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The Diddy trial enters its second week

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The trial of Sean “Diddy” comes will become its second week tomorrow. The first five days was filled grueling, disturbing testimony brought forth by the prosecution. This included four days of testimony by

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Here’s our first look at Apple CarPlay Ultra

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re an iPhone user, you’re probably like me: You won’t have any vehicle if it doesn’t support CarPlay. For the most part, CarPlay works very well (depending, of course, on the vehicle’s

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Thom Yorke wants fans to dig for buried treasure around the world. Seriously

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

You have to give Thom Yorke credit for coming up with off-beat ways of creating fan engagement. His latest thing to turn Willy Wonka with a treasure hunt for fans. On Friday, he

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Monday is National Roadie Day in the US

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

Monday is Victoria Day, which gives us a nice long weekend to kick off the summer season. In the US, May 19 has been officially recognized as National Roadie Day, which is a

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Modern 8-track tapes

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember a dead recorded music format called the 8-track tape. Officially, they went out of production in the 80s as everyone moved to cassettes and then CDs. But

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Random music news for Monday, May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

I love the May long weekend. It’s that time of year when the whole summer stretches before us, filled with opportunities and adventure. Let’s make the most of it, shall we? And we

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And the winner of Eurovision 2025 is…

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Eurovision, the nuttiest campiest, bash*t crazy musical competition in this section of the galaxy, wrapped up in Basel, Switzerland, yesterday. If you stuck it out through the sensory overload of the production and

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Robert Fripp is back in the kitchen with Toyah Willcox for Sunday Lunch after a scare

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Robert Fripp turned 79 last week, but almost didn’t make it. It was revealed he required heart surgery, which explains why Sunday Lunch had been in repeat mode for about a month. But

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Music Industry

The current Spotify Top 10 is not good. Not good at all. Rick Beato examines things.

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

I have to admit that I agree with Rick Beato more than I disagree with him. In this video, I think he’s pretty spot-on, although there is an element of “get off my

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Sloan’s Murderecords garage sale set for May 31

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

I don’t know of another band anywhere on the planet that opens up to fans for a spring garage sale, but Sloan is doing it for the fourth time. The sale is schedule

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This Eminem supercut is exactly what we need for this May long weekend.

May 18, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

“Lose Yourself” has to rank as Eminem’s biggest song. I can’t imagine the time and energy it took to create this supercut constructed from dialogue from 331 different movies. But hey, everyone needs

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