Ongoing History Daily: Remembering jukeboxes, part 2
Last time we talked about the first jukebox installed in a saloon in San Francisco back in 1889. Eventually, amplifiers
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Alan Cross
WTF IS THIS? Jeezus. Thanks–I think?
I have no idea who Papa Razzi and The Photogs are, although I really do appreciate their support. As a
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I sat down with Dave Grohl to talk about his new book (Part 1)
Dave Grohl’s memoir, The Storyteller, came out last week (October 5). The next day, Dave and I connected via Zoom
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Ongoing History Daily: A quaint book on music and the internet
I was going through my library of music books when I stumbled on something called NetMusic. This is almost adorably
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: A guide to genres, part 2
[Summer repeat season. But trust me, brand new shows are already piling up for the fall. -AC] I’m trying to
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: A guide to genres, part 1
[More summer encores. New shows begin the weekend after Labour Day. Rest assured, though, I’m already working on them, too.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The music industry glossary, part 2
[It’s summer re-run season. New shows return in the fall.] Every industry has its own language. Think about what it’s
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 921: A requiem for Daft Punk
It takes a special kind of band to deliberately obscure their appearance. But if you manage to do it right,
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 915: The Post-Punk Explosion part 4: Alt-Dance
Dancing is as old as the human race. As soon as we came down from the trees and started walking
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 914: The Post-Punk Explosion part 3: Industrial music
By the time we got to the mid-70s, rock had become sufficiently organized so that there were rules. You did
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore: The Headstones, In Their Own Words, Part 2
[Happy New Year! One more encore before we get back to back to a long stretch of new shows next
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