Random music news for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The chances of encountering a naked man wearing a gimp mask in your neighboured are rare but not quite zero. Lock your doors and check out music news for August 5. 2025. BONUS:
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‘Murica: Linkin Park karaoke leads to shooting.
1First of all, choosing a Linkin Park song for karaoke is risky unless you can do both Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda‘s vocals. Second, why would you take a gun to a karaoke
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Brian Montana, a death metal pioneer, dead in a police shootout
If you’re into death metal, you’ll be familiar with the band Possessed. In 1984, they released a demo called Death Metal, and most historians point to Possessed giving the genre its name. Brian
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Wife of Weezer’s bass player involved in shoot-out with cops. She’s now charged with attempted murder
Say it ain’t so. Just hours after it was announced that Weezer would be a last-minute addition to this year’s Coachella line-up, there was a wrinkle. Okay, a little more than a wrinkle.
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Drake’s security guard shot outside his Bridle Path home in Toronto–and someone broke into his house (with updates)
Is Drake’s beef with Kendrick Lamar getting out of hand? Police won’t say yet, but they will confirm that a security guard outside Drake’s home on the Bridle Path in Toronto was shot
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, September 28, 2023
The next TV show due for a reboot? The Office, apparently. Meanwhile, all of the music news for September 28, 2023, is completely fresh. More music news? Check here. BONUS: How about an
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There’s a disturbing music angle to the July 4th mass shooting in Chicago
With six people dead and more than three dozen injured in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois (the affluent suburb that’s the setting of both Risky Business and Ferries Bueller’s Day Off;
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Silver Lining in Danforth Tragedy [UPDATE: Billy Talent steps up for a fundraiser]
The Danforth neighborhood is a sacred place for all Torontonians, whether native or just visiting. It is home to one the biggest Greektowns in North America, you can’t walk two steps without encountering
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Toronto residents gather on Danforth Avenue to sing a vigil to shooting victims
On Wednesday evening (July 25), people descended on Danforth Avenue in Toronto to take back the street after Sunday’s murderous rampage. A few gathered for this vigil. (Via Global News) Emotional scene on
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Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg killed in street shooting
Shots were fired outside the Cube Nightclub in the Queen and Peter area of Toronto shortly before 8 pm last night (June 30). Three people were shot with a male and female victim
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Survivors of concert violence never hear music the same again
Most of us will (hopefully) never have to endure a gig where there’s a shooting, a bombing or some other kind of horrific violence. The sad truth, though, is that when we go
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