A couple of years ago, Toronto music fans were worried about the potential disappearance of the venerable Phoenix Concert Theatre from its longtime home at 410 Sherbourne Street. Were fans about to lose
Read MoreThis is distressing. A US federal court has ruled that GM, Honda, Toyota, and Volkswagen can legally record your private texts and calls once you plug your smartphone into the infotainment system. You
Read MoreAfter getting hammered for the way tickets were sold to the 2025 Oasis reunion tour, organizers of the 2027 tour vowed things would be different. This time, you had to register in advance
Read MoreWelcome to week 10 of Indie to Know, a series of quick recommendations on bands to hear before everyone else does. The leaves are turning colours which means I have even more indoor
Read MoreThink buying music is too expensive? If you look at things from a historical point of view, music has never, ever been cheaper. If you go back to the 1950s, the average price
Read MoreThe first rule of Child Fight Club is that no one talks about Child Fight Club. We can talk about music news for September 30, 2026, all we want. BONUS: Have you seen
Read MoreDepending on whom you ask, anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 song uploads to Spotify are AI creations–slop, in other words. Other stream platform report more or less the same numbers. Deezer, for example,
Read MoreThe cops reported it as a suicide, another musician who had washed out of the business and took his own life. Sad, but common stuff. The police had seen it all before. There
Read MoreAM radio has been enjoyed in cars since the early 1930s. FM radio (such as it was back then) first appeared in car radios in the early 1950s. Since then, the car has
Read MoreBefore Trent Reznor settled on Nine Inch Nails in 1988, he was part of a series of Cleveland bands that went nowhere. And none of them sounded like NIN. Option 30: A new-wavey
Read More“Mr. Brightside” was the first-ever single from The Killers. It was released on September 29, 2003, and in Britain, it has never, ever gone away. It’s been on and off the British charts
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