True or false: Canada’s Three Days Grace once appeared in a Disney movie. This is 100% true. It was a 2004 Hilary Duff movie called Raise Your Voice, which follows a young singer
Read MoreLast time, we started on the story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 when dozens and dozens of German peasants suddenly took to the streets and silently dancing for days on end. No
Read MoreSeven hundred years ago, life was (as English philosopher Thomas Hobbes said in the 1600s) “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” But 100 years earlier, things were even weirder. Just as the last
Read MoreLet me tell the story again. In 2007, a couple of listeners asked if I would do another Ongoing History episode on the origins of band names. I’d done a few in the
Read MoreIn 1968, a band from England called Nirvana released a single entitled “Rainbow Chaser” and immediately dropped out of sight. That is, until a band from Seattle called Nirvana released a single entitled
Read MoreFactory Records was the Manchester-based indie label that cranked out records from Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays, and so many more. Here’s another fascinating fact about Factory. Everything the label did–and
Read MoreDavid Bowie spent most of the 60s as a struggling singer-songwriter and part-time mime. He tried all sorts of different styles and approaches, but none of them gave him any traction. His breakthrough
Read More“How Soon Is Now?” is arguably the biggest song from The Smiths. What began as a B-side of the single “William, It Was Really Nothing” in 1985 was transformed into a mega-alternative hit,
Read MoreTouring is a global business these days, and the amount of money that can be made is staggering. Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is currently the biggest of all time, bringing in just under
Read MoreOne of the most important parts of music is beat and rhythm. Without beats, without rhythm, there’s no groove. Without a groove, there’s no movement or dancing or physically getting into the music.
Read MoreChances are you know someone who doesn’t really care about music. For some reason, listening to music just doesn’t do it for them. Ever wonder why? It could be neurological. Researchers put volunteers
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