[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] When they appeared in the early 1960s, The Beatles quickly became the biggest pop and rock group in the world. Not only did they have great
Read More[This was my weekend column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Flipping through the radio the other day, my scanning landed on a top 40 station. I decided to leave it there for a while
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I’m forever being sent the results of various music surveys. Most are barely-disguised ads for a company repackaged by a marketing company to look
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you’re beyond a certain age — and really, that age can be as low as 25 — you’ve probably muttered to yourself, “Music
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I hate jargon, technical terms used only by insiders. Jargon is, by its very nature, exclusionary. If you don’t know the language, the codes
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Rock has been declared dead many, many times. Cassandras have been wailing about this for almost 70 years, and each time this pronouncement has
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Any sufficiently high-energy rock show will see the formation of a mosh pit, a roiling Brownian motion of bodies in front of the stage.
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Sir Hugh Beaver loved to go hunting, and on Nov. 10, 1951, took a shot at a golden plover and missed. An argument arose
Read More[This was my weekly column for Global.ca. – AC] When something bad happens, we want to know why. The weirder and worse the event, the more we need to know. Such things can’t
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back in 2024, I wrote a column that attempted to explain some widely accepted but largely inexplicable things we’ve come to know in the world of
Read More[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] In May 1970, Neil Young saw reports of the Kent State massacre on the evening news. The blatant killing of four students by National Guard troops during
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