Random music news for Monday, June 17, 2024.
Are you ready for the World Excel Championships? It happened in Las Vegas. On now to music news for June 17, 2024. BONUS: I’m not really sure what’s happening here. Anyone?
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Talking Heads
An update on a lost piece of stereo system tech
Earlier this month, I wrote a column for GlobalNews.ca on the forgotten world of weird old stereo system accessories. On the list was a weirdly-encoded version of Talking Heads’ 1988 album, Naked. I’d
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Random music news for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
If you’re going to get a throat tattoo, you might want to consider the reactions these guys got. I hope you react much more kindly to music news for May 8, 2024. More
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Our adorably naive opera singer just discovered Talking Heads
Elizabeth Zharoff, the trained opera singer who seemed to miss the music of her youth, cranks out a lot of these reaction videos. This time, it’s Talking Heads and “Life During Wartime,” specifically
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Random music news for Saturday, January 20, 2024
Would you wear a cologne that smells like this? Would you read music news for January 20, 2024? More music news? Check here. BONUS: What will happen when the copyrights expire on Superman
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Ongoing History Daily: The Talking Heads were once too far ahead of their time.
It’s cool to be on the leading edge of technology, but sometimes you can be TOO far ahead. In 1988, the Talking Heads released an album called Naked. It was advertised as being
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Talking Heads got together for the first time in 20 years at the Toronto International Film Festival
They didn’t perform, but they did sit down for a Q&A session with Spike Lee about a re-released version of Stop Making Sense, one of the greatst concert films ever. Let’s watch, shall
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Talking Heads will reunite in Toronto next month–but it’s not quite what you think.
Talking Heads never really broke up. After the Naked album in 1988, they just sort of…evaporated. There was no announcement, no farewell, no nothing. All four members of the band are fortunately still
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 971: Couples in music
Have you ever had to work together with your significant other? I don’t mean things like housework, parenting, or anything like that. I’m talking about a job–your primary source of income–where the two
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Random music news for Friday, December 25, 2020
Merry Christmas! Bet you thought there’d be no music news for December 25, did you? Wrong. An original Dave Grohl Christmas song? Not until he retires. Need some metal Christmas song? Here you
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Random music news for Thursday, December 10, 2020
Before we begin, you may be happy to know that Canada now has its own mysterious monolith. It’s in rural Manitoba. I love this shit. Now some music news for December 10, 2020.
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