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Excellent news for Toronto music fans. The Phoenix Concert Theatre has a new home.

September 30, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 26 Views

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

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Tech

Your car’s infotainment system legally spies on you. It’s ratting you out. Here’s how.

September 30, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 36 Views

This 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

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Concerts

Oasis tried to keep tickets out of the hands of scalpers for their 2027 tour. They failed.

September 30, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 28 Views

After 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

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MusicRecommended Music

Indie to Know: 5 Bands to Hear This Week

September 30, 2026 Brent Chittenden 0 Comments 29 Views

Welcome 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

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Music has never been cheaper

September 30, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 28 Views

Think 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

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Random music news for Wednesday, September 30, 2026

September 30, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 37 Views

The 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

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Music Industry

This might be the only way to stop the tsunami of musical AI slop

September 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 60 Views

Depending 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,

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Uncharted

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 074: The mysterious death of Bobby Fuller

September 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 45 Views

The 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

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Radio

Uh-oh. This isn’t good news for radio in the car.

September 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 64 Views

AM 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

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Music History

Before Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor was in bands like this. Watch.

September 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 54 Views

Before 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

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: “Mr. Brightside” is The Killers song that won’t die

September 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 57 Views

“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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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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