The Oscars Slap is now a musical
YouTuber Andre Antunes is very good at turning unusual cultural events into music. The Will Smith slap on Chris Rock was impossible to ignore. (Via Walter)
Read More
Oscars
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, Billie Eilish, get nominated for Academy Awards
The nominations for the 2022 Academy Awards were announced this morning (February 8, full list here) and both Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Billie Eilish (along with brother Finneas) are up for Oscars. Jonny
Read More
Will Ferrell gets an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song
If you scroll down through the nominations for the 2021 Oscars that were announced this morning, you’ll find something refreshingly odd about the Best Original Song category. “Fight For You,” Judas and the Black
Read More
Random music news for Wednesday, February 20, 2019
This is the date–February 20, 2003–of the Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island when 100 people died and 200 were injured when the pyro went wrong during a Great White gig. As for
Read More
Random music news for Tuesday, January 22, 2019
The first 747 went into commercial service with Pan Am on this day in 1970. As for music news on January 22, 2019… Chris Brown has been detained on rape charges. No Oscar
Read More
Random Music News for Thursday, February 23, 2017
I’m somewhere between Perth, Australia, and home in Toronto. Through the miracle of traveling east across the date line and through 13 time zones, my Thursday will be 37 hours long. And now,
Read More
Random Music News for Thursday, March 3, 2016
It was 25 years ago today that Rodney King got his beating from LA cops. It was a dark time. And now, music news. MapleMusic is no more. Please refer to them as
Read More
Random Music News for Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Outside my window, March certainly came in like a lion. Stupid snow. Fortunately, I’ve been distracted by some music news. The reason Dave Grohl played the Academy Awards? To impress his daughter. Speaking
Read More
Music Notes from the Oscars That You May Have Missed
Three hours and 35 minutes. If you made it through the whole thing, then you’re either (a) a super hardcore movie fan; or (b) a sucker for punishment. But even if you did
Read More
It’s Oscar Night. Here’s a Look Back on the Best Musical Performances.
*Sigh* The Oscars. The most bloated, self-serving, smug and un-entertaining awards show of them all. We know that it’s going to run overtime, give screen time to categories no one gives a shit
Read More
Random Music News for Saturday, January 30, 2016
Only two more days and we’ll have survived January. Let’s see if we can get through the rest of the month without any more rock stars dying. And now, the music news… This
Read More