Random music news for Monday, July 10, 2023
Here’s a cool job: Creating fake languages for TV and movies. Nothing fake about music news for July 10, 2023. more music news? Check here. BONUS: Should you wear socks to bed? The
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Turntable
Might this weird music player make a comeback? (Probably not, but…)
Rewind to 2004. CD sales have begun to slide as the world moved to digital music files. Meanwhile, vinyl, the currency of the music industry since the late 40s, was in an apparent
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Random music news for Friday, January 13, 2023
Need a head transplant? Good news! And there’s more good news (I think) with music news for January 13, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Watching a watermelon decompose at high-speed is
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Random music news for Wednesday, December 21, 2022
First day of winter. Just 91 days to go until the first day of spring. Here’s your solstice music news (December 21, 2022). BONUS: Someone decided to investigate what Avatar: The Way of
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Metallica’s sharp new turntable looks like a ninja throwing star. Seriously.
Damn, you could put your eye out with this thing. Made by Pro-Ject, one of the world’s finest manufacturers of turntables (I have one myself), the Metallica Ninja Star unit would look gnarly
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A 3D printable turntable? Yep.
A company called Frame Theory 3D has released their first kit. They call it the SongBird Turntable. They say that with a domestic 3D printer, you, too, could make one of these. Might
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Why is Lexus trying to put a turntable into this car?
Back in the 1950s, you could order a Chrysler/Dodge/DeSoto vehicle with the Highway Hi-Fi, which was an honest-to-God under dash turntable. They were quite awful, really, and could only play special discs sold
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Random music news for Saturday, January 12, 2019
Ever had one of those weeks where computers seem to hate you? I had one of those. But I still found a way to post music news for January 12, 2019. Here’s a
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This new turntable is…unusual. Behold the Kozmophone
This new wireless turntable–dubbed the Kozmophone–is a little on the strange side. And I’m not just talking about how it looks. There’s a small holographic thingy inside that piece that looks like a
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Random music news for Monday, July 23, 2018
It’s the 25th anniversary of the infamous Air Canada Gimli Glider incident. As for what’s happening in music news on July 23, 2018… Because it’s Monday, you need this dog singing “Toxic” by
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An interesting new turntable design that includes a mobile phone app
Turntables–machines that play flat rotating discs with a stylus attached to a tonearm–have been with us since about 1900. While there have been many improvements over the last century, the underlying technology–the mechanics
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