You’d think that the stories surrounding Diddy’s activities over the last couple of decades would have slowed down by now. Nope. The longer he spends in jail awaiting trial on everything fro...
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/time-for-the-tuesday-diddy-update-its-all-awful/
On my shelf are several books detailing all the recording sessions of The Beatles. Within their pages are descriptions of the recording consoles used for all those songs at Abbey Road, including...
Another study says that the right music may help people not only recover more quickly from surgery but also help reduce pain–or at least the reception of it. Researchers at California Northsta...
A long string of dates on my fall/winter speaking tour has begun. Here are all the latest dates. Coming in 2025: Oshawa, Burnstown, Ottawa, and a bunch more. These are free-wheelin’ discussion...
The plot of the new Trailer Park Boys movie goes like this: Bubbles forms a band called The Sh*trockers. They become a hit and are asked to tour Europe with Billy Bob Thorton’s
Paul Di’Anno, the one-time lead singer of Iron Maiden has died at the age of 66. He’d been in poor health for some time, performing whilst in a wheelchair, a relic of some
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/former-iron-maiden-lead-singer-paul-dianno-has-died/
Twenty-five years ago–this would be the late 90s–MP3 players did exist, but they were big, clunky things with very limited memory. I had something called an RCA Lyra which could hold maybe a...
Party Nails Song: “Same Old Song”Album: SingleRelease Date: September 13, 2024Location: Los Angeles, CaliforniaWhy I Like It: Soft and breezy sound.Listen: The Funeral Portrait Song: “Doom...
It’s almost time to dress up the dog for Halloween. Here are some ideas. And here’s music news for October 22, 2024. More music news? Look here. BONUS: This may hit a little
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-tuesday-october-22-2024/
As someone said in my Threads feed “They should rename it The Popular Music Hall of Fame.” Agreed. The idea being that this honours just rock long left the building. I mean, Cher?
Taylor Swift continued her Eras tour at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Florida is, of course, home to Donald Trump and a whack of his supporters. Someone paid for this message to be
The Diddy news keeps on coming. What tales are there today? Let’s get caught up. Who are Diddy’s close friends and what do they know? Jay-Z. Beyonce, DJ Khaled, Jennifer Lopez, and more.
We first heard about the brave new world of “digital” at the end of the 1970s. We weren’t sure what that meant, but it
Around the turn of the millennium when digital music was still a very new thing, no one knew how this new technology would play out. What format? What devices? How would piracy be
Now that Twitter (sorry, I’ll never call it X) has completely borked the “block” feature, hundreds of thousands of people have bailed the platform for competitor BlueSky. How you doin’, ...
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-monday-october-21-2024/
Not a day goes by without some news related to Diddy’s arrest on charges. Here’s the latest. Now there’s another accusation And he was the leader. It’s all outlined in a graphic lawsuit.
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/is-there-diddy-news-for-sunday-of-course-there-is/
I’ve fallen behind Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox’s schedule when it comes to Sunday lunch. This–a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil”–is the latest thing to come...
The Trailer Park Boys journey continues on December 6 with a new movie called Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story. Bubbles’ band hits it big, first wi...
What’s been going on in the world of the Diddy scandal? Thank you for asking. Here’s a summary. Things have gone from “bad” to “apocalyptic. This relates to the legal challenges found ...
https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-weekend-diddy-report/
Like virtually every other city, Toronto is having a live music crisis. Venues are being forced out of business because of high rents, gentrification, and razor-thin margins. There’s a serious...