Random music news for Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Putin is calling up retired generals to help with his awful war in Ukraine–including this guy. Once you’re done scratching your head over that, move to music news for June 28, 2022. At
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Rick Astley
Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” turns 35 with a new animated video
As of this morning, Rick Astley‘s “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been seen 1,219,210,331 times on YouTube, probably mostly because of people being rickrolled, a phenomenon that only started with YouTube in
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, May 13, 2022
If you need something to worry about today, how about this Planet of the Apes scenario? Maybe skip that and go right to music news for May 13, 2022. The Eurovision finals are
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Let’s begin with some science news for the ladies. Now let’s move to music news for December 29, 2021. How times have changed: Adele’s sales for her current album are down 82% from
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“Never Gonna Give You Up” passes one billion YouTube views–but that doesn’t tell the real story.
When Rick Astley released “Never Gonna Give You Up” on July 27, 1987, no one outside of a handful of computer geeks knew anything about this thing called the “internet.” We just looked
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, April 17, 2021
Got my first vaccine shot yesterday. Do your work, Bill Gates nanobots! You know where I am. Moving to music news for April 17, 2021. Two hundred and seventy-seven people who were fleeced
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, April 2, 2021
I’m not surprised at this. I already know people who are poisonous. As for music news for April 2, 2021… NO! Never! Rick Astley got rolled for once. Here’s the latest on the
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Rick Astley covers Slipknot. Sort of.
When it comes to laying artists out on the music spectrum, the distance between Slipknot and Rick Astley has to be a parsec or two. Yet thanks to a wormhole created by TikTok,
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This post contains Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”–but for a very interesting reason.
If you’ve ever been rickrolled–and really, who hasn’t?–you were inevitably redirected to a video shot in 1987 with 1987 technology. That meant using 16 mm film at 24 frames per second or maybe
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, September 24, 2020
The Model Plaid? Weird name, but hella fast! On to music news for September 24, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Van Morrison is a COVIDIOT. Discuss. Coronavirus update 2: Ozzy’s granddaughter tested positive. Sharon’s
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Rick Astley has covered the Foo Fighters. Seriously.
This is not a rickroll. It’s Rick covering the Foos–who, by the way, are big fans of Rick/
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