Random music news for Friday, September 23, 2022
As you read this, I’m somewhere halfway to Singapore. Fortunately, there’s in-flight WiFi so I can do music news for September 23, 2022. You can now take a course in Lana Del Rey.
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Random music news for Monday, July 4, 2022
THIS JUST IN: Video from the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to take Trump the Capitol on January 6. (via Oreo) Then we’ll move on to music news for July 4.
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This is the earliest known footage of REM (UPDATED)
REM’s first gig was in a deconsecrated church in Athens, Georgia, on April 5, 1980. That gig was cobbled together as a goof, a favour to a friend who was having a birthday
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Random music news for Thursday, September 23, 2021
Fun with chalk and a blackboard. (Via Tom) And here’s fun with music new for September 23, 2021. If you’re a songwriter, you need to pay attention to what Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA
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Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: The amazing year that was 1991.
[This is the last of the summer encore shows. The new season starts next week! – AC] A couple of times in a lifetime, there comes a year when everything seems to change.
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REM will issue a 25th-anniversary edition of New Adventures in Hi-Fiin October
Many REM fans consider New Adventures in Hi-Fi the band’s last great record. It’s now coming in an expanded 25th-anniversary edition that will feature outtakes, B-sides, interviews with all four members of the
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Ongoing History Daily: Michael Stipe is not a Republican
Michael Stipe of REM has never been a fan of the Republican Party—and this animosity goes all the way back to the Reagan years. In 1996, he had a chance to make a
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Random news for Thursday, July 8, 2021
If you’re still being very careful about wearing a mask, here’s one that takes things to a whole new level. Wait: Stream-ripping can be legal? That’s what a judge in France says. Here’s
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Ongoing History Daily: Aw, such quaint collectibles
It used to be that bootlegs and promo items were the most collectible things a music fan could look for. Now people are looking for multi-media collectibles. These are computer programs that are
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Random music news for Thursday, May 20, 2021
If you’re an REM fan, you’ll want this new demo reissue. Spotify will start auto-transcribing podcasts over the next few weeks. And Spotify is getting into the business of livestreaming. Coldplay wants to
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The battle between Star Wars and Star Trek has been taken to a whole new level. Now let’s concentrate on music news for September 23, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Some people are optimistic
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