The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1010: Rock Explainer 4
A boy cannot become a man in the Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazon rain forget until he can stand being stung by a swarm of bullet ants. They’re called that because it’s said
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Heavy Metal
Random music news for Thursday, November 30, 2023
Imagine receiving a Christmas present wrapped in this. Meanwhile, there’s music news for November 30, 2023. More music news? Look here. BONUS: There will be one more season of Letterkenny this Christmas. Here’s
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We have a winner at the 2022 Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship
Fact: There are more metal bands per capita in Finland (50 per 100,000 people) than any other country on the planet. Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Finns come up with some
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Confirmed: The finalists for the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship. Wait–what?
Oh, those Finns. After spending so much of the year in darkness, summer brings long days and interesting ways of celebrating that. This includes the annual Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships, a prestigious
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Random music news for Wednesday, May 12, 2021
How confident is the UK government that they’ve got the pandemic under control? They’ve approved casual sex. Transitioning now to music news for May 12, 2021… No surprise here: Live Nation is looking
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The Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship is coming July 9
It’s just like it sounds: competitors engaged in competitive knitting to the sounds of metal music. Sadly, COVID is forcing the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship into the virtual universe this year, but
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Research asks: Why do people like heavy metal?
It’s the age-old question: Why do people love heavy metal? In particular, psychologists are trying to determine why people like death metal, that deep, aggressive, angular, loud, sharp music that would burn and
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Where did the term “heavy metal” really come from? Let’s find out.
If you have eight minutes to spare, take a look at this fast-talking, fast-drawing video from 12Tone about the origins of the term “heavy metal.”
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Random music news for Wednesday, August 1, 2018
August already. And my parents are coming to visit for almost a week. This should be interesting. Here’s music news for August 1, 2018. Apple is now very close to becoming the world’s
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Elon Musk just sent his car into an orbit playing David Bowie on repeat on the stereo, something that was predicted in 1981.
Earlier today, SpaceX, Tony Stark’s Elon Musk’s company, launched the biggest and most powerful private sector rocket ever conceived, with the idea of sending it into an orbit that will take it near
Read MoreIron Maiden is Getting Their Own Comic Book
There have been many Iron Maiden-branded products, from beer to soccer balls to cuff links to 747-400s. Strangely, though, there’s never been an Iron Maiden comic book–until now. Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast
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