Something for the shopping list this week: Novelty toiler paper. Just as novel but less gross is music news for January 24, 2023. BONUS: A Judas Priest safety PSA/album commercial. (Via Tom) BONUS
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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 the twelfth time.
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The NFL’s regular season started last night (September 8) at SoFi Stadium in LA. When the Rams and the Bills went to the locker rooms for halftime, Ozzy and his band trotted out.
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Pepsi has a big sponsorship deal with the NFL that goes back close to four decades. That deal has just been renewed again (for somewhere beyond US$2 billion)–but with one notable exception. Pepsi
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For a couple of years, I was the music director for the Toronto Maple Leafs, selecting the music played before, during, and after home games. That gig plunged me into the world of
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That’s a little too much for a Super Mario 64 game, don’t you think? Now let’s switch to music news for July 13, 2021. Mark Hoppus has a very important cancer test that
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Now THAT’S a knife! Music news for May 1, 2021. Marilyn Manson has been sued for sexual assault and sex trafficking by a Game of Thrones actress. An Australian politician has been found
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If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, you’ll appreciate this. And meanwhile, back in Russia… Once you’re done watching that a few times, move to music news for November 21, 2020. AC/DC’s Power
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If there’s a better metaphor for what’s happening in the US right now, I haven’t seen it. Fisticuffs 😂 pic.twitter.com/KCJnnad7la — Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) June 27, 2020 Moving to music news for July
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Aliens exist. Tom DeLonge will be proven right. Moving to music news for February 1, 2020… This is important: A report on the report (sorry) about Canada’s digital future. Here are my weekly
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Twenty-one years ago today, Google was founded. How long did it take before “google” became a verb? Moving on to music news for September 4, 2019… Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs.
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