Random music news for Friday, May 4, 2018
I just can’t stop staring at the car crash that is the Trump administration. It’s better than any TV show,
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Cold War
The Cold War Weirdness of Radio Swan
Before the Internet came along to distract me, I often sat up late at night with my Sony ICF-7600W shortwave
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Ex-KGB Agent: “We Financed UK Punk to Destabilize the West”
As tinfoil hat conspiracies go, this is a good one. Roland points us to this article at LouderThanWar: Not so
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Geeks&Beats Episode 89: We’re Back! Hello, 2015.
After taking the last half of December off to investigate new and exotic forms of vodka (you’ll hear about it
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November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Comes Down
Twenty-five years ago–November 9, 1989–the barrier known officially as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart by East Germany–stopped being a wall. Through
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A Brief History of Soviet Rock’n’Roll
I love stuff like this. From Radio Free Europe: A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this
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