music news? Go here. BONUS: Al Jourgensen
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Ministry releases a new video for “Everyday is Halloween”
For the first few years of Ministry’s existence, they were a rather lightweight Depeche Mode clone. (Just go back to the With Sympathy album for proof.) Things all began to change when Al
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Wait: Al Jourgensen of Ministry recorded a soft drink commercial?
Long before the stigma of selling out over licensing music to TV commercials died away, Ministry’s Al Jourgensen was making money by writing jingles. In the early 80s, Ministry was still a struggling
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Ministry has started recorded a new album while in quarantine
Naturally, Al Jourgensen is being very subtle about it.
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Ministry goes acoustic as part of a new visual history book
Cue the Apocalypse. Al Jourgensen and Ministry have gone acoustic. A quiet, gentle, and, er, rather pretty version of the Goth classic “Everyday is Halloween” has been recorded for a 7-inch that comes
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Random Music News for Thursday, March 23, 2017
Happy birthday to English Bull Terrier the Younger. She’s three today. Today is also “Wear Your Metal T-Shirt to Work Day.” Seriously. And now, the music news. Speaking of metal, here are 30
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Random Music News for Thursday, July 14, 2016
The sun threw a hissy fit on this day in 2000, resulting in what’s now known as The Bastille Day Event. And now, some music news. YouTube says that they put $1 billion
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I Like This: Al Jourgensen’s Surgical Meth Machine
Ministry seems to be on hold for a bit so that Uncle Al can put all his energies into his new band, Surgical Meth Machine. The full self-titled album will be out April
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Yesterday was a long day of chasing the sun. Up at 6am Tuesday Singapore time. A 9:10am flight to London that lasted 14 hours and 20 minutes, putting me at Heathrow at 3:44pm Tuesday.
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A New Ministry/Trent Reznor Recording Has Been Discovered
Back in 1990, Trent Reznor was in record label hell. Unable to record anything because of a bitter dispute with TVT Records, Nine Inch Nails was on indefinite hold. Wanting to lend a
Read MoreRandom Music News for Friday, February 27, 2015
Still in Vancouver. Damn, it’s nice out here–unless you’re running a ski resort. No snow this year. Thankfully, the FCC didn’t do anything stupid regarding net neutrality. Here’s a quiz for “dumb kids
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