Random music news for Tuesday, April 13, 2021
There’s now a board game for cats. Please enjoy. And now, music news for April 13, 2021. Here’s an ask for all music fans: Write the government asking for more COVID support for
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Teenage Head
Popular Hamilton drummer Gene Champagne is on a ventilator with COVID
A couple of weeks ago, 52-year-old Gene Champagne, drummer with bands like Teenage Head and the Killjoys, started feeling unwell: chills, body aches, a bad cough. He initially tested negative for COVID, but
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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: Canada vs. America
Sometimes, American record labels get kinda funny when it comes to the names of certain Canadian bands. For example, Teenage Head took their name from the title of a 1971 album by a
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Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Teenage Head documentary
If you’re not planning to watch the results come in from the US election on November 3, TVO is going to counterprogram things with a brand new Teenage Head documentary entitled Picture My
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Random music news for Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Two weeks until the US presidential election. And wouldn’t you know it, but this could happen the day before. So 2020, right? Now some music news for October 20, 2020. Coronavirus update 1:
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Random music news for Tuesday, November 12, 2019
On this day in 1990. Tim Berners-Lee published a proposal for something he called the “world wide web.” Twenty-nine years later, I’m able to bring you music news for November 12, 2019. There’s
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Teenage Head releases a long-overdue update to their Tornado EP. We did an unboxing on video.
Back in 1983, Teenage Heads–yes, I spelled that right; their label made them add an “s” to make their less offensive to American audiences–released an EP called Tornado. It has finally received an
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Teenage Head’s Tornado EP is getting a re-release
If Canada has an analogue to the Sex Pistols, the Clash, or the Ramones, it’s Teenage Head. While they didn’t sound like either of those bands, the Head’s had a similar impact on
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10 years ago today, Frankie Venom of Teenage Head breathed his last
In their day, Teenage Head was a force of nature. As one of the biggest Canadian bands to emerge of out of the post-punk/New Wave stew of the middle and late 70s, they
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38 years ago today: The Great Toronto Punk Rock Riot
You may have seen the story about the dude who got thrown out of Tuesday’s Slayer concert at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto and then tried to swim back in. He’s become some
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Random music news for Saturday, May 26, 2018
NO MORE GDPR EMAILS! PLEASE! I don’t even subscribe to 75% of these newsletters! And now, for music news on May 26, 2018… Speaking of GDPR, even rock stars have been all over
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