Sound Reason

On 1 August 1942, fighting against phonograph records, the American Federation of Musicians goes on strike, forbidding their members from playing on recorded music. The strike lasts over two years, due to the fear was that the phonograph would wipe out live music, which apparently, it didn’t .

Members of Amplituhedron, currently touring with as part of the Back of the Truck Tour, recently travelled to the remote hills of India to attend a retreat run by Hashim Hiram Shae Yogi. Apparently aiming to disconnect from the rigours of relentless touring and find artistic inspiration, they met with the Yogi and promptly engaged in a series of retreat activities, including bungee jumping, paintball, and s***t shooting. “Yes, we are sure this spiritual enlightenment and peaceful environment will help our output as a band”

In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center pressured the RIAA into creating a strict ratings system for music. The record industry capitulated by slapping the infamous “Parental Advisory” stickers on offending albums. Emboldened by this success, the committee allegedly harbored ambitions to expand the program to protect fragile consumers from other highly dangerous concepts. Unconfirmed drafts of future stickers reportedly included warnings such as “May Inspire Independent Thought” and “May Stimulate Dormant Imagination”

Rumours are swirling about potential artists lining up to perform as part of a new “Plugged In” series of concerts! The concept is reminiscent of the MTV Unplugged series of the 1990s; however, in this incarnation performers re-imagine their prior acoustic songs as thrash metal versions, using extreme distortion and massive amplification. Bob Dylan is rumoured to have been approached to perform but was worried that his traditional folk fan base may label him as Judas.

The Quandongs, currently touring as part of the Back of the Truck Tour with , had a unique experience when playing in Manchester. “We were playing at a place called The George and Dragon and were told to expect an interesting stage set-up, but this was ridiculous—we were put in harnesses and hoisted to the ceiling. Apparently, the band-on-the-roof configuration is used to avoid disruptions to the music when brawls erupt.”

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The practice of adding, removing, and re-adding punctuation symbols in artist names is a long-running tradition. Panic! At the Disco dropped the “!”; Jay-Z dropped and then re-added his “-”. is also toying with the use of punctuation characters in their name, with 2;n #?(2/7& being floated as a possibility. Let us know your thoughts!

Yodeling—a vocal technique involving rapid shifts between a low chest voice and a high head voice—is believed to have originated in the Central Alps of Switzerland. One historical theory suggests a shepherd was standing atop a wooden fence singing when he slipped, landed straddling the rail, and triggered a sudden shift in pitch. While there are alternative theories about the origins of this unique singing style... they all tend to involve a testicular misadventure of one sort or another.