Random music news for Thursday, January 1, 2026
Facebook has found a new way to be evil. They’re testing charging users for sharing links. Heckuva way to start music news for January 1, 2026, isn’t it? BONUS: Thoughts
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Ongoing History: Bono vs. the Sinatra family
U2’s Bono has always been a Frank Sinatra fan. I mean, we’re talking huge. His greatest dream was to have ol’ Blue Eyes record one of his songs. In fact,
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Growing Up in Vegas, Killers singer Brandon Richard Flowers had a chance to soak up the, er, ambience of the city. He had escaped from living in rural Utah with
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The first-ever Billboard Music Chart was released 50 years ago this summer–and something about the first #1 song needs to be addressed.
Back in the days of jukeboxes, several companies jockeyed for supremacy in tracking America’s most popular songs. Billboard (which began in 1894 as a publication tracking billboard advertising) got into
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Random music news for Saturday, April 13, 2019
It was on this day in 1970 that Apollo 13 mentioned to Houston that they had a problem. And it’s also Record Store Day. When it comes to music news
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It’s the final sprint towards Christmas. How crazy is the next seven days for you? Can you take time to check out the music news for December 17, 2018? Sepultura
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The sound you heard at midnight was a bunch of radio stations flipping to an all-Christmas format for the rest of the year. Be prepared to hear “All I Want
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There are two Friday the 13ths this year. Here’s the second of them. Paraskevidekatriaphobics can rest easy for the rest of 2018. Ozzy and Sharon: The movie. Remember when Beck
Read MoreRandom Music News for Saturday, October 14, 2017
The Cuban Missile Crisis began on this day in 1962. We don’t want to go through that again, do we, Donald? And now, the music news for October 14. This
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! (Yes, America, we do things differently up here.) And now the music news for October 9. After three legs of the Not in This LIfetime tour,
Read MoreRandom Music News for Saturday, August 19, 2017
Two days until the Eclipse Day. Got your #14 welder’s glass yet? And now, the music news for August 19. Sunrise Records continues to fill the gap left by HMV.
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