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This is your weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. Streaming numbers, too! (20 Aug 2026)

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 31 Views

It’s the dog days of summer with little in the way of major new releases. That’s why Luminate is reporting a few negative numbers this week.   Streaming numbers:

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Music News

The Tragically Hip are the tip of the iceberg in Kingston music history 

August 20, 2026 Amber Healy 0 Comments 32 Views

There’s an exhibit on display at City Hall in Kingston that’s bound to get a lot of traffic, both this weekend as the city commemorates the 10th anniversary of the final concert from

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Music News

Yes, MTV still holds its annual Video Music Awards. And this year, rock gets a kick in the face.

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 28 Views

MTV doesn’t show videos anymore on any MTV channel anywhere in the world. Yet they persist in holding their annual music video awards, the one (semi-) relevant VMAs. If you care, Madonna leads

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Funny/Weird

McDonald’s is weaponizing classical music again

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 33 Views

Every once in a while, we hear a story about how a business uses classical music to discourage loitering by teenage yoofs in and around their business. Years ago, some establishments (I seem

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Concerts

The only Canadian stop on the 2026 Warped Tour is Friday and Saturday in Montreal

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 30 Views

I’m not sure why this year’s edition of The Warped Tour has just the one Canadian stop, but we’ll take it. Everything pulls into Parc Jean-Drapeau on Friday and Saturday (August 21 and

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Amy Lee’s contest-winning father

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 26 Views

Before there was X Factor and all the Idol and Got Talent TV shows, there was The Gong Show. It was conceived as an insane half-hour of absurdity by TV executive Chuck Barris.

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Recommended Music

New Music from the Inbox: Melaina Kol, Tinashe, Orville Peck, and more!

August 20, 2026 Zoe Orion 0 Comments 30 Views

Artist: Melaina KolSong: ParallelAlbum: Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then Of his new album, Melaina Kol, the alias of Nashville musician Logan Hornyak, explains: “‘Okay that’s a great

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Random music news for Thursday, August 20, 2026

August 20, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 29 Views

Would you like to mess with Elon Musk? Here’s a fantastic opportunity called the “Elon Musk is a sad little bitch with no friends monument design committee.” As you think about joining up,

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Music News

RIP ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard. He was 77.

August 19, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 55 Views

Frank Beard wasn’t a flashy drummer. He didn’t have a massive kit. He wasn’t a pounding monster like John Bonham or Dave Grohl. But he was nanosecond perfect with his rhythm and groove.

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Music News

Kingston’s new murals reflect pride in The Tragically Hip

August 19, 2026 Amber Healy 0 Comments 60 Views

Shortly before Gord Downie’s death in 2017, a new mural was unveiled in Buffalo, featuring Downie, in one of his Man Machine Poem tour suits, backed by yellow, pink and green stripes, with

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Another trailer is out for the Oasis reunion documentary. This one involves a priest.

August 19, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 52 Views

The Oasis reunion film, Don’t Look Back in Anger, has a new trailer. The movie opens in theatres on September 11 and will show up streaming on Disney+/Hulu a week later.

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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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