January 17, 2025| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
By Andy Steiner, The Ringer | With the rise of streaming—and a fantasy football–style approach to chart... Read More → The Gamification of Pop Music
January 9, 2025| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: Rekha at the piano! | Wanna be comedienne but acclaimed jazz pianist, vocalist and songwriter Rekha... Read More → Rekha Ohal’s Resolutions for 2025 – We Should Hold Her to These!!!
December 26, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
By Cracked Writers, Cracked | “London Calling” by The Clash The 1979 song is about climate... Read More → 28 Trivia Tidbits About the Music Industry That Will Burrow Into Your Brain Like a Catchy Earworm
December 12, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
By Witney Siebold, Slash Film | “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island,” in case it needs... Read More → Who Sang The Iconic Gilligan’s Island Theme Song?
Photo: The Carpenters | By Neil Crosslye, Music Radar | Anyone delving into the rich vein of 60s songwriting... Read More → “Karen manages to get across both sadness and silliness”: The Carpenters’ Hit That Wowed Two Beatles
November 20, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
“The main role of the Texas Music Office is to ensure that the Texas Music Industry and the people that... Read More → #In Conversation With Brendon Anthony – The state of music policy making in Texas
November 7, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
SUBJECT: Let the Clubs Close. Main points (copies and pasted from the post) 1. The music business has... Read More → From Chris K. on Facebook, 11/07/24: Have you read yesterday’s LefsetzLetter?
October 31, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: Chad Smith | By Greg Evans, The Independent | A busker has gone viral for being completely unaware... Read More → Busker Goes Viral Covering Red Hot Chili Peppers While Having No Idea Who His Audience Is
October 24, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
By Jem Aswad, Variety | The custom-made recording console used on the Beatles’ last recorded album... Read More → Abbey Road Recording Console Used by the Beatles on Final Album for Sale
October 17, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: Jack Antonoff and Prof/COMBO member Storm Gloor | By Tracy Smith, CBS Sunday Morning | Video story:... Read More → Jack Antonoff on the “randomness” of Creativity
September 19, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Since COMBO has several members from Adams City High, we thought they might be able to help out with... Read More → Adams City High School Theater Looking for Theater History
August 29, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: Ron Spitzer | By Carla K. Johnson, AP | In the 1980s and ’90s, Ron Spitzer played bass and drums in... Read More → After a Stroke, This Musician Found His Singing Voice Again with Help From a Special Choir
Photo: Steve Hartman | During a 2019 classical music concert at Symphony Hall in Boston, a 9-year-old boy... Read More → How a Young Boy’s Shout of “wow” Still Resonates in the Classical Music Community 5 Years On // Little Boy Joyfully Dances to His Favorite Song, ‘I Like to Move It’
August 22, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
By Christian Brooks, BBC News | Some music fans now know 15-second sped up snippets of songs better than the... Read More → TikTokers are Speeding Up Songs – But Are We Forgetting the Originals?
July 25, 2024| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: Andy | CBS’s On the Road with Steve Hartman, presented the story of Gabe Scott and Andy Gullahorn,... Read More → Every Week, Gabe and Andy Take a Walk – and “High Five” – for 10 Years Now
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