Random music news for Friday, April 24, 2026
Life on mars? Maybe. Cue up the Bowie song. (Via Larry). Let’s put some life into music news for April 24, 2026. BONUS: Pirate radio courtesy SNK UK (Via Sean)
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Ongoing History Daily: Whither the famous CBGB street awning?
The most famous (and probably the most important) punk club in all music history was CBGB, a crappy place with horrific bathrooms at 315 Bleeker Street in New York. Beginning in 1974, this
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Wanna know who some MAGA supporters are blaming for the killing of Charlie Kirk? South Park. Music news for September 15, 2025, is completely innocent.
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There’s a new auction of rock memorabilia and it’s pretty gross
People will collect anything when it comes to rock memorabilia. Years ago, I encountered someone selling a collection of Thom Yorke’s toenail clippings on eBay. They swept up a pile somewhere backstage at
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The One Minute Music Book Club, ep. 5: This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB
CBGB was not only the most important of all the punk clubs but also Ground Zero for punk, period, full stop. It doesn’t exist anymore, but it will forever have major historical importance.
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The Tragically Hip are Canada’s Record Store Day Ambassadors for 2024. There’s a new live album, too.
Every year, Record Store Day names its ambassadors for the event. For 2024, The Tragically Hip get that honour. In conjunction with that, the band has announced a special RSD release Live at
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This rings so true: The Great Lies of Rock’n’Roll
There’s a legend that’s been handed down from the old days of CBGB about a list of lies that was found rolled up in in an old Heineken bottle rolling around backstage. Whether
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RIP Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer for Television
The story goes that Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell walked up to CBGB on a March day in 1974 and found owner Hilly Kristal on a ladder working on the awning. At the
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How about a virtual tour of the original CBGB?
CBGB was a dump. But as ground zero of the pretty much all things punk, it was an important and glorious one. (Except for the bathrooms. They were legendary for all the wrong
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Random music news for Friday, July 27, 2018
It was two years ago today that Donald Trump publicly appealed to Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing 30,000 emails. Later that day, guess what? A dance party that starts at 6 am?
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, July 24, 2018
The end-of-summer season sales are now on. I’m not ready for this. I can, however, offer some music news for July 24, 2018. Weekly Canadian music sales numbers vs. this time last year:
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