Skip to content
  • Uncharted Podcast
  • | Ongoing History Podcast
  • Cookie Policy (CA)
Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

  • Home
  • Archive
  • About Alan
  • Speaking Gigs
  • A Shop of Musical Things
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise
CrimeUncharted

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 040: A buffet of musical murders

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

On the evening of February 25, 1682, Alessandro Stradella was stabbed to death in a square in Genoa, Italy. Stradella was a classical composer of some renown. It appears he was killed by

Read More
Crime

The Diddy Trial, Day Three

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The prosecution continued to lay out their case with more questioning of Diddy’s ex, Cassie Ventura. The jury was shown the unedited version of Diddy’s attack on Cassie in the hallway of a

Read More
Concerts

Live Nation has announced its $30 concert ticket sale

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Here in North America, we have a very short outdoor touring season, so if an artist wants to make enough money to sustain themselves over the rest of the year, they have to

Read More
Survey

A new study looks at the music habits of Gen Alpha

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

First came the Boomers, followed by Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. The newest up-and-comers are Gen Alpha, those born between 2010 and 2024 (i.e. those between 1 and 16 years old). And

Read More
close up photo of cute sleeping cat Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
Recommended Music

Apple Music and Universal Music Group unveil Sound Therapy

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Used in the right way, music is medicine. Music therapy is a highly effective way of treating many different maladies. And in many cases, no prescription is required. Apple Music has teamed up

Read More
Music Industry

Here’s weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Vinyl’s sales lead over CDs increased last week. Here are the latest figures courtesy of Luminate. Streaming numbers:

Read More
Survey

Is Gen Z quitting music? Let’s look into that.

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Gen Z grew up being connected to the internet 24-7 and are increasingly aware that they are slaves to their devices. (To be fair, we’re all in this boat.) According to some recent

Read More
Medical Mysteries of MusicOngoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Amusia

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

You might have a friend who just isn’t into music. They might even find music annoying. This is a genuine medical condition called “amusia.” This happens when the brain can’t process or recognize

Read More
Recommended Music

New Music from the Inbox: BADBADNOTGOOD, Rollo Doherty, bibi club, and more!

May 15, 2025 Zoe Orion 0 Comments 3 min read

Artist: SammyfunkSong: We Are SammyfunkAlbum: We Are Sammyfunk Of their eclectic debut album (out now), Sammyfunk explain: “Each song on the record is sung by a totally different ‘character,’ even accents are changed

Read More
Music News AJMT
Ongoing History of New Music

Random music news for Thursday, May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4 min read

There’s now a Shazam for rocks. There’s also music news for May 15, 2025. More music news? Go here. BONUS: If you’re in your 40s or older, this will hit hard. (Via Tom)

Read More
Crime

The Diddy trial, Day Two

May 14, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Sean “Diddy” Combs is in a Brooklyn courtroom all this week, hearing witness testimony brought by prosecutors. Day One featured some horrific stories. Day Two was no better. Diddy’s ex, Cassie Ventura (who

Read More
  • ← Previous

Ongoing History of New Music Podcast

Each week, the podcast looks at something from the alt-rock universe, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music. OUT NOW!

The Science of Song by Alan Cross

Alan Cross and A Journal of Musical Things Merch

  • Home
  • Archive
  • About Alan
  • Speaking Gigs
  • A Shop of Musical Things
  • Newsletter
  • Advertise

Copyright © 2025 Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things. All rights reserved.

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}