Random music news for Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Attention studios of the JFK assassination: This piece of news is the biggest thing we’ve heard since…the Zapruder film? This raises a lot of new questions. Meanwhile, let’s get some
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Random music news for Saturday, February 11, 2023
How many podcasts like this exist? (It’s a parody, but it’s awfully accurate.) Try some music news for February 11, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Dinosaur rock. Van
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 764: Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences
It’s happened to all of us. We hear a new song and go “Hey! That sounds just like [insert title of older song here]! That’s weird/wrong/a ripoff! Someone should do
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Music Notes from the Oscars That You May Have Missed
Three hours and 35 minutes. If you made it through the whole thing, then you’re either (a) a super hardcore movie fan; or (b) a sucker for punishment. But even
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What Were the Top Selling Vinyl Albums in Canada in 2015?
All the sales numbers and various statistics from 2015 are coming in from the Canadian music industry (I have more links below), including who sold what in terms of vinyl. Here’s
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Radiohead’s Rejected James Bond Theme Works Well Over the Opening Credit Sequence
Let’s say for a second that Radiohead’s “SPECTRE,” the Bond rejected in favour of something by Sam Smith, had instead been accepted by the producers. It works extraordinarily well with
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Random Music News for Saturday, October 24, 2015
Ate a bad kushi oyster here in Vancouver last night. You don’t want to know anymore about it. I will, however, share some music news with you. When was the
Read MoreHow Did Sam Smith Have a #1 with a Bond Theme When So Many Others Did Not?
In fifty years, not a single theme song from a Bond film reached #1 on the British charts. Paul McCartney failed with “Live and Let Die.” Duran Duran didn’t make
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Is it just me or are the cups at Starbucks getting thinner and flimsier? On to music news… In “Dave Grohl is Awesome” news, he dedicated a song to a
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Did you know we were almost obliterated on this day in 1983 when the USSR thought that US had launched a sneak nuclear attack? One man stopped it. Read it
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Is it fall already? I need to put away my white shoes. And now, in music news… So why did the Emmys book and then cancel a performance by the
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