There’s a lot of buzz about Power Trip, the fall festival happening on the same grounds as Coachella in Indio, California, during the first full week of October. It’s very much reminiscent of
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This is probably the day of the year when productivity falls to the lowest of the year. Who’s gonna want to work when Christmas Eve is a Monday? Then again, retail, essential services
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The last normal weekend of the summer–which explains the Christmas displays I’ve already seen. Shouldn’t be long before some radio stations start flipping to an all-Christmas format. And now, the music news for
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It’s Prince Diana in the Paris Tunnel Day. Has it been 19 years already? And now, in music news… Apple has scheduled an event for September 7. Will the iPhone 7 have a
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On this day in 1989, there was a solar flare so strong that the Toronto Stock Exchange had to be shut down. And in music news… More gig violence: A man was shot
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Crabgrass. I hate it. Now that there’s a herbicide ban everywhere, the only way to get rid of it is to dig it up. That was my weekend. Enough whinging. Here’s some music
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Nothin’ matters but the weekend From a Tuesday point of view -The Kings, “Switchin’ to Glide” (1980) Truer words were never sung. And now, the music news. So why was AC/DC’s Phil Rudd
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As if (former?) AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd doesn’t already have enough to deal with–he was found guilty of threatening to kill a guy as well as for a few drug offences just 10
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After some legal drama that’s stretched out over months, a New Zealand judge has finally figured out what to do with AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd. Back in April, Rudd pleaded guilty to having
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You know that photo on the cover of the first Rage Against the Machine album? That’s a real picture of the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk named Thích Quảng Đức. That happened on
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On this day in 1949, EDSAC, the first digital(ish) computer ran its first program. Duran Duran anti-wrinkle cream: just £4,000. Seriously. You may end up watching this nine second Nickelback parody over and over
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