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Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox is all new with the MC5

September 27, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 21 Views

Yep. Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back in the kitchen to kick out the jams.

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Soundgarden has released pro-shot video of their NFL halftime performance

September 27, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 14 Views

When the NFL season opened in Seattle with the Seahawks playing the Patriots in a Super Bowl rematch, Soundgarden was the halftime entertainment. But for whatever reason, NBC refused to show the performance,

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The latest opus from Randy Rainbow takes a look at Donald Trump’s appearance

September 27, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 16 Views

This is an easy target, but it’s irresistible. Randy Rainbow borrows from Oklahoma! to critique Donald Trump‘s look.

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Our adorably naive opera singer discovered Falling in Reverse this week.

September 27, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 13 Views

Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) is now up to 2.23 million followers on her reaction video channel as people can’t get enough of watching her discover songs that we all know. Why

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The Future of Music Is a Mass of Niches

September 26, 2026 Andrew Dick 0 Comments 48 Views

“The audience didn’t get smaller. It got specific.” – Kevin Leflar I read a fascinating article last week written by one of Canada’s best music-tech thinkers, Kevin Leflar. In his article “A Mass

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RIP Max Webster lyricist Pye Dubois

September 26, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 38 Views

Just days after we heard of the passing of Max Webster drummer Gary McCracken comes news that lyricist Pye Dubois has died at the age of 77. Dubois was also a poet who

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Ottawa City Folk 2026, Day 4: Of Monsters and Men plus Angus & Julia Stone

September 26, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 32 Views

[This one was all Ross MacDonald. – AC] Saturday brought some cooler temperatures to Ottawa and night four of CityFolk Festival. Fortunately, the forecast changed from rain, and the skies were clear all

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Random music news for Saturday, September 26, 2026

September 26, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 47 Views

A library in Singapore is paying people two cents a day to read. They want kids to get into the habit of reading books. I like it. They could start by reading music

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U2 played their old high school on Friday

September 25, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 63 Views

All the members of U2 were students at Mount Temple Comprehensive High School in North Dublin. It was on a hallway bulletin board that 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. posted a notice saying that

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Luckily for Ed Sheeran, the weather in Boston this weekend is going to be bad. His shows have been cancelled.

September 25, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 73 Views

If you recall, the whole Ed Sheeran/Macklemore fiasco began when Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of both the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, objected to Macklemore’s pro-Palestine comments from the stage over

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You know who released an emo album today? Wendy’s. Yes, the burger chain.

September 25, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 74 Views

After teasing something via social media on Monday, Wendy’s–yes, them–released an emo EP today entitled The Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Lot. Whoever is running the marketing department sounds like an

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This September, Cross will be leading the UK Legends of Rock: Music History Tour, a 10-day tour of England that will take participants from London to Liverpool and Manchester to learn about its musical legends — The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Led Zeppelin, Amy Winehouse, Oasis, Joy Division, The Smiths and more.

For full details and the itinerary, go here.

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.

The Science of Song by Alan Cross

This illustrated book explores how music and the ways we experience it has transformed over the years and the science behind all of it. It starts with the basics — how does sound work? and what, exactly, is music?

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