Random music news for Saturday, January 3, 2026
Some light reading for the weekend: “Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful.” Recommended. I also recommend music news for January 3, 2026. BONUS: Who will win the World Cup this
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Random music news for Thursday, August 14, 2025
Looking to up your bondage game? Let’s see what they’re doing in Japan. After you’ve learned some new knots, proceed to music news for August 14, 2025. BONUS: Good job,
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America: You shouldn’t have pissed off Canadians with all that 51st state nonsense. Your neighbours along the border are suffering from a severe case of FAFO. More music news? Go
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Eddie Van Halen would approve: “Eruption” played on an electric violin.
Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” is a rare thing: a guitar solo that’s also a standalone melodic piece. Slotting it as the second track on Van Halen’s debut album between “Running
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What would Rage Against the Machine sound like with James Brown and Eddie Van Halen?
One of the fun things about generative AI technology are sonic experiments like these. What used to be just a pure thought experiment can be made real. In this case,
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Looking for a peaceful summer vacation? This Finnish tourist island has been declared phone-free. Now we have music news for June 23, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: This
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There’s more to sounding like Eddie Van Halen than playing Eddie’s guitar
The same musical instrument can sound different depending on who’s playing it. As a way of illustrating that, blues guitarist Jared James Nichols plays one of Eddie Van Halen’s actual
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Chernobyl frogs are now very, very goth. And probably radioactive, too. In music news for October 6, what have we got? This. What are you thinking now, Kanye? Not a
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Wanna talk to your cat? Check this out. Then check out music news for August 31, 2022. Some fans have had their tickets to Saturday’s Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in
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Hyperreal artificial humans: What could possibly go wrong? Try to ignore that as you go through music news for April 27, 2022. Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs of Oasis has been diagnosed
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Study: Ecuador is #1 in penis length. Canada is #12. The US is #59. Once you look at the full chart (if you must), move on to music news for
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