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Music News 

Florida is getting a new loud music law. What could possibly go wrong?

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Car Stereos, Florida, Loud Music

We’ve all been unintentionally exposed to high-volume urban thump machines, cars with car stereos so loud they un-torque chassis bolts.

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Controversy 

Meanwhile, back in Florida, a punk promoter is fighting with the governor over vaccines

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Florida, Punk, Teenage Bottle Rocket, Vaccines

You might remember a story from late last month of a punk show in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the promoter

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Music News 

Punk show sticks it to COVID-19 anti-vaxxers. Nice.

May 30, 2021May 31, 2021 Alan Cross 3 Comments Anti-Vaxxer, Concerts, Florida, Teenage Bottlerocket

A promoter in Florida found a way to send a message to those who won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine. Leadfoot

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, February 22, 2019

February 22, 2019February 21, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alex Lifeson, Amy Winehouse, Apple Music, Ariana Grande, Blu-Ray, Cream Soda, Donald Trump, Florida, Jussie Smollett, Michael Jackson, NWA, Peter Tork, Rush, Samsung, Spotify, The Monkees

Heading out of the hemisphere for a few days, but I promise to keep on top of things with music

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Would you stay in a hotel shaped like a guitar? You’ll soon have have your chance.

May 2, 2018May 1, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Florida, Guitar, hard rock, Hotel, Tampa

The owner of the Hard Rock chain, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, has been pumping a lot of money into

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Saturday, December 17, 2016

December 17, 2016December 17, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Andre Bocelli, Brian Eno, Censorship, Coldplay, David Foster, Donald Trump, Drake, Eyehategod, Florida, HMV, Jo Cox, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Kimye, Music Piracy, Pitbull, Rolling Stones, Vinyl

Flying back from the NE Caribbean Command Post today. Just in time for another snowstorm, too. And now, the music

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Music History 

Fifty Years Ago Today, The Rolling Stones Wrote “Satisfaction”–And Why the Church of Scientology Is Still Freaked Out

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Clearwater, Florida, Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, Satisfaction, Scientology

The story goes that Keith Richards woke up in the middle of the night with a guitar riff going through

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Controversy 

Your Next Big (Racially-Charged) Music Trial: Florida Case Involving Murder and Loud Music

February 6, 2014February 6, 2014 Alan Cross 2 Comments Florida, Gun Violence, Jordan Davis, Loud Music, Michael Dunn

Back on November 23, 2013, Michael Dunn, 47, stopped for gas at a station in north Florida.  Also at the

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