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
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Michael Hutchence.
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
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Random music news for Monday, November 4, 2019
Feeling groggy and weird? Blame turning the clocks back. It’s time we got rid of DST, period. Meanwhile, in the
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 26, 2018
On this day in 1973, Concorde made its first trip across the Atlantic. Forty-five years later, we’re actually traveling slower.
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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
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Random Music News for Monday, November 20, 2019
On this day in 1985, a new computer program called Microsoft 1.0 was released. It wasn’t very good. Really. Here’s
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Random Music News for Thursday, October 12, 2017
On this day in 1979, the first book in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published. And in
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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
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Random Music News for Monday, September 4, 2017
Man, those numbers spin fast on the gas pumps these days, don’t they? Distract yourself with this music news for
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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.
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Random Music News for Friday, September 9, 2016
I’m writing this aboard EVA Air Flight 0035 somewhere above Alaska. Yes, it’s another music conference in the Far East.
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