Random music news for Friday, April 4, 2025
An interesting question: If the internet dies, where does all our attention go? Don’t think too much about that yet because your attention is required for music news for April
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Like hardcore punk? Enjoy gardening? Spotify has brought both together for you.
Spotify’s in-house staff of playlist creators are always looking for new themes. Here’s one I did not see coming: Hardcore Gardening. The new playlist combines the best elements of hardcore
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Ongoing History Daily: Stabbing Noodles
The Offspring came up through the rough punk scene of Southern California. How rough was it? Guitarist Noodles once got stabbed at a gig. In the early 90s, the band
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Want to learn hardcore dancing styles? Here are some lessons.
This is not the kind of dance lessons you’ll find at an Arthur Murray studio. Instead, this is, well, hardcore. This also explains why you might want to stay out
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The history of hardcore punk
One of the things that makes rock great is the energy and power that comes with the music. And depending on where you go, that energy can vary from place
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, September 14, 2022
When Starbucks gets into NFTs, you know we’ve reached an odd place. As for music news for September 14, 2022… Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s assassin, was denied parole for
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The Post-Punk Explosion part 7: All the rest
The original punk rock explosion of the 1970s was two things. First, it was a major reset for rock’n’roll. Think of it as a great musical decluttering. Punk wasn’t revolutionary;
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This McDonald’s in China was the site of a hardcore punk performance
Imagine tucking into your McNuggets and a hardcore punk concert breaks out. This is exactly what happened at this McDonald’s in China when a hardcore band called Gaiwaer fired things
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 952: The history of hardcore punk
One of the things that makes rock great is the energy and power that comes with the music. And depending on where you go, that energy can vary from place
Read MoreThe Ongoing History of New Music, episode 918: The Post-Punk Explosion part 7: All the rest
The original punk rock explosion of the 1970s was two things. First, it was a major reset for rock’n’roll. Think of it as a great musical decluttering. Punk wasn’t revolutionary;
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, September 28, 2020
Before get into music news for September 20, 2020, how can this pitch be legal? Coronavirus update 1: Some people are very pessimistic about much of the British music scene
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