Donald Trump showed maps of North Korea to Kid Rock
Kid Rock has long been a Trumper, even selling “Gods, Guns, and Trump” t-shirts as the merch table. This, of course, got him time with Trump himself. Now that Trump is in big,
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Random music news for Saturday, September 17, 2022
Shocking. Just shocking news from the world of streaming. (And yeah, The Smiths’ “The Queen is Dead” is on the list. So is the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen.”) Meanwhile, Johnny Lydon
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The North Korean military covered “Killing in the Name.” Sort of.
Props to video editor Lars Von Retriever for cutting this together using footage by the Korean People’s Army State Merited Chorus and Symphony Orchestra. Dear Leader probably won’t approve.
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North Korea: Distribution of K-pop now carries the death penalty
Thuggy North Korea totalitarian dictator Kim Jung Un is not a fun guy. He enjoys things like forced labour camps, executing rivals with anti-aircraft guns, and engaging in all kinds of nuclear and
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Fun with bloodthirsty ruthless dictators: North Korea’s video summarizing the Singapore Summit
Not that long ago, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were on a path to nuclear war. Now they’re apparently BFFs. Since the summit wrapped up, we’ve seen endless analysis of what happened from
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And now, a musical break from North Korea
Funny how Donald Trump likes to cozy up to authoritarian leaders and dictators while simultaneously insulting America’s allies and friends. Now that he and Kim Jong-Un are in Singapore, here’s a chance to
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The hacker who broke into a North Korean radio station and started broadcasting hair metal
North Korea is one f-ed up country. Citizens are required to have a radio, but the only approved units tune only to North Korean radio stations. Attempts to listen to foreign broadcasts are, er,
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A concert is being planned along the DMZ between the two Koreas. This is a good sign, yes?
A couple of years ago, I had a chance to visit the DMZ in Panmunjeom along the border between North and South Korea. It’s a freaky place, the most heavily-armed border anywhere in the
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Random music news for Thursday, April 5, 2018
Sixty years ago today, there was a big underwater boom in Canada. A BIG one. Let’s see what’s booming in music news for April 5, 2018. Time to start guessing about what Apple
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Random music news for Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Thirty-nine years ago today, Pennsylvania almost disappeared with the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown incident. And for music news on March 28, 2018… The Junos got good ratings on Sunday night with 1.5
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This Laibach concert film could be the weirdest thing to come out of North Korea
Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were going to play a couple of gigs in North Korea, that weirdness quotient
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