Random music news for Friday, October 21, 2022
Imagine trying to park The World’s Biggest SUV. It’s much easer to just read music news for October 21, 2022. Did Spotify crash for you earlier today? Blame Taylor Swift fans. Which streaming
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Random music news for Friday, September 23, 2022
As you read this, I’m somewhere halfway to Singapore. Fortunately, there’s in-flight WiFi so I can do music news for September 23, 2022. You can now take a course in Lana Del Rey.
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Random music news for Saturday, August 21, 2021
The Tesla AI Robot is here. Because of course it is. Moving on to music news for August 21, 2021. Nine Inch Nails has canceled all dates of the 2021 tour. Why? COVID.
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Random music news for Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Jeezus. These people are nuts. Ignore them and focus on music news for December 29, 2020, instead. That recorded voice that came out of the exploding RV in Nashville has been identified… …and
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Random music news for Saturday, February 22, 2020
So this is 22-02-2020. If we take it further, it was 02:02:20 am earlier today. And if we use military time, it will be 20:20:20 22-02-2020 later tonight. Cool. And now for some
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Random music news for Saturday, December 21, 2019
There’s no way I’m going anywhere near a mall today. I’ll just end up behind someone who insists on backing into a spot (badly!) while hundreds of cars are all backed up in
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Norman Rockwell vs Norman Rockwell: What happens when a big star co-opts an album title
This is the tale of two Norman Rockwells, one from 2017 and one from 2019. One is an album by a multi-million selling artist; the other is a well-respected indie musician. When Lana
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Someone tried to kidnap Lana Del Rey. (She’s okay.)
File this one under the heading of “What’s wrong with people?” Friday night, police in Orlando arrested Michael Hunt “for aggravated stalking & attempted kidnapping w/a weapon. After receiving a tip we deemed
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Random Music News for Friday, January 12, 2018
We had a big thaw over the last 36 hours. I have two dogs. You don’t want to know what was revealed in the backyard. Concentrate instead on the music news for Friday,
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Is It Getting Harder to Write Original-Sounding Songs? The Continuing Problem with Plagiarism Claims.
I’ll say it again: There are only so many ways you can order the tones of the Western musical scale in a way that’s pleasing to the ear and soul. And when you
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Sorting Out the Radiohead vs. Lana Del Rey Plagiarism Lawsuit
By now you’ve probably heard about the behind-the-scenes machinations about a possible plagiarism lawsuit that featuring Radiohead going after Lana Del Rey. They say that her song, “Get Free” sounds a little too
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