Random music news for Monday, September 8, 2025
Here’s why you should never, every use your phone on the toilet. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for music news for September 8, 2025. BONUS: Lemonheads beer! (Via Sean)
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Have you joined Threads yet? It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter killer. I’ve joined.
I was just a fan of Twitter for so many years going back to…what, 2006? Yeah, it could get noisy and messy, but at least there were some guardrails and rules. It wasn’t
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Watch members of Tool, Primus, Coheed & Cambria and more tear through Rush’s “Anthem”
Er, wow. Here’s Claudio Sanchez, Bill Kelliher, Les Claypool, Danny Carey, and Steve Brodsky covering Rush. And any proceeds from this video will be donated to the Cancer Research Institute. (Via Brent)
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ROCKthusiast Does #MWE for AJoMT (Day 28)
Before anyone starts asking “#MWE, WTF?”, the hashtag stands for Music Writing Exercise, and is the brainchild of Gary Suarez, freelancer about the Internet who hatched this idea five years ago. As a
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Random music news for Monday, September 10, 2018
I’m now somewhere in the Far East, which means it’s actually Tuesday for me (damn dateline time travel), but for everyone back home, this is your regular music news dispatch for Monday, September
Read MoreRandom Music News for Saturday, January 27, 2018
This was the first day of the Great Blizzard of 1977. People in the Great Lakes still talk about how bad it was. Unreleased Prince music is coming “very soon.” SONOS is fighting
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Now That We’re Back to Game of Thrones, Let’s Do a Roll Call of Musicians Who Have Appeared on the Show
If you saw the premiere of season 7 of Game of Thrones last night, you probably noticed that Arya Stark stopped to eat a little wild game after she slaughtered a couple hundred
Read MoreSeason 7 of Game of Thrones Will Be Back July 16. Guess Which Musician Will Make a Guest Appearance?
The producers of Game of Thrones have a thing for casting musicians as extras. Seasons 1-2: Wilko Johnson of Dr. Feelgood was cast as the role of executioner Ser Illyn Payne–the guy who
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Random Music News for Friday, April 15, 2016
Halfway through April. Done your taxes yet? Ponder that whilst you browse through today’s music news. It was 14 years ago today that Joey Ramone died. Yeah, it’s been that long. (Via Tom)
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The Newest Supergroup is Called WHAT?
When William DuVall (Alice in Chains), Brent Hinds (Mastodon), Ben Weinman (Dillinger Escape Plan), Pete Griffin (Dethlok), Thomas Pridgen (ex-Mars Volta) and briefly Juliette Lewis decided to form a band together, the first
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This Will Rile Metalheads: “The Slow Death of Heavy Metal”
Funny, but I thought metal was as healthy as it’s always been. Not according to this article in the New York Observer. These are strange days for classic heavy metal. Many godfathers of
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