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New Music from the Inbox: Djo, Sister Ray, Eric Hilton, and more!

April 10, 2025 Zoe Orion 0 Comments 2 min read

Artist: DjoSong: PotionAlbum: The Crux This is my personal favourite from the excellent new Djo album, which follows 2024 ‘s viral hit End of Beginning, Spotify’s #6 most streamed song of the entire

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Random music news for Thursday, April 10, 2025

April 10, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

This guy keeps getting evicted from apartments because of his pet. It’s a buffalo. Moving to music news to April 10, 2025… BONUS: How do 200 cows just…disappear? BONUS BONUS: Trump has canceled

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THIS is what Fyre Fest 2 has become? Wow. This is the disaster everyone expected.

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Billy McFarland’s Fyre Fest 2 is set to begin on May 30 and, uh, it’s not going well. Quelle supris. It was always supposed to be a smaller affair: 1800 guests and 40

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This is concerning: Toronto’s El Mocambo is up for sale

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The El Mocambo (est. 1948 on Spadina in Toronto) has gone through numerous incarnations, the most momentous being is purchase and massive renovation (~$30 million) by businessman Michael Wekerle. Since its reopening, I’ve

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If you’re a YouTube creator, you just got a new music tool

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Finding royalty-free stock music for projects used to be a real pain. Now, though, the whole industry devoted to providing generic background music for instructional videos, TV, movies, corporate videos, podcasts, and so

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Is Spotify about to insert ads into its premium service?

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Spotify is one of the few services that allows for free streaming if you (a) don’t mind a hobbled interface that doesn’t come without all the bells and whistles, and (b) listening to

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Shots of Heart at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

[Corey Walter was there. Photos by Nate Fischer – AC] Monday, March 31, brought Ann and Nancy Wilson to the Key Bank stage for a little 80s throwback. Nancy in bellbottoms, playing both

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Ongoing History Daily: The health hazards of being in Nine Inch Nails

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

In the early days of Nine Inch Nails, anything in the band needed hazard pay and an excellent health care plan. Gigs were so rough and violent that injuries were common. And I’m

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Random music news for Wednesday, April 9, 2025

April 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Elon Musk has ZERO sense of humour. I thought he was all about free speech? Look what he’s doing now. Then look at music news for April 9, 2025. More music news? Go

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What’s wrong with Coachella? No sellout, some tickets selling below face value

April 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Once upon a time, Coachella was the desert rock festival that sold out so fast that the decision was eventually made to stretch things out over two weekends. And lo, it was good.

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RIP Clem Burke, the pounding drummer of Blondie. He was 70.

April 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie since their inception back in 1974. He died Sunday (April 6) at the age of 70 after a fight with cancer. Not only was he the heartbeat

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