Alan Cross, Author at A Journal of Musical Things

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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. -AC] Over the last century, radio stations have been the subject and the

Back before the internet, finding new music from far-flung places around the planet was difficult. Today, things have evolved to

A million years ago when we still went to gigs, chances are we’d see some idiot doing something weird during

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Sometime in 1967, a weird story emanating from campus radio stations in the US. Paul McCartney was dead, killed in