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Concerts Music Industry 

What’s it like to organize a concert tour? It’s insanely complicated. Watch this video.

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Logistics, Tour, Touring

When we go to a show, the lights go down, the music starts, it ends, and we go home. Here

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The story of the electric guitar, part 3

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Electric Guitar, Marshall, Rock

[It’s the summer hiatus. New shows are already in production for the fall. – AC] In assessing the popular music

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Modest backstage needs

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Backstage, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails

Back in the imperial period of David Bowie’s career in the 1970s, he ingested a lot of drugs and alcohol

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random music news for Friday, June 9, 2023

June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Apple, CarPlay, Deezer, DRM, iOS 15, Jared Leto, Mike Ness, Oasis, Queen, Reddit, Roger Waters, Royalties, Slayer, Social Distortion, Spotify

The biggest announcement from Apple this week? Auto-Correct will no longer default to “ducking.” About ducking time. Moving to some

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Concerts Music News 

A NYC festival is going ahead despite that no one can breathe in New York

June 8, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Air Quality, Forest Fires, Governors Ball, Music Festival, Pollution, Wildfires

Forest fires in northeastern Ontario and in Quebec have made breathing in vast swaths of North America impossible. At one

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Music Industry 

The Wall Street Journal looks at the US$1.2 billion vinyl record industry

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Vinyl

Twenty-five years ago, vinyl was written off as dead. Now this part of the recorded music industry is worth US$1.2

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Music Industry 

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)

June 8, 2023June 9, 2023 Alan Cross 22 Comments Catalog Sales, Catalogue Sales, Concord, Eldridge, Hipgnosis, Mojo Music and Media, 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

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Pre-concert rituals

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Foo Fighters, Jack White, Prince, Rituals, Thom Yorke, Weezer

If you’re an artist, you need to get into the zone, the right headspace, before you step onstage. This often

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, June 8, 2023

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, Astrud Gilberto, Black Metal, Elon Musk, Fever 333, OK Go, Peter Gabriel, Primal Scream, Roger Waters, Slipknot, Spotify, Tony Levin

Sweden is holding a sex tournament, turning sex into a sport. Will there be betting? Let’s try some music news

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Music News 

Dave Grohl has this note for fans about the emotional Foo Fighters tour

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, Tour

I noticed a couple of posts on Reddit by Foo Fighters fans who are worried about Dave Grohl on the

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

A psychologist asserts that listening to metal is good for thinking and stress reduction

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Anger, Cortisol, Critical Thinking, Mental Health, Metal, Stress

If you’re into metal, your reaction to that headline was probably “Duh. Of course.” If you’re not, let me explain.

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