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Uncharted

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 064: The weirdness of the Strawberry Fields and Edenfest music festivals

May 12, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 47 Views

Staging a music festival is an extremely risky thing. Everything works on a knife’s edge. And while a promoter can make an insane amount of money from a festival, everything has to go

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ConcertsSurvey

The demand for reunion tours continues. These are the most wished-for.

May 12, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 55 Views

There can be big, BIG dollars in getting the band back together again. A British ticket reseller called Fanatix conducted a survey of about 4,000 people, asking them, “Who would you like to

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Concerts

Ottawa announces lineup for 2026 CityFolk festival

May 12, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 49 Views

[Ross MacDonald was there for the press conference. – AC] Ottawa has two summer music festivals every year. July has Bluesfest, and closing out the summer is Ottawa CityFolk Festival from 16-20 September. It

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 2)

May 12, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 43 Views

When it comes to listening to the radio, FM is the most popular set of frequencies. That’s what we talked about last time. In second spot is AM, which stands for “amplitude modulation.”

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Random music news for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 58 Views

Researchers think they’ve discovered a new circulatory system in the human body. It’s called the interstitium. Huh. Moving to music news for May 12, 2026…

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Global News ContentMedical Mysteries of Music

Why does the music of our youth sound better than that of today?

May 11, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 97 Views

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you’re beyond a certain age — and really, that age can be as low as 25 — you’ve probably muttered to yourself, “Music

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Music CatalogMusic News

Why did someone just pay US$300 million for the music catalogue of the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

May 11, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 107 Views

Big companies still see music as a long-term investment. If they acquire the rights to the catalogue of a popular artist, they have an opportunity to make money from that music for the

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Music Industry

Why the “payment per stream” argument is entirely BS.

May 11, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 77 Views

There are all kinds of sites online purporting to calculate how much an artist earns per stream on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and all the others. People then latch onto these numbers

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Ongoing History of New MusicRadio

Ongoing History Daily: A lesson in radio frequencies (part 1)

May 11, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 84 Views

The radio spectrum is a wide and varied thing. FM—frequency modulation—is the most popular, and you’d think that it would be the same all over the world. It’s not. The worldwide standard has

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Music News

Random music news for Monday, May 11, 2026

May 11, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 87 Views

This is next level deepfake. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Meanwhile, music news for May 11, 2026… BONUS: What do we know about the Pentagon UFO files? Let’s look into that.

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Cool!Medical Mysteries of Music

Looking for something to do today? This video on resonance will make you think.

May 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 111 Views

The world is filled with special frequencies and vibrations. This MIT video explores the relationship between mind, matter, and sound. (Via Sean)

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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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