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It’s time again to investigate where various bands got their name.
For years, the top weekly music magazine in the UK was Melody Maker. Since the only radio came from the BBC, fans of pop and rock relied on The Maker for news on
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
From the moment Edison unveiled his talking machine in August 1877, there was a race to create recordings with greater fidelity and realism. The technology led us from wax cylinder...
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...
All kinds of music require volume. It has to be listened to loud. But how loud and for how long? Here’s a quick guide.
Last time, we traced the meaning of the word punk from the late 1500s to the 1950s. For all those centuries, the word had nothing to do with music. So how did that
Why do our ears ring after we go to a loud concert? That ringing often comes with an uncomfortable underwater feeling that can last up to a couple of days. What’s going on?
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...
We’ve all seen TV shows featuring surgeons performing delicate procedures while music is playing in the operating room. Music keeps things calm, keeps the pace up, and helps everyo...
There’s nothing like having the window open or the top down on a great day with tunes blasting from the car stereo. Chances are you’ve got your favourite driving song, if not a
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the one-and-only time Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. On April 13, 1996, the group showed up at NBC i...
If I say “punk” in a musical context, you know exactly what I’m talking about: a high-energy, anti-establishment form of music characterized by loud guitars and furious drumming. B...
OK Computer, Radiohead’s third album, is considered a masterpiece and remains the centrepiece of the band’s catalogue. But that’s a weird title, isn’t it? Where did it come from? T...
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...
The Commies who ran Eastern Europe were terrified of rock’n’roll. Rebellion of any kind was not only to be discouraged but stamped out and killed with fire. Authorities reacted wit...
We’re still talking about the disaster that was the Fyre Festival earlier this year. Billy McFarland, the organizer, was arrested and charged with wire fraud. There are over a doze...
Many artists won’t go back and listen to their previous albums because all they hear are the mistakes and the things they should have done to make it better. But what’s done is
There has been a concerted effort on the part of phone manufacturers to move people away from wired headphones to wireless earbuds. When was the last time you saw a phone with a
There was a marked shift in music starting about 1999 with a new breed of indie rock performers that emerged just as Napster and file-sharing was taking off and the traditional mus...
The Black Keys have come a long, long way since that first gig in Akron, Ohio, sometime in early 2002. They played a show in front of just ten paying customers. The total
Netflix has its own AI studio now, and it’s going to use it whether we like it or not. I hope you like music news for May 19, 2026. And I’m warning you:
Back in 1987, U2 was at the beginning of their imperial phase, a period in their career where everything seemed to go their way, even when they were breaking the law. The Joshua
This summer will mark the tenth anniversary of The Tragically Hip’s final concert in Kingston. There will be plenty of commemorations, not least of which is a live album that was r...
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