Robert Fripp helps Toyah Willcox channel Courtney Love with this week’s Sunday lunch
Yes, Robert and Toyah are covering the title track of Hole’s Celebrity Skin album from 1998. But what will Toyah
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Courtney Love made it into a Super Bowl commercial. Wait–what?
With the Super Bowl coming Sunday, all the advertisers who spent more than US$5 million for 30 seconds are trying
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Ongoing History Daily: When music industry money flowed like water
Back in the 90s, there was so much money flowing through the music and beer industry that we saw some
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Ongoing History Daily: The behind the scenes of The Simpsons’ “Homerpalooza” episode
One of the best music-themed episodes of The Simpsons dates back to May 1996 with “Homerpalooza,” which saw Homer became
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Riot Grrrls–A primer
[Another summer encore. Back with more new shows in the fall. -AC] There is no question that the vast majority
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Random music news for Friday, November 20, 2020
Before we begin, South Korea has unveiled their AI-powered TV news anchor. Scary, really. Now that you’re freaked out, try
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 890: Musicians who lost it, part 1
The summer encore season has come to an end. It’s time for some brand new shows. There’s something about creative
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Could a Hole reunion be in the works? It kinda looks like it.
A little more than twenty-five years after Hole released their Live Through This album, thoughts turn to the prospect of
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25 Years Ago, Courtney Love and Hole Lived Through This
I probably don’t have to tell readers of this site that 1994 was a landmark year for music releases. We’ve
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Watch Courtney Love rip through a version of “Celebrity Skin” backed by a 1,500 person band
Fans of the Foo Fighters will remember The Rockin’ 1000, a massive group of Italian musicians who lured the Foos
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Random music news for Saturday, September 22, 2018
Still in Vegas. No baby crying anywhere my room. No tiger in the bathroom. And there are no dead bodies
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