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Music History Music News 

A Smiths demo cassette just sold for $21,000

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Auction, Bonhams, Cassette, Demo, John Peel, Smiths

Rock memorabilia continues to be big business. The original demo cassette from The Smiths, complete with a letter from the

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This is cool: A demo of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Demo, Eminem, Lose Yourself

This demo, officially released in 2014, is making the rounds again. It’s certainly different from what we’ve come to know.

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, July 16, 2021

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC-DC, Beatles, Beer, Covid, Deepfake, Demo, Guns N'Roses, Iron Maiden, NTSC, Online Radio, Sony, Spotify, Television, Tom DeLonge, Vinyl, YouTube

That is one DEEP pool! Now let’s get deep with music news for July 16, 2021. This isn’t good: 954

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Music News Recommended Music 

Cool! The demo that became Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Album, Demo, Enter Sandman, Metallica

When we hear a new song, it’s the final product of what is often a long and agonizing process of

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Music History 

Listen to Bruce Dickinson’s 1981 demo tape for Iron Maiden

August 26, 2018August 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bruce Dickinson, Demo, Iron Maiden

All Iron Maiden fans know that Bruce Dickinson wasn’t the band’s first vocalist. The group began with a dude named

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How you heard this bare-bones version of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance?”

January 18, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments David Bowie, Demo, Let's Dance, Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers, the producer for David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, recently posted this demo version of the title track. It

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Music History 

The Fish I Did Not Catch: The Tale of the Lost Our Lady Peace Demo Cassette

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 Alan Cross 4 Comments Cassette, Demo, OLP, Our Lady Peace

One day in the spring of 1993 as I was preparing for my afternoon shift at 102.1 the Edge, I

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Music History 

Whoa! An Absolutely Ancient Depeche Mode Demo Has Been Uncovered!

October 26, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Composition of Sound, Demo, Depeche Mode

Before they were Depeche Mode, they were Composition of Sound. And in the summer of 1980, they recorded a three-song

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Music News 

So Dave Grohl Has Been Busy Doing More Cool Stuff

April 22, 2015 Alan Cross 2 Comments Dave Grohl, Demo, Record Store Day, Songs from the Laundry Room, Teenage Time Killers

As if everything he’s doing with the Foo Fighters isn’t enough–and it never is–he’s part of a new supergroup featuring

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Music News 

The Birth of Spinal Tap: The Movie

January 9, 2015January 8, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Demo, Mocumentary, Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap

Open Culture goes into some detail on the birth of one of the greatest (if not the greatest) mockumentaries of

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Tech 

A Quick Look at Apple’s CarPlay

June 6, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2014, Apple, CarPlay, Demo, WWDC

With programmers, coders and developers all in San Francisco this week for Apple’s annual WWDC event, the company is showing

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