Random music news for Monday, January 6, 2025
Okay, it’s all over. Back to work. Now we deal with winter and Christmas bills. And, of course, we have music news for January 6, 2024. More music news? Go here. BONUS: Thinking
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Russia
The One Minute Music Book Club, ep. 6: Rockin’ the Kremlin
After the USSR collapsed, a hundreds of Western companies tried to capitalize on the situation, including Universal Music Group. David Junk, the division’s first CEO has written about his experiences during that time
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Spotify is removing songs by pro-Putin, pro-Russian artists
According to the Moscow Times (an anti-Putin publication), Spotify has removed music from a number of pro-war Russian artists, some 28 months after the invasion of Ukraine and a couple of years after
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Moscow terrorist attack was on a rock concert by a band called Piknik
On Friday (March 22), armed men (five? six? eleven?) in camouflage moved on a packed music venue on the outskirts of Moscow called Crocus City Hall. Attached to a shopping mall in Krasnogors,
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Pussy Riot has a powerful message to Vladimir Putin
Boy, Vladimir Putin must hate Pussy Riot. Check out Nadya Tolokonnikova’s speech at the opening of the FEAR NOT exhibit at The Wende Museum in California. (Via Sean)
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Check out this song for the troops in Ukraine by Okean Elxy
Okean Elxy (Океан Ельзи) is a Ukranian band which has just released a haunting song about the war and dedicated to the troops fighting to keep the evil Vladimir Putin from committing even
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A Russian actress was killed onstage while performing in occupied Ukraine
Polina Menshikh went to Donetsk, a region of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, to perform for the military in a village called Kumachovo. As she was singing, the village was pummeled by a
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Ongoing History Daily: The day when Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos was arrested for spying
I’ve talked with Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand many times and he’s a friendly, unassuming guy. So he must have been very freaked out on that day in Russia in June 2005 when
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The Killers invited a Russian fan onstage during a gig. It did not go well.
The Killers tried to serve up a little compassionate diplomacy Tuesday night (August 15) in Batumi, Georgia (no, not that one; the former Soviet republic) when frontman Brandon Flowers invited a Russian fan
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Something weird and disturbing was spotted at this music festival
If you’ve been any music festival, you’ll know that the place is usually packed with all kinds of booths hawking everything from food to band merch to home made tchotchkes. Attendees of the
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, July 12, 2023
A mathematician has created the ultimate swear word–it’s brand new–using a computer algorithm. Want to be the first to use it? Go here. Maybe you can apply it something today. Now, some music
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