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Instructive! The 13 levels of complexity of drumming

April 20, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

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

August 3, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

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.

June 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

[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?

January 31, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments 1 min read

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)

January 25, 2022 Alan Cross 15 Comments 3 min read

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.

July 3, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

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

May 30, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

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

March 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

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.

March 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 5 min read

[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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Random music news for Thursday, December 17, 2020

December 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Yep. That’s about right. No worries. On to the next court. pic.twitter.com/xR2vA0FRzS — Brown Eyed Susan (@smc429) December 15, 2020 On to music news for December 17, 2020. Covidiots. What were you thinking?

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A little coffee house outside of Ottawa is managing to stage live gigs. Here are photos from the Whitehorse show

November 29, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

[Ross MacDonald is fascinated with Neat Coffee Shop outside of Ottawa and its ability to stage safe COVID-era concerts. The last show of the year (apparently) was by Whitehouse. -AC] Sometimes less is

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