Random music news for Saturday, February 14, 2026
If you’re a fan ofBreaking Bad, why not buy Walter White’s IRL house? It’s for sale. Moving to music news for February 14, 2026… BONUS: Why is MAGA art so
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There are some dodgy grunge-y prop bets for the Super Bowl
Thanks to the rise of online gambling–jeezus, all those ads!–we can bet on anything, anytime. Nothing, though, is bigger than the Super Bowl. The number of prop bets–wagers on non-football
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, September 10, 2025
How long is the average attention span? Eight seconds–and dropping. Maybe it has something to do with motivation. If you can’t be bothered to click that link, try to at
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RIP Françoise Hardy, la grandmère du grunge
If you’re at all familiar with the history of French rock, you’ll know that Françoise Hardy died on June 11 at the age of 80 of laryngeal cancer. She was
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: 1994
It’s often very hard to know when history is happening, even if you’re in the middle of things. Even when it’s super chaotic and you might feel that something very
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Ongoing History Daily: Pearl Jam, Survivors
Pearl Jam was formed in 1990 and outlasted so many of their peers from the original grunge era. Think about it. Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and Mike Starr of Alice
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The roots of the word “grunge”
There’s still plenty of debate and study about the origins of the word “grunge.” It’s likely it descended from British slang, which created the word out of older words like
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1014: 1994
It’s often very hard to know when history is happening, even if you’re in the middle of things. Even when it’s super chaotic and you might feel that something very
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Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready has written a grunge opera
Rewind 35 years ago when grunge was still a new thing in Seattle and unknown by almost anyone outside the Pacific Northwest. Would any of the members that scene have
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Nicholas Cage’s grunge and horror movie nights
Nicholas Cage is one of Hollywood’s most…colourful actors. He’s also a major music fan who also happens to love scary movies and old comic books. Years ago, he used to
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: A new book on hair metal
Back in the 80s, the dominant form of rock was hair metal: guys with big hair, wearing spandex, and sometimes makeup, playing big riffs with punchy pop hooks. Think Motley
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