What are the most anticipated concerts and tours of 2026?
Now that we’re into the second week of October, there’s not much left of the 2025 touring season. Things will be pretty much wrapped up for the Christmas break by the time we
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Ongoing History Daily: The most metal words in the English language
About ten years ago, a data scientist analyzed 222,623 songs by 7,364 metal bands. Using the techniques of natural language processing, he was able to identify the words most often used in metal
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Random music news for Friday, May 23, 2025
The CEO told the hosts of The View is tone down their political views. And his words, statements, and comments, are being “memory-holed” by his people. That’s today’s America. This is today’s music
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1024: Survey Says! Useful and Odd Music Surveys and Polls
Call me nosy, but I love knowing what other people think about things. This is why I gravitate towards surveys, the kind of stories where ordinary people are asked for their opinions on
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Not music related but VERY important: We met the new pup and we need a name. [UPDATE: We have a winner.]
My wife and I are in Dundee, Scotland, to pick up our new English bull terrier. We hadn’t picked out a name because we wanted to meet her in person first. That happened
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Poll: Who won the battle of the halftime show booking, the Grey Cup or The Super Bowl
Maybe you had the same reaction the Super Bowl committee announced that Usher was the big get for the halftime show in Las Vegas in February: Meh. Usher? That’s the best you could
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How do Canadians consume media these days? Stats Canada has this report.
This morning’s FYIMusicNews.ca newsletter came with an interesting graphic. It’s a Stats Canada look at how we consume various forms of media. The highlights:
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Are you the kind of person who searches for song lyrics? Here are the lyrics people are looking for.
This survey comes from a site called Word List Finder. It focuses on American searches for song lyrics (they couldn’t be arsed to bother finding out about the literally dozens of people who
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Is Gen Z the most passionate music demo? Let’s look at this new study
Secondary concert ticket seller Viagogo has published the results of a survey (via The NME) that the most passionate music fans belong to Gen Z (i.e. those born between 1997 and 2012). Here’s
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Can your driving music impact your love life? Probably.
[A report on a report by Elisa FG. – AC] Would you? Could you? In a car?I would not, could not, crank a country star! Dr. Seuss said nothing of the sort but
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Should we change the lyrics to “O Canada?” We seem to be split.
Years ago, William Shatner received a special award and was asked to make of a video of him “singing” “O Canada.” He made an interesting tweak to the lyrics which I thought was
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