Forty-five years ago, Richard Nixon resigned. Are we heading towards something similar? On to music news for August 9, 2019. Nice gesture, James Hetfield. (Via Tom) This is the best-ever name for a
Read MoreHappy 76th birthday, Mick Jagger! In other music news for July 26, 2019… John Fogerty is the first artist to publicly pull out of Woodstock 50. Smart. Ozzy, the biopic. This could be
Read MoreWhat, exactly, is a guitar hero? Yes, yes, it’s a video game that vaguely simulates playing a real guitar. What else? Yes, yes, it means someone who can rock the “expert level” on
Read MoreThe advantage of owning your own record label and having access to a vinyl pressing plant is that you can do all kinds of weird things just because you feel like it. With
Read MoreThere’s something fun and satisfying about learning to play one of your favourite songs for yourself: learning the lyrics, figuring out the chords, and deconstructing all the constituent parts. Then you get deeper,
Read MoreJack White stumbled on a magical sequence of seven notes when he came up with the hook in “Seven Nation Army.” Not only did it become a sizeable hit for the White Stripes,
Read More[Another list from current intern-in-residence, Dorothy Lee. We want to make this the definitive list of airborne concerts, so if you have anything to add, please do. Bascially, if you have anything that
Read MoreLet me be clear: Cassettes are a hateful, obsolete format that deserves to die. Anyone who longs for the days of cassettes wasn’t around when the format was the only way of making
Read More[Another assignment from the current intern-in-resident, Dorothy Lee. What are the stories behind some rock’n’roll stage names?- AC] 1. Black Francis, Pixies Born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV. I In 1987, when the
Read MoreWait. Is July half over already? Jeebus… Here’s the music news for July 15. Maynard James Keenan gets candid about the new Tool album. Where should we preserve Canada’s broadcast archives? How about
Read More[Contributor Gilles LeBlanc remains a hardcore White Stripes fan. They’ve been gone for a while and aren’t coming back…and that hurts. – AC] How can anyone ever hope to quantify something as subjective
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