Random music news for Friday, June 11, 2021
Britain is one of the most sweariest places in the world. And now some want it to be less sweary? Silly c****. Now some music news for June 11, 2021. Here’s an explanation
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Stone Roses
Ongoing History Daily: Was this the worst record contract of all time?
One of the worst record contracts ever signed was between the Stone Roses and their first label, a company called Silvertone. Under the terms of this contract, Silvertone had the right to license
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Random music news for Friday, March 5, 2021
SpaceX Starship go BOOM! Now some not-quite-as-explosive music news for March 5, 2021. Ian Brown of the Stone Roses is against COVID vaccination requirements. Great. First Dolly Parton turned “Jolene” into “Vaccine” to
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Random music news for Monday, September 7, 2020
The bad news: It’s Labour Day, the unofficial end of summer. The good news: This is the latest day on the calendar that Labour Day can possibly fall, so that’s something. The bad
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 18, 2019
One more day (possibly, hopefully) of erratic postings before things get back to a normal schedule. Here’s what I’ve found for September 18, 2019. Getting married? Why not engage Keith Buckley, the vocals
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: Hard Time – Musicians Who Have Gone to Jail
The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians who murder, rape, rob and commit all sorts of horrible crimes. That’s the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Encore Presentation: Airplanes!
[Note: 102.1 the Edge ran the wrong program last week. Listeners to the Edge will get the finale of the series on the 90s. Everyone else will hear this encore presentation of episode
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Bono’s Son, Eli Hewson, Has His Own Band. Watch.
Like father like son? Eli Hewson, son of Bono, is in a Dublin-based band called Inhaler who list their influences as Joy Division (one of dad’s favourites) and the Stone Roses. Learn more
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Random Music News for Monday, June 19, 2017
This is officially World Sauntering Day. Get up and go take a leisurely walk. Go on. Do it after you read about the music news for June 19. A US senator is being
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Marvel at Reni’s Isolated Drums on the Stone Roses’ “Love Spreads”
One of the things that immediately attracted me to the Stone Roses back in 1989 was the rhythm section. The Mani-Reni combination was, in my opinion, the most formidable things about the band.
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Fun Stats: Which Big Manchester Bands Found Love in Canada?
Cameron Gordon of Completely Ignored was curious as to which Manchester bands were embraced by Canadians (and vice-versa), so he created this chart. Click the image to view the whole visual.
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