The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The Post-Punk Explosion part 4: Alt-Dance
Dancing is as old as the human race. As soon as we came down from the trees and started walking
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk FINALLY gets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Oh, and the Foos made it, too)
We now have a list of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2021. The name I’m
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This dude is trying to contact aliens by playing Kraftwerk
This universe is just too big for us to be completely alone. But how can we let any extraterrestrial life
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RIP Kraftwerk founder Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider, who co-founded the uber-influential Kraftwerk with Ralf Hutter in 1970, has died at the age of 73. His
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Random music news for Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Marsquakes! Cool! Switching now to music news for February 26, 2020… The major labels are now hauling in over US$1
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 869: The golden age of synths (as told by OMD)
There have been many, many times over the last one hundred years when technology has changed the way we make
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Random music news for July 31, 2019
The end of July already? Have any stores set up their Christmas displays yet? If not, it won’t be long.
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Random music news for Monday, January 28, 2019
As a frequent business traveler, I’ve noticed a trend where hotel and airport restaurants are starting to serve breakfast (i.e.
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Can you play Korn songs with corn? Yes. Yes, you can.
Because it’s Monday, you’re probably looking to kill some time by watching this guy play Korn with, er, corn. Why
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Someone has turned Kraftwerk into a sitcom
What could be funny about a Teutonic electronic act that specialized in deliberating de-humanizing music through synthesizers and robots? Nothing,
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Random Music News for Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Canada’s back at work today–mostly–while America has the day off. Yet there’s still music news for July 4… Justin Bieber
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