Ongoing History Daily: Kurt Cobain’s wheelchair stunt
In 1992, there were all kinds of stories swirling about Kurt Cobain’s drug use. By the time the band was scheduled to play the Reading Festival in England on August
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Looking for some music-related winter reading? Here’s a list of good books
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. I’ll have more reading recommendations soon. – AC] Fall is the best time of the year for book lovers. Publishers schedule the release
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Random music news for Saturday, August 13, 2022
Drunk bear. Go home and seek help, dude. Now some music news for August 13, 2022. Rage Against the Machine has pulled out of a couple of major UK festivals.
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I know I shouldn’t really be doing any labour on Labour Day, but here I am with music news for September 6, 2021. Dinosaur J. has postponed some fall gigs
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“Our brains exist in a state of ‘controlled hallucination.’” Discuss. Then move on to music news for August 28, 2021. Let’s start with something funny: The banana on the cover
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A punk rock car followed by music news for February 25, 2021 (Via Paula) Something VERY weird happened with Eddie onstage at a Van Halen show in 2007. The story
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Wanna buy Kurt Cobain’s hospital gown?
Here’s a collectible that doesn’t come up for auction every day: a hospital gown once owned by Kurt Cobain But before you think this was something Kurt wore when he
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Recommended Reading Week: Jeff Woods lends his voice to Radio, Records and Rockstars
Canadian legend Jeff Woods released his book Radio, Records and Rockstars two years ago, but why stop at good when it can be great? He’s now releasing an updated audio
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Random music news for Thursday, August 30, 2018
Today is the 55th anniversary of the Washington-Moscow hotline that went into use after the Cuban missile crisis. And when it comes to music news for August 30, 2018, there’s
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Mike Shinoda and Sum 41 paid tribute to Chester Bennington and…wow. Chills.
At this past weekend’s Reading Festival, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda paid tribute to Chester Bennington with help from Sum 41. Here’s part one. Later in the set, Mike was joined
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 820: The 90s, Part 9: The Festivals
The music festival is hardly a recent creation. People have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries. In some cases, those original festivals are still happening. Ever hear
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