Random music news for Friday, January 24, 2025
“Boomerasking” is a thing. Don’t do it. (And it’s not what you think.) As for music news for January 24, 2025… More muisc news? Go here. BONUS: A very, very, very old original
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Walkman
Ongoing History Daily: The Sony Walkman, part 1
All this week, we’re going to look at one of the most revolutionary music devices the world has ever seen, one that changed how we consume music forever. I’m talking about the Sony
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Fun retro doc: When “pocket stereos” changed everything
It’s impossible to imagine not having access to all your favourite songs wherever you are. But if we go back about 40 years, that was thes stuff of science fiction. Here’s a story
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Photos from The Walkmen gig at History in Toronto
[Alex Lupol was dispatched to take photos. – AC] Nearly ten years on from their final performance, New York’s The Walkmen returns, but don’t call it a reunion! After a long “indefinite hiatus”
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Who invented headphones, part 3
From the late 50s through to the late 70s, headphones were big, bulky, heavy things. The prevailing design theory was that for the user to get maximum fidelity out of them, the had
Read MoreRandom 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
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, July 5, 2022
What could possibly be in a cocktail that sells for US$5,000? This. Now check out some music news for July 5, 2022. An authorized biography of The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts is in
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The History of Portable Music, Part 2
There were three moments when I remembered looking at something in my hand realizing that it was going to change my life. The first time was on my sixth birthday when my grandmother
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One of the many great things about music is that we can enjoy it anywhere. Everyone has a smartphone and every smartphone has the capability of playing music whether you’re listening to tracks
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Sony’s 40th anniversary Walkman features this cool party trick
It was 40 years ago–July 1, 1979–that Sony transformed personal music listening with the release of the first iteration of the Walkman. Known as the TPS-L2, it was (relatively) small, lightweight, and came
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Random music news for Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Ten years ago today, we heard that Michael Jackson died. Yes, it’s been ten years already and many have conflicted feelings about the man. Very conflicted. Here’s what’s happening for June 25, 2019.
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