What’s it like to organize a concert tour? It’s insanely complicated. Watch this video.
When we go to a show, the lights go down, the music starts, it ends, and we go home. Here
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The story of the electric guitar, part 3
[It’s the summer hiatus. New shows are already in production for the fall. – AC] In assessing the popular music
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Ongoing History Daily: Modest backstage needs
Back in the imperial period of David Bowie’s career in the 1970s, he ingested a lot of drugs and alcohol
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Random music news for Friday, June 9, 2023
The biggest announcement from Apple this week? Auto-Correct will no longer default to “ducking.” About ducking time. Moving to some
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A NYC festival is going ahead despite that no one can breathe in New York
Forest fires in northeastern Ontario and in Quebec have made breathing in vast swaths of North America impossible. At one
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The Wall Street Journal looks at the US$1.2 billion vinyl record industry
Twenty-five years ago, vinyl was written off as dead. Now this part of the recorded music industry is worth US$1.2
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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)
[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is
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Ongoing History Daily: Pre-concert rituals
If you’re an artist, you need to get into the zone, the right headspace, before you step onstage. This often
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Random music news for Thursday, June 8, 2023
Sweden is holding a sex tournament, turning sex into a sport. Will there be betting? Let’s try some music news
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Dave Grohl has this note for fans about the emotional Foo Fighters tour
I noticed a couple of posts on Reddit by Foo Fighters fans who are worried about Dave Grohl on the
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A psychologist asserts that listening to metal is good for thinking and stress reduction
If you’re into metal, your reaction to that headline was probably “Duh. Of course.” If you’re not, let me explain.
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