Random music news for Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Were you affected by the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday? Here’s what that event tells us about the internet. And here’s what I can tell you about music news
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Random music news for Saturday, September 13, 2025
I think the Guinness Book of World Records is getting too silly with things like this. Meanwhile, I’m dead serious about music news for September 13, 2025. BONUS: Stressed? Try
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 029: Untold Stories of John Lennon’s Murder
It was around 11 pm on Monday, December 8, 1980, when the news started to come in. It began with this announcement from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Things
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Ongoing History Daily: Is this the most valuable album in the world?
Vinyl albums can become extremely collectible if their rarity and history makes them significant. Take, for example, the first recording by The Beatles, which was an acetate recorded in 1957.
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43 Years Later, There’s a Second Gunman Theory in the Assassination of John Lennon. No, really.
We all know that on the evening of Monday, December 8, Mark David Chapman walked up to John Lennon outside the Dakota apartments in New York and shot him several
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Interesting that an official warning had to be issued about this. Nothing to worry about with music news for November 9, 2022… More music news? Check here. BONUS: Here’s a
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, September 14, 2022
When Starbucks gets into NFTs, you know we’ve reached an odd place. As for music news for September 14, 2022… Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s assassin, was denied parole for
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, September 22, 2020
No. Just…no. Let’s begin the first day of autumn with music news for September 22, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: There was a special concert for frontline workers in Windsor. Coronavirus
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, August 27, 2020
Got a nutty friend who believes in QAnon? Better read this. Once you absorb that, move on to music news for August 27, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: COVID-19 is taking
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, November 17, 2018
Yesterday was the 80th birthday of the synthesizing of LSD. Insert quip about the drug’s long, strange trip [here]. As for music news on November 17. 2018… This is an
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And in John Lennon news, there’s previously unknown version of “Imagine.” Oh, and his killer is staying in jail.
Among the treasures to be found on an upcoming six-disc John Lennon box set devoted just to his most famous solo album, is a never-before-released version of the title track.
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