Random music news for Thursday, May 23, 2019
It was on this day in 1873 that the Canadian government established the RCMP. As for music news on May 23, 2019… Fake artists on Spotify: a growing problem. For the first time
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Random music news for Saturday, June 16, 2018
Had he lived, Tupac would be 57 today. And in other music news for June 16, 2018… Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. Ozzy Osborne to serve 30 years for a
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One more musical tribute to Stephen Hawking
You may know about MC Hawking, a robotic rapper inspired by Stephen Hawking to perform rhymes based on cosmology and astrophysics. With Professor Hawking gone, MC Hawking is understandably bereft. He leaves us
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NOFX has released a tribute to Stephen Hawking
Who knew that Fat Mike and NOFX were fans of Stephen Hawking’s cosmological musings? Wait: This is a tribute, right?
Read MoreOne more from Stephen Hawking: His collaboration with U2
Yesterday, I posted a story called 11 Reasons Why Stephen Hawking Rocked which listed his biggest appearances in pop culture, including music. Michael points out one more: a collaboration Hawking did with U2. Remember
Read More11 reasons why Stephen Hawking rocked
For someone who was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, it’s somehow mathematically appropriate that Stephen Hawking died on Albert Einstein’s birthday as well as on Pi Day. Today his achievements in
Read MoreRandom Music News for Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Happy birthday to English bull terrier #1. Schmooze (who is probably lazing on the couch as I write this), turns nine today. In other news for May 24… Chris Cornell was cremated in
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Random Music News for Thursday, August 20, 2015
I have a new word that you need to incorporate into your vocabulary: kummerspeck. It’s German and refers to the weight you gain when you overeat for emotional reasons. It translates as–and I’m
Read MoreStephen Hawking FINALLY Says What He Thinks About the Zayn Malik/One Direction Crisis
I was wondering when Professor Hawking would weigh in on the matter. Buzzfeed Australia reports from a Hawking lecture in which he took this question from the audience: “What do you think is
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Remember Eric Idle’s “The Galaxy Song” from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life? It’s Been Covered By Stephen Hawking. Yes, Him.
This is one of the weirder offerings for this year’s Record Store Day. And now, the original.
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And the Newest Member of Pink Floyd is…Stephen Hawking?
I don’t know if he’s ever played a music instrument, but Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA has apparently gone where Rogers Waters refuses to go. Reports say that the former the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University
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