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Last time we spoke of lip-syncing, the act of miming along to a pre-recorded backing track. Being caught lip-syncing was once considered a public evil, especially after Milli Vanil...
We’ve spent the last few segments breaking down all the different frequencies we use to listen to the radio. We started with FM, then moved to AM (which also includes longwave and...
We’ve been looking at the various types of frequencies that we use to listen to the radio, covering both standard FM and AM. But there’s more to AM radio than what you can
Last time, we looked at why we tend to go back to the music of our youth again and again. Most people will lose interest in finding new music. Is there a way
A hundred years ago, radio was still a wild new invention. Commercial broadcasts had only been around for a few years. This brings me to a couple of milestones. On May 13, 1897—130
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – (Part 1 of 6) – The oil and gas industry has already […]
When it comes to listening to the radio, FM is the most popular set of frequencies. That’s what we talked about last time. In second spot is AM, which stands for “amplitude modulat...
We’ve all seen when artists pretend to sing a song when they’re just miming the words to a pre-recorded track. Once upon a time, lip-syncing was considered to be a massive cheat, b...
In 1926, radio was still a very new technology. The German government, reeling under high inflation and reparations payments required by the Treaty of Versailles, was desperate to...
Usually, if something is one of a kind, it’s at the very least unique and if enough people lust after this thing, it can also be very valuable. Take the case of an
Sometimes a band’s music hides a narrative that needs piecing together. For example, take Twenty One Pilots’ fourth studio album, Blurryface. The album tells a story of a character...
There are certain things that will happen only once in a lifetime—your first steps or those of your child, your first kiss, your first real heartbreak. You can never repeat those....
Our lesson on radio frequencies continues. We’ve looked at FM, AM, longwave, and shortwave. What else is there? Well, there’s DAB, which stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting. It’s...
The radio spectrum is a wide and varied thing. FM—frequency modulation—is the most popular, and you’d think that it would be the same all over the world. It’s not. The worldwide st...
All kinds of university courses focus on some pretty specific things when it comes to music. Nebraska Wesleyan University in Omaha offered a course devoted entirely to the study of...
In 2003, some obscure records were discovered at a Washington DC flea market, all from someone called Mingering Mike. They looked real on the outside, but when they were opened up,...
If you keep going back to the music you loved when you were young, there’s a neurological reason for this. A 2011 study at McGill in Montreal looked at the mesolimbic pathway, whic...
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has played under several interesting band names in his career. There was a metal act in high school called Avant Garde. They later became Zoom, after e...
When we go to a concert, we expect good sound. But it wasn’t always that way. In the 60s and early 70s, PA systems used by bands at all levels were awful. Even
Who doesn’t love a good list? Even before the internet was choked with listicles, my love of lists goes back to at least 1977, when I bought a paperback book called The Book
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Unwritten Histories, a project created by Andrea Eidinger that has shaped how many of us think about the past—how it’s written, shared, and...
If you’ve been following my Ongoing History of New Music series on the radio or through podcasts about the 50 biggest alt-rock one-hit wonders since the punk explosion of 1976. Her...
By Stephanie Pettigrew When I first started my PhD in 2013, I left a very comfortable, established community of support in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, made up of friends I had known...
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Unwritten Histories, a project created by Andrea Eidinger that has shaped how many of us think about the past—how it’s written, shared, and...
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