Ongoing History Daily: Hey, where’s our guitarist?
The role of the road manager to make sure the band gets to the gig safely and on time. But even with the best and most careful planning, things sometimes
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Remember when The Smashing Pumpkins advertised for a new guitarist? We have a winner.
Back in January, Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins posted a classified ad. Remember? A lot of people applied. A f*ck of a lot. We now know who got the
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The Smashing Pumpkins are advertising for another guitarist. Interested in applying?
Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin have posted a job opening for a guitarist in the Smashing Pumpkins. This went out on Instagram on January 5. The lucky person
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A stroke has killed Killing Joke guitarist Geordie
Kevin “Geordie” Walker, the longtime guitarist for the post-punk British band Killing Joke, has died at the age of 64. Reports say it was a stroke. He was in Prague
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The long, strange trip of John Frusciante, part 2
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years dealing with musicians is that there are artists and artistes. Here’s how you tell them apart. Artists make art, but
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I’m pretty sure it’s not an actual scientific classification, but along with homo sapiens, we need to acknowledge a new subspecies called homo blattodea. Blattodea is the genus that includes
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I’d forgotten that Pele was also a musician of renown
There was a time when Pele was the most famous athlete in the universe. Legend says that Pele was once the target of a carjacking in Brazil but when the
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Paul Allen was not only a co-founder of Microsoft. He was also a great friend of music.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen finally lost a fight with non-Hodgkins lymphoma yesterday, a disease he’d had since 2009, which followed a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in 1982. He was 65. Bill
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So This 81 Year-Old Dude Walks into a Guitar Shop…
…and this happens. (Danny via Facebook) This guy rules. Mr. Bob Wood, ladies and gentlemen Posted by British Audio Service on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 This actually isn’t much a
Read MoreNorth Korea Musical Drama Over Kim Jong-Un’s Sister and the Guitarist Security Lapse
Oh, North Korea. You’re just a nutty, horrible place. We all hate performance reviews, but be thankful that you don’t live north of the 38th parallel. Unless your name is
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Blisters on His Blisters: Here’s Your Busker of the Week
This name is Mariusz Goli and was captured playing on the street in Katowice, Poland. Someone get this man a gig! (Via Digg)
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