Ongoing History Daily: Whatever you do, don’t fall off the stage
When you’re in the middle of a performance in front of thousands of people, you might lose yourself in the music. And when that happens, you might find yourself falling
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Riot Grrrls–A primer
[Spring break! A new show next week. -AC] There is no question that the vast majority of rock history is centred around dudes. It has been a very, very male
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Random music news for Tuesday, June 20, 2023
People! The Titanic sank! Don’t believe what you see on TikTok. You can, however, believe what you read with my daily roundup of music news. Mostly. Here’s what’s happening on
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Ugh. Halloween. The night when mini-extortionists in disguise are encouraged by their parents to demand unhealthy treats from strangers underscored with threats of some kind of “trick” unless there’s compliance.
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Please don’t shoot people over loud music, especially on Christmas Eve. Then again, this is a Florida story. Segueing to music news for December 28, 2021… Here’s Pitchfork’s list of
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Which singer has the greatest vocabulary?
Writing lyrics is hard. Whenever I tried doing something like that, my creations as weaker than rhyming “gin” and “sin,” probably the lowest of all couplets. Compare that to the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 795: The Ongoing History Book of LASTS
Everyone talks about being first at something because…well, it’s cool to be first, right? But what about being last? There’s a condition called telesphobia, which is the fear of being
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Random Music News for March 30, 2017
On this day in 1867, the US purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Imagine if they hadn’t sold. And now, the music news of the day. The Abbey Road
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Random Music News for Monday, December 12, 2016
There’s some kind of big Pokemon Go update today. Are people still into that? Here’s some music news… Prince’s best friends are now telling their best Prince stories. This website
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John Lennon day. It’s been thirty-six years. And now, in music news… Patti Smith will stand in for Bob Dylan at the Nobel Prize ceremony. There are growing concerns that
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Watch a Duet of Springsteen and Bono on a Patti Smith Song (That Springsteen Wrote)
A nice collaborative effort to start the week: Bono joined Springsteen onstage in Dublin to sing “Because the Night,” the 1978 Top 10 Patti Smith hit from her Easter that
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