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Check out this 7-year-old drumming prodigy as he covers System of a Down

April 15, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Drums, Prodigy

His name is Noah Martel, a 7-year-old from Gatineau, Quebec, who already has a pretty solid concept of how to

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Movies 

Watch a long-lost black-and-white gangster film by The Clash

April 15, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Clash, Don Letts, Hell W10, Joe Strummer, Movie

The Clash made a black-and-white Italian noir gangsters movie? Yes, they did. It dates back to 1983 shortly after drummer

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, April 15, 2021

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blink-182, Chris Martin, David Bowie, Drake, Elton John, James Corden, Justin Bieber, Mark Hoppus, Napster, Social Media, Songwriting, Taylor Swift

Got Zoom fatigue? Science says that while it affects everyone, you’re more apt to get it if you’re female. If

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Music Industry 

Spotify turns 15 this month. How much has music changed?

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Spotify

Come April 23, it’ll be 15 years since the founding of Spotify. It wasn’t the first streaming company–that honour belongs

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WTF? 

Attention metalhead pig farmers: This pig-calling song is just for you.

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Andre Antunes, Pigs

André  Antunes is the king of adapting weird internet video into metal songs. For example, you might remember this hit

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Recommended Music 

Weird album alert: 456 tracks written in Morse code then transposed for piano

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Longest Album, Pocket Gods

The Pocket Gods are one of the UK’s most interesting bands and for some unusual reasons. Formed in London a

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Music History Recommended Reading 

Rock My World Canada, Chapter 258: Fast Romantics

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Fast Romantics, Mike Carr, Rock My World Canada

[Mike Carr has created a catalogue/reference work featuring all kinds of Canadian rock and alternative releases from the past few

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Music History Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: The tough fans of Philadelphia

April 14, 2021April 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Streaming, YouTube

When it comes to ranking fans in various cities across North America for the best or worst, Philadelphia always comes

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Scientists have translated spiderwebs into music

April 14, 2021April 13, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Spiderwebs

Spiderwebs can be some of the most beautiful constructions in nature. It turns that spiders have tiny hairs on their

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Gadgets 

After two years of teasing, Spotify’s “Car Thing” is on sale. Sort of.

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Car Thing, Smart Speaker, Spotify

Back in 2019, Spotify starting making news about a piece of hardware they called “Car Thing.” The device mounts somewhere

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Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, April 14, 2021

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Beyonce, Black Keys, Concerts, DMX, Exodus, Facebook, Global Citizen, Iron Maiden, Kirk Hammett, livestreaming, M.I.A., Metallica, Protest Music, Puscifer, Soft Cell, St. Vincent

Wanna see exactly how creepy and invasive Facebook is? Take a look at this. Once you’ve regained your composure, take

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