Random music news for Monday, December 20, 2021
Have you noticed more road rage these days? Some people have. Keep that in mind after you browse through music news for December 20, 2021. Evanescence’s world tour has been halted because a
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Random music news for Saturday, November 20, 2021
I watched the second season of Tiger King in one sitting. I feel shame. However, I do feel good about this round-up of music news for November 20, 2021. Eddie Vedder’s next solo
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Did Bowie Know Something About Spiders From Mars Before NASA?
The latest round of good fun on the interwebs comes courtesy of NASA with a shout out to David Bowie! It turns out the ‘Spiders from Mars’ are not only the name of
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Some Familiar Names Performing at Dublin’s Bowie Festival
Dublin is holding their third annual Bowie Festival in January. January 8th would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday. The gig will take place as part of The Dublin Bowie Festival’s 3rd year.
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Bowie’s “Live In Berlin” EP Streaming Now
This is very cool! The continued access to interesting bits of David Bowie’s career continues. I expect that will a thing for a long time to come! Three live David Bowie recordings from
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Chris Cornell and Growing Up in the Shadow of the 90s
It took me a few days to wrap my head around the death of Chris Cornell last Thursday. This is an excerpt from a longer post originally published at Scholars and Rogues. I’m
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Elvis Don’t Mean Sh*t to Millennials
For years after his death in August 1977, the estate of Elvis Presley earned hundreds of millions of dollars flogging the King’s music and memorabilia. An entire industry grew up around Elvis: impersonators,
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Are Bowie and Prince Hurting Universal’s Market Share?
In a recent meeting to discuss Universal Music Group’s (UMG) financial fortunes with parent company Vivendi, a market analyst was pressing for information on why UMG had lost market share for the last
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Jared Leto’s Joker Inspired By Bowie
In recent interview with NME, Jared Leto spoke of David Bowie, the man, not the music, as being a serious influence for his character. The actor plays the character in the new Suicide
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Inside Bowie’s Tin Machine
Many of you will recall the brief outing David Bowie had in a side project called Tin Machine. Rolling Stone has an inside look. During the late Eighties, David Bowie was one of
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Bowie Rarities Featured in BBC Doc
Bowie fans will get a treat in an upcoming episode of BBC4’s The People’s History of Pop. Several rarities are set to be featured in the documentary. One of them includes a version
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