Random music news for Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Guinness will give out a world record for anything these days. I mean, this? Meanwhile, there’s more important things going on with music news for October 16, 2024. More music
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Love vinyl? Here’s a short doc on the vinyl revolution.
If you’re caught up in the vinyl revolution, take 30 minutes to view this Canadian documentary on the subject. Full disclosure: I’m in it.
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Weekly survey: Is it time for a full-on emo revival?
If you’ve been following the world of music festivals, you’ll have heard of the When We Were Young festival coming up in Las Vegas this October. If you came of
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Weekly survey: Is it time for a CD revival?
Sales of vinyl have been going up for 15 straight years. There are, however, rumblings in certain quarters that it’s now time for the CD to make a comeback. Millions
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Uh-oh. Crazy Frog has come back for TikTok
You might remember the Crazy Frog, uh, craze back around Christmas in 2004 and into the summer of 2005 when these sounds were everywhere thanks to a ringtone campaign (remember
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 879: Alt-Rock Revivals Part 1 – Punk
We begin this episode with a reading from Ecclesiastes, chapter three, verses 1-3. Ish. To everything there is a season, a time to every purpose under the heavens. A time
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Next up on the resurrection/recycling list: Britpop!
It takes anywhere from a dozen to twenty years for nostalgia to kick in for a previous era of music. For example: 1958-61: A fondness for traditional jazz in some
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Could we be on the cusp of an emo revival?
There was a time in the mid-00’s when alt-rock was almost nothing but emo. What started as an intense form of hardcore punk in the DC area back in the
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Pop Culture & Its Knack of Making Music Immortal: Part Two
Despite the fact that a slew of new songs skyrocket to the charts every year, there always seems to be that crop of tunes that never say die. You know
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Is Emo Poised for a Comeback Thanks to Generation Z?
Full disclosure: I hate emo. I always have. Bands like Dashboard Confessional, My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail, Black Veil Brides and Pierce the Veil (not to mention, Fall Out Boy,
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Even NBC Is Reporting on the Cassette Revival
Please stop this cassette madness. “Stubbornness and stupidity” is right. More here. (Via Steve)
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