Roger Waters has always been outspoken about his politics and his views have not endeared him to supporters of Israel (he was just branded as an antisemite by old bandmate David Gilmour and
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The Montana Toilet Man. Be afraid. Calm down with some music news for August 18, 2022. Depeche Mode is back in the studio to help work through the death of Andy Fletcher. We
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Pink Floyd, which hasn’t done properly Floyd-ish for years (I’m going with The Division Bell from 1994 and discounting the odds’n’ends The Endless River from 2014), has reunited–sans Roger Waters, of course, but
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I’ve always been fascinated by the depth of animus former bandmates can have for each other. Take the situation between Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, for example. Why the hate? Waters posted something
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Fifty years ago today, the first permanent ARPANET (a forerunner to the internet) was established between UCLA and Stanford. And because of that, I can give you the music news for November 21,
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Kawhi Lenoard turns 28 today. Send him a card. Don’t forget to urge him to stay with the Raptors. And now, music news for June 29, 2019. Here are my weekly music picks
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In one of the most remarkable cases of decluttering in the known universe, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour decided to unload 126 guitars at auction with all proceeds going to a climate change charity.
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For someone who was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, it’s somehow mathematically appropriate that Stephen Hawking died on Albert Einstein’s birthday as well as on Pi Day. Today his achievements in
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[Here was something I wrote for the Cineplex newsletter. – AC] When Mount Vesuvius rained holy hell upon Pompeii on August 24 in the year 79 CE—the day after Vulcania, the festival of
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Ninety years ago today, the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. It was vehicle number 15,007,003. And now in music news for May 31… Here’s another reflection on the Manchester concert
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It may be a long weekend, but the music news never stops. Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead got down with Anthrax. These guys legally changed their names to “Elvis” after the Presley estate
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