Random music news for Monday, January 27, 2025
Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? It matters if authorities are going to regulate it. Moving to music news for January 27, 2025… More music news? Go
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Random music news for Monday, September 25, 2023
This jacket keeps you cool in the heat by using beer. No, really. Moving on to music news for September 25, 2023… More music news? Check here. BONUS: The CIA
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Ongoing History Daily: When the music industry had money…
Before CD sales completely tanked, there was plenty of money flowing through the music industry to stage interesting, fun, and weird promotional campaigns to promote albums. For a while, it
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: More from the technology graveyard
Anyone who’s been into music and movies for a long time probably has a basement littered with obsolete technology. Every hear of DiscoVision? This format (also known as the LaserDisc)
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Pink Floyd’s Animals finally gets the remix/reissue treatment
If you’re a hardcore Pink Floyd fan, you probably have the special box sets issues for Dark Side the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and a few others.
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Ongoing History Daily: What do the letters “DVD” really stand for?
Most of us have some DVDs somewhere. But here’s a question: What does “DVD” stand for? The answer is “nothing.” When the technology was in development, DVD was short for
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Sign of the times: Samsung has stopped making new Blu-ray players
Like you, I have a couple of DVD and Blu-ray players in the house. I haven’t touched any of them in–let me see…years. Let’s face it. Between iTunes, YouTube, and
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Random Music News for Friday, January 20, 2017
Off to Winnipeg to see the folks tonight. Oddly, the temperature will be above freezing for the entire time I’m there. Better than the -40 they had last week. And
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The Smart Studios Story: A Film About the Rise of Alt Rock in the Midwest US at Butch Vig’s Madison WI HQ
Beginning on Thursday, September 29, The Smart Studios Story begins a screening tour across the United States as a precursor to the DVD and accompanying vinyl release on Friday November
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Watch Footage from U2’s Upcoming Innocence + Experience DVD
U2 never mounts a tour without producing all kinds of ancillary material. The upcoming Innocence + Experience collection features footage like this.
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U2 Releasing Innocence + Experience Tour DVD
One thing is pretty consistent. If there’s a U2 tour, there’s gonna be a DVD. And guess what? It’s coming out soon. Let’s begin with a trailer. From the official
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