Best video of the day: Sinead O’Connor singing “Nothing Compares 2 U” on Irish TV.
Sinead O’Connor’s life is…complicated. But she can still belt out a song. This is a performance from last week on
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Sinead O’Connor
Random music news for Thursday, November 8, 2018
It was on this day in 1972 that a new thing called “HBO” started broadcasting. As for music news for
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Random music news for Friday, October 26, 2018
Here’s another great German word that has no English equivalent: kummerspeck. It literally means “grief bacon” and describes how you
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Random music news for Thursday, August 23, 2018
The reason you’re reading this is because on this day in 1991, the World Wide Web was open to the
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In case haven’t seen it yet, here’s the just-released version of Prince doing “Nothing Compares 2 U”
Tomorrow will be two years since we got the news that Prince had died. This week, his estate released a
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 811: The 90s, Part 2(a): A Decade of Influential Female Solo Performers
In a less-enlightened time, women were barely tolerated by the rock’n’roll establishment. They could sing, maybe shake a tambourine and
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Random Music News for Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Ready, set, SHOP! And if you have time, here’s the music news for December 26. Can you really blame this
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Random Music News for Tuesday, August 22, 2017
How are your eyes? You didn’t burn them out by staring into the face of the sun yesterday, did you?
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The Ongoing History of New Music Encore Presentation: Spectacular Acts of Self-Destruction
You probably know someone like this: A guy (or woman) who, though having loads of talent or tons of luck
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Suicides and Personal Crises Have Made Mental Illness a Front-and-Centre Issue in Music
We’ve lost a frightening number of music stars over the last year. Some, like Bowie, died of natural causes. But
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Random Music News for Tuesday, August 8, 2017
It was on this day in 1969 that the Beatles used the crosswalk down the street from EMI Studios. That
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