Random music news for Saturday, September 19, 2025
This is cruel and dystopian. These toilet stalls won’t give out toilet paper until you watch an ad first. No such problem with getting music news for September 19, 2025.
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Random music news for Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Carrie Underwood’s Trump inauguration gig did not go well. Same with Billy Ray Cyrus. Sad. Music news for January 22, 2025, should be just fine. More music news? Go here.
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Our Lady Peace will play a rare club show to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band
I first heard of Our Lady Peace when a shy bespeckled kid came into the radio station with a demo cassette, asking if I could listen to it. I’d remember
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28 years ago today, Nirvana played Lee’s Palace–and it got ugly
On April 16, 1990, Nirvana rolled into Lee’s Palace shortly after laying down some demos in Madison, Wisconsin, with producer Butch Vig. Those songs would eventually be re-recorded as Nevermind.
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Remembering the Big Gigs at Lee’s Palace in Toronto
So much ink (and bytes) get used on Toronto venues like the Horseshoe and the El Mocambo, but let’s not forget the importance of Lee’s Palace on Bloor West. Cameron
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While Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic got along very well most of the time, there always seems to be friction with whoever was playing drums. In the spring of 1990,
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Tracking 20 Years of Ticket Prices at a Toronto Indie Venue
Cameron Gordon of Completely Ignored did a little research on how much ticket prices have risen for gigs at Toronto’s Lee’s Palace, a legendary place to see up-and-coming bands. (Hey,
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So Indie 88 Had a Big Party on Saturday Night…
…and it was fantastic. Completely sold out. Great performances from Stars and openers July Talk. (See the NOW magazine review here.) There are plenty of pictures at the Indie 88
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