Random music news for Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A quirky of history: Viagra owes its success to a Welsh miner who noticed something about his new heart medication. Now we can move to music news for December 5, 2023. More music
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Weezer
Ongoing History: The time Weezer was offered $10 million to go away
Bands are always being offered insane amounts of money—millions of dollars—to get back together. But it’s rare to hear of a band being offered millions to break up. This is exactly what happened
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A list of very bad, terrible, no good collaborations
[Another list by list specialist Adam Morrison. – AC] Ten musical collaborations that just didn’t work. When artists from different musical worlds get together to create, something special gets made. But special doesn’t
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Photos and reviews from Ottawa Bluesfest: Weezer, Billy Talent, and PUP
[Coverage of this year’s even comes from Ross MacDonald (photos) and Karen Coughtrey (text). – AC] Night two of Ottawa Bluesfest (the first was devoted to country and rap) may have brought in
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Random music news for Monday, June 19, 2023
Let’s start the week with nuns behaving badly. Very badly. Right, Sister? If you can get through that, move on to music news for June 19, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS:
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Ongoing History Daily: Peak Weezer?
Over the years, Rivers Cuomo has proven himself to be an extremely prolific songwriter, resulting in a lot of Weezer albums and EPs. There are fifteen studio albums, ten EPs, at least 37
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Ongoing History Daily: Pre-concert rituals
If you’re an artist, you need to get into the zone, the right headspace, before you step onstage. This often leads to a number of interesting pre-show rituals. It could be something as
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These guys tried to sing Weezer’s “blue” album from memory
Good effort guys, but…
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Lineup announced for Ottawa Bluesfest 2023. It’s pretty, pretty, pretty good.
[The lineup for the 2023 edition of Ottawa Bluesfest was announced at midnight. Correspondent Ross MacDonald stayed up to get the news. – AC] First things first, because it always brings up a
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Ongoing History Daily: Weezer’s attitude towards the music business
Weezer has been around since the early 90s, so they’ve seen an insane amount of change and evolution in the music business. Even someone as experienced as Rivers Cuomo doesn’t know what’s going
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Ongoing History Daily: Rivers Cuomo’s Harvard years
After Weezer released their “blue” album, Rivers Cuomo quickly got bored with doing the same thing over and over again. One day, while the band was in Boston, he decided to drop into
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