The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 960: Rock’s greatest disasters
Humanity has always been beset by disasters, whether they be acts of God or something we somehow brought on ourselves.
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Roskilde
Ongoing History Daily: Concert tragedies
The deaths earlier this month at the Astroworld Festival are not the first at a music festival. We can go
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Random music news for Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Happy 153rd, Canada. Here’s what’s happening in music news for July 1, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Not music-related but fun.
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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
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The Worst Disasters in Concert History
The horrible attack on defenseless concertgoers in Manchester Monday night will go down in history as one of the worst
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Random Music News for Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Hey, has anyone heard from Kelleyanne Conway recently? Just wondering. And now, the music news. Brian Johnson of AC/DC has
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Music Festival Recycles Urine into Beer
Usually it’s the other way around: lots of beer = lots of urine. But leave it to the crafty ecologically-conscious
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Damon Albarn’s Five-Hour Set Ends When He’s Carried Off the Stage
That must have been a good gig at Roskilde in Denmark. Damon Albarn and his collective known as African Express
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