Random music news for Saturday, April 27, 2024
In Berlin for the weekend for a speaking gig. My hotel is just down the street from the apartment where Bowie and Iggy stayed in 1977. As for music news
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The meltdown of the Russian music scene
Thanks to Putin’s insane, illegal, immoral, and plain evil invasion of Ukraine, many Russians–the ones not sent to the front as wave after wave of cannon fodder–are suffering. This includes
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The government of Belarus makes music piracy legal. Sort of.
Belarus, the Russia-adjacent country run by Putin’s buddy Alexander Lukashenko, has made it legal to steal music. Actually, the new law also applies to movies, software, TV, and other intellectual
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Watch Volodymyr Zelenskyy bust some moves in a weird dance clip from his past
I love Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As someone of Ukrainian stock myself, this guy is not only inspiring his country to stand up to Putin and Russian, Ukraine has become a bulwark
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Roger Waters has written an open letter to Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine.
If you’ve been following the saga of Roger Waters is an Asshole, you’ll know that a couple of shows on his This is Not a Drill tour have been canceled
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John Oliver Explains Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump in Song
From all reports, Donald Trump watches a lot of television. A lot. And sadly, he gets all the news he feels he needs for places like Fox News. Given his
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Random Music News for Tuesday, December 6, 2016
On this day in 1941, Canada declared war on Finland. (It’s complicated; we followed the UK and Finland was at the time occupied by Germany.) And now, the music news.
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Here’s the Video Pussy Riot Was Making When They Were Whipped by Cossacks in Sochi
Charging up the charts, it’s “Putin Will Teach You How to Love.” More pictures at BuzzFeed.
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