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Is your mom cool enough to stage-dive at a metal show?

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Metal, Municipal Waste, Stagediving

Props to 70-year-old (!!!) Mrs. Witte. mother of Municipal Waste drummer Dave Witte, who not only supports her son’s metal

Comedy quiz: Who said it? Kanye or Hitler

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hitler, Kanye

This is both funny and tragic. Let’s play an audience participation game called Who Said it: Kanye or Hitler? (Via

The year in review, TikTok and music edition

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Lizzo, TikTok, Year in Review

‘Tis the season for many, many year-end reviews/summaries/lists and TikTok has some data worth exploring. It’s hard to overestimate what

Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 21 Comments Catalog Sales, Catalogue Sales, Concord, Eldridge, Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, Publishing, Round Hill

[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is

This is my favourite music video of the month. You’ll see why.

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hurrikan, Zombies

This music video from Hurrikan starts weird and then…well, thing it takes an unexpected twist. You’ll see what I mean.

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 968: 60 mind-blowing things about music in 60 minutes, 2022 edition

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Factoids, Music Facts, Music Trivia, Weird

It’s that time again. Another year is nearly at an end and once again we’ve been subjected to the whims

Ongoing History Daily: Music for Surgery

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Playlist, Stress, Surgeon, Surgery

I don’t know what you can do with this information, but if you ever must go in for surgery, you

Music News AJMT

Random music news for Friday, December 9, 2022

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Dave Grohl, Fyre Festival, Iggy Pop, KISS, Korn, Kurt Cobain, Maneskin, Qatar, Schoolhouse Rock, Spatial Audio, Spotify, St. Vincent, Stage Diving, TikTok, Twisted Sister, Wrapped

Looking for a Christmas gift for that, er, special person? Welcome to Poop Senders. It’s just like it sounds. I’ll

group of people in a concert

Here are the top-earning tours for 2022

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Alan Cross 3 Comments 2022, Bad Bunny, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, Touring

It’s been a tough year for the majority of touring artists, given the pressure to play live and spiraling inflation.

About bloody time: A metalcore remix of “All I Want for Christmas is You”

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments All I Want for Christmas Is You, Cover Version, From Ashes to New, Metalcore

I, like so many other people around the planet, am sick of this Mariah Carey Christmas classic. However, I can

The Toronto metal community has organized a benefit for one of its own

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Metal, Piledriver, Toronto

[A report from occasionall metal correspondent, Andrew Craig. – AC] The Toronto Metal Community Celebrates The Life and Legacy of

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