by Alan Cross | Oct 31, 2026 | Survey
It’s Halloween, which means miniature disguised extortionists will show up at your door demanding unhealthy food while their parents look on approvingly. I plan to spend the day wrapping raw Brussels sprouts and radishes in tinfoil that I’ll mix with the...
by Alan Cross | Oct 31, 2026 | Crime
It was 1982 and The Misfits had just finished playing a show in New Orleans. It was late, but no one was ready to go to bed just yet, so the band and a few friends went looking for the grave of Marie Laveau, the infamous voodoo queen of the city. They knew that she...
by Alan Cross | Oct 31, 2026 | Music News
Pornhub has a new idea: Let its stars teach you how to make dinner! As for music news for October 31, 2026… Garth Brooks stopped ticket sales in Kansas City after it was discovered that most of the 90,000 tickets were purchased by bots. British singer RAYE is...
by Alan Cross | Oct 30, 2026 | Speaking Gig
With the first leg of the tour over, it’s time to move to central and eastern Canada for the second leg. Here’s what you need to know. I start in Nova Scotia November 2 – Truro, NS @ Marigold Cultural Centre. TICKETS HERE November 3 –...
by Alan Cross | Oct 30, 2026 | Music Industry
Universal Music Group had a quarterly financial call the other day, during which CEO Sir Lucian Grainge had some alarming things to say about AI slop and fraud. “The volume is growing faster than the safeguards.” About 90,000 100% AI-generated tracks are...