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Jack White released a surprise new album on Friday. But there’s a catch. A bunch of them.

July 20, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

It’s been two years since Entering Heaven Alive, the last Jack White studio record. But on Friday, he suddenly released something brand new. There is, however, a catch. A bunch of them. There’s

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Concerts

One final report from Ottawa Bluesfest 2024: Tea Party and JJ Wilde (and no thanks to Motley Crue)

July 20, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

[Ross MacDonald and Karen Coughrey wrap up their cover of Ottawa Bluesfest 2024. They got Tea Part and JJ Wilde but weren’t allowed to cover Motley Crue lest someone expose that they’re actually

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Random music news for Saturday, July 20, 2024

July 20, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Interesting data point: Grindr, the gay dating app, experienced a HUGE outage in Milwaukee due to high traffic. It happens just as the RNC convention started. And then there’s this, just for fun.

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Tech

This will be good day or a bad day: The big tech outage of 2024. How are you affected?

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Don’t you just hate it when you try to update some software only for your systems to go completely FUBAR? That’s what happened all over the world today when CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm,

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Opinion

Is rock dead? Not if you look at the data.

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Fred Jacobs is a radio and music tech consultant who loves to dive into data about music trends and consumption. One of his latest pieces (via Hypebot) gets pretty nerdy when it comes

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This is horrible: A musician was electrocuted after he hugged a wet fan

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Ayres Sasaki was a Brazilian rocker who was playing just another show at the Solar Hotel in the city of Salinopolis on July 13. Things were going very well–so well, in fact, that

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RadioTech

VR radio? Yes! Apple Vision Pro integrates Radioplayer Canada

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Radioplayer Canada is a lovely piece of software that lets you stream hundreds of radio stations from across the country. Up until now, it’s strictly been an audio experience. The company has developed

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Music Industry

How is the live music industry doing? Well…

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Once the pandemic ended, everyone went on tour and we all bought tickets. But now there are too many acts on tour, tickets cost too much, and we’ve run out of money. So

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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)

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 26 Comments

[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions of a growing group of companies which are

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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Musicians battling disease, part 2

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

In the old days before the internet, musicians had an aura of mystique about them. We only knew what they wanted us to know or what music writers could ferret out. It was

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Ongoing History Daily: The first rock’n’roll roadie?

July 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

We all know about roadies, right? They’re the men and women who are responsible from moving artists from concert to concert, transporting, setting up, operating and tearing down all the gear that goes

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