The weird world of music memorabilia
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I recently did some spring cleaning in the home office which involved asking if everything on my shelves of music memorabilia still sparked joy.
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Get ready for Music Monday in support of music education
For 30 years now, the Coalition for Music Education in Canada has made a very simple request of students, parents, teachers and schools across the country: Let’s sing together! Music Monday is set
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Instructive! The 13 levels of complexity of drumming
Larnell Lewis is a professor of music at Humber College in Toronto. He’s also a Grammy Award-winning musician. He’s created this look at playing the drums, starting with something very simple and then–well,
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Random music news for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Today is my parents 65th wedding anniversary. Yay, mom and dad! I put together this round of music news for August 3, 2022, just for you. Chuck D’s hip-hop documentary Fight the Power
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Why musicians need to pay close attention to the data that’s available to them.
[Musicians have more information at their fingertips than ever before. But how should one use this data to advance their career? This is from the May/June issue of Canadian Musician magazine and comes
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What’s the most-used word in rock lyrics?
I received this email from reader Ted over the weekend: “My wife and I were sitting at the dinner table one day and got into a conversation about rock lyrics. This ended in
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Adele’s entire Las Vegas residency is canceled–and there’s behind-the-scenes drama. (UPDATING AS THINGS DEVELOP)
I can’t imagine the insurance implications and box office headaches this causes. And those fans who spend thousands to get to Las Vegas, not to mention the cost of tickets. Adele’s entire 24-show
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Looking for another way to discover new music? Try GNOD.
Gnod stands for “Global Network of Discovery,” which promises “Let’s use the latest technological advances to make us all discover more and better things.” Okay, I’ll bite. Gnod has two seconds: Project 1,
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It’s really beginning to look like Tom DeLonge can blow the lid off the mystery of UFOs
One of the reasons Tom DeLonge quit Blink-182 was that he wanted to spend more time uncovering what’s really going on with UFOs and the US Government. Although his pursuits were careful and
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Will Ferrell gets an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song
If you scroll down through the nominations for the 2021 Oscars that were announced this morning, you’ll find something refreshingly odd about the Best Original Song category. “Fight For You,” Judas and the Black
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What makes a good driving song? Let’s explore that with Tom Cochrane.
[This a column I contributed to the Toronto Star Wheels section this weekend. -AC] It may seem like a distant memory, but there is no better feeling than hitting the pavement and setting
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