Sonos headed backstage with the NME Awards this year . Watch what unfolds when the camera’s were rolling: Sonos rocked out at the NME Awards 2013, toasting some of the greatest talent in music history. With performances from rock legends including mod father Paul Weller and Rolling Stones hero Ronnie Wood, who also collected the [...]
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Janelle Monáe has been called a style provocateur; an individual cleverly redefining the modern idea of the musical artist. And she is someone who has done this the only way imaginable – her own. We recently sat down with Janelle to talk about what music inspires her, what makes her tick, and what we can [...]
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Die Ärzte sind auf „Comeback”-Tour, beinahe jede Halle ist ausverkauft und am Freitag ist die neue Split-Single „Ist das noch Punkrock?“ erschienen – „Die beste Band der Welt“ ist munter wie eh und je! Wir haben das Jubiläum zum Anlass genommen, um 12 furiose Fakten und Kuriositäten aus 30 Jahren Bandgeschichte in einer Infografik zusammenzustellen. [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2012 by Sonos Staff in It Happened In Music, Music In Culture
On July 14th, 2007, a pair of glasses worn by former Beatle John Lennon sparked a bidding war after being offered for sale online. The circular sunglasses were worn by Lennon during the Beatles 1966 tour of Japan, where the band played some of their last ever live dates. Anonymous rival bidders had pushed the [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2012 by Sonos Staff in It Happened In Music, Music In Culture
On this day in 1915, the first practical application of moving-coil loudspeaker was invented by Peter Jensen and Edwin Pridham in Napa, California. The design brought together an electroacoustic transducer that produced sound in response to an electrical audio signal input—the same electro-dynamic principle that drives virtually every modern loudspeaker you use in your car, [...]
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