Random music news for Tuesday, September 9, 2025
LEGO is now in the Star Wars business. How about a Death Star for US$999.99? Music news for September 9, 2025, is much cheaper than that. BONUS: Slash is the
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Here’s how the NHL accidentally contributed to the music piracy crisis.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] t the end of the ’90s, the recorded music industry was swimming, drowning in money thanks to increasing sales of high-margin compact discs.
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Billy Corgan sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at a hockey game. Watch.
This year’s outdoor NHL Winter Classic was held at Wrigley Field in Chicago on New Year’s Eve with the Hawks taking the Blues 6-2 in front of 40,000 fans. One
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It’s NHL All-Star Weekend and Michael Bublé is high on mushrooms
Toronto is wrapped up in All-Star Weekend which kicked off Thursday night. Michael Bublé is one of four celebrity team captains (more on that in a moment) and appeared at
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Green Day used the NHL to debut a new song Saturday: Listen/watch here.
Remember way back in the Before Times–the ancient days of 2019–when Green Day signed a partnership deal with the NHL? Yeah, well, the pandemic killed off most of that, but
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When the NHL entered into a promotional partnership with Green Day last year, they had to know what they were getting into. If the league didn’t know then, they know
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Green Day’s new single gets it done in less than two minutes
Green Day’s thirteenth album, Father of All…, is set for release on February 7. A new single, “Fire, Ready, Aim,” is now available. You might have already heard it as
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Green Day has a new partnership with the NHL
It may have escaped the attention of some Green Day fans that all three guys are big into hockey. You might remember back in 2016 when they were supposed to
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The NHL has Snoop Dogg doing playoff promos because Snoop.
Remember the old days when any professional sports organization would run from anyone or anything that was involved in recreational drug use? Not the NHL. The league has Snoop Dogg
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Time for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Let’s get Snoop to do some promos.
Snoop Dogg is a massive of all sports, including hockey. Someone came up with the inspired idea of having him do promos for the NHL playoffs. Brilliant, shor ’nuff. It’s
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So how do we feel about Kid Rock playing the NHL All-Star Game?
It’s become de rigeur for any major sporting event to include some kind of superstar musical entertainment. In the case of the 2018 NHL All-Star Game, the league has chosen Kid
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