Random music news for Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Are you into biohacking? Not so fast. (Via Walter) Nothing harmful about music news for April 24, 2024. More music news? Look here. BONUS: Well, you learn something every day,
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Random music news for Saturday, March 11, 2023
Did you know that the 1.44 MB floppy disc is still being used by business? Both Chuck E. Cheese and some older 747s rely on the things. And if you rely on nme
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Ongoing History Daily: A Pearl Jam legal jam
Because big groups don’t have the bandwidth to play all the shows their fans demand, there is a lot of money to be made in the realm of the tribute band. In case
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The dream tour of 2019 features a McDonald’s-theme Black Sabbath tribute band plus a metal band based on The Simpsons’ Ned Flanders
I am soooooo in for this. Mac Sabbath is an LA-based Black Sabbath tribute act whose members dressed up as McDonald’s characters. Out front is Ronald Osbourne (dressed as Ronald McDonald, of course),
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Random music news for Thursday, December 13, 2018
One day, we’ll turn on the news and hear nothing about Brexit. One day… Meanwhile, this is music news for December 13, 2018. Speaking of Brexit, some music industry heavyweights have issued this
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Mac Sabbath performs at Moxi Theater in Greeley on October 1, 2015. Photos by Tina Hagerling, heyreverb.com.
Into tribute bands? Here are some of the strangest ones in the world.
[This was my weekly column for Global News. – AC] Normally, the goal of the tribute band is to provide audiences with a reasonable facsimile of the real thing when the original isn’t
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And Now for Something Completely Different: 10 of the Weirdest Tribute Bands in the Universe
[Current intern-in-residence Dorothy Lee has come up with another list for us. She gets an A+ for “strange.” – AC] There are plenty of traditional cover bands out there, but these ten offer
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The Fascinating World of Female Rock’n’Roll Tribute Bands
There was a time not that long ago that common wisdom was that women couldn’t rock. Their job was to sing, look pretty and maybe shake a tambourine. It took pioneers like The
Read MoreRandom Music News for Tuesday, January 17, 2017
This was the day of the great 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. It wasn’t the Big One, but it was bad. And now, the music news… Two Canadians are among the dead
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The Rise of the All-Female Tribute Bands
Once upon a time, in the dark, dark ages of the 1970s, it was generally agreed that women could not rock. Some brave souls bucked that trend (cf. The Runaways) but were buried
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The Beijing Beatles
More proof that the Beatles are the most universally-loved band in the history of music. From The Telegraph (via Tom). Learn more about them at their Facebook page. Sixties supergroup the Beatles were
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