The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 944: Infamous hotels and hotel rooms
In the days before COVID, I was always on the road. If it wasn’t a music conference in Singapore, it was an interview in London, the Junos in…wherever, a TV
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Random music news for Thursday, December 26, 2019
Are we heading out on a Boxing Day run today? Or are you all shopped out? Maybe we can all just stay home and sort through the music news for
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Feeling groggy and weird? Blame turning the clocks back. It’s time we got rid of DST, period. Meanwhile, in the world of music news for November 4, 2019… Rage Against
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On this day in 1973, Concorde made its first trip across the Atlantic. Forty-five years later, we’re actually traveling slower. And now, music news for September 26, 2018. Speaking of
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20 Years Later, We Finally Get to See the Coroner’s Report on the Death of Michael Hutchence
On the morning of November 22, 1997, a maid at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Sydney, Australia, reported that the guest in room 524 appeared to be dead. He’d registered as
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On this day in 1985, a new computer program called Microsoft 1.0 was released. It wasn’t very good. Really. Here’s what’s making music news on November 20, 2017. In #MeToo
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On this day in 1979, the first book in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published. And in music news for October 11… Sobering read: “The Devaluation of
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Here’s the Trailer for the Upcoming Michael Hutchence Documentary, “The Last Rockstar”
Michael Hutchence is the Australian equivalent of Kurt Cobain. Tortured by various personal demons, he eventually took his own life in a Sydney hotel room on November 22, 1997. Even
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Man, those numbers spin fast on the gas pumps these days, don’t they? Distract yourself with this music news for September 4. Well, that’s one good thing that came out
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Random Music News for Tuesday, November 1, 2016
November. Not a fan. Only February is worse. Just sayin’. And now, some music news. Ultrasonic hacking? Oh, it’s here. And your brain is as vulnerable as your computer. There’s
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I’m writing this aboard EVA Air Flight 0035 somewhere above Alaska. Yes, it’s another music conference in the Far East. I’m sure that will generate plenty of music news. Did
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