Random music news for Thursday, August 21, 2022
You can now buy your own humanoid robot for US$6,000. So you buy one. What do you do with it? Ponder that whilst perusing music news for August 21, 2025. BONUS: Do you
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Random music news for Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Do you doomscroll this much? If so, there’s probably a problem. No problem at all with music news for August 19, 2025. I think. BONUS: Are we witnessing the end of handwriting?
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What formats have made the most money for the recorded music industry? There’s a graphic for that.
The ways and means of consuming music have changed over the decades. The Visual Capitalist has this graphic shows the formats that have generated the most revenue since 1973.
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A Smiths demo cassette just sold for $21,000
Rock memorabilia continues to be big business. The original demo cassette from The Smiths, complete with a letter from the band dated February 4, 1983, just sold through Bonhams for £14,000 (about $21,000
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Yeah, this dog does look like Matt Damon. Moving on to music news for April 6, 2022. The ratings for the Grammy Awards were dismal. But you probably already guessed that. Flea’s daughter
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Queen is making an INSANE amount of money from “Bohemian Rhapsody.” And now they’re releasing a cassette.
When Queen first released “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a single on October 31, 1975, it was a disaster. Reviews were brutal. The band was ridiculed. Even their record company had zero faith in the
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Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette, has died at age 94.
Unless you’re a serious tech geek, chances are you’ve probably never seen the name Lou Ottens before you read the above headline. But if you’ve ever made an old-fashioned mixtape, you’ll know his
Read MoreBomb threat in North Carolina declared over a Journey cassette
When someone in the mailroom of The Duke Energy Building looked at the package, it seemed…suspicious. A rectangular shape could be seen inside a manila envelope. With America on edge because of last
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Here’s an interesting use for cassettes
My hatred for cassettes as a music storage technology is well known. However, I don’t have an issue with using cassettes for other artistic purposes. Brenda forwarded this quick documentary about a certain
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This old cassette machine plays digital music. It’s a cool way to fake out your friends.
There were a couple of attempts to bring cassette technology into the digital era. The first, Digitial Audio Tape (DAT) was sunk under pressure by the music industry because they realized the machines
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A Possible Xmas Present: The Cassette Coffee Table
Although I believe that cassettes are a horribly outdated technology that deserves to die, I kinda like the kitchiness of this cassette coffee table. Too bad it only ships to the US. Details
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