Random music news for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
What’s a great sin of our time? Pope Leo XIV says it’s “clickbait.” I’ll try to keep that to a minimum for music news for October 14, 2025. I don’t want to go
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Fascinated by the 60s, psych, and drugs? Then this Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd documentary is for you.
The legend of Syd Barrett is that he was kicked out of Pink Floyd for being too drugged out, too erratic. While the rest of the band blew up into one of the
Read MoreRandom music news for Monday, June 12, 2023
What’s it like to surf the internet in North Korea? You can get online, but it’s not much fun at all. On the other hand, music news for June 12, 2023, is a
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Random music news for Tuesday, November 5, 2019
If it’s Tuesday, I should be somewhere in Thailand. Regardless of my present whereabouts, here’s music news for November 5, 2019. Canadian music sales and streaming stats this week vs. where they were
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Random Music News for Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Here at the music conference in Singapore, I just ran into the guy who helped put together Babymetal. I just had to shake his hand. I was in awe. And in real music
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Prince Buster, The King of Ska, Dead at 78
When a bunch of British punk fans became enamoured with the music of Jamaican immigrants in cities like Coventry, some of the first songs they learned about came from Cecil Bustamente Campell, the
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Can the Roar of a Stadium Crowd Cause an Earthquake? Yes, Actually.
Bands that literally make the earth shake aren’t new. Both Madness and Foo Fighters concerts have been associated with earth tremors. I quote a report regarding a Foos’ show in Auckland, New Zealand,
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