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This guy listened to every #1 hit since 1958 and crunched the data. Here’s what he learned.

April 23, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

For decades, people have sought the magical elixir for creating hit songs. A good starting point for many has been analysis of past hits to see if there are things that can be

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Musical Antarctica

April 23, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Music scenes flourish everywhere, even in Antarctica, the last true wilderness on Earth. Home to a few thousand research scientists, Antarctica has a unique historical music scene. In a place where the only

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Random music news for Thursday, April 23, 2026

April 23, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4 min read

The Onion has officially taken over Alex Jones’ InfoWars. This is gonna be awesome. Music news for April 23, 2026, is pretty good, too. BONUS: Think tap dancing is boring? Look at this.

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Theatrical screenings of CFNY: The Spirit of Radio Documentary continue. We’ll be in Vancouver Saturday

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

We’re touring the extended mix of the CFNY: The Spirit of Radio documentary through venues in Canada ahead of the DVD/Blu-ray release within the next couple of weeks. Here’s where you can catch

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Gadgets

This is apparently the world’s first “AI Live Speaker.” It’s probably not what you were expecting.

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

AI is infesting everything these days and often AI is a solution to a problem that no one has. Take, for example, Souler, the world’s first “AI live speaker.” Do we really need

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Funny/WeirdRecommended Music

Is Donald Trump the ultimate emo kid? Look/listen to this.

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Okay, that headline is unfair to all emo fans, and I apologize. Still, this emo-fying of Donald Trump makes you think, doesn’t it? You thought Trump’s Iran war rants were unhinged… Well, I

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Music News

Alanis Morissette joins the Canadian men’s World Cup team. Sort of.

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The World Cup is coming up in June, and as one of the host countries (not to mention through hard-fought qualifying victories), our men’s team is in the draw. Alanis Morissette is a

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Artificial Intelligence
Recommended Music

I can get behind this song called “Kill AI”

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

AI is nibbling at the edges of society, and that’s concerning. When you hear of AI programs so powerful that a meeting of finance ministers and bankers is required, it’s time to not

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Naming Weezer

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has played under several interesting band names in his career. There was a metal act in high school called Avant Garde. They later became Zoom, after experimenting with Prong

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CrimeMusic News

Random music news for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

April 22, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 7 min read

Even hardcore MAGA people are coming around to the idea that the Trump assassination in Butler PA was staged. About time. Moving to music news for April 22, 2026… BONUS: Toilet paper, hotel

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Music NewsRecommended Music

Ten years ago today, we lost Prince. There’s also a new song.

April 21, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

I was in my home office on the afternoon of April 21, 2016, when the phone started ringing. New organizations wanted me to comment on the passing of Prince. The what? This had

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