Random music news for Thursday, February 28, 2019
It was on this day in 1954–65 years today–that the first NTSC colour TVs went on sale. As for music news on February 28, 2018… Vicky Cornell, Chris’ widow, spoke
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Random music news for Saturday, December 15, 2018
Returning today from the NE Caribbean Command Centre. There’s just enough time to report on some music news for December 15, 2018, before the plane leaves. Paul McCartney’s home got
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, July 10, 2018
I think I speak for all of us with gross feet: men in opened-toed sandals anywhere but at the beach is a bad idea. And now, music news for July
Read MoreRandom music for Saturday, May 5, 2018
Cinco de Mayo! And this is what we have for music news for May 5, 2018. Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. It’s interesting to see how Wall
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Pirate Radio For Syria
Pirate radio stations have always left their mark wherever they spring up. This station in Istanbul, Turkey, only because of dangers in Syria, is living on the edge. Radio Alwan
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How Pirate Radio Changed Things
My family is Dutch and my parents took me to Holland for the first time when I was 12 back in the early 70s. There were a lot of things
Read MoreRandom Music News for Monday, August 14, 2017
No, I don’t need my furnace ducts cleaned. STOP CALLING ME! And now, the music news for August 14. In you missed it over the weekend, Taylor Swift won over
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Want to Run Your Own Radio Station? Try Stationhead
At last count–and I don’t know who does the counting–Spotify is home to two billion playlists. That’s great, except that they’re just streams of music with labeled with the artist,
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Pirates Hijack Radio Station, Replace Programming with Torah Preaching
WQXR is the go-to station for the classical music fans of New York City. Recently, though, listeners in the southern part of Brooklyn had their programming rudely interrupted. Listeners reported
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Les Paul (He of the Guitar and Multi-Track Recording) Once Ran a Pirate Radio Station
Les Paul is known for (a) the Gibson guitar that bears his name; and (b) this pioneering work in developing multi-track (or as he called it, “sound-on-sound”) recording. But until
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What’s this Mysterious Radio Message About Donald Trump?
A man driving the New Jersey Turnpike near Newark Airport on I-7 was scanning the AM dial when he chanced upon a weird transmission coming from 1630 kHz. https://youtu.be/3Fq_OYmLC3w “Trump
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