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Survey: Canadians HATE AI-generated music and podcasts

October 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 15 Views

Good. I hate this stuff, too. I’m glad that I’m not alone. Signal Hill Insights has something called their monthly Audio on the Move survey. Each month, they look at issues involving Canadians’

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Music Industry

This is your weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report (09 Oct 2026)

October 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 13 Views

A day late again because I’m still in the UK and the time zones mess things up. I feel shame. Back to normal next week. Meanwhile, here’s the better-than-never weekly Canadian CD and

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Ongoing History of New Music

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1089: 1976-The birth year of alt-rock, part 1

October 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 13 Views

When was rock’n’roll born? That’s hard to pin down. It’s not like the world woke up one day and, all of a sudden, there was this brand-new genre of music that had emerged

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: The Weezer song that was inspired by an all-female top 40 group

October 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 12 Views

Sometime around 2004, Rivers Cuomo went to see a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. As he flipped through the night’s program, he saw a picture of Wilson Phillips, the all-female pop group that

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Music News

Random music news for Friday, October 9, 2026

October 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 15 Views

Want a good night’s sleep? Let a dog curl up next to you. It’s science from Canada. This is music news for October 9, 2026.from me. BONUS: Can a computer create art? This

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Music News

Highlights from my UK Legends of Rock tour: Liverpool, part 1

October 8, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 62 Views

After a full five days in London, our group of 22 music explorers hopped on a coach and headed to Liverpool for the second leg of our journey through the UK Legends of

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Music News

What releases can we expect for the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day in Canada? Glad you asked.

October 8, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 58 Views

We’re approaching the Thanksgiving long weekend, which means we’re starting to hear about the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day, which falls the day after American Thanksgiving. As usual, dozens and dozens

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Driving
Survey

These are the greatest driving songs of all time? Really?

October 8, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 55 Views

Once again we have another British survey that’s actually an advertisement in discuss. But what the hell, let’s look. Isuzu Trucks, a brand sold in the UK but not in North America, commissioned

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: The REM hit that started as a country song

October 8, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 59 Views

When REM started work on their 1992 album, Automatic for the People, drummer Bill Berry brought in a song that had a definite country twang to it. He wrote it after hearing a

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Ongoing History of New Music

Random music news for Thursday, October 8, 2026

October 8, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 59 Views

Planet 9 may have been discovered? Are you sure this time? Call me when you are. Meanwhile, there’s music news for October 8, 2026. BONUS: Formula 1 races on Apple TV are going

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Concerts

Photos and a review of the All the Feeling Tour in Ottawa with Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars

October 7, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 84 Views

[Thanks to Mindy Wu for all of this. – AC] Earlier this year, when the announcement of Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars’ ’All The Feelings Tour’ came out, I was waiting breathlessly

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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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